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We demonstrate a continuous frequency electric field measurement based on the far off-resonant AC stark effect in a Rydberg atomic vapor cell. In this configuration, a strong far off-resonant field, denoted as a local oscillator (LO) field,…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2023-01-16 Jinlian Hu , Huaqiang Li , Rong Song , Jingxu Bai , Yuechun Jiao , Jianming Zhao , Suotang Jia

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

Rydberg-assisted atomic electrometry with thermal vapors offers a promising approach for detecting external electric fields. However, this technique presents significant challenges for measuring low frequencies due to the effects of…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2025-09-03 Yu-Chi Chen , Shao-Cheng Fang , Hsuan-Jui Su , Yi-Hsin Chen

We present a method for performing low frequency electric field sensing via ionization detection of Rydberg atoms in a collimated atomic beam. A collimated beam avoids much of the electric field screening effects that are common in warm…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2026-04-03 Jeremy Glick , John R Dickson , Josie Wood , Paul Kunz

Mode competition in nonequilibrium Rydberg gases enables the exploration of emergent many-body phases. This work leverages this emergent phase for electric field detection at room temperature. Sensitive frequency-resolved electric field…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2025-03-10 Darmindra Arumugam

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

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 discuss a fundamentally new approach for the measurement of electric (E) fields that will lead to the development of a broadband, direct SI-traceable, compact, self-calibrating E-field probe (sensor). This approach is based on the…

We realize and model a Rydberg-state atom interferometer for measurement of phase and intensity of radio-frequency (RF) electromagnetic waves. A phase reference is supplied to the atoms via a modulated laser beam, enabling atomic…

We present and characterize an atomic vapor cell with silicon ring electrodes directly embedded between borosilicate glass tubes. The cell is assembled with an anodic bonding method and is filled with Rb vapor. The ring electrodes can be…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2021-06-04 Lu Ma , Michael A. Viray , David A. Anderson , Georg Raithel

Measurements of plasma electric fields are essential to the advancement of plasma science and applications. Methods for non-invasive in situ measurements of plasma fields on sub-millimeter length scales with high sensitivity over a large…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2017-12-27 David A. Anderson , Georg Raithel , Matthew Simons , Christopher L. Holloway

We investigate the Stark shift in Rydberg rubidium atoms through electromagnetically induced transparency for the measurement of direct current (dc) and 60~Hz alternating current (ac) voltages. This technique has direct applications to…

Fields with frequencies below megahertz are challenging for Rydberg-atom-based measurements, due to the low-frequency electric field screening effect that is caused by the alkali-metal atoms adsorbed on the inner surface of the container.…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2024-05-09 Mingwei Lei , Meng Shi

The ability to image electromagnetic fields holds key scientific and industrial applications, including electromagnetic compatibility, diagnostics of high-frequency devices, and experimental scientific work involving field interactions.…

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

We have recently shown that Alkali atoms contained in a vapor cell can serve as a highly accurate standard for microwave electric field strength as well as polarization using the principles of Rydberg atom electromagnetically induced…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 H. Q. Fan , S. Kumar , R. Daschner , H. Kübler , J. P. Shaffer

We measure strong radio-frequency (RF) electric fields using rubidium Rydberg atoms prepared in a room-temperature vapor cell as field sensors. Electromagnetically induced transparency is employed as an optical readout. We RF-modulate the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2016-05-16 Stephanie A. Miller , David A. Anderson , Georg Raithel

Rydberg atoms have great potential in electric field measurement and have an advantage with a large frequency bandwidth from the kHz to the THz scale. However, the sensitivity for measuring a weak MHz electric field signal is limited by the…

We present a non-invasive spectroscopic technique to measure electric fields in plasma, leveraging large polarizabilities and Stark shifts of Rydberg atoms. Rydberg Stark shifts are measured with high precision using narrow-linewidth lasers…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2025-12-19 Bineet Dash , Xinyan Xiang , Dingkun Feng , Eric Paradis , Georg Raithel

In this work we demonstrate an approach for the measurement of radio-frequency (RF) power using electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) in a Rydberg atomic vapor. This is accomplished by placing alkali atomic vapor in a rectangular…

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