Noise characteristics research of Overhauser magnetometer sensor

Tala Liu; Lingjia Gu; Shuang Zhang; Haoyang Fu

doi:10.1117/12.2187213

8 September 2015 Noise characteristics research of Overhauser magnetometer sensor

Tala Liu, Lingjia Gu, Shuang Zhang, Haoyang Fu

Proceedings Volume 9607, Earth Observing Systems XX; 960728 (2015) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2187213
Event: SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, 2015, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

Overhauser magnetometer, a kind of weak-magnetic measurement system based on the Overhauser effect, has been widely used in satellite magnetic survey, aeromagnetic survey and other engineering and environmental applications. Overhauser magnetometer plays an important role in the application of magnetic field measurement for its advantages of low power consumption and high accuracy. Weak field magnetic resonance is usually limited by the signal to noise ratio (SNR). In order to improve the SNR of Overhauser magnetometer, noise characteristics of Overhauser magnetometer sensor are investigated in this paper. A background noise model of Overhauser magnetometer sensor is presented. The calculated results indicate that the noise power spectral density shows a band-limited white noise characteristic. The maximum value of the noise power spectral density observed at the resonant frequency. The measured results coincide with the calculated results. The correlation between the SNR and the matched resistance is investigated by using the noise model. The calculated results demonstrate that large matched resistance is beneficial to improve the SNR of the sensor. When matched resistance is larger than 100kΩ, the SNR tends to be a constant. On the premise of stability, the sensor will achieve the optimal SNR when the matched resistance is around 100kΩ. This investigation is beneficial to improve noise performance of Overhauser magnetometer sensor.

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Tala Liu, Lingjia Gu, Shuang Zhang, and Haoyang Fu "Noise characteristics research of Overhauser magnetometer sensor", Proc. SPIE 9607, Earth Observing Systems XX, 960728 (8 September 2015); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2187213

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