We are currently setting up an extension to our current vacuum chamber, which allows us to create even denser clouds of ultracold Dysprosium.
A list of possible Bachelor/Master theses surrounding the current work can be found above.
News from the Dysprosium-Lab
Under construction: A new platform
Towards dense Dysprosium samples
Our first approach to create dense Dysprosium samples with a self-designed objective was succesful in creating microscopic Dysprosium clouds with a width of less than 10μm. In the future, this can be improved on with a science cell that allows for even tighter dipole trapping!
Accepted into QuCoLiMa!
Our project got accepted into QuCoLiMa! In the future, we plan to investigate collective effects in high density Dysprosium samples.
More information on QuCoLiMa and our project C02 can be found here: QuCoLiMa.de.
Spectroscopy of the 1001 nm transition
During extensive spectroscopic efforts we finally found and characterized the ultra-narrow 1001 nm ground state transition in dysprosium. We determined lifetime and polarizability of the excited state and measured the isotope shifts for the isotopes 160Dy, 162Dy and 164Dy.
A preprint of our paper can be found here: https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.05754.
Optical Dipole Trap (ODT) operational
Our Optical Dipole Trap (ODT) is now operational, which is generated from a high power 1064 nm laser system.
Dysprosium-162 MOT achieved
We achieved our first dysprosium-162 MOT! 
Spectroscopy of the 421 nm cooling transition
Recently, we measured the spectrum of dysprosium on the 421 nm cooling transition with our homebuilt laser system. After amplifying the master laser seed in a homebuilt tapered amplifier stage, it is frequency doubled in a homebuilt bow tie cavity which delivers up to 460 mW of blue laser power. The five most abundant isotopes of dysprosium can clearly be identified in the spectrum shown below. The inset shows a picture of our main vacuum chamber where a beam of dysprosium atoms crosses the spectroscopy beam