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9 - Magnetometry with cold atoms
- from Part I - Principles and techniques
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- By W. Gawlik, Jagiellonian University, J. M. Higbie, Bucknell University
- Edited by Dmitry Budker, University of California, Berkeley, Derek F. Jackson Kimball, California State University, East Bay
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- Optical Magnetometry
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- 07 March 2013, pp 167-189
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Summary
Introduction
The rapid development in recent decades of techniques for producing, trapping, and manipulating cold atoms has, as a side-benefit, made possible new methods of atomic magnetometry. The properties of cold atoms, including long coherence times and excellent spatial localization, are often desirable for high-precision magnetic sensing and allow the techniques of atomic magnetometry to be extended to previously inaccessible regions of parameter space.
Specifically, the appeal of cold atoms for magnetometry lies in the demonstrated potential for high sensitivity at high spatial resolution. Magnetic-field measurements with atoms at finite temperature are generally characterized by motional averaging, in which atoms statistically sample a volume of space determined by the measurement time, the velocity distribution, and, if present, the confinement. For high-spatial-resolution magnetometry, atomic motion must be limited. The average displacement of atoms can be reduced by decreasing the measurement time, but a shorter measurement time is unappealing because it degrades the sensitivity of the measurement. Tighter confinement is an alternative means of reducing atomic motion, and is indeed attractive provided the confinement does not adversely affect the atomic spin coherence. The use of buffer gases in vapor-cell magnetometers is effectively a form of confinement, and indeed allows magnetometry with millimeter-scale spatial resolution. However, buffer gases are not entirely benign for atomic spins, having small but finite spin-destruction collisional cross-sections [1], whose effects would be increasingly deleterious at the high pressures necessary to achieve micrometer-scale resolution. A final alternative is to reduce the velocity spread by cooling the atomic ensemble; indeed, the use of cold atoms permits a significant reduction in motional averaging, and can be achieved with no loss (and potentially an increase) in spin-coherence time.
13 - Remote detection magnetometry
- from Part II - Applications
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- By S. M. Rochester, University of California, J. M. Higbie, Bucknell University, B. Patton, University of California, D. Budker, University of California, R. Holzlöhner, Bucknell University, D. Bonaccini Calia, Laser Systems Department
- Edited by Dmitry Budker, University of California, Berkeley, Derek F. Jackson Kimball, California State University, East Bay
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Shortly after the inception of atomic magnetometry, alkali-vapor magnetometers were being used to measure the Earth's magnetic field to unprecedented precision. During the same era, Bell and Bloom first demonstrated all-optical atomic magnetometry through synchronous optical pumping [1] (see Chapters 1 and 6). In this approach, optical-pumping light is frequency- or amplitude-modulated at harmonics of the Larmor frequency ωL to generate a precessing spin polarization within an alkali vapor at finite magnetic field [2, 3]. Although this technique received considerable attention from the atomic physics community for its applicability to optical pumping experiments, Earth's-field alkali-vapor atomic magnetometers continued to rely on radiofrequency (RF) field excitation for several decades (see Chapter 4). Upon the advent of diode lasers addressing alkali and metastable helium transitions, synchronously pumped magnetometers experienced a revival beginning in the late 1980s. In recent years, such magnetometers have found applications in nuclear magnetic resonance detection [4] (see also Chapter 14), quantum control experiments [5], and chip-scale devices intended for spacecraft use [6] (see also Chapters 7 and 15).
All-optical magnetometers possess several advantages over devices that employ RF coils. RF-driven magnetometers can suffer from cross-talk if two sensors are placed in close proximity, since the AC magnetic field driving resonance in one vapor cell can adversely affect the other. All-optical magnetometers are free from such interference. When operated in self-oscillating mode [7], RF-driven magnetometers require an added ±90° electronic phase shift in the feedback loop to counter the intrinsic phase shift between the RF field and the probe-beam modulation.
Propagation of Nosema eurytremae (Microsporida: Nosematidae) from trematode larvae, in abnormal hosts and in tissue culture
- G. C. Higby, Elizabeth U. Canning, Barbara M. Pilley, P. J. Bush
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- Parasitology / Volume 78 / Issue 2 / April 1979
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- 06 April 2009, pp. 155-170
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Propagation of Nosema eurytremae, a microsporidian pathogen of trematode larvae, was investigated by inoculation of spores into the haemocoele of insects and by growth in tissue cultures. Locusts and the larvae of three lepidopteran species were good hosts but cockroaches were not. Low replication was obtained in one lepidopteran species after per os infection. Antibiotics controlled bacterial growth in suspensions of microsporidian spores but fungi were unaffected by all antibiotics tested, except at concentrations detrimental to the microsporidia. All stages of the microsporidium developed in cell lines of Xenopus laevis and Aedes pseudoscutellaris when spores were induced to hatch in contact with cell monolayers: the Aedes culture was contaminated by yeasts. Repeated washing of the Xenopus cells with fresh medium, after the sporoplasms of N. eurytremae had penetrated the cells, removed yeast contaminants and sterile cultures were obtained. Replication during 4 passages over 53 days was only 100 to 200-fold compared with the original inoculum but spores harvested from the cultures were infective to a fresh culture and to Pieris brassicae by inoculation into the haemocoele.