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Analysis and suppression of the misalignment error for the pumping laser in the atomic comagnetometer.

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The misalignment error of the pumping laser in the atomic comagnetometer (ACM) dramatically diminishes the efficiency of the optical pumping process (characterized by the polarization of the hybrid atomic spin… Click to show full abstract

The misalignment error of the pumping laser in the atomic comagnetometer (ACM) dramatically diminishes the efficiency of the optical pumping process (characterized by the polarization of the hybrid atomic spin ensembles containing electron spins and nuclear spins) and deteriorates the performance of the ACM (characterized by the Allan standard deviation). In this work, a steady-state response model considering the misalignment error of the pumping laser is established and an in-situ evaluation method for this error is proposed. Based on the evaluation method, the influence of this misalignment error on the pumping efficiency and the performance of the ACM is quantitatively analyzed. Furthermore, a pumping laser alignment method based on the second harmonic of a single-beam magnetometer is then proposed, whose effectiveness is verified by experiments. The experimental results show that compared to the original ACM with the severely misaligned pumping laser, the polarization of the hybrid atomic spin ensembles of the ACM with the pumping laser aligned by the proposed method is increased by about 19%, and the corresponding Allan variance at 100s is reduced by about 40%.

Keywords: misalignment error; pumping laser; error pumping; error; laser atomic

Journal Title: Optics express
Year Published: 2022

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