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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

Developing a non-invasive, accurate vector magnetometer that operates at ambient temperature and is conducive to miniaturization and is self-calibrating is a significant challenge. Here, we present an unshielded three-axis vector…

We demonstrate a magnetometric technique based on nonlinear magneto-optical rotation using amplitude modulated light. The magnetometers can be operated in either open-loop (typical nonlinear magneto-optical rotation with amplitude-modulated…

State-of-the-art magnetic field measurements performed in shielded environments with carefully controlled conditions rarely reflect the realities of those applications envisioned in the introductions of peer-reviewed publications.…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2020-10-13 Kai-Mei C. Fu , Geoffrey Z. Iwata , Arne Wickenbrock , Dmitry Budker

Optically-pumped magnetometers are an important instrument for imaging biological magnetic signals without the need for cryogenic cooling. These magnetometers are presently available in the commercial market and utilize the principles of…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-04-12 Adil Meraki , Lucy Elson , Nok Ho , Ali Akbar , Marcin Koźbiał , Jan Kołodyński , Kasper Jensen

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…

This article is designed as a step-by-step guide to optically pumped magnetometers based on alkali atomic vapor cells. We begin with a general introduction to atomic magneto-optical response, as well as expected magnetometer performance…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2023-03-01 Anne Fabricant , Irina Novikova , Georg Bison

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 describe an ultra-sensitive atomic magnetometer using optically-pumped potassium atoms operating in spin-exchange relaxation free (SERF) regime. We demonstrate magnetic field sensitivity of 160 aT/Hz$^{1/2}$ in a gradiometer arrangement…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 H. B. Dang , A. C. Maloof , M. V. Romalis

We describe a room-temperature alkali-metal atomic magnetometer for detection of small, high frequency magnetic fields. The magnetometer operates by detecting optical rotation due to the precession of an aligned ground state in the presence…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2010-10-12 M. P. Ledbetter , V. M. Acosta , S. M. Rochester , D. Budker , S. Pustelny , V. V. Yashchuk

In atomic magnetometers, the vector AC-Stark shift associated with circularly polarized light generates spatially varying effective magnetic fields which limit the magnetometer response and serve as sources of noise. We describe a scheme…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 I. A. Sulai , R. Wyllie , M. Kauer , G. S. Smetana , R. T. Wakai , T. G. Walker

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

Scalar optically-pumped magnetometers (OPMs) are being developed in small packages with high sensitivities. The high common-mode rejection ratio of these sensors allows for detection of very small signals in the presence of large background…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-09-17 Richard J. Clancy , Vladislav Gerginov , Orang Alem , Stephen Becker , Svenja Knappe

A Hall magnetometer with variable sensitivity is constructed to measure the magnetic properties of magnetic nanoparticles manufactured by different methods. This novel magnetometer can also be used to measure bulk materials and samples in…

A self-oscillating magnetometer based on nonlinear magneto-optical rotation using amplitude-modulated pump light and unmodulated probe light (AM-NMOR) in 87Rb has been constructed and tested towards a goal of airborne detection of magnetic…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Chris Hovde , Brian Patton , Eric Corsini , James Higbie , Dmitry Budker

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…

The operation of polarimetric based single beam three axis atomic magnetometer is studied. The magnetometer operates in presence of small bias magnetic field. Its salient features are compared with the analysis of Bloch equation. The…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2019-03-18 Swarupananda Pradhan , Rita Behera

In this article, operation of optical magnetometers detecting static (DC) and oscillating (AC) magnetic fields is studied and comparison of the devices is performed. To facilitate the comparison, the analysis is carried out in the same…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2019-04-02 Piotr Put , Kacper Popiołek , Szymon Pustelny

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.…

We demonstrate remote detection of rotating machinery, using an atomic magnetometer at room temperature and in an unshielded environment. The system relies on the coupling of the AC magnetic signature of the target with the spin-polarized,…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-01-20 Luca Marmugi , Lorenzo Gori , Sarah Hussain , Cameron Deans , Ferruccio Renzoni