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OPTICS EXPRESS
Volume 25, Issue 13, Pages 14809-14821Publisher
OPTICAL SOC AMER
DOI: 10.1364/OE.25.014809
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- Danish Innovation Foundation (EXMAD, the Qubiz centre)
- Danish Research Council (Sapere Aude DIMS)
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Magnetometers based on ensembles of nitrogen-vacancy centres are a promising platform for continuously sensing static and low-frequency magnetic fields. Their combination with phase-sensitive (lock-in) detection creates a highly versatile sensor with a sensitivity that is proportional to the derivative of the optical magnetic resonance lock-in spectrum, which is in turn dependant on the lock-in modulation parameters. Here we study the dependence of the lock-in spectral slope on the modulation of the spin-driving microwave field. Given the presence of the intrinsic nitrogen hyperfine spin transitions, we experimentally show that when the ratio between the hyperfine linewidth and their separation is greater than or similar to 1/4, square-wave based frequency modulation generates the steepest slope at modulation depths exceeding the separation of the hyperfine lines, compared to sine-wave based modulation. We formulate a model for calculating lock-in spectra which shows excellent agreement with our experiments, and which shows that an optimum slope is achieved when the linewidth/separation ratio is less than or similar to 1/4 and the modulation depth is less then the resonance linewidth, irrespective of the modulation function used. (C) 2017 Optical Society of America
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