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Atom-based radio frequency electromagnetic field sensing using atomic Rydberg states is a promising technique that has recently attracted significant interest. Its unique advantages, such as extraordinary bandwidth, self-calibration and…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2022-09-07 Katelyn Dixon , Kent Nickerson , Donald W. Booth , James P. Shaffer

Rydberg atom electric field sensors are tunable quantum sensors that can perform sensitive radio frequency (RF) measurements. Their qualities have piqued interest at longer wavelengths where their small size compares favorably to…

Rydberg atom-based sensors use atoms dressed by lasers to detect and measure radio frequency electromagnetic fields. The absorptive properties of the atomic gas, configured as a Rydberg atom-based sensor, change in the presence of a radio…

A non-resonant microwave dressing field at 38.465 GHz was used to eliminate the static electric dipole moment difference between the $49s_{1/2}$ and $48s_{1/2}$ Rydberg states of $^{87}$Rb in dc fields of approximately 1 V/cm. The reduced…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2013-03-05 L. A. Jones , J. D. Carter , J. D. D. Martin

Rydberg atoms have large transition electric dipole moments and high sensitivity to electric fields. We describe a new method for microwave field sensing in a vapor cell consisting of separate excitation, quantum evolution between two…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2024-06-10 Michael V. Romalis , Joe Wiedemann , Shaobo Zhang , Nezih Dural

Recognition of multifrequency microwave (MW) electric fields is challenging because of the complex interference of multifrequency fields in practical applications. Rydberg atom-based measurements for multifrequency MW electric fields is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-18 Zong-Kai Liu , Li-Hua Zhang , Bang Liu , Zheng-Yuan Zhang , Guang-Can Guo , Dong-Sheng Ding , Bao-Sen Shi

Rydberg atoms have attracted significant interest recently as electric field sensors. In order to assess potential applications, detailed understanding of relevant figures of merit is necessary, particularly in relation to other, more…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2020-01-13 David H. Meyer , Zachary A. Castillo , Kevin C. Cox , Paul D. Kunz

Radio frequency (rf) receivers using Rydberg atoms offer appealing features over classical sensors, such as their size, frequency tuning range, and lack of field absorption. In this work, we extend the application space by demonstrating a…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2025-02-25 Peter K. Elgee , Kevin C. Cox , Joshua C. Hill , Paul D. Kunz , David H. Meyer

We demonstrate Rydberg atom-based radio frequency sensing with a colinear three-photon scheme in a room temperature cesium vapor cell that minimizes residual Doppler broadening of the probe laser absorption feature. A sub-200 kHz spectral…

Rydberg states of alkali atoms, where the outer valence electron is excited to high principal quantum numbers, have large electric dipole moments allowing them to be used as sensitive, wideband, electric field sensors. These sensors use…

We present enhanced sensing of radio frequency (RF) electric fields (E-fields) by the combined polarizability of Rydberg atoms and the optimized local oscillator (LO) fields of supergheterodyne receiving. Our modified theoretical model…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2024-01-04 Wenguang Yang , Minyong Jing , Hao Zhang , Linjie Zhang , Liantuan Xiao , Suotang Jia

We propose and demonstrate a modulation transfer protocol to increase the detection sensitivity of a Rydberg RF receiver to fields out of resonance from the transition between Rydberg levels. This protocol is based on a phase modulation of…

The exploitation of sub-MHz (\textless 1 MHz) can be beneficial for a plethora of applications like underwater vehicular communication, subsurface exploration, low-frequency navigation etc. The traditional electrical receivers in this band…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-10-24 Minze Chen , Tianqi Mao , Wei Xiao , Zhonghuai Wu , Dapeng Li , Mingyao Cui , Qunsong Zeng , Dezhi Zheng , Kaibin Huang , Zhaocheng Wang

Electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) in atomic systems involving Rydberg states is known to be a sensitive probe of incident microwave (MW) fields, in particular those resonant with Rydberg-to-Rydberg transitions. Here we propose…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2022-10-06 Sebastian Borówka , Uliana Pylypenko , Mateusz Mazelanik , Michał Parniak

Rydberg sensors have significant promise as an alternative to the antenna systems used for sub-MHz frequency communications, where the scale of high-efficiency antennas is often impractically large, forcing the use of low-efficiency,…

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

Recently, we introduced a Rydberg-atom based mixer capable of detecting and measuring the phase of a radio-frequency field through the electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) and Autler-Townes (AT) effect. The ability to measure…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2019-09-10 Christopher L. Holloway , Matthew T. Simons , Joshua A. Gordon , David Novotny

Rydberg-atom receivers aim for ultra-high sensitivity to microwave fields through various techniques, but receiving satellite signals has remained a significant challenge, due to the difficulty of capturing weak microwaves over long…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-19 Mignwei Lei , Jianquan Zhang , Qun Luo , Zhentao Zhang , Ming Wang , Meng Shi

High-sensitive measurement of radio-frequency (RF) electric field is available via the electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) effect of Rydberg atom at room-temperature, which has been developed to be a promising atomic RF receiver.…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2019-03-27 Zhenfei Song , Wanfeng Zhang , Hongping Liu , Xiaochi Liu , Haiyang Zou , Jie Zhang , Jifeng Qu

Rydberg atomic receivers hold extremely high sensitivity to electric fields, yet their effective 3-dB baseband bandwidth under conventional electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) is typically constrained to tens to a few hundreds of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-17 Yuanbin Chen , Chau Yuen , Chong Meng Samson See