Design of superconducting transmission line integrated surface-electrode ion-traps

We fabricated superconducting surface electrode ion traps with integrated microwave coplanar waveguides using direct-write optical lithography and a niobium on sapphire process. We then tested these traps in a closed cycle cryostat and used 28 mW of microwave power to excite rotational transitions of trapped strontium chloride molecular ions. We expected that driving these rotational transitions would heat a co-trapped strontium atomic ion cloud. However, we did not see this heating and we must conduct further experiments.

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2011

Author dc:creator

• Meyer, David Thomas

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Karl K. Berggren.

• Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

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• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

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eng

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http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/66036

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oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/66036