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Schematic of LoTIS cold atomic beam ion source. Cs atoms are trapped and cooling in a 2D magneto-optical trap (MOT), pushed into a magneto-optical compressor, further cooled in polarization-gradient optical molasses, then photoionized in a two-step process and extracted with an electric field.
