Title:
Barium ion cavity qed and triply ionized thorium ion trapping
Barium ion cavity qed and triply ionized thorium ion trapping
dc.contributor.advisor | Chapman, Michael S. | |
dc.contributor.author | Steele, Adam V. | en_US |
dc.contributor.committeeMember | Alex Kuzmich | |
dc.contributor.committeeMember | Brian Kennedy | |
dc.contributor.committeeMember | Chandra Raman | |
dc.contributor.committeeMember | Kenneth Brown | |
dc.contributor.department | Physics | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2009-01-22T15:43:26Z | |
dc.date.available | 2009-01-22T15:43:26Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2008-11-17 | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | Trapped cold ions are tools which we used to approach two very disparate areas of physics, strong coupling between Ba+ ions and optical resonators, and investigations of a low-energy nuclear isomer of 229-Th. The first part of this thesis describes our progress towards the integration of a miniature Paul (rf) ion trap with a high finesse (F=30000) optical cavity. Ba+ ions were trapped and cooled for long periods and a new scheme for isotope selective photoionization was developed. The second part of this thesis describes our progress towards controlled excitation of the low energy nuclear isomer of 229-Th, which may provide a bridge between the techniques of cold atomic and nuclear physics. As a step towards this goal, 232-Th3+ ions were confined in rf ions traps and cooled via collisions with a buffer gas of helium. A sophisticated scanning program was developed for controlling ion trap loading, tuning lasers, and running a CCD camera to look for fluorescence. The low-lying electronic transitions of Th3+ at 984 nm, 690 nm and 1087 nm were observed via laser fluorescence. | en_US |
dc.description.degree | Ph.D. | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1853/26530 | |
dc.publisher | Georgia Institute of Technology | en_US |
dc.subject | Thorium | en_US |
dc.subject | Barium | en_US |
dc.subject | Ion trapping | en_US |
dc.subject | Isomer | en_US |
dc.subject.lcsh | Quantum electrodynamics | |
dc.subject.lcsh | Barium | |
dc.subject.lcsh | Thorium | |
dc.subject.lcsh | Trapped ions | |
dc.title | Barium ion cavity qed and triply ionized thorium ion trapping | en_US |
dc.type | Text | |
dc.type.genre | Dissertation | |
dspace.entity.type | Publication | |
local.contributor.advisor | Chapman, Michael S. | |
local.contributor.corporatename | College of Sciences | |
local.contributor.corporatename | School of Physics | |
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