Killian, Thomas C2019-05-162019-05-162017-082017-08-10August 201Hill, Joshua C. "Design and Construction of an Apparatus for Optically Pumping 87Sr." (2017) Master’s Thesis, Rice University. <a href="https://hdl.handle.net/1911/105529">https://hdl.handle.net/1911/105529</a>.https://hdl.handle.net/1911/105529The ability to control the population of ground-state magnetic sublevels in ultracold atomic gasses of fermionic87Sr is critical for experiments studying quantum magnetism in systems with many spin-components. This thesis describes the design and construction of hardware allowing the manipulation of spin populations via optical pumping. The apparatus operates using light scattering on the 1S0 to 3P1, F=9/2 to F'=9/2 transition in strontium, near 689nm.application/pdfengCopyright is held by the author, unless otherwise indicated. Permission to reuse, publish, or reproduce the work beyond the bounds of fair use or other exemptions to copyright law must be obtained from the copyright holder.AMOstrontiumatomic physicslaser coolinglaser trappingoptical pumpingquantum magnetismKillian labRice universityphysicsopticsThesis2019-05-16