20/12/06

Long time no blog ! We have been busy here ! And I have been working in Toronto to. I had 2 small sets of coils to wind. It was a fun and easy task compared to the big ones we did last year. Here is the first one, the other one is still drying on the lathe.

11/08/06

09/08/06

19/07/06

Yes !! The Big scray laser blew up a beamsplitting cube and the stray refelection created by the broken cube vaporized a waveplate. Nice !

18/07/06

Today we mount the first set of coils and finished the air flow for the experiment.

01/07/06

Rob, Jeff and I spent the last two weeks in Italy, at the Enrico Fermi summer school on degenerate fermi gases, in Varenna. Pictures and account can be found on my blog

15/06/06

The mounts for the coils have arrived. They look nice. We are definitely going to have to weight everything before putting it on the experiment.

10/06/06

31/05/06

The big coils have arrived !! They are gorgeous. On a side not we know have air and water pressure. Useful.

14/04/06

We have started turning on our "Big scary laser". 50W !!! Jeff is building an "optical tap" to control the power.

10/02/06

Organising YAO... The comittee is starting to get tired !

07/02/06

Today we have seen our first 3D MOT, atoms are transfering between the two chambers ! Hurray !! Sorry, no pictures of this historical moment, but pictures what went just after.

06/02/06

The apparatus is now covered with wires and coils.

03/02/06

Organising YAO.

31/01/06

The YAO team gets its picture taken on the KRUB experiment. Thanks to Diana for taking the pictures.

18/01/06

That's a cool power supply !

12/01/06

The Mother Of All Coils (MOAC) ! There seems to be no shorts. Good.