期刊
MEASUREMENT SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
卷 27, 期 5, 页码 -出版社
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0957-0233/27/5/055002
关键词
multi-channel operation; magnetoencephalography; sensitivity; spin-exchange relaxation-free magnetometer; small-angle beam configuration
资金
- U S DOE through the LANL/LDRD program
- NIH [5 RO1 EB009355]
We constructed a spin-exchange relaxation-free (SERF) magnetometer with a small angle between the pump and probe beams facilitating a multi-channel design with a flat pancake cell. This configuration provides almost complete overlap of the beams in the cell, and prevents the pump beam from entering the probe detection channel. By coupling the lasers in multi-mode fibers, without an optical isolator or field modulation, we demonstrate a sensitivity of 10 f T/root Hz for frequencies between 10 Hz and 100 Hz. In addition to the experimental study of sensitivity, we present a theoretical analysis of SERF magnetometer response to magnetic fields for small-angle and parallel-beam configurations, and show that at optimal DC offset fields the magnetometer response is comparable to that in the orthogonal-beam configuration. Based on the analysis, we also derive fundamental and probe-limited sensitivities for the arbitrary non-orthogonal geometry. The expected practical and fundamental sensitivities are of the same order as those in the orthogonal geometry. We anticipate that our design will be useful for magnetoencephalography (MEG) and magnetocardiography (MCG) applications.
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