An improved Overhauser magnetometer for Earth's magnetic field observation

Shifang Fan; Shudong Chen; Shuang Zhang; Xin Guo; Qiong Cao

doi:10.1117/12.2235522

19 September 2016 An improved Overhauser magnetometer for Earth's magnetic field observation

Shifang Fan, Shudong Chen, Shuang Zhang, Xin Guo, Qiong Cao

Proceedings Volume 9972, Earth Observing Systems XXI; 99721N (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2235522
Event: SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, 2016, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

Overhauser magnetometer is a kind of high-precision devices for magnetostatic field measurement. It is widely used in geological survey, earth field variations, UXO detection etc. However, the original Overhauser magnetometer JOM-2 shows great shortcomings of low signal to noise ratio (SNR) and high power consumption, which directly affect the performance of the device. In order to increase the sensitivity and reduce power consumption, we present an improved Overhauser magnetometer. Firstly, compared with the original power board which suffers from heavy noise for improper EMC design, an improved power broad with 20mV peak to peak noise is presented in this paper. Then, the junction field effect transistor (JFET) is used as pre-amplifier in our new design, to overcome the higher current noise produced by the original instrumentation amplifier. By adjusting the parameters carefully low noise factor down to 0.5 dB can be obtained. Finally, the new architecture of ARM + CPLD is adopted to replace the original one with DSP+CPLD. So lower power consumption and greater flash memory can be realized. With these measures, an improved Overhauser magnetometer with higher sensitivity and lower power consumption is design here. The experimental results indicate that the sensitivity of the improved Overhauser magnetometer is 0.071nT, which confirms that the new magnetometer is sensitive to earth field measurement.

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Shifang Fan, Shudong Chen, Shuang Zhang, Xin Guo, and Qiong Cao "An improved Overhauser magnetometer for Earth's magnetic field observation", Proc. SPIE 9972, Earth Observing Systems XXI, 99721N (19 September 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2235522

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