Prospects for atomic magnetometers employing hollow core optical fibre

Presently, among the most demanding applications for highly sensitive magnetometers are Magnetocardiography (MCG) and Magnetoencephalography (MEG), where sensitivities of around 1pT.Hz -1/2 and 1fT.Hz -1/2 are required. Cryogenic Superconducting Quan...

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Main Authors: Ironside, Charlie, Seunarine, K., Tandoi, G., Luiten, A.
Format: Conference Paper
Published: 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/17097
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author Ironside, Charlie
Seunarine, K.
Tandoi, G.
Luiten, A.
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Tandoi, G.
Luiten, A.
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description Presently, among the most demanding applications for highly sensitive magnetometers are Magnetocardiography (MCG) and Magnetoencephalography (MEG), where sensitivities of around 1pT.Hz -1/2 and 1fT.Hz -1/2 are required. Cryogenic Superconducting Quantum Interference Devices (SQUIDs) are currently used as the magnetometers. However, there has been some recent work on replacing these devices with magnetometers based on atomic spectroscopy and operating at room temperature. There are demonstrations of MCG and MEG signals measured using atomic spectroscopy These atomic magnetometers are based on chip-scale microfabricated components. In this paper we discuss the prospects of using photonic crystal optical fibres or hollow core fibres (HCFs) loaded with Rb vapour in atomic magnetometer systems. We also consider new components for magnetometers based on mode-locked semiconductor lasers for measuring magnetic field via coherent population trapping (CPT) in Rb loaded HCFs. © 2012 SPIE.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-170972018-03-29T09:06:21Z Prospects for atomic magnetometers employing hollow core optical fibre Ironside, Charlie Seunarine, K. Tandoi, G. Luiten, A. Presently, among the most demanding applications for highly sensitive magnetometers are Magnetocardiography (MCG) and Magnetoencephalography (MEG), where sensitivities of around 1pT.Hz -1/2 and 1fT.Hz -1/2 are required. Cryogenic Superconducting Quantum Interference Devices (SQUIDs) are currently used as the magnetometers. However, there has been some recent work on replacing these devices with magnetometers based on atomic spectroscopy and operating at room temperature. There are demonstrations of MCG and MEG signals measured using atomic spectroscopy These atomic magnetometers are based on chip-scale microfabricated components. In this paper we discuss the prospects of using photonic crystal optical fibres or hollow core fibres (HCFs) loaded with Rb vapour in atomic magnetometer systems. We also consider new components for magnetometers based on mode-locked semiconductor lasers for measuring magnetic field via coherent population trapping (CPT) in Rb loaded HCFs. © 2012 SPIE. 2012 Conference Paper http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/17097 10.1117/12.923132 restricted
spellingShingle Ironside, Charlie
Seunarine, K.
Tandoi, G.
Luiten, A.
Prospects for atomic magnetometers employing hollow core optical fibre
title Prospects for atomic magnetometers employing hollow core optical fibre
title_full Prospects for atomic magnetometers employing hollow core optical fibre
title_fullStr Prospects for atomic magnetometers employing hollow core optical fibre
title_full_unstemmed Prospects for atomic magnetometers employing hollow core optical fibre
title_short Prospects for atomic magnetometers employing hollow core optical fibre
title_sort prospects for atomic magnetometers employing hollow core optical fibre
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/17097