Feedback schemes for radiation damping suppression in NMR: a control-theoretical perspective
Claudio Altafini, Paola Cappellaro, David G. Cory
In NMR spectroscopy, the collective measurement is weakly invasive and its back-action is called radiation damping. The aim of this paper is to provide a control-theoretical analysis of the problem of suppressing this radiation damping. It is shown that the two feedback schemes commonly used in the NMR practice correspond one to a high gain output feedback for the simple case of maintaining the spin 1/2 in its inverted state, and the second to a 2-degree of freedom control design with a prefeedback that exactly cancels the radiation damping field. A general high gain feedback stabilization design not requiring the knowledge of the radiation damping time constant is also investigated.
IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC)•Dec 1, 2009•1 citation