QuEST Laboratory: Advanced Laser Cooling for High-brightness Cs Atom Sources
We propose a three-year program to build an advanced laser cooling test bed to enable the Goddard Quantum Engineering and Sensing Technology (QuEST) Laboratory to develop the architecture for ultra-cold, high-atom number cesium (Cs) sources. The ability to efficiently laser cool Cs atoms to temperatures <1 nK with 100 million atoms in less than 1 second is a critical technological requirement for the next generation gravity gradiometry mission. In this proposal, GSFC physicists and engineers wil...