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An improved spatial magnetometer using a spinor Bose-Einstein condensate of $^{87}$Rb atoms is realized utilizing newly developed two-polarization phase contrast imaging. The optical shot noise is suppressed by carefully choosing the probe…

A sensitive vector magnetometry with high spatial resolution is important for various practical applications, such as magnetocardiography, magnetoencephalography, explosive materials detection and many others. We propose a magnetometer…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-07-07 D. O. Ignatyeva , G. A. Knyazev , A. N. Kalish , A. I. Chernov , V. I. Belotelov

Cardiomagnetometry is a growing field of noninvasive medical diagnostics that has triggered a need for affordable high-sensitivity magnetometers. Optical pumping magnetometers are promising candidates satisfying that need since it was…

Medical Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Georg Bison , Robert Wynands , Antoine Weis

We present two fiberized vector magnetic-field sensors, based on nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond. The sensors feature sub-nT/$\sqrt{\textrm{Hz}}$ magnetic sensitivity. We use commercially available components to construct sensors…

We report on a two-channel magnetometer based on nonlinear magneto-optical rotation in a Cs glass cell with buffer gas. The Cs atoms are optically pumped and probed by free running diode lasers tuned to the D$_2$ line. A wide frequency…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. Belfi , G. Bevilacqua , V. Biancalana , S. Cartaleva , Y. Dancheva , K. Khanbekyan , L. Moi

Detection and imaging of an electrically conductive object at a distance can be achieved by inducing eddy currents in it and measuring the associated magnetic field. We have detected low-conductivity objects with an optical magnetometer…

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 a solid state magnetic field imaging technique using a two dimensional array of spins in diamond. The magnetic sensing spin array is made of nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers created at shallow depths. Their optical response is used…

Spin polarized atomic ensembles can be used for the precise measurement of magnetic field. Conventional atomic magnetometers have demonstrated high sensitivities, albeit at low detection bandwidth, fundamentally limited by the Larmor…

In a magnetic field detection system,to achieve high-sensitivity magnetic field measurement, it is necessary to use uniform magnetic field coils to provide a stable working environment, so the measurement of the magnetic field coilsconstant…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2024-02-08 Ni Zhao , Lulu Zhang , Yongbiao Yang , Junye Zhao , Jun He , Junmin Wang

The measurement of the magnetic field in the tracking volume inside the superconducting coil of the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) detector under construction at CERN is done with a fieldmapper designed and produced at Fermilab. The…

Accelerator magnets steer particle beams according to the field integrated along the trajectory over the magnet length. Purpose-wound coils measure these relevant parameters with high precision and complement efficiently point-like…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2011-04-20 L. Walckiers

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 propose an hybrid laser system consisting of a semiconductor external cavity laser associated to an intra-cavity diamond etalon doped with nitrogen-vacancy color centers. We consider laser emission tuned to the infrared absorption line…

High-sensitivity magnetometry is of critical importance to the fields of biomagnetism and geomagnetism. However, the magnetometry for the low-frequency signal detection meets the challenge of sensitivity improvement, due to multiple types…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-18 Yijin Xie , Caijin Xie , Yunbin Zhu , Ke Jing , Yu Tong , Xi Qin , Haosen Guan , Chang-Kui Duan , Ya Wang , Xing Rong , Jiangfeng Du

We use an atomic vapor cell as a frequency tunable microwave field detector operating at frequencies from GHz to tens of GHz. We detect microwave magnetic fields from 2.3 GHz to 26.4 GHz, and measure the amplitude of the sigma+ component of…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2016-05-24 Andrew Horsley , Philipp Treutlein

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…

The design and operation of a homemade low cost vibrating sample magnetometer is described here. The sensitivity of this instrument is better than 10-2 emu and found to be very efficient for the measurement of magnetization of most of the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-05-28 S. Kundu , T. K. Nath

For space-borne gravitational wave detectors,such as LISA and TianQin ,the disturbance caused by the coupling of test masses and the external magnetic fields is one of the main sources of the residual acceleration noise. Although the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-03-05 Yuanyang Yu , Butian Zhang , Shengxin Lin , Jianping Liang , Donghua Pan , Shun Wang , Ze-Bing Zhou

Magnetometers based on nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond are promising room-temperature, solid-state sensors. However, their reported sensitivity to magnetic fields at low frequencies (<1 kHz) is presently >10 pT s^{1/2}, precluding…