Millimeter-scale rigid diamond probe for high sensitivity endoscopic-magnetometry applications

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2602.06077v1
• Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2026 04:01:48 GMT
• Title: Millimeter-scale rigid diamond probe for high sensitivity endoscopic-magnetometry applications
• Authors: Jihongbo Shen, Heng Yuan, Hongyu Tao, Zekun Niu, Haoming Xu, Chentao Zhang, Chen Su, Zhuo Wang, Chen Zhang,
• Abstract summary: We present a millimeter-scale rigid diamond magnetometer probe with enhanced sensitivity via optimizing the optical design.<n>By coupling the frustum diamond with the miniaturized compound parabolic concentrator (CPC) lens, we enhance the fluorescence collection efficiency by 37% within 4 mm diameter.<n>With this verified structure, endoscopes with mm-size probe and picotesla sensitivity can be projected for surgical and industrial applications in the future.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• Abstract: Magnetometry based on diamond nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers has been extensively studied for applications requiring diverse capabilities, spanning from nanometer spatial resolution to subpicotesla sensitivity. Among various applications, diamond magnetometers can demonstrate high sensitivity magnetic sensing within millimeter-scale size for endoscopic applications. However, the trade-off between sensitivity and spatial resolution of diamond magnetometry makes it difficult to achieve such a probe. In this study, we present a millimeter-scale rigid diamond magnetometer probe with enhanced sensitivity via optimizing the optical design. By coupling the frustum diamond with the miniaturized compound parabolic concentrator (CPC) lens, we enhance the fluorescence collection efficiency by 37% within 4 mm diameter, and the achieved sensitivity is 200 pT/Hz1/2 based on the sample with the resonance linewidth of ~8 MHz. With this verified structure, endoscopes with mm-size probe and picotesla sensitivity can be projected for surgical and industrial applications in the future.

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