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JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS
Volume 112, Issue 12, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.4771924
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- Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Materials Sciences and Engineering Division, of the U.S. Department of Energy [DE-AC02-05CH11231]
- AFOSR/DARPA QuASAR program
- IMOD
- NATO SfP program
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [0957655] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Division Of Chemistry [0957655] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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We operate a nitrogen-vacancy (NV-) diamond magnetometer at ambient temperatures and study the dependence of its bandwidth on experimental parameters including optical and microwave excitation powers. A model based on the Bloch equations is used to analyze the NV center's response time, tau, during continuous optical and microwave irradiation, and tau(-1) is shown to be a weighted average of T-1(-1) and T-2(-1), where T-1 and T-2 are the longitudinal and transverse relaxation times of the electron spin during optical irradiation. We measured a maximum detection bandwidth of similar to 1.6 MHz with optical excitation intensity of similar to 2.3MW/cm(2), limited by the available optical power. The sensitivity of the NV ensemble for continuous-wave magnetometry in the presence of photon shot noise is analyzed. Two detection schemes are compared, one involving modulation of the fluorescence by an oscillating magnetic field while the microwave frequency is held constant, and the other involving double modulation of the fluorescence when the microwave frequency is modulated during the detection. For the first of these methods, we measure a sensitivity of 4.6 +/- 0.3 nT/root Hz, unprecedented in a detector with this active volume of similar to 10 mu m(3) and close to the photon-shot-noise limit of our experiment. The measured bandwidth and sensitivity of our device should allow detection of micro-scale NMR signals with microfluidic devices. (C) 2012 American Institute of Physics. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4771924]
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