All-Optical Cesium Atomic Magnetometer with High Sensitivity

作者:Zhang Jun-Hai*; Liu Qiang; Zeng Xian-Jin; Li Jiu-Xing; Sun Wei-Min
来源:Chinese Physics Letters, 2012, 29(6): 068501.
DOI:10.1088/0256-307X/29/6/068501

摘要

An all-optical cesium magnetometer with high sensitivity based on absorptive detection is reported. The experiment achieves a polarized rotational spectrum of the probe light which is induced by circular dichroism and a quarter wave plate together. The frequency response of the rotational spectrum is 1.8 mrad/Hz at Larmor precession resonance. Analyzing the signal-to-noise ratio from the experimentally observed spectrum, we predict that the magnetic measurement sensitivity of 0.3 pT/Hz(1/2) would be obtained in the responsive range from 20 nT to 2000 nT.