  We discuss the use of microfabricated magnetic traps, or "chip traps," to
study quasi-one-dimensional quantum gases. In particular, we discuss the
feasibility of studying the Tonks-Girardeau limit, in which the gas is strongly
interacting. We review the scaling of the oscillation frequencies of a chip
trap, and show that it seems feasible to attain a Tonks-Girardeau parameter as
large as 200. The primary difficulty of this approach is detection, since the
strongly interacting limit occurs for low densities. We propose a way to
"freeze" the distribution, and then measure it with a single-atom detector.
This method can also be applied to optical dipole traps.
