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Optical magnetometers are currently able to achieve magnetometric sensitivities below 1 fT/Hz^1/2. Although such sensitivities are typically obtained for ultra-low-field measurements, a group of optical magnetometers allows the detection of…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 Przemyslaw Wlodarczyk , Szymon Pustelny , Jerzy Zachorowski , Marcin Lipinski

Optically-pumped magnetometers (OPM) -- next-generation magnetoencephalography (MEG) sensors -- may be placed directly on the head, unlike the more commonly used superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID) sensors, which must be…

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…

We present an experimental study of the intrinsic magnetometric sensitivity of an optical/rf-frequency double resonance magnetometer in which linearly polarized laser light is used in the optical pumping and detection processes. We show…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 G. Di Domenico , H. Saudan , G. Bison , P. Knowles , A. Weis

Compact, ultra-high-speed self-bearing permanent-magnet motors enable a wide scope of applications including an increasing number of optical ones. For implementation in an optical setup the rotors have to satisfy high demands regarding…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-07-04 Sven Breitkopf , Nikolai Lilienfein , Timon Achtnich , Christof Zwyssig , Andreas Tünnermann , Ioachim Pupeza , Jens Limpert

An experimentally feasible magnetometer based on a dual-coupling optomechanical system is proposed, where the radiation-pressure coupling transduces the magnetic signal to the optical phase, and the quadratic optomechanical interaction…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-16 Gui-Lei Zhu , Jing Liu , Ying Wu , Xin-You Lü

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

Low-frequency magnetic fields carry vital information for neuroscience, navigation, and Earth science. However, they are generally weak, making it challenging to measure them with compact, room-temperature magnetometers. To overcome this…

Alignment-based optically pumped magnetometers (OPMs) are capable of measuring oscillating magnetic fields with high sensitivity in the fT/sqrt(Hz) range. Until now, alignment-based magnetometers have only used paraffin-coated vapour cells…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-06-30 L. M. Rushton , L. Elson , A. Meraki , K. Jensen

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

Optically pumped magnetometers (OPMs) have emerged as a powerful technique for high-resolution magnetic field imaging. However, achieving sub-millimeter spatial resolution at sub-picotesla sensitivities ($\mathrm{< 1\,pT/\sqrt{Hz}}$)…

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)…

Quantum sensors provide unprecedented magnetic field detection sensitivities, enabling these to extend the common magnetometry range of applications and environments of operation. In this framework, many applications also require high…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-05-02 Marc Jofre , Jordi Romeu , Luis Jofre-Roca

In this work we present a practical algorithm for calibrating a magnetometer for the presence of magnetic disturbances and for magnetometer sensor errors. To allow for combining the magnetometer measurements with inertial measurements for…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-07-15 Manon Kok , Thomas B. Schön

Optomechanical magnetometers enable highly sensitive magnetic field sensing. However, all such magnetometers to date have been optically excited and read-out either via free space or a tapered optical fiber. This limits their scalability…

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

Cardiomagnetometry is a growing field of noninvasive medical diagnostics that has triggered a need for affordable high-sensitivity magnetometers. Optical pumping magnetometers are promising candidates satisfying that need since it was…

Medical Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Georg Bison , Robert Wynands , Antoine Weis

We present analytical results on the effect of pointing errors on the average bit-error probability (ABEP) of optically pre-amplified pulse-position modulation (PPM) receivers. The results show that the beam width plays a key role in the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-15 Konstantinos Yiannopoulos , Nikolaos C. Sagias , Anthony C. Boucouvalas

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

Magnetoencephalography using optically pumped magnetometers (OPM-MEG) is gaining significant traction as a neuroimaging tool, with the potential for improved performance and practicality compared to conventional instrumentation. However,…