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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

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

To address the demands in healthcare and industrial settings for spatially resolved magnetic imaging, we present a modular optically pumped magnetometer (OPM) system comprising a multi-sensor array of highly sensitive quantum magnetometers.…

We present a portable optically pumped magnetometer instrument for ultra-sensitive measurements within the Earth's magnetic field. The central part of the system is a sensor head operating a MEMS-based Cs vapor cell in the light-shift…

In this work, we report the development of a rubidium-based single-beam scalar optically pumped magnetometer (OPM) and demonstrate its application in measuring human cardiac magnetic fields in an unshielded environment. The developed…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-02-17 Kushal Patel , Kesavaraja C , Pranab Dutta , Korak Biswas

We report on an optical magnetometer enhanced by vacuum-squeezed light, employing an Mx magnetometer based on $^{87}$Rb vapor in a micrometer-scale cell (~100 $\mu$m). Using the well-established polarization self-rotation effect in a…

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

We study the use of squeezed probe light and evasion of measurement back-action to enhance the sensitivity and measurement bandwidth of an optically-pumped magnetometer (OPM) at sensitivity-optimal atom number density. By experimental…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-04 Charikleia Troullinou , Vito Giovanni Lucivero , Morgan W. Mitchell

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

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 ($\mathrm{< 1\,pT/\sqrt{Hz}}$)…

The detection of environmental magnetic fields is well established by optically pumped atomic magnetometers. Another focus of magnetometry can be the research on magnetic or spin-active solid-state samples. Here we introduce a simple and…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2017-03-08 Daniel Arnold , Steven Siegel , Emily Grisanti , Jörg Wrachtrup , Ilja Gerhardt

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…

Magnetic field imaging is a valuable resource for signal source localization and characterization. This work reports an optically pumped magnetometer (OPM) based on the free-induction-decay (FID) protocol, that implements microfabricated…

Optically pumped atomic magnetometers (OPMs) offer highly sensitive magnetic measurements using compact hardware, offering new possibilities for practical precision sensors. Double-resonance OPM operation is well suited to unshielded…

We demonstrate a sensitive optically-pumped magnetometer using rubidium vapor and 0.75 amg of nitrogen buffer gas in a sub-mm-width sensing channel excavated by femtosecond laser writing followed by chemical etching. The channel is buried…

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

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

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

Optically pumped atomic magnetometers (OPAMs) offer high sensitivity at room temperature and are increasingly considered for portable magnetic sensing in geomagnetic-field environments. Here we report a handheld-scale, single-beam scalar…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2026-01-14 Heonsik Lee , Hyunbeen Lee , Minseok Choi , Yoontae Hwang , Deok-Young Lee

The microfabrication of cesium vapor cells for optically pumped magnetometry relies on optimization of buffer gas pressure in order to maximize atomic coherence time and sensitivity to external magnetic signals. We demonstrate post-bond…

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