====== Meeting with Ernst ====== NJ, WFP ====== General ====== * Send Verdi to Coherent for inspection * What is the status of Dominika's thesis * Frequency measurement not part of Nandan's thesis * Set up an alarm in case of AC failure (proposed by Ernst) ====== Nandan's thesis ====== * Focus on writing till TiSa arrives * Finish non-linear AC Stark shift measurements * Send data analysis of first four chapters to Ernst * More detailed discussion on thesis in August ====== SWAP Cooling scheme ====== * Measure Rabi flops on intercombination line * Ernst suggested using a degenerate trapping potential * Quenching needed to speed up the cooling scheme * Cooling in one axis affects also other directions!? (compare to Raman cooling in a trap)