title: Single atom detection on an atom chip with integrated optics
creator: Wilzbach, Marco
subject: 530
subject: 530 Physics
description: The subject of this thesis is the miniaturization and integration of detectors for the detection of single rubidium atoms on an atom chip. For this purpose three different detectors were developed for atom detection by absorption or fluorescence: i)  A fluorescence detector was realized by mounting a tapered lensed fiber perpendicular to a collection fiber. ii) An absorption detector was built by placing a multi-mode fiber in-line with a tapered lensed fiber. iii) A tunable cavity detector was built from two single mode fibers mounted on the chip surface. To mount the detectors on the planar surface of the atom chip retaining structures  by means of lithographical techniques were developed. Those structures allow a very accurate and stable passive fiber alignment. To test the individual detectors an atomic ensemble of thermal rubidium atoms was prepared in a magneto-optical trap. Then the atoms were transferred into magnetic micro-traps of the atom chip and were guided to one of the detectors. Each integrated detector has been evaluated by several characterization measurements. With the fluorescence detector the highest single atom detection efficiency of 54\% was attained. Thereby it was possible to perform quantitative measurements  for the magnetically guided atoms on a single atom level and to study fundamental properties of the confined atoms.
date: 2007
type: Dissertation
type: info:eu-repo/semantics/doctoralThesis
type: NonPeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
identifier: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserverhttps://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/7442/1/Dissertation_Wilzbach.pdf
identifier: DOI:10.11588/heidok.00007442
identifier: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-opus-74422
identifier:   Wilzbach, Marco  (2007) Single atom detection on an atom chip with integrated optics.  [Dissertation]     
relation: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/7442/
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language: eng