Additive manufacturing for cold atom cloud generation

Quantum sensing devices are typically comprised of many large pieces of laboratory equipment which in their current state have a limited number of industrial applications. However, utilising the benefits afforded by additive manufacturing (AM), an order-of-magnitude reduction in size, weight and power requirement was deemed plausible. The OPTAMOT project carried out by Added Scientific Ltd. in conjunction with the Physics departments at University of Nottingham and University of Sussex, has focussed on re-designing magneto-optical trap (MOT) assemblies for manufacture by laser-powder bed fusion. The resulting MOT performance characteristics and achieved reductions in size, weight and power will be presented.