Modeling an optical magnetometer with electronic circuits - Analysis and optimization

TL;DR

This paper presents an electronic circuit model of an optical magnetometer, analyzing its performance through simulations and experiments, and demonstrating automated operation and field tracking capabilities.

Contribution

It introduces a novel electronic-circuit analogue of an optical magnetometer, enabling performance analysis and automation of magnetic field measurements.

Findings

Circuit model accurately replicates magnetometer behavior.

Automation of field tracking demonstrated successfully.

Simulation results verified by experimental data.

Abstract

Optical magnetometers are currently able to achieve magnetometric sensitivities below 1 fT/Hz^1/2. Although such sensitivities are typically obtained for ultra-low-field measurements, a group of optical magnetometers allows the detection of the fields in much broader dynamic range without a significant compromise in the sensitivity. A particular example of such a device is the magnetometer exploiting amplitude-modulated nonlinear magneto-optical rotation. It enables to measure a magnetic field via detection of a polarization state of light traversing a medium subjected to the field. In this paper, an electronic-circuit analogue of such the magnetometer is elaborated. Its operation is investigated with an electronic-circuit design software, which allows to study the "magnetometer" performance as a function of various parameters. The ability to automate operation of the magnetometer and automatically track "magnetic field" is demonstrated. The simulations are verified with experimental results obtained with the magnetometer operating in one of the investigated arrangements.