Fast, powerful, low-noise optical pumping of an atomic vapor with semiconductor optical amplifiers

Diana Méndez-Avalos, Théo Louzada Meireles, Morgan W. Mitchell +1

We use a ${}^{87}\text{Rb}$ atomic vapor, suitable for an optically-pumped magnetometer (OPM) in Earth-field conditions, to study the noise properties of three strategies for generat…