Atom Laser Experiment

The scientific goal of the project is a pulsed source of quantum degenerate gases (⁸⁷Rb and ⁴⁰K synchronously) created in a far off-resonance optical dipole trap (FORT).

In a second step, this atom laser (ATLAS) will be used to operate a portable matter-wave gravimeter to benefit from the great advantages of matter-wave interferometry over optical interferometry, such as ten orders of magnitude higher sensitivity (assuming same experimental parameters).

The complete device will be able to measure g and to test Einstein's equivalence principle (EEP) at high precision.