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Miniature Total Field MagnetometersDr. Mark D. Prouty, Geometrics, Inc
Dr. John Kitching, (National Institute of Standards and Technology)Dr. Darwin Serkland (Sandia National Laboratories)
Funded by SERDP under projects MM-1512 and MM-1568
([email protected] generation total field magnetometersare extremely large, bulky, and they consumea lot of power. This furthers requires large,heavy batteries. Funded by DARPA, recenttechnologies have been developed towardsminiaturizing atomic clocks. Since atomicclock technology is closely related to total-field magnetometer techniques, we areapplying those techniques towards total fieldmagnetometers.
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0w Magnetic
Field
Light source
Photodetector
Perturbationcoils
Vaporcell
• Example: Cesium D1 (895nm) spectroscopy
• Tuning VCSEL to absorption lines
– Drive current (fine, fast control)
– Temperature (micro heater)
VCSEL chip on micro-heater
Tuning across cesium lines
Lasing VCSEL
Cesium transmission
VCSEL current
0.5mm
L. Liew, et al., Appl. Phys. Lett., 2004PyrexTM
300 oC
V
+
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PyrexTM
300 oC
V
+
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+
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300 oC
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• Etch hole in Si
• Anodically bond
Pyrex to Si
• Fill cell with Cs
and buffer gas
under vacuum
• Bond top
Pyrex to Si
Goals• Develop efficient method of fabricating and filling a MEMs cell with the correct
mixture of gases. Determine stability of the mixture.
• Develop methodology for coating cell walls to reduce signal loss es due to wall
collisions
Physics Package
• No magnetic materials
– PCBs: FR4 + Cu,Au
– Heaters: Ti,Pt on pyrex
– Delrin spacers
– Nylon screws
– Glass optics
Cs cell
VCSEL
Photodiode
95°C
Coil z1
Coil z2
QWPPol
Lens
Optics
Cell
Heaters
VCSEL Light Source Integration0.5mm VCSEL chip
on 4mm heater glass
Lasing VCSEL
without lens
VCSEL beam after
collimating lens
VCSEL PCB and
collimating lens
VCSELHeater
y = 0.8563x + 26.026
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Heater Power (mW)
Tem
pera
ture
(C)
Cesium Cell Integration
2 mm
8 mm25 mm
Temp
SensorHeater
Cs cell on heater
(bottom view)
Cell heater on PCB
(top view)
Cesium cell epoxied
onto 8mm heater glass
Heater Sensor
-5mA +5mA
+5mA -5mA
-5mA +5mA
+5mA -5mA
Two-layer heater design
minimizes induced
magnetic fields in cell
Heater tested in air (not vacuum)
Z-axis coil integration
10mm
Top coil
Bottom coil
VCSEL PCB
Photodiode
PCB
Cs Cell
Electrical Connections
V-groove clamp
1mm
After soldering (on 0.5mm pitch)
Before
soldering
1mm
9 Twisted Pair Connections34 AWG
(0.16mm)
wires
Pair Label Color Connection
1 V Red/Black VCSEL (red=anode)
2 Hv Yellow/Blue VCSEL heater
3 C1 Yellow/Blue Bottom coil Z1
4 H1 Yellow/Blue Bottom cell heater
5 S1 Red/Black Bottom temp sensor
6 S2 Red/Black Top temp sensor
7 H2 Yellow/Blue Top cell heater
8 C2 Yellow/Blue Top coil Z2
9 D Red/Black Photodiode (red=anode)
Advanced TechniquesSub-pT sensitivities and BW > 10 kHz can be
achieved with Tcell ~ 200 °C
87Rb can give sensitivity near 1 fT/rtHz!
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10-2
10-1
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Spin-exchange broadened
SERF
Se
nsitiv
ity
[pT
/rtH
z]
Temperature [C]
Sensitivity, L = 1 mm
133Cs
87Rb
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Spin-exchange broadened
SERF
Bandw
idth
[Hz]
Temperature [C]
Bandwidth, L = 1 mm
133Cs
87Rb
Total Field Sensors for TEM
• Advantages
– Measure B, not dB/dt
– No rotation noise in Earth’s field
– Get DC magnetometer reading as well
• Disadvantages
– Don’t have multi-component measurements
– Sensitivity is not as great at high frequencies
Common TEM WaveformsTransmitter B Field dB/dt (coil voltage)
BUD
AOL2
ALLTEM
Inte
gra
tion
Differentiation
Light Source CellFabrication
InterrogationMethods
PhysicsPackage
ElectronicsDesign
LaboratoryTesting
FieldTesting
These photos show the difficulties in fielding existing total field magnetometers. Inorder to best identify the object underground, a high density of readings is desirable.This requires several sensors, which creates large, bulky platforms.
