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We present a highly sensitive room-temperature atomic magnetometer (AM), designed for use in biomedical applications. The magnetometer sensor head is only 2x2x5 cm^3 and it is constructed using readily available, low-cost optical…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-16 Vishal K. Shah , Ronald T. Wakai

An all-optical atomic magnetometer is used to detect a proton free-precession signal from a water sample polarized in a 0.7 T field and remotely analyzed in a 4 $\mu T$ field. Nuclear spins are manipulated either by $\pi/2$ pulses or by…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Giuseppe Bevilacqua , Valerio Biancalana , Yordanka Dancheva , Luigi Moi

Nitrogen vacancy (NV) centers in diamond have developed into a powerful solid-state platform for compact quantum sensors. However, high sensitivity measurements usually come with additional constraints on the pumping intensity of the laser…

We propose a novel paradigm to vector magnetometry based on machine learning. Unlike conventional schemes where one measured signal explicitly connects to one parameter, here we encode the three-dimensional magnetic-field information in the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-10-04 Xin Meng , Youwei Zhang , Xichang Zhang , Shenchao Jin , Tingran Wang , Liang Jiang , Liantuan Xiao , Suotang Jia , Yanhong Xiao

Magnetic sensing is present in our everyday interactions with consumer electronics, and also demonstrates potential for measurement of extremely weak biomagnetic fields, such as those of the heart and brain. In this work, we leverage the…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-11-26 Josh Javor , Alexander Stange , Corey Pollock , Nicholas Fuhr , David J. Bishop

We demonstrate an all-optical magnetometer capable of measuring the magnitude and direction of a magnetic field using nonlinear magneto-optical rotation in a cesium vapor. Vector capability is added by effective modulation of the field…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 B. Patton , E. Zhivun , D. C. Hovde , D. Budker

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

Nuclear magnetic resonance detection in ultra low field regime enables the measurement of different components of a spurious remanence in the polymeric material constituting the sample container. A differential atomic magnetometer detects…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-05-29 Giuseppe Bevilacqua , Valerio Biancalana , Yordanka Dancheva , Leonardo Stiaccini , Antonio Vigilante

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 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

We propose and demonstrate a radio-frequency atomic magnetometer with sub-Doppler laser cooled rubidium-87. With a simple and compact design, our system demonstrates a sensitivity of $330~pT/\sqrt{Hz}$ in an unshielded environment, thus…

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

We demonstrate a proof-of-principle magnetometer that relies on the active oscillation of a cold atom Raman laser to continuously map a field-sensitive atomic phase onto the phase of the radiated light. We demonstrate wideband sensitivity…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Joshua M. Weiner , Kevin C. Cox , Justin G. Bohnet , Zilong Chen , James K. Thompson

We present an experimental scheme performing scalar magnetometry based on the fitting of Rb D$_2$ line spectra recorded by derivative selective reflection spectroscopy from an optical nanometric-thick cell. To demonstrate its efficiency,…

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

Efficient detection of magnetic fields is central to many areas of research and has important practical applications ranging from materials science to geomagnetism. High sensitivity detectors are commonly built using direct…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-01-07 Mustafa Bal , Chunqing Deng , Jean-Luc Orgiazzi , Florian Ong , Adrian Lupascu

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 report on our progress in the development of an atomic magnetometer (AM) based low-frequency magnetic particle imaging (MPI) scanner, expected to be free from Specific Absorption Rate (SAR) and Peripheral Nerve Stimulation (PNS)…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-01-16 Simone Colombo , Victor Lebedev , Alexey Tonyushkin , Zoran D. Grujic , Vladimir Dolgovskiy , Antoine Weis

We have developed a technique in which Rb atomic response to weak magnetic field is high and an efficient rotation of linearly polarized laser beam results in efficient magnetometry. 85Rb isotope has been used for the magnetometry in an…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2011-01-21 S. M. Iftiquar

We have designed and tested an atomic vectorial magnetometer based on the analysis of the coherent oscillatory transients in the transmission of resonant laser light through a Rb vapor cell. We show that the oscillation amplitudes at the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 L. Lenci , A. Auyuanet , S. Barreiro , P. Valente , A. Lezama , H. Failache