Session KP01 - Poster Session III.
POSTER session, Tuesday afternoon, March 23
Exhibit Hall, GWCC
We will discuss the progress in the development of a new and simple system to create BEC in ^87Rb. The design uses a single MOT and a spatially separated magnetic trap. The atoms are transferred between traps by means of moving magnetic fields. This magnetic transfer method will reduce the alignment problems associated with using a laser push beam. The efficiency of capturing the atoms in the final magnetic trap should be greater than laser transfer method because the atoms are transferred slowly between traps, and there is no heating from a transfer beam.