Casting shadows: imaging techniques for ultracold atomic clouds.

Imaging is the primary tool in all the experimental activities involving cold atoms: study of Bose-Einstein condensates, clocks and metrology, quantum simulations. Different techniques have been developed in the years, each of them exploiting the detailed structure of the atomic energy levels by a wise choice of frequency and intensity of the fields which are shined on the sample. They can be used, for instance, to​ ​obtain the spatial distribution of the atoms even at extreme densities, or to make a real time movie of the dynamics of the system. I will present some of these techniques developed in my experimental group, along with recent applications and results.

Casting shadows: imaging techniques for ultra​-cold atomic clouds.

Abstract

Imaging is the primary tool in all the experimental activities involving cold atoms: study of Bose-Einstein condensates, clocks and metrology, quantum simulations. Different techniques have been developed in the years, each of them exploiting the detailed structure of the atomic energy levels by a wise choose of frequency and intensity of the fields which are shined on the sample. They can be used, for instance, to​ ​obtain the spatial distribution of the atoms even at extreme densities, or to make a real time movie of the dynamics of the system. I will present some of these techniques developed in my experimental group, along with recent applications and results.

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