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Date of Patent:
May. 03, 2016

Filed:

Mar. 30, 2012
Applicants:

Thad Gilbert Walker, Madison, WI (US);

Brian Robert Lancor, Madison, WI (US);

Robert Wyllie, Silver Spring, MD (US);

Inventors:

Thad Gilbert Walker, Madison, WI (US);

Brian Robert Lancor, Madison, WI (US);

Robert Wyllie, Silver Spring, MD (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01V 3/00 (2006.01); G01N 27/74 (2006.01); G01R 33/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 27/74 (2013.01); G01R 33/02 (2013.01);
Abstract

Measurement of a precessional rate of a gas, such as an alkali gas, in a magnetic field is made by promoting a non-uniform precession of the gas in which substantially no net magnetic field affects the gas during a majority of the precession cycle. This allows sensitive gases that would be subject to spin-exchange collision de-phasing to be effectively used for extremely sensitive measurements in the presence of an environmental magnetic field such as the Earth's magnetic field.


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