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A scalable mapping system for superconducting RF cavities is presented. Currently, it combines local temperature measurement with 3D magnetic field mapping along the outer surface of the resonator. This allows for the observation of dynamic…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-05-23 B. Schmitz , J. Köszegi , K. Alomari , O. Kugeler , J. Knobloch

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

Recently, Rydberg atom has emerged as an attractive choice to realize quantum sensing of low-frequency electric field. The progress so far has mostly utilized the intensity and phase changes in probe laser and the corresponding detection…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2026-03-11 Ding Wang , Shenchao Jin , Xiayang Fan , Hongjing Li , Jiatian Liu , Jingzheng Huang , Guihua Zeng , Yuan Sun

In this work we propose, and experimentally demonstrate, the use of a self-oscillating all-optical atomic magnetometer for magnetic induction measurements. Given the potential for miniaturization of atomic magnetometers, and their extreme…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Arne Wickenbrock , François Tricot , Ferruccio Renzoni

A free-induction-decay (FID) type optically-pumped rubidium atomic magnetometer driven by a radio-frequency (RF) magnetic field is presented in this paper. Influences of parameters, such as the temperature of rubidium vapor cell, the power…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2023-01-23 Lulu Zhang , Yongbiao Yang , Ni Zhao , Jun He , Junmin Wang

Rydberg atom-based electrometry enables traceable electric field measurements with high sensitivity over a large frequency range, from gigahertz to terahertz. Such measurements are particularly useful for the calibration of radio frequency…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-04-26 Santosh Kumar , Haoquan Fan , Harald Kübler , Akbar J. Jahangiri , James P. Shaffer

Noise measurements have been carried out in the LISA bandwidth (0.1 mHz to 100 mHz) to characterize an all-optical atomic magnetometer based on nonlinear magneto-optical rotation. This was done in order to assess if the technology can be…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-01-19 I. Mateos , B. Patton , E. Zhivun , D. Budker , D. Wurm , J. Ramos-Castro

We design and implement a low-impedance, high-current radio-frequency (RF) circuit, enabling fast coherent coupling between magnetic levels in cold alkali atomic samples. It is based on a compact shape-optimized coil that maximizes the RF…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2025-10-30 F. Scazza , G. Del Pace , L. Pieri , R. Concas , W. J. Kwon , G. Roati

We study photoionization of cold rubidium atoms in a strong infrared laser field using a magneto-optical trap (MOT) recoil ion momentum spectrometer. Three types of cold rubidium target are provided, operating in two-dimension (2D) MOT, 2D…

Magnetic particle imaging is a promising medical imaging technique. Applying changing magnetic fields to tracer material injected into the object under investigation results in a change in magnetization. Measurement of related induced…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-21 Stephanie Blanke , Christina Brandt

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…

We show, theoretically and experimentally, how the absolute orientation and polarization state of radio-frequency (RF) magnetic fields in a transverse 2D plane can be uniquely determined using two optically pumped atomic magnetometers. In…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2024-04-11 Cicely Motamedi , Karen Sauer

Magnetic resonance imaging, based on the manipulation and detection of nuclear spins, is a powerful imaging technique that typically operates on the scale of millimeters to microns. Using magnetic resonance force microscopy, we have…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-06-27 H. J. Mamin , M. Poggio , C. L. Degen , D. Rugar

Rydberg-atom electric field sensing has shown great potential from near-DC to THz with state-of-the-art measurement metrics realized in sensitivity, phase extraction, multi-band receptivity, etc. While Rydberg-atom sensors have shown…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-17 Aveek Chandra , Narongrit Paensin , Rainer Dumke

We demonstrate Magnetic Induction Tomography (MIT) with an all-optical atomic magnetometer. Our instrument creates a conductivity map of conductive objects. Both shape and size of the imaged samples compare very well with the actual shape…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2014-11-04 Arne Wickenbrock , Sarunas Jurgilas , Albert Dow , Luca Marmugi , Ferruccio Renzoni

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

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

Atomic magnetometry was performed at Earth's magnetic field over a free-space distance of ten meters. Two laser beams aimed at a distant alkali-vapor cell excited and detected the $^{87}$Rb magnetic resonance, allowing the magnetic field…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Brian Patton , Oscar Versolato , D. Chris Hovde , Eric Corsini , James Higbie , Dmitry Budker

We present an innovative method for magnetic resonance force microscopy (MRFM) with ultra-low dissipation, by using the higher modes of the mechanical detector as radio frequency (rf) source. This method allows MRFM on samples without the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-22 J. J. T. Wagenaar , A. M. J. den Haan , R. J. Donkersloot , F. Marsman , M. de Wit , L. Bossoni , T. H. Oosterkamp

We demonstrate a dynamic scanning capacitance microscope (DSCM) that operates at large bandwidths, cryogenic temperatures and high magnetic fields. The setup is based on a non-contact atomic force microscope (AFM) with a quartz tuning fork…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2009-03-12 A. Baumgartner , M. E. Suddards , C. J. Mellor