Quantum sensing of microwave electric fields based on Rydberg atoms

J Yuan, W Yang, M Jing, H Zhang, Y Jiao… - Reports on Progress …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Microwave electric field sensing is of importance for a wide range of applications in areas of
remote sensing, radar astronomy and communications. Over the past decade, Rydberg …

Modern RF measurements with hot atoms: A technology review of Rydberg atom-based radio frequency field sensors

A Artusio-Glimpse, MT Simons… - IEEE Microwave …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Over a hundred years later, the classic antenna, first invented by Heinrich Hertz, in 1888,, is
still the dominant technology used for the measurement of RF fields. Just seven years after …

Highly sensitive measurement of a megahertz rf electric field with a Rydberg-atom sensor

B Liu, LH Zhang, ZK Liu, ZY Zhang, ZH Zhu, W Gao… - Physical Review …, 2022 - APS
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 …

Determining the angle-of-arrival of a radio-frequency source with a Rydberg atom-based sensor

AK Robinson, N Prajapati, D Senic, MT Simons… - Applied Physics …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
In this work, we demonstrate the use of a Rydberg atom-based sensor for determining the
angle of arrival of an incident radio frequency (RF) wave or signal. The technique uses …

A Rydberg atom-based mixer: Measuring the phase of a radio frequency wave

MT Simons, AH Haddab, JA Gordon… - Applied Physics …, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
Rydberg atoms have been shown to be very useful in performing absolute measurements of
the magnitude of a radio frequency (RF) field using electromagnetically induced …

[HTML][HTML] Electric field metrology for SI traceability: Systematic measurement uncertainties in electromagnetically induced transparency in atomic vapor

CL Holloway, MT Simons, JA Gordon… - Journal of Applied …, 2017 - pubs.aip.org
We investigate the relationship between the Rabi frequency (XRF, related to the applied
electric field) and Autler-Townes (AT) splitting, when performing atom-based radio …

Rydberg-atom-based digital communication using a continuously tunable radio-frequency carrier

Z Song, H Liu, X Liu, W Zhang, H Zou, J Zhang… - Optics Express, 2019 - opg.optica.org
Up to now, the measurement of radio-frequency (RF) electric field achieved using the
electromagnetically-induced transparency (EIT) of Rydberg atoms has proved to be of high …

[HTML][HTML] Weak electric-field detection with sub-1 Hz resolution at radio frequencies using a Rydberg atom-based mixer

JA Gordon, MT Simons, AH Haddab, CL Holloway - Aip Advances, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
Rydberg atoms have been used for measuring radio-frequency (RF) electric (E)-fields due to
their strong dipole moments over the frequency range of 500 MHz-1 THz. For this …

Quantum-limited atomic receiver in the electrically small regime

KC Cox, DH Meyer, FK Fatemi, PD Kunz - Physical Review Letters, 2018 - APS
We use a quantum sensor based on thermal Rydberg atoms to receive data encoded in
electromagnetic fields in the extreme electrically small regime, with a sensing volume over 1 …

[HTML][HTML] Enhancement of electromagnetically induced transparency based Rydberg-atom electrometry through population repumping

N Prajapati, AK Robinson, S Berweger… - Applied Physics …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
We demonstrate improved sensitivity of Rydberg electrometry based on electromagnetically
induced transparency (EIT) with a ground state repumping laser. Though there are many …