The success of this work has been due to the support and hard work of a large number of people, including:
Jim Booth (right), demonstrates the operation of the trap to Bruno Jaggi (center) and Cor Deruzon (left).
BCIT Physics Department
- Jim Booth (Instructor): principal researcher
- Glenn Lewis (Technician): mechanical design and fabrication
- Jack Chwasick (Temporary Technician): electronics support and fabrication
- Randall Woods (Instructor): website and general know-it-all
BCIT Biomedical Engineering Department
- Bruno Jaggi (Instructor): student supervisor and electronic design
BCIT Technology Center
- Joe Newton (Project Manager): student supervisor and electronic design
Students
- (2003): Wayne Pogue and Yang Wang (Biomedical Engineering Technology): electronic design and testing of laser current control, optical feedback electronics and temperature controllers
- (2004): Baotai Lou (Chemical Engineering Technology): summer student performing optical pumping measurements of rubidium vapour
- (2005): Sam Wong (Biomedical Engineering Technology): summer student improving laser performance through laser current control feedback
University of British Columbia: Partners-in-Crime
- Professor Emeritus Irving Ozier (Physics) and Professor Emeritus F.W. Dalby (Physics) have provided invaluable aid with advice and through the use of laboratory equipment
- Professor Kirk Madison and Dr. Bruce Klappauf (Physics) have been very generous with their experience, advice and help with the arcana of trapping atoms tp://www.ge
- Dr. Gwenn Flowers (Earth and Ocean Sciences), who originally worked with Dr. Carl Wiemann and co-authored a seminal paper on creating atom traps for rubidium, was extremely helpful in sharing her knowledge
International Contributions
- Professor Vasant Natarajan (Dept. of Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore) provided invaluable guidance in the use of the rubidium getter source used in this work.
Special Thanks to:
- Kent Yakel (Associate Dean, SCAS [Retired]) and to Dr. Norman Streat (Dean, Special Projects, BCIT Technology Center) for their support and help with intiating this work.