Nuclear Zeeman Effect on Heading Errors and the Suppression in Atomic Magnetometers

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2102.03037v2
• Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2021 13:29:25 GMT
• Title: Nuclear Zeeman Effect on Heading Errors and the Suppression in Atomic Magnetometers
• Authors: Yue Chang, Yu-Hao Guo, Shuang-Ai Wan, and Jie Qin
• Abstract summary: We find that the nuclear Zeeman effect can have a significant impact on the heading errors. The heading error also depends on the relative direction (parallel or vertical) of the probe laser to the RF driving magnetic field. For practical use, we propose to simply utilize a small magnetic field parallel/antiparallel to the pump laser.
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• Abstract: The heading error has been known to be caused mainly by the nonlinear Zeeman effect and the orientation-dependent light shift. In this work, we find that the nuclear Zeeman effect can also have a significant impact on the heading errors, especially for continuously-driving magnetometers with unresolved magnetic transitions. It not only shifts the precession frequency but deforms the heading errors and causes asymmetry: the heading errors for pump lasers with opposite helicities are different. The heading error also depends on the relative direction (parallel or vertical) of the probe laser to the RF driving magnetic field. Thus, one can design the configuration of the magnetometer and make it work in the smaller-heading-error regime. To suppress the heading error, our studies suggest to sum up the output precession frequencies from atomic cells pumped by two lasers with opposite helicities and probed by lasers propagating in orthogonal directions (one parallel and another perpendicular to the RF field), instead of utilizing probe lasers propagating in the same directions. Due to the nuclear Zeeman effect, the average precession frequencies in the latter case can have a non-negligible angular dependence, while in the former case the nuclear-Zeeman-effect induced heading error can be largely compensated and the residue is within 1Hz. Furthermore, for practical use, we propose to simply utilize a small magnetic field parallel/antiparallel to the pump laser. By tuning the magnitude of this auxiliary field, the heading error can be flattened around different angles, which can improve the accuracy when the magnetometer works around a certain orientation angle.

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