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We investigate the ground-state Hanle effect in alkali-metal vapor irradiating by a resonant elliptically polarized light wave. The magneto-optical resonances are observed as a change in the ellipticity parameter of the light wave…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2025-11-25 D. V. Brazhnikov , A. O. Makarov , K. S. Kozlova , A. N. Goncharov

A magnetometric technique is demonstrated that may be suitable for precision measurements of fields ranging from the sub-microgauss level to above the Earth field. It is based on resonant nonlinear magneto-optical rotation caused by atoms…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 D. Budker , D. F. Kimball , V. V. Yashchuk , M. Zolotorev

Non-invasive measurement of absolute temperature is important for proper characterization of various pathologies and for evaluation of thermal dose during interventional procedures. The proton magnetic resonance (MR) frequency shift method…

Medical Physics · Physics 2019-05-31 Emilia Silletta , Alexej Jerschow , Guillaume Madelin , Leeor Alon

In this paper, we present a triaxial alignment magnetometer based on free-spin precession deployed in the geomagnetic range. Existing vector measurement methods often require complex optical setups, heating structures, and laser modulation.…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2025-02-18 Ge Jin , Tao Shi , Sheng Zou

We report on the use of radio-frequency optical atomic magnetometers for magnetic induction tomography measurements. We demonstrate the imaging of dummy targets of varying conductivities placed in the proximity of the sensor, in an…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2016-05-04 Cameron Deans , Luca Marmugi , Sarah Hussain , Ferruccio Renzoni

The sensitive detection of either static or radio-frequency \textsc{(rf)} magnetic fields is essential to many fundamental studies and applications. Here, we demonstrate the operation of a cold-atom-based, \textsc{rf} magnetometer in…

Optically pumped magnetometers (OPMs) based on alkali-atom vapors are ultra-sensitive devices for dc and low-frequency ac magnetic measurements. Here, in combination with fast-field-cycling hardware and high-resolution spectroscopic…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-07-21 Sven Bodenstedt , Morgan Mitchell , Michael Tayler

We report an optical inelastic-wave-mixing-enhanced atomic magnetometry technique that results in nT-level magnetic field detection at temperatures compatible with the human body without magnetic shielding, zero-field compensation, or…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-04-24 Feng Zhou , Eric Y. Zhu , Yvonne L. Li , E. W. Hagley , L. Deng

We present a magnetometer based on optically pumped Cs atoms that measures the magnitude and direction of a 1 $\mu$T magnetic field. Multiple circularly polarized laser beams were used to probe the free spin precession of the Cs atoms. The…

We show that a single atomic magnetometer in a magnetically unshielded environment can be used to perform magnetic particle spectroscopy (MPS) and AC susceptometry (ACS) on liquid-suspended magnetic nanoparticles. We demonstrate methods…

Biological Physics · Physics 2016-12-22 Simone Colombo , Victor Lebedev , Zoran D. Grujic , Vladimir Dolgovskiy , Antoine Weis

Optically pumped magnetometers usually rely on optical pumping using circularly- or linearly-polarized light. We study here zero-field magnetometers pumped with elliptically-polarized light, preparing both atomic orientation and alignment…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2022-05-04 Gwenael Le Gal , Agustin Palacios-Laloy

We demonstrated a scalar atomic magnetometer using a micro-fabricated Cs vapor cell. The atomic spin precession is driven by an amplitude-modulated circularly-polarized pump laser resonant on D1 transition of Cs atoms and detected by an…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2019-10-07 Rui Zhang , Terry Dyer , Nathan Brockie , Roozbeh Parsa , Rahul Mhaskar

We present details of a high-accuracy absolute scalar magnetometer based on pulsed proton NMR. The $B$-field magnitude is determined from the precession frequency of proton spins in a cylindrical sample of water after accounting for field…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-12-23 D. Flay , D. Kawall , T. Chupp , S. Corrodi , M. Farooq , M. Fertl , J. George , J. Grange , R. Hong , R. Osofsky , S. Ramachandran , E. Swanson , P. Winter

An atomic magnetometer operated with elliptically polarized light is investigated theoretically and experimentally. To explore the potential of this magnetometric configuration, the analytical form of the outgoing signal is derived.…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 Shengran Su , Guoyi Zhang , Xin Bi , Xiang He , Wenqiang Zheng , Qiang Lin

Magnetic fields generated by human and animal organs, such as the heart, brain and nervous system carry information useful for biological and medical purposes. These magnetic fields are most commonly detected using cryogenically-cooled…

Atom interferometers deployed in space are excellent tools for high precision measurements, navigation, or Earth observation. In particular, differential interferometric setups feature common-mode noise suppression and enable reliable…

Optically-pumped atomic magnetometers have previously been used in arrays to reject interference from far away sources and enable the sensitive detection of local sources of radio frequency (RF) signals, useful, for instance, in the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-02-10 Ayse Marasli , Thomas Kornack , Casey Oware , Karen L. Sauer

We present a novel approach allowing an optically pumped magnetometer (OPM) to be operated within Earth's magnetic field as a vector magnetometer whose sensitive axis can be freely defined. This approach enables the measurement of any…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-08-20 Thomas Schönau , Theo Scholtes , Florian Wittkämper , Alexander Sekels , Stefan Hiebel , Gregor Oelsner , Ronny Stolz

We present experimental data and theoretical interpretation of NMR spectra of remotely magnetized samples, detected in an unshielded environment by means of a differential atomic magnetometer. The measurements are performed in an…

Recent advances in optical magnetometry have achieved record sensitivity at both macro- and nano-scale. Combined with high bandwidth and non-cryogenic operation, this has enabled many applications. By comparison, microscale optical…