News

7.1.2025

Congratulations to Dr. Yukai Lu for successfully defending!

8.31.2024

Xingyan Chen joins as postdoc on CaF team. Welcome Xingyan!

6.6.2024

Our work on realizing a blue-detuned MOT of CaF molecules has been published in PRL!

11.9.2023

Check out our latest work on realizing a blue-detuned MOT of CaF molecules well below the Doppler limit! 

9.1.2023

Incoming first year grad student Callum Welsh joins us. Welcome Callum!

8.4.2023

Our work on bichromatic imaging of single molecules in a tweezer array is published in PRL and selected for an editor's suggestion!

6.5.2023

Check out our latest work on demonstrating Raman sideband cooling for molecules!

10.12.2022

Check out our latest work on creating a two-qubit gate for molecules and entangling them on-demand!

09.01.2022

Incoming first year grad student Samuel Li joins us. Welcome Samuel!

08.25.2022

Check out our recent work on a new imaging scheme for single molecules in optical tweezers!

05.25.2022

Our recent work on molecular laser-cooling is now published in PRL!

04.05.2022

Nassau Hall with concatenated images of rearranged 1D molecular arrays

03.29.2022

Near-saturated loading of a 37-site molecular tweezer array.

02.28.2022

Scaling up to more tweezer traps.

02.21.2022

Rearranged array of 6 molecules.

02.15.2022

Lawrence receives the Sloan Research fellowship from the Sloan Foundation!

01.22.2022

A different and better imaging scheme.

01.22.2022

Coherent control of rotational state.

12.22.2021

Some rotational spectroscopy.

12.04.2021

Stumbling upon a magic wavelength.

11.30.2021

Characterizing a new imaging scheme.

10.01.2021

Molecules in trapped in an optical tweezer array!

09.09.2021

Check out our latest work on molecular laser-cooling in dynamically-tuned repulsive traps!

07.09.2021

Microscope objective alignment in progress...

06.28.2021

New vacuum viewports installed; back under UHV!

06.11.2021

Our re-entrant vacuum viewports have finally arrived!

05.24.2021

Just for fun, creating and combining an array of optical lattice traps.

05.14.2021

Optical dipole trap characterized and loading optimized, for now...

05.03.2021

High-resolution microscope objective interferometrically aligned.

04.28.2021

Permanent magnet coils wound!

03.30.2021

Optically trapped CaF molecules with in-situ imaging!

03.30.2021

Installing our in-vacuum interferometry target.

03.15.2021

Our work on synthesizing optical spectra with computer holography techniques is now in NJP!

03.07.2021

First signal of Lambda-enhanced sub-Doppler cooling!

02.22.2021

MOT loading (0.25x speed)

02.19.2021

Molecular MOT of CaF!

02.19.2021

Zero velocity molecules

02.18.2021

MOT optics...

01.06.2021

Some signs of molecular beam slowing...

01.01.2021

Check out our preprint on generating optical spectra via computer hologrpahy techniques!

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2012.15850.pdf

12.31.2020

Molecular source emission characterization.

11.20.2020

UHV chamber assembly in progress

10.26.2020

Some laser work...

10.19.2020

Characterizing molecule production...

10.08.2020

First molecules!

09.24.2020

First cooldown with shields, buffer gas cell, etc.

09.21.2020

Lab move-in

09.19.2020

Final assembly

09.18.2020

Cryogenic heat shields assembled!

08.24.2020

Labs are almost ready...

07.13.2020

Connor, Michael and Yukai lowering pulse tube into beambox.

06.23.2020

In-person research resumed. First look at beambox.

03.05.2020

Frequency reference/stabilization setup