Vapor cell Rydberg atom electrometry with time-separated fields
Atomic Physics
2024-06-10 v1
Abstract
Rydberg atoms have large transition electric dipole moments and high sensitivity to electric fields. We describe a new method for microwave field sensing in a vapor cell consisting of separate excitation, quantum evolution between two Rydberg levels in the dark and state-dependent detection with probe laser transmission. Using microwave pulse techniques we study homogeneous and inhomogeneous relaxation of the coherence between Rydberg levels and demonstrate detection of a 10 GHz signal with electric field sensitivity of 10 nV/cm/Hz.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2406.05106,
title = {Vapor cell Rydberg atom electrometry with time-separated fields},
author = {Michael V. Romalis and Joe Wiedemann and Shaobo Zhang and Nezih Dural},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.05106},
year = {2024}
}
Comments
5 pages, 4 figures