Custom Objectives Installed

For over a year now we (mostly Dan) have been designing, constructing, and testing a matched pair of objectives for projecting dipole trapping beams and imaging the atoms in the glass cell part of the vacuum chamber.  The cell windows have a nanopatterned anti-reflection coating that we really want to keep clean, so today the team donned bunny suits to reduce dust during the brief time during the installation that the cell windows won’t be fully covered/enclosed. Assuming we get as close to the 1.5 micron resolution limit as we did during bench testing, we’ll be in great shape for upcoming experiments.