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NEW JOURNAL OF PHYSICS
Volume 19, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/aa6741
Keywords
ultracold gases; ion microscopy; ion optics; photoionization; charged-particle detector; Rydberg atoms
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- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [SFB TRR21, SPP1929/GiRyd, FO 740/2-1]
- Baden-Wurttemberg Stiftung through 'Kompetenznetz Funktionelle Nanostrukturen'
- FET-Open Xtrack Project HAIRS
- Landesgraduiertenforderung Baden-Wurttemberg
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We report on an ion-optical system that serves as a microscope for ultracold ground state and Rydberg atoms. The system is designed to achieve a magnification of up to 1000 and a spatial resolution in the 100 nm range, thereby surpassing many standard imaging techniques for cold atoms. The microscope consists of four electrostatic lenses and a microchannel plate in conjunction with a delay line detector in order to achieve single particle sensitivity with high temporal and spatial resolution. We describe the design process of the microscope including ion-optical simulations of the imaging system and characterize aberrations and the resolution limit. Furthermore, we present the experimental realization of the microscope in a cold atom setup and investigate its performance by patterned ionization with a structure size down to 2.7 mu m. The microscope meets the requirements for studying various many-body effects, ranging from correlations in cold quantum gases up to Rydberg molecule formation.
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