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A multi-channel atomic magnetometer operating in an unshielded environment is described and characterised. The magnetometer is based on D1 optical pumping and D2 polarimetry of Cs vapour contained in gas-buffered cells. Several technical…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-04-14 Giuseppe Bevilacqua , Valerio Biancalana , Piero Chessa , Yordanka Dancheva

We use a $^{87}\text{Rb}$ atomic vapor, suitable for an optically-pumped magnetometer (OPM) in Earth-field conditions, to study the noise properties of three strategies for generating pulsed optical pumping. We compare a frequency-modulated…

Double resonance optically pumped magnetometry can be used to measure static magnetic fields with high sensitivity by detecting a resonant atomic spin response to a small oscillating field perturbation. Determination of the resonant…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2017-09-13 Stuart J. Ingleby , Carolyn O'Dwyer , Paul F. Griffin , Aidan S. Arnold , Erling Riis

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

We present an experimental and theoretical study of a scalar atomic magnetometer using an oscillating field-driven Zeeman resonance in a high-density optically-pumped potassium vapor. We describe an experimental implementation of an atomic…

Atomic and Molecular Clusters · Physics 2013-05-29 S. J. Smullin , I. M. Savukov , G. Vasilakis , R. K. Ghosh , M. V. Romalis

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 describe a 3He magnetometer capable to measure high magnetic fields (B > 0.1 Tesla) with a relative accuracy of better than 10^-12. Our approach is based on the measurement of the free induction decay of gaseous, nuclear spin polarized…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-19 A. Nikiel , P. Blümler , W. Heil , M. Hehn , S. Karpuk , A. Maul , E. Otten , L. M. Schreiber , M. Terekhov

Optically pumped atomic magnetometers (OPMs) offer highly sensitive magnetic measurements using compact hardware, offering new possibilities for practical precision sensors. Double-resonance OPM operation is well suited to unshielded…

We have developed a mini-coil pulsed magnet system with direct optical access, ideally suited for nonlinear and ultrafast spectroscopy studies of materials in high magnetic fields up to 30 T. The apparatus consists of a small coil in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-11 G. Timothy Noe , Hiroyuki Nojiri , Joseph Lee , Gary L. Woods , Jean Leotin , Junichiro Kono

We propose a magnetometer for the precise measurement of AC magnetic fields that uses a Terbium-doped optical fiber with half-waveplates built into it at specified distances. Our scheme uses an open-loop quantum control technique called…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-25 Manish K. Gupta , Jonathan Kunjummen , Xiaoting Wang , Jonathan P. Dowling

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…

This paper presents the development of a high field pulsed magnet system combined with an optical fiber-coupled low temperature cryostat for magneto-photoluminescence measurements. A novel aspect of our system is the use of electrolyte…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-03-17 Deepesh Kalauni , Kingshuk Mukhuti , Tao Peng , Bhavtosh Bansal

We report on an all-optical magnetometric technique based on nonlinear magneto-optical rotation with amplitude-modulated light. The method enables sensitive magnetic-field measurements in a broad dynamic range. We demonstrate the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Pustelny , A. Wojciechowski , M. Gring , M. Kotyrba , J. Zachorowski , W. Gawlik

The three axis magnetic field measurement based on the interaction of a single elliptically polarized light beam with an atomic system is described. The magnetic field direction dependent atomic responses are extracted by the polarimetric…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-09-21 Swarupananda Pradhan

We have performed a comparison of laser (LsOPM) and lamp (LpOPM) pumped cesium vapor magnetometers. Although the LsOPM operated 50% above its shot-noise limit we found an intrinsic sensitivity of 15 fT/\sqrt{Hz} and 25 fT/\sqrt{Hz} for the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Groeger , A. S. Pazgalev , A. Weis

In the optical pumping systems based on the pump-probe arrangement, the spin polarization of the atoms is generally monitored utilizing the probe laser beam, in which way an extra perturbation must be introduced and thus affects the normal…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2017-02-09 Jiancheng Fang , Rujie Li , Lihong Duan , Wenfeng Fan , Liwei Jiang

Levitated particle systems have gained significant attention as a rapidly advancing platform for precision sensing, offering low-loss, highly isolated environments by eliminating mechanical contact and associated noise. Current…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-05-01 Wei Ji , Changhao Xu , Guofeng Qu , Dmitry Budker

An experimentally feasible magnetometer based on a dual-coupling optomechanical system is proposed, where the radiation-pressure coupling transduces the magnetic signal to the optical phase, and the quadratic optomechanical interaction…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-16 Gui-Lei Zhu , Jing Liu , Ying Wu , Xin-You Lü

To address the demands in healthcare and industrial settings for spatially resolved magnetic imaging, we present a modular optically pumped magnetometer (OPM) system comprising a multi-sensor array of highly sensitive quantum magnetometers.…

Double-resonance optically pumped magnetometers are an attractive instrument for unshielded magnetic field measurements due to their wide dynamic range and high sensitivity. Use of linearly polarised pump light creates alignment in the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2018-09-26 Stuart J. Ingleby , Carolyn O'Dwyer , Paul F. Griffin , Aidan S. Arnold , Erling Riis