The research on quantum computing and quantum memories both rely on an advanced experimental setup with a frequency stabilized laser at its core. Below is a simple figure of an overview of our experimental setup:

The most important equipment we use is listed below:

• Lasers:
  • Coherent 699-21 dye laser, pumped by an Nd laser for 606 nm (Praseodymium) or 580 nm (Europium)
  • External cavity mounted diode lasers for 370 nm (Cerium) or other species.
  
  
• Stabilization and pulse shaping:
  • Both the dye laser and the diode laser for 370 nm is frequency stabilized Pound-Drever-Hall locking to a stable high finesse cavity.
  • The final linewidth of the dye laser is about 10 Hz, and for the diode laser about 1 kHz
  • Accurate control of the phase and amplitude of the pulses is provided through a calibrated sequence of Acusto-Optic Modulators (AOMs)
  
  
• Cryostats:
  • Oxford Instrumets bath cryostat with 8 T magnet
  • Oxford Instruments flow cryostat
  • Liquid Helium and Nitrogen supplied by in-house production facilities
  
  
• Software:
  • Experimental control system is custom built using LabView and Matlab programming