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Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

Nitrogen-Vacancy Ensemble Magnetometry Based on Pump Absorption

Sepehr Ahmadi, Haitham A. R. El-Ella, Jørn Bindslev Hansen, Alexander Huck, Ulrik L. Andersen

Published Jan 1, 2017• 0 citations
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Abstract

We demonstrate magnetic field sensing by recording the variation in the pump light absorption with nitrogen-vacancy center ensemble. At a frequency of 10 mHz we obtain a noise floor of ~30 nT/√Hz.
DOI
10.1364/cleo_at.2017.jth2a.74

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