Pereira Dos Santos, F.; Perales, F.; Léonard, J.; Sinatra, A.; Wang, J.; Pavone, F.S.; Rasel, E.; Unnikrishnan, C.S.; Leduc, M.
(Les Ulis : EDP Sciences, 2001)
This article presents a new experiment aiming at BEC of metastable helium atoms. It describes the design of a high flux discharge source of atoms and a robust laser system using a DBR diode coupled with a high power Yb ...