Journal: Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Article Title: A Single-Cell Optically Pumped Intrinsic Gradiometer
doi: 10.3390/s26051678
Figure Lengend Snippet: Optical layout and readout of the Rb 87 intrinsic gradiometer. A 795 nm probe beam is linearly polarized and passes through the vapor cell, while a 795 nm pump beam is split into two equal beams, propagating orthogonally to the probe beam, and circularly polarized with opposing helicity to define two spatially separated sensing volumes. Passing through the cell, the probe beam will have rotated its polarization in proportion to the difference in ambient field between the volumes. A balanced polarimeter measures the rotation by passing vertical and horizontal polarization components to photodiodes. The components are passed to a transimpedance amplifier and finally digitized by an ADC. Red arrows indicated beam propagation direction, the black arrow indicates an electrical connection between components. Grey and black shapes represent electronic and optical components of the sensor.
Article Snippet: Photodiode signals from each channel of the balanced polarimeter were amplified using low-noise transimpedance amplifiers (AMP110, Thorlabs, Newton, NJ, USA)) with a gain of 10 6 V/A.
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