High-sensitivity magnetometer based on index-enhanced media. Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • The large dispersion of a phase-coherent medium, at a point of vanishing absorption, is applied to interferometric measurements of detuning between atomic and radiation frequencies. It is shown that, under certain conditions, the interferometer quantum-limited operation is determined by vacuum-fluctuation shot noise while the noise introduced by the interaction of the probe field with the phase-coherent atoms can be made negligible. As a possible application, an optical magnetometer is analyzed whose sensitivity is shown to be potentially superior to the present state-of-the-art devices. 1992 The American Physical Society.

published proceedings

  • Phys Rev Lett

altmetric score

  • 3

author list (cited authors)

  • Scully, M. O., & Fleischhauer, M.

citation count

  • 287

complete list of authors

  • Scully, MO||Fleischhauer, M

publication date

  • August 1992