Lab & Life

After a longer maintenance phase, we are now successfully letting the multi-ion clock with a 4 In+ and 6 Yb+ crystal tick through the night!

Today, we have to say 'goodbye' to our visiting scientists from NIMT...

To finally get a glance at ALL the experimental control functions, PD readings and trap voltage settings, we introduce our new large computer screen to the lab (PhD student for scale).

The new apparatus to be used in the user facility “Ion Traps” has been assembled and put under vacuum. Did we forget to attach a flange??

Moving to the Raumzellenbau was pretty exhausting so we finally had our well-deserved inauguration barbecue together with our friends from the Strontium-lattice-clock, Giebe-Bau and befriended mechanics and electronic engineers that help us much

Finally we have light at 230nm! But how is it possible to get laser light at this wavelength? Why do we even need light at this crazy wavelength? Read in this article!

Making dessert for the “Octopus”!

After months of struggle, the 2.4 GHz AOM is finally producing the amount of laser light we need for the slave locking!

Sometimes even physicists (yeah, even that anti-social kind of people!) meet up to share their achievements, give talks and prepare poster on that. Here you can read more about this year`s DPG spring meeting

The boss herself in action!