Low-Profile Optical Cryostat
The Sidekick Low-Pro Cryostat is a low profile, low vibration, optical cryostat with incredible vacuum performance. The Low-Pro boasts the thinnest cryostat form factor on the market with the cold plate positioned 1.24″ off the optical table and an overall height of 1.88″allowing the sample chamber to be highly accessible for many different experiments. Our unique vacuum structure allows for UHV performance with no outgassing. Proprietary system design greatly reduces vibrations at the cold plate to industry leading standards.
Low-Pro Features
- Amazing Optical Access
- The low-profile sample chamber gives you unprecedented optical access to your sample by removing the clutter from your optical table. This keeps your beam heights low to improve stability.
- Flexible Interfaces
- Despite the small form factor, there are three side panels to allow dozens of DC, fibers, or RF connections.
- Ultra-High Vacuum
- Our unique vacuum design makes UHV vacuum levels possible with the simplicity of O-rings. These ultra-high vacuum levels keep your sample and environment clean and greatly extend operation times. The sample environment only uses low outgassing materials to eliminate sample contamination.
- Low-Vibration
- The mechanical excitation from the cryocooler and vacuum pumps is moved off the table by using the proprietary SideKick tower mounted to the floor next to the table. Your optical table still floats to isolate your entire experimental components!
- Fast Cooldown
- Powerful GM cryocooler lowers the cryostat temperature to 4K within 3 hours
Low-Pro Housing Options:
Technical Data and Specs
- Base Temperature ~3.1K depending on interface options
- Cooling power 150mW at 5K
- Vibrations <10nm
- Table float ~0.25” (6mm) typical
- Cooldown time ~ 3 hours to 4K
- Cold platform 31 mm diameter in 75mm diameter radiation shield.
- Optical access via top or side windows with working distance as low as 1.0mm.
- 24 DC user connections standard; heat sunk to 4K cold plate. Two additional industry standard ISO63 user panels may be used for DC of RF connections.
- Integrated temperature sensors and heaters for 1st stage, 2nd stage, cold plate and sample.
- Integrated turbo pump, roughing pump, and full scale pressure gauge.
- Floor mounted vibration isolation pillars at optical table edge. Accommodates table thicknesses of 12-18”
- Option of 6″ or 9″ stand back from the edge your optical table
