English

High Field Diamond Magnetometry Towards Tokamak Diagnostics

Applied Physics 2026-01-21 v1 Instrumentation and Detectors Optics Plasma Physics Quantum Physics

Abstract

Nitrogen vacancy centres (NVC) in diamond have been widely used for near-dc magnetometry. The intrinsic properties of diamonds make them potential candidates for tokamak fusion power diagnostics, where radiation-hard magnetometers will be essential for efficient control. An NVC magnetometer placed in a tokamak will need to operate within a \geq 1 T magnetic field. In this work, we demonstrate fibre-coupled ensemble NVC optically detected magnetic resonance (ODMR) and magnetometry measurements at magnetic fields up to 1.2 T. Sensitivities of approximately 240 to 600 nT/Hz\sqrt{\textrm{Hz}} and 110 nT/Hz\sqrt{\textrm{Hz}} are achieved in a (10-150) Hz frequency range, for non-degenerate and near-\langle111\rangle field alignments respectively.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.2601.13413,
  title  = {High Field Diamond Magnetometry Towards Tokamak Diagnostics},
  author = {S. M. Graham and C. J. Stephen and A. J. Newman and A. M. Edmonds and M. L. Markham and G. W. Morley},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.13413},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

28 pages, 66 figures

R2 v1 2026-07-01T09:11:28.582Z