Alignment of a vector magnetometer to an optical prism

Dietrich, M. R.; Bailey, K. G.; O’Connor, T. P.

doi:10.1063/1.4983146

Title: Alignment of a vector magnetometer to an optical prism

Abstract

A method for alignment of a vector magnetometer to a rigidly attached prism is presented. This enables optical comparison of the magnetometer axes to physical surfaces in the apparatus, and thus an absolute determination of the magnetic field direction in space. This is in contrast with more common techniques, which focus on precise determination of the relative angles between magnetometer axes, and so are more suited to measuring differences in the direction of magnetic fields. Here we demonstrate precision better than 500 μrad on a fluxgate magnetometer, which also gives the coil orthogonality errors to a similar precision. As a result, the relative sensitivity of the three axes is also determined, with a precision of about 5 ×10^–4.

Authors:

Dietrich, M. R. ^[1]; Bailey, K. G. ^[1]; O’Connor, T. P. ^[1]

Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Lemont, IL (United States)

Publication Date:: Fri May 12 00:00:00 EDT 2017

Research Org.:: Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP)

OSTI Identifier:: 1365396

Alternate Identifier(s):: OSTI ID: 1361882

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-06CH11357

Resource Type:: Accepted Manuscript

Journal Name:: Review of Scientific Instruments

Additional Journal Information:: Journal Volume: 88; Journal Issue: 5; Journal ID: ISSN 0034-6748

Publisher:: American Institute of Physics (AIP)

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 46 INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

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                    Dietrich, M. R., Bailey, K. G., and O’Connor, T. P. Alignment of a vector magnetometer to an optical prism.  United States: N. p., 2017. 
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  title        = {Alignment of a vector magnetometer to an optical prism},

  author       = {Dietrich, M. R. and Bailey, K. G. and O’Connor, T. P.},

  abstractNote = {A method for alignment of a vector magnetometer to a rigidly attached prism is presented. This enables optical comparison of the magnetometer axes to physical surfaces in the apparatus, and thus an absolute determination of the magnetic field direction in space. This is in contrast with more common techniques, which focus on precise determination of the relative angles between magnetometer axes, and so are more suited to measuring differences in the direction of magnetic fields. Here we demonstrate precision better than 500 μrad on a fluxgate magnetometer, which also gives the coil orthogonality errors to a similar precision. As a result, the relative sensitivity of the three axes is also determined, with a precision of about 5 ×10–4.},

  doi          = {10.1063/1.4983146},

  journal      = {Review of Scientific Instruments},

  number       = 5,

  volume       = 88,

  place        = {United States},

  year         = {Fri May 12 00:00:00 EDT 2017},

  month        = {Fri May 12 00:00:00 EDT 2017}

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