The sensor on the right is a prototypedevice created at National Institute ofStandards and Technolgy (NIST) usingMicro-Electro-Mechanical Systems(MEMS) technology to miniaturize thesensor elements.
Miniaturizing the total-field sensor consistsof the following tasks:
Replace the high power Cs dischargelamp with a laser diode light source
Miniaturize the hand-blown Cs cell toreduce the power required to heat the cell
Apply recent advances in signalinterrogation techniques to recover thesensitivity lost in reducing the size of thecell
Design a mechanical structure with therequired elements for the sensor head(“physics package”)
Implement the electronics design for lowpower and small size
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Objective
Background
Atomic magnetometers operate bymeasuring the precession frequencyof a magnetic moment around themagnetic field of interest. Theprecession frequency is proportionalto the magnetic field.
Two processes are necessary to make this procedure work:
1) The magnetic moments of a large number of atoms need to be aligned together,in phase, so they produce a measurable signal,2) The signal needs to be received by some means
Optical pumping is used to produce a netmagnetic moment in the Cs cell. Light ofthe correct wavelength and polarization willde-populate some states thereby creating anet magnetic moment.
The precessing magnetic moments maybe interrogated optically as well. As thespins rotate, they modulate the intensity ofthe light beam passing through the cell.The frequency of this modulation will beproportional to the magnetic field beingmeasured.
Sensor Package
Results
Vapor
cell
Semiconductor
Laser
Photodetector
oB
Preamplifier
Lock-In
Amplifier
Low-frequency
sweep generator
FFT
Spectrum
Analyzer
Laser-frequency
modulation, @ m
Horizontal Input
Vertical
Input
Bell-Bloom Magnetometer
or
or
@/4
Filter
w0=B0/g
The laboratory test setup isshown at the left. In thismeasurement, the magneticfield is actually swept,causing the Cs line to movepast the fixed-frequencylaser. In actual operation,the laser frequency is swept.In the laboratory, we areinvestigating theperformance achievablewith various signalwaveforms to optimize thefinal design.
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102
103
104
dBm
in[p
T/r
tHz]
Frequency [Hz]
30 pT / rt Hz
The resulting performance for oneconfiguration is shown at the left. Therandom noise level is 30 pT per root Hz.
Existing commercial sensors used forUXO investigation have a performance of7 pT per root Hz. However, this noiselevel is rarely even approached inpractice, as other sources of magneticfield noise dominate the signals ofinterest from the underground anomaly.
Wide Band SensorsTime domain electromagneticsensors are also widely used in UXOinvestigations. In these systems, atransmitted magnetic field pulse causeseddy currents in underground objects,whose resulting magnetic field may bedetected. Typically, coils of wire areused as the receivers. However, thereare some advantages to using total-fieldmagnetometers as the receiver. To dothat, the bandwidth of the sensor needsto be increased to 10 kHz or so.
(TEM)
The device at the left is 1 cm across.This is an actual atomic clockdeveloped by Symmetricom withDARPA funding. Ultimately, this can bethe size of our magnetometer sensor
Dead ZonesThere are certain angles or sensororientations where the magnetometergives no reading. These occur whenthe magnetic field is near the polaraxis of the sensor, or near theequatorial axis, or both.
Heading ErrorWhile the sensor is supposed to givereadings independent of orientation,asymmetries in the energy levels giverise to readings that do change a bitwith orientation. This effect isundesirable, and must be minimized.
SensitivityObviously, sensitivity is of importance ina magnetometer. The small size ofthese sensors tends to reduce theirsensitivity. However, improvedtechniques in extracting the signal fromthe device will maximize performance
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Mx TechniqueThis method uses a coil of wire to apply a signal ofnear 100kHz to the atoms in the cell, to modulatethe population. The electronics are simple, but thestructure requires a wire coil around the sensor.This method has both equatorial and polar deadzones.
Bell-BloomIn the Bell-Bloom technique, the modulation (either offrequency or intensity) is applied to the light itself.Therefore, no coils are needed, making the structuresimpler and there is no equatorial dead zone. Themodulation may be applied at the Larmor frequency, or halfthis frequency.
We have built a test structure to measure the performance of the variouscomponents of the sensor. This device is much larger than the final sensorpackage will need to be. The interior components themselves are only a few mmacross, while the entire structure is 1 inch across.
Laser Diode Development Cesium Cell Development