Recent progress of atomic magnetometers for geomagnetic applications

Y Lu, T Zhao, W Zhu, L Liu, X Zhuang, G Fang, X Zhang - Sensors, 2023 - mdpi.com
The atomic magnetometer is currently one of the most-sensitive sensors and plays an
important role in applications for detecting weak magnetic fields. This review reports the …

Miniature biplanar coils for alkali-metal-vapor magnetometry

MCD Tayler, K Mouloudakis, R Zetter, D Hunter… - Physical Review …, 2022 - APS
Atomic spin sensors offer precision measurements using compact microfabricated
packages, placing them in a competitive position for both market and research applications …

Quantum-enhanced magnetometry at optimal number density

C Troullinou, VG Lucivero, MW Mitchell - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
We study the use of squeezed probe light and evasion of measurement backaction to
enhance the sensitivity and measurement bandwidth of an optically pumped magnetometer …

Quantum magnetic gradiometer with entangled twin light beams

S Wu, G Bao, J Guo, J Chen, W Du, M Shi, P Yang… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
In the past few decades, optical magnetometry has experienced remarkable development
and reached to an outstanding sensitivity. For magnetometry based on optical readout of …

Recent Developments in Fabrication Methods and Measurement Schemes for Optically Pumped Magnetic Gradiometers: A Comprehensive Review

H Dong, H Ye, M Hu, Z Ma - Micromachines, 2023 - mdpi.com
Optically pumped gradiometers have long been utilized in measurement in the International
Geomagnetic Reference Field (IGRF). With advancements in technologies such as laser …

Interspecies spin-noise correlations in hot atomic vapors

K Mouloudakis, F Vouzinas, A Margaritakis… - Physical Review A, 2023 - APS
We report an experimental and theoretical study of spin-noise correlations in a Rb 87-Cs
133 unpolarized alkali-metal vapor dominated by spin-exchange collisions. We observe …

Magnetoencephalogram-based brain–computer interface for hand-gesture decoding using deep learning

Y Bu, DL Harrington, RR Lee, Q Shen… - Cerebral …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Advancements in deep learning algorithms over the past decade have led to extensive
developments in brain–computer interfaces (BCI). A promising imaging modality for BCI is …

Heading-error-free optical atomic magnetometry in the earth-field range

R Zhang, D Kanta, A Wickenbrock, H Guo, D Budker - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
We demonstrate an alignment-based Rb 87 magnetometer that is immune to nonlinear
Zeeman (NLZ) splitting, addressing an important problem in alkali-metal atomic …

Laser-written vapor cells for chip-scale atomic sensing and spectroscopy

VG Lucivero, A Zanoni, G Corrielli, R Osellame… - Optics …, 2022 - opg.optica.org
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 …

Light-shift-free and dead-zone-free atomic-orientation-based scalar magnetometry using a single amplitude-modulated beam

QQ Yu, SQ Liu, CQ Yuan, D Sheng - Physical Review Applied, 2022 - APS
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 …