Vector Magnetometry Exploiting Phase-Geometry Effects in a Double-Resonance Alignment Magnetometer

@article{Ingleby2018VectorME,
  title={Vector Magnetometry Exploiting Phase-Geometry Effects in a Double-Resonance Alignment Magnetometer},
  author={Stuart J. Ingleby and Carolyn O'Dwyer and Paul F. Griffin and Aidan S. Arnold and Erling Riis},
  journal={Physical Review Applied},
  year={2018}
}
Double-resonance optically pumped magnetometers are an attractive instrument for unshielded magnetic field measurements due to their wide dynamic range and high sensitivity. Use of linearly polarised pump light creates alignment in the atomic sample, which evolves in the local static magnetic field, and is driven by a resonant applied field perturbation, modulating the polarisation of transmitted light. We show for the first time that the amplitude and phase of observed first- and second… 
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