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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 introduce a vector atomic magnetometer that employs a fast-rotating magnetic field applied to a pulsed $^{87}$Rb scalar atomic magnetometer. This approach enables simultaneous measurements of the total magnetic field and its two polar…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-07 Tao Wang , Wonjae Lee , Mark Limes , Tom Kornack , Elizabeth Foley , Michael Romalis

We report an all-optical atomic vector magnetometer using dual Bell-Bloom optical pumping beams in a Rb vapor cell. This vector magnetometer consists of two orthogonal optical pumping beams, with amplitude modulations at $^{85}$Rb and…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2020-09-28 Bo Cai , Chuanpeng Hao , Zheru Qiu , Qianqian Yu , Wei Xiao , Dong Sheng

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 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

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 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

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…

We describe and demonstrate how 3D magnetic field alignment can be inferred from single absorption images of an atomic cloud. While optically pumped magnetometers conventionally rely on temporal measurement of the Larmor precession of…

We demonstrate novel implementations of high-precision optical magnetometers which allow for spatially-selective and spatially-resolved in situ measurements using cold atomic clouds. These are realised by using shaped dispersive probe beams…

Atomic magnetometry is one of the most sensitive ways to measure magnetic fields. We present a method for converting a naturally scalar atomic magnetometer into a vector magnetometer by exploiting the polarization dependence of hyperfine…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2018-10-17 Tobias Thiele , Yiheng Lin , Mark O. Brown , Cindy A. Regal

We report the design and performance of a non-magnetic drift stable optically pumped cesium magnetometer with a measured sensitivity of 35 fT at 200 s integration time and stability below 50 fT between 70 s and 600 s. To our knowledge this…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-05-04 M. Rosner , D. Beck , P. Fierlinger , H. Filter , C. Klau , F. Kuchler , P. Rößner , M. Sturm , D. Wurm , Z. Sun

We present the concept and the results of an investigation of an all-optical vector magnetic field sensor scheme developed for biological applications such as non-zero field magnetoencephalography and magnetocardiography. The scheme differs…

Robust calibration of vector optically pumped magnetometers (OPMs) is a nontrivial task, but increasingly important for applications requiring high-accuracy such as magnetic navigation, geophysics research, and space exploration. Here, we…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2025-02-28 Christopher Kiehl , Thanmay S. Menon , Svenja Knappe , Tobias Thiele , Cindy A. Regal

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

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

In many applications, the ability to measure the vector information of a magnetic field with high spatial resolution and low cost is essential, but it is still a challenge for existing magnetometers composed of multiple sensors. Here, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-08-05 Xin Chen , Hang Xie , Haoxuan Shen , Yihong Wu

The possibility of using axial spin color centers with $S=3/2$, oriented along the hexagonal $c$ axis in a silicon carbide (SiC) wafer, has been demonstrated for all-optical measurement of projection of the external magnetic field…

We describe the development of a simple atomic magnetometer using $^{87}$Rb vapor suitable for Earth magnetic field monitoring. The magnetometer is based on time-domain determination of the transient precession frequency of the atomic…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 L. Lenci , S. Barreiro , P. Valente , H. Failache , A. Lezama

Double-resonance optically pumped magnetometers are an attractive instrument for unshielded magnetic field measurements due to their wide dynamic range and high sensitivity. Use of linearly polarised pump light creates alignment in the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2018-09-26 Stuart J. Ingleby , Carolyn O'Dwyer , Paul F. Griffin , Aidan S. Arnold , Erling Riis
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