Fernando Gotardo, Benjamin J Carey, Hamish Greenall, Glen I Harris, Erick Romero, Douglas Bulla, Elizabeth M Bridge, James S Bennett, Scott Foster, Warwick P Bowen
Optomechanical magnetometers enable highly sensitive magnetic field sensing. However, all such magnetometers to date have been optically excited and read-out either via free space or a tapered optical fiber. This limits their scalability and integrability, and ultimately their range of applications. Here, we present an optomechanical magnetometer that is excited and read-out via a suspended optical waveguide fabricated on the same silicon chip as the magnetometer. Moreover, we demonstrate that thermomechanical noise limited sensitivity is possible using portable electronics and laser...
November 6, 2023: Optics Express