Sensitivity of double-resonance alignment magnetometers
- Di Domenico, Gianni Departement of Physics, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
- Saudan, Hervé Departement of Physics, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
- Bison, Georg Departement of Physics, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
- Knowles, Paul E. Departement of Physics, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
- Weis, Antoine Departement of Physics, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
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14.08.2007
Published in:
- Physical Review A. - 2007, vol. 76, no. 2, p. 023407
English
We present an experimental study of the intrinsic magnetometric sensitivity of an optical or rf-frequency double-resonance magnetometer in which linearly polarized laser light is used in the optical pumping and detection processes. We show that a semiempirical model of the magnetometer can be used to describe the magnetic resonance spectra. Then, we present an efficient method to predict the optimum operating point of the magnetometer, i.e., the light power and rf Rabi frequency providing maximum magnetometric sensitivity. Finally, we apply the method to investigate the evolution of the optimum operating point with temperature. The method is very efficient to determine relaxation rates and thus allowed us to determine the three collisional disalignment cross sections for the components of the alignment tensor. Both first and second harmonic signals from the magnetometer are considered and compared.
- Faculty
- Faculté des sciences et de médecine
- Department
- Département de Physique
- Language
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- English
- Classification
- Physics
- License
- License undefined
- Identifiers
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- RERO DOC 8493
- DOI 10.1103/PhysRevA.76.023407
- Persistent URL
- https://folia.unifr.ch/unifr/documents/300436
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