A high sensitive optical amplitude modulation magnetometer is investigated and demonstrated experimentally. We build an experimental platform for the atomic magnetometer and configure it as a Bell-Bloom magnetometer w...A high sensitive optical amplitude modulation magnetometer is investigated and demonstrated experimentally. We build an experimental platform for the atomic magnetometer and configure it as a Bell-Bloom magnetometer with amplitude modulation of 50% duty cycle square waveform. The open-loop input-output model is deduced from the Bloch equation and is verified experimentally. Instead of locking the frequency by using a voltage control oscillator, we realize a closed loop using the coils to generate a feedback field which avoids the stringent require- ment of a high resolution frequency meter and markedly expands the dynamic range as well as the bandwidth. We realize an open loop sensitivity of 0.8pT/Hz1/2 at 20 Hz using a single light beam, which exceeds that of the state-of-the-art Bell-Bloom magnetometers, and the corresponding closed loop sensitivity is 1.2 pT/Hz1/2.展开更多
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos 61273067 and 61074171the National Basic Research Program of China under Grant No 2012CB934104
文摘A high sensitive optical amplitude modulation magnetometer is investigated and demonstrated experimentally. We build an experimental platform for the atomic magnetometer and configure it as a Bell-Bloom magnetometer with amplitude modulation of 50% duty cycle square waveform. The open-loop input-output model is deduced from the Bloch equation and is verified experimentally. Instead of locking the frequency by using a voltage control oscillator, we realize a closed loop using the coils to generate a feedback field which avoids the stringent require- ment of a high resolution frequency meter and markedly expands the dynamic range as well as the bandwidth. We realize an open loop sensitivity of 0.8pT/Hz1/2 at 20 Hz using a single light beam, which exceeds that of the state-of-the-art Bell-Bloom magnetometers, and the corresponding closed loop sensitivity is 1.2 pT/Hz1/2.
