Course Logistics
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Instructors
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Teaching Assistants
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Catalog Information
Description: This course is designed for advanced undergraduates studying physics, applied physics, or engineering. Basic understanding of electromagnetism and optics knowledge is assumed.
Prereqs:
Units: XX
Meeting times: XX
Office hours: TBD
Overview
The ultimate goal of the following curriculum is to provide students with both the basic theoretical understanding and experimental skillset to construct a magneto-optical trap for neutral rubidium.
As part of this, students will construct their own external cavity diode laser, learn about frequency and temperature stabilization, optics and beam propagation/shaping, ultrahigh vacuum chambers, as well as magnetic field generation and atom trapping.
Schedule
Timeline: Curriculum is designed around ~12 lessons, spanning about 3 hours each week (2 sessions of 1.5 hrs).
Lesson Content/Structure: Each lesson is designed to cover 1 experiment, with each experiment meant to cover 1 to 2 physics and practical engineering concepts relevant to the experiment. Each lesson is additive: students will be building their knowledge and skillset on what they have learnt in the previous lesson, as well as on their previous experimental progress.
12 lesson overview:
Grading
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