• Anita Gupta

Articles written in Pramana – Journal of Physics

• Measurement of storage time, estimation of ion number and study of absorption line profile in a Paul trap

Europium (Eu+) ions were confined in a Paul trap and detected by non-destructive method. Storage time of Eu+ ions achieved in vacuum was improved by orders of magnitude employing buffer gas cooling. The experimentally detected signal was fitted to the ion response signal and the total number of ions trapped was estimated. It is found that the peak signal amplitude as well as the product of FWHM and the peak signal amplitude is proportional to the total number of trapped ions. The trapped ion secular frequency was swept at different rates and its effect on the absorption line profile was studied both experimentally and theoretically.

• Numerical calculations of potential distribution in non-ideal quadrupole trap and simulations of anharmonic oscillations

A quadrupole ion trap consisting of electrode structures symmetric about 𝑧-axis is an important tool for conducting several precision experiments. In practice the field inside the trap does not remain purely quadrupolar, and can be calculated using numerical methods. We have used boundary element method to calculate the potential inside the truncated as well as symmetrically misaligned quadrupolar ion trap. The calculated potential values are fitted to multipole expansion and the weights of multipole moments have been evaluated by minimizing the least square deviation. The higher-order multi-pole contribution in the fabricated hyperbolic electrodes due to truncation and machining imperfections is discussed. Non-linear effects arising due to the superposition of octupole moment manifest as anharmonic oscillations of trapped ions in the non-ideal Paul trap. Theoretical simulations of non-linear effects have been carried out.

• Optical probing of Eu ions conﬁned in an RF trap

The Eu ions conﬁned in an RF quadrupole trap, has been optically detected. Using a tunable dye laser which is pumped by a Nd-YAG pulsed laser system, the resonance ${}^9S_4–6 p_{3/2}$, $J = 5$ transition of the Eu ions have been excited and the resulting ﬂuorescence to the metastable ${}^9 D_{4−6}$ state has been detected. In preparation to determine the ground-state hyperﬁne splitting of the odd isotopes we found the optimum trapping operating point. We have also observed a number of instabilities inside the region of the stability for an ideal trap. These non-linear resonances arise from higher-order contributions to the ideal quadrupole potential.

• # Pramana – Journal of Physics

Volume 94, 2020
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