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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

Magnetic Detection Electrical Impedance Tomography is a novel technique that could enable non-invasive imaging of fast neural activity in the brain. However, commercial magnetometers are not suited to its technical requirements.…

Medical Physics · Physics 2024-12-19 Kai Mason , Florencia Maurino-Alperovich , Kirill Aristovich , David Holder

When optically pumped magnetometers are aimed for the use in Earth's magnetic field, the orientation of the sensor to the field direction is of special importance to achieve accurate measurement result. Measurement errors and inaccuracies…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2019-01-23 G. Oelsner , V. Schultze , R. IJsselsteijn , F. Wittkämper , R. Stolz

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…

In this paper, we propose a method to estimate the position, orientation and gain of a magnetic field sensor using a set of (large) electromagnetic coils. We apply the method for calibrating an array of optically pumped magnetometers (OPMs)…

Sensitive magnetometers have been applied in a wide range of research fields, including geophysical exploration, bio-magnetic field detection, ultralow-field nuclear magnetic resonance, etc. Commonly, magnetometers are directly placed at…

We describe an array of spin-exchange relaxation free optical magnetometers designed for detection of fetal magnetocardiography (fMCG) signals. The individual magnetometers are configured with a small volume with intense optical pumping,…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2012-07-25 Robert Wyllie , Matthew Kauer , Ronald T. Wakai , Thad G. Walker

We explore properties of the radio-frequency atomic magnetometer, specifically its sensitivity to the polarisation of an oscillating magnetic field. This aspect can be particularly relevant to configurations where the sensor monitors fields…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-07-11 L. M. Rushton , L. M. Ellis , J. D. Zipfel , P. Bevington , W. Chalupczak

We describe our approach to atomic magnetometry based on the push-pull optical pumping technique. Cesium vapor is pumped and probed by a resonant laser beam whose circular polarization is modulated synchronously with the spin evolution…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 E. Breschi , Z. D. Grujic , P. Knowles , A. Weis

We present a novel four-channel OPM sensor for magnetoencephalography that utilizes a two-color pump/probe scheme on a single optical axis. We characterize its performance across 18 built sensor modules. The new sensor implements several…

We report on a compact, tunable, and scalable to large arrays imaging device, based on a radio-frequency optically pumped atomic magnetometer operating in magnetic induction tomography modality. Imaging of conductive objects is performed at…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2016-03-11 Cameron Deans , Luca Marmugi , Sarah Hussain , Ferruccio Renzoni

Precise magnetometry is vital in numerous scientific and technological applications. At the forefront of sensitivity, optical atomic magnetometry, particularly techniques utilizing nonlinear magneto-optical rotation (NMOR), enables…

Optics · Physics 2024-12-31 S. Pustelny , P. Włodarczyk

We present an all-optical method to measure and compensate for residual magnetic fields present in a cloud of ultracold atoms trapped in an optical dipole trap. Our approach leverages the increased loss from the trapped atomic sample…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2024-04-18 Suthep Pomjaksilp , Sven Schmidt , Aaron Thielmann , Thomas Niederprüm , Herwig Ott

Zero-field optically pumped magnetometers (OPMs) have emerged as an important technology for biomagnetism due to their ulta-sensitive performance, contained within a non-cryogenic small-scale sensor-head. The compactness of such OPMs is…

The Bell-Bloom-type optically pumped atomic magnetometers are well suited for weak geomagnetic field detection. However, conventional single-beam pumping introduces an atomic spin polarization gradient, which limits the measurement accuracy…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2026-04-06 Yongbiao Yang , Zhengyu Su , Yang Li , Yanhua Wang , Jun He , Xiaojun Jia , Junmin Wang

The operation of a high sensitive atomic magnetometer using resonant elliptically polarized light is demonstrated. The experimental geometry allows autonomous frequency stabilization of the laser, thereby offers compact operation of the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2016-03-23 S. Pradhan , S. Mishra , R. Behera , Poornima , K. Dasgupta

Magnetic field imaging is a valuable resource for signal source localization and characterization. This work reports an optically pumped magnetometer (OPM) based on the free-induction-decay (FID) protocol, that implements microfabricated…

We realise an intrinsic optically pumped magnetic gradiometer based on non-linear magneto-optical rotation. We show that our sensor can reach a gradiometric sensitivity of 18 $\text{fT}/\text{cm}/\sqrt{\text{Hz}}$ and can reject common mode…

Optically pumped magnetometers are becoming a promising alternative to cryogenically-cooled superconducting magnetometers for detecting and imaging biomagnetic fields. Magnetic field detection is a completely non-invasive method, which…

Spatial variation in the intensity of magnetospheric and ionospheric fluctuation during solar storms creates ground-induced currents, of importance in both infrastructure engineering and geophysical science. This activity is currently…