Between 2016 and 2018 a cold atoms/quantum optics laboratory was established on the Bellville campus of CPUT. At present Rubidium atoms are cooled to micro-Kelvin temperatures using a system of laser beams that are precisely tuned to the correct wavelengths. The entire cooling process is undertaken in an ultra-high vacuum chamber. The next phase of the project is to undertake nonlinear laser-atoms interaction experiments using cold atoms to generate entangled photons and to study the basic physics of laser atom interactions. Further, the cold atoms setup is being upgraded to ultra-cool the atoms to nano-Kelvin temperatures to create and study Bose-Einstein Condensates (BEC).