Light-shift suppression in a miniaturized Mx optically pumped Cs magnetometer array with enhanced resonance signal using off-resonant laser pumping

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 28, 2012, Pages 29217-29222

  Scholtes, Theo ^a   Schultze, Volkmar ^a   Ijsselsteijn, Rob ^a   Woetzel, Stefan ^a   Meyer, Hans Georg ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF PHOTONIC TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CESIUM; MAGNETOMETERS;

CIRCULARLY POLARIZED LASERS; CIRCULARLY POLARIZED LIGHT; DETUNED; EARTH'S MAGNETIC FIELD; EXPERIMENTAL CHARACTERIZATION; HEADING ERROR; HIGH INTENSITY LASERS; LIGHT SHIFT; MAGNETOMETER ARRAYS; NOISE COMPENSATION; OFF-RESONANT LASERS; OPTICALLY PUMPED; ORIENTATIONAL DEPENDENCE; RESONANCE SIGNALS; RESONANT OPERATION;

LASERS;

EID: 84872032564     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.029217     Document Type: Article

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