All-optical atomic magnetometers based on nonlinear magneto-optical rotation with amplitude modulated light

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6604, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Pustelny, Szymon ^a   Wojciechowski, Adam ^a   Kotyrba, Mateusz ^a   Sycz, Krystian ^a   Zachorowski, Jerzy ^a   Gawlik, Wojciech ^a   Cingoz, Arman ^b   Leefer, Nathan ^b   Higbie, James M ^b   Corsini, Eric ^b   Ledbetter, Micah P ^b   Rochester, Simon M ^b   Sushkov, Alexander O ^b   Budker, Dmitry ^b  

^a JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Magnetometry; Nonlinear magneto optical rotation; Self oscillation

Indexed keywords

LIGHT MODULATION; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MAGNETOMETERS;

NONLINEAR MAGNETO-OPTICAL ROTATION; SELF-OSCILLATION;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

EID: 34249021495     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.726794     Document Type: Conference Paper

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