# 3D-printed components for quantum devices

## TL;DR

This paper introduces additive manufacturing for quantum device components, enabling scalable, efficient, and compact systems like a low-power ultracold atom source, advancing quantum technology applications.

## Contribution

It demonstrates the use of 3D printing to produce quantum device parts, significantly improving design flexibility, efficiency, and integration for scalable quantum systems.

## Key findings

- Developed a compact ultracold atom source using less than 10 mW power.
- Showcased additive manufacturing as a versatile technique for quantum device components.
- Enabled potential for reduced size, power, and complexity in quantum device production.

## Abstract

Recent advances in the preparation, control and measurement of atomic gases have led to new insights into the quantum world and unprecedented metrological sensitivities, e.g. in measuring gravitational forces and magnetic fields. The full potential of applying such capabilities to areas as diverse as biomedical imaging, non-invasive underground mapping, and GPS-free navigation can only be realised with the scalable production of efficient, robust and portable devices. Here we introduce additive manufacturing as a production technique of quantum device components with unrivalled design freedom, providing a step change in efficiency, compactness and facilitating systems integration. As a demonstrator we present a compact ultracold atom source using less than ten milliwatts power to produce large samples of cold rubidium gases in an ultrahigh vacuum environment. This disruptive technology opens the door to drastically improved integrated structures, which will further reduce power consumption, size and assembly complexity in scalable series manufacture of bespoke quantum devices.