Optimal state choice for Rydberg atom microwave sensors

Chopinaud, Aurelien and Pritchard, Jonathan (2021) Optimal state choice for Rydberg atom microwave sensors. Physical Review Applied, 16. 024008. ISSN 2331-7043 (https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevApplied.16.024008)

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Abstract

Rydberg electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) enables the realization of atom-based Systeme-International-Traceable microwave sensing, imaging, and communication devices by exploiting the strong microwave electric dipole coupling of highly excited Rydberg states. Essential to the development of robust devices is a careful characterization of the sensor performance and systematic uncertainties. In this work, we present a comparison of microwave-induced EIT splitting in a cesium atomic vapor for four possible Rydberg couplings, 65S1/2→65P1/2, 66S1/2→66P3/2, 79D5/2→81P3/2, and 62D5/2→60F7/2, at microwave transition frequencies around 13 GHz. Our work highlights the impact of multiphoton couplings on neighboring Rydberg states in breaking both the symmetry and linearity of the observed splitting, with excellent agreement between experimental observations and a theoretical model accounting for multiphoton couplings. We identify an optimal angular-state choice for robust microwave measurements, as well as demonstrating an alternative regime in which microwave polarization can be measured.

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Chopinaud, Aurelien and Pritchard, Jonathan ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2172-7340;
  • Item type:Article
    ID code:77175
    Dates:
    Date
    Event
    August 2021
    Published
    5 August 2021
    Published Online
    20 July 2021
    Accepted
    Subjects:Science > Physics
    Department:Faculty of Science > Physics
    Depositing user: Pure Administrator
    Date deposited:23 Jul 2021 01:38
    Last modified:11 Nov 2024 13:09
    URI:https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/77175
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