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View SchemaComparison of discharge lamp and laser pumped cesium magnetometers
| Authors | S. Groeger, A. S. Pazgalev, A. Weis |
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| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | physics/0412011 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0412011 |
| DOI | 10.1007/s00340-005-1773-x |
Abstract
We have performed a comparison of laser (LsOPM) and lamp (LpOPM) pumped cesium vapor magnetometers. Although the LsOPM operated 50% above its shot-noise limit we found an intrinsic sensitivity of 15 fT/\sqrt{Hz} and 25 fT/\sqrt{Hz} for the LsOPM and LpOPM respectively. Two modes of operation, viz.,the phase-stabilized and the self-oscillating mode were investigated and found to yield a similar performance. We have compared the performance of the LsOPM and the LpOPM directly by simultaneous measurements of field fluctuations of a 2 microtesla magnetic field inside a multilayer magnetic shield and have used one of the magnetometers for an active field stabilization. In the stabilized mode we found a gradient instability of 25 fT within an integration time of 100 s, which represents an upper limit of the long-term stability of the magnetometers.
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