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Frontiers in Optics

Sub-nano-Tesla, Shield-less, Field Compensation-Free Optical Wave Mixing Magnetometry for Bio-magnetism

L. Deng, Yvonne Y. Li, Feng Lei Zhou, Eric Y. Zhu, E. W. Hagley

Published Jan 1, 2017• 0 citations
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Abstract

We report an optical wave-mixing-enhanced Zeeman-coherence atomic magnetometry scheme that results in sub-nT magnetic field detection at human-body temperatures without magnetic field shielding, zero-field compensation, or RF-modulation spectroscopy.
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10.1364/fio.2017.fw2e.1

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