Modern RF measurements with hot atoms: A technology review of Rydberg atom-based radio frequency field sensors

A Artusio-Glimpse, MT Simons… - IEEE Microwave …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Over a hundred years later, the classic antenna, first invented by Heinrich Hertz, in 1888,, is
still the dominant technology used for the measurement of RF fields. Just seven years after …

Electric field measurement and application based on Rydberg atoms

B Liu, L Zhang, Z Liu, Z Deng, D Ding… - Electromagnetic …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Microwave sensing offers important applications in areas such as data communication and
remote sensing. It has thus received much attention from academia, industry, and …

Atomic superheterodyne receiver based on microwave-dressed Rydberg spectroscopy

M Jing, Y Hu, J Ma, H Zhang, L Zhang, L Xiao, S Jia - Nature Physics, 2020 - nature.com
Highly sensitive phase-and frequency-resolved detection of microwave electric fields is of
central importance in a wide range of fields, including cosmology,, meteorology …

Deep learning enhanced Rydberg multifrequency microwave recognition

ZK Liu, LH Zhang, B Liu, ZY Zhang, GC Guo… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Recognition of multifrequency microwave (MW) electric fields is challenging because of the
complex interference of multifrequency fields in practical applications. Rydberg atom-based …

Digital communication with Rydberg atoms and amplitude-modulated microwave fields

DH Meyer, KC Cox, FK Fatemi, PD Kunz - Applied Physics Letters, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
Rydberg atoms, with one highly excited, nearly ionized electron, have extreme sensitivity to
electric fields, including microwave fields ranging from 100 MHz to over 1 THz. Here, we …

Rydberg-atom-based digital communication using a continuously tunable radio-frequency carrier

Z Song, H Liu, X Liu, W Zhang, H Zou, J Zhang… - Optics Express, 2019 - opg.optica.org
Up to now, the measurement of radio-frequency (RF) electric field achieved using the
electromagnetically-induced transparency (EIT) of Rydberg atoms has proved to be of high …

A practical guide to electromagnetically induced transparency in atomic vapor

R Finkelstein, S Bali, O Firstenberg… - New Journal of …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
This tutorial introduces the theoretical and experimental basics of electromagnetically
induced transparency (EIT) in thermal alkali vapors. We first give a brief phenomenological …

[HTML][HTML] Weak electric-field detection with sub-1 Hz resolution at radio frequencies using a Rydberg atom-based mixer

JA Gordon, MT Simons, AH Haddab, CL Holloway - Aip Advances, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
Rydberg atoms have been used for measuring radio-frequency (RF) electric (E)-fields due to
their strong dipole moments over the frequency range of 500 MHz-1 THz. For this …

Sensitivity improvement and determination of Rydberg atom-based microwave sensor

M Cai, Z Xu, S You, H Liu - Photonics, 2022 - mdpi.com
We present a theoretical and experimental investigation of the improvement and
determination of the sensitivity of Rydberg atom-based microwave RF sensor. An optical …

[HTML][HTML] Enhancement of electromagnetically induced transparency based Rydberg-atom electrometry through population repumping

N Prajapati, AK Robinson, S Berweger… - Applied Physics …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
We demonstrate improved sensitivity of Rydberg electrometry based on electromagnetically
induced transparency (EIT) with a ground state repumping laser. Though there are many …