{"id":276,"date":"2017-12-01T15:22:16","date_gmt":"2017-12-01T20:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/ion\/?p=276"},"modified":"2017-12-19T15:32:39","modified_gmt":"2017-12-19T20:32:39","slug":"the-ticklemaster-cometh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/ion\/uncategorized\/the-ticklemaster-cometh\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ticklemaster cometh!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ashay Patel &#8217;18 has recently finished building a TTL-controlled RF switch based around components from MiniCircuits.\u00a0 By driving a trap electrode with short pulses of RF (known among ion trappers as a `DC tickle&#8217;) we can excite the motional modes of our trapped ion chains to measure the traps secular frequencies.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-277 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/ion\/files\/2017\/12\/ticklemaster-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/ion\/files\/2017\/12\/ticklemaster-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/ion\/files\/2017\/12\/ticklemaster-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/ion\/files\/2017\/12\/ticklemaster-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-282 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/ion\/files\/2017\/12\/axial_tickle-1-300x120.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"557\" height=\"214\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ashay Patel &#8217;18 has recently finished building a TTL-controlled RF switch based around components from MiniCircuits.\u00a0 By driving a trap electrode with short pulses of RF (known among ion trappers as a `DC tickle&#8217;) we can excite the motional modes &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/ion\/uncategorized\/the-ticklemaster-cometh\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":996,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/ion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/ion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/ion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/ion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/996"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/ion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/ion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":280,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/ion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276\/revisions\/280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/ion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/ion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/ion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}