The invention discloses a
rubidium atom
magnetometer based on free induction attenuation and a
magnetic field measurement method. The
magnetometer physical probe comprises a VCSEL
laser, an optical shaping unit composed of a convex lens, a polaroid and a 1 / 4 wave plate, a
rubidium atom
gas chamber, a
radio frequency coil
assembly and a photoelectric
detector. The circuit part comprises a
signal conditioning circuit and an oscillation feedback circuit. The method comprises the following steps: working in a periodic
pulse mode, firstly starting a
laser and
radio frequency coil in a period, and performing
optical pumping and polarization on
rubidium atoms by using left-hand circularly polarized light and a polarized
magnetic field along an
optical axis; then, the polarized
magnetic field is rapidly closed within
microsecond magnitude time, so that the atoms spin and freely
precession in the external magnetic field to be measured, and an FID
signal is generated; after being detected by the photoelectric
detector, the signals are fed back to the
radio frequency coil through amplification and
phase locking processing, and self-oscