6–8 Aug 2025
PSI
Europe/Zurich timezone

Towards an optically pumped spin-precession, magnetometric camera

7 Aug 2025, 16:50
5m
WHGA/001 - Auditorium (PSI)

WHGA/001 - Auditorium

PSI

Speaker

Jeremias Gutekunst (Fraunhofer IPM)

Description

We have developed a magnetic field camera for detecting defects in metal components and battery imaging.

Our approach leverages the high sensitivity and robustness of free-spin-precession (FSP) and Mz magnetometry, combined with a fast, commercial camera operating at up to 90kHz.

Unlike current state-of-the-art optically pumped magnetometers (OPM), which record single or few data points using custom-made diode arrays, we image the entire volume of the rubidium cell directly onto the camera.

This method allows us to read out spatially resolved magnetic field strengths with $200\mu m$ resolution in parallel, enabling time-efficient data acquisition at an experimental validated sensitivity of $100pT$.

Author

Jeremias Gutekunst (Fraunhofer IPM)

Co-authors

Mr Andreas Blug (Fraunhofer IPM) Peter Koss (Fraunhofer IPM) Ms Ronja Rasser (Fraunhofer IPM)

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