Contents

• Voorwoord
• Contents
• Introduction
• Theory
  • Theory of laser cooling
  • Theory of the collimator
    • The trajectory of the light
    • The trajectory of the atoms
• Experimental setup
  • Overview of the complete setup
  • The Helium source
  • The channeltron
  • Cooling devices
  • The collimator
    • Preparing the angles of the collimator
    • Aligning the collimator
  • Lasers and optics
  • Laser stabilization
    • Saturation spectroscopy
    • Beat signal of two lasers
• Experiments
  • Percentage of He* in the particle beam.
  • Beam profile
  • Detuning dependency
  • TOF measurements
  • TOF measurements at different detunings
• Conclusions and outlook
• Bibliography
• About this document ...