提高激光抽运铯原子磁力仪灵敏度的研究

李楠; 黄凯凯; 陆璇辉

doi:10.7498/aps.62.133201

摘要

本文报道了一种基于激光抽运射频共振的铯原子磁力仪. 通过圆偏振光将铯原子抽运到暗态, 实现偏极化. 外磁场存在时, 原子磁矩将以拉莫尔频率绕外磁场进动. 在共振射频磁场的作用下, 原子被去极化而重新吸收光子. 通过探测出射光光谱可以测得拉莫尔频率进而得到外磁场的信息. 本文通过运用自制的894 nm 外腔半导体激光器, 建立了激光稳频装置和低噪声磁场测量环境, 实现了一种基于铯原子激光抽运射频共振的磁力仪. 通过磁力仪参数优化以及闭环测量, 磁力仪测量的外磁场达到了19 fT/Hz1/2的极限灵敏度和1.8 pT/Hz1/2的本征灵敏度, 空间分辨率小于2 cm.

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Abstract

A cesium atomic magnetometer based on laser-pumped rf resonance has been investigated and demonstrated experimentally. Atoms are polarized and pumped to dark states by circularly polarized light. When there exists a magnetic field, the corresponding magnetization will be precessing around the magnetic field at Larmor frequency. By means of adding a resonant rf magnetic field, the atoms will be depolarized and absorb photons again. By detecting the spectrum of the transmitted light, one can obtain the information about the external magnetic field. We build an 894nm external cavity diode laser with a frequency stabilization device, and a low noise magnetic field measurement environment. After the optimization of the magnetometer parameter and closed-loop measurement, an ultimate sensitivity of 19 fT/Hz1/2 and an intrinsic sensitivity of 1.8 pT/Hz1/2 have been achieved with the spatial resolution smaller than 2 cm.

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作者及机构信息

1.
浙江大学物理系, 杭州 310027

基金项目: 国家自然科学基金(批准号:10874012, 10974177)和国家国际科技合作项目(批准号: 2010DFA04690)资助的课题.

Authors and contacts

1.
Department of Physics, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China

Funds: Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 10874012, 10974177), and the International Collaboration of Science and Technology of China (Grant No. 2010DFA04690).

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施引文献

[1]	Bison G, Wynands R, Weis A 2003 Appl. Phys. B 76 325
[2]	Carlos Go'mez, Roberto Hornero, Daniel Aba'solo, Alberto Ferna'ndez, Javier Escudero 2007 Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine 87 239
[3]	Karsten Sternickel, Alex Braginski 2003 Supercond. Sci. Technol 19 160
[4]	Groeger S, Bison G 2006 Sensors and Actuators A: Phys. 129 1
[5]	Xu S 2008 Phys. Rev. A 78 13404
[6]	Sarma B S P, Verma B K, Satyanarayana S V 1999 Geophysics 64 1735
[7]	Mende S B, Harris S E, Frey H U, Angelopoulos V, Russell C T, Donovan E, Jackel B, Greffen M, Peticolas L M 2008 Space Sci. Rev. 141 357
[8]	Russell C T, Chi P J, Dearborn D J, Ge Y S, Kuo-Tiong B, Means J D, Pierce D R, Rowe K M, Snare R C 2008 Space Sci. Rev. 141 389
[9]	Turkakin H, Marchand R, Kale Z C 2008 Journal of Geophysical Research 113 1
[10]	Carreon H 2008 Wear 265 255
[11]	Zivotsky O, Postava K, Kraus L, J iraskova Y, Juraszek J, Teillet J, Barcova K, Svec P S, Janickovic D, Pistora J 2008 Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials 320 1535
[12]	Bonavolonta C, Valentino A, Peluso G, Barone A 2007 Applied Superconductivity 17 772
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[14]	Tralshawala N, Claycomb J R, Miller J H 1997 Appl. Phys. Lett. 71 2874
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[17]	Huang K K, Li N, Lu X H 2011 Infrared and Laser Engineering 11 2192 (in Chinese) [黄凯凯, 李楠, 陆璇辉 2011 红外与激光工程 11 2129]
[18]	Corwin K L, Lu T Z, Hand C F, Epstain R J, Wieman C E 1998 Appl. Optics 37 3295
[19]	Liu K, Zhang S Y, Gu W 2012 Modern Electronics Technique 35 7 (in Chinese) [刘坤, 张松勇, 顾伟 2012 现代电子技术 35 7]
[20]	Rife D R, Boorstyn R T 1974 IEEE Transactions on Information Theory 20 591

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