This article is designed as a step-by-step guide to optically pumped magnetometers based
on alkali atomic vapor cells. We begin with a general introduction to atomic magneto-optical …

We describe a magnetic gradiometer that operates at finite fields and uses an intense
pulsed laser to polarize a 87 Rb atomic ensemble and a compact vertical-cavity surface …

Self-oscillating atomic magnetometers, in which the precession of atomic spins in a
magnetic field is driven by resonant modulation, offer high sensitivity and dynamic range …

We demonstrate an alignment-based Rb 87 magnetometer that is immune to nonlinear
Zeeman (NLZ) splitting, addressing an important problem in alkali-metal atomic …

We report the fabrication of alkali-metal vapor cells using femtosecond laser machining. This
laser-written vapor-cell (LWVC) technology allows arbitrarily-shaped 3D interior volumes …

Magnetic gradiometers have wide practical and academic applications, and two important
types of field gradient observables are the total field gradient and field gradient tensor …

The detection dead zones and heading errors induced by light shifts are two important
problems in optically pumped scalar magnetometry. We introduce an atomic-orientation …

We present a single-beam atomic magnetometer operating at room temperature for the
measurement of ac magnetic fields. The magnetometer functions in the nonlinear regime of …

Magnetic field imaging is a valuable resource for signal source localization and
characterization. This work reports an optically pumped magnetometer (OPM) based on the …

Optically pumped magnetometers (OPMs) based on the free-induction-decay (FID)
configuration have recently attracted interest owing to their advantages, such as being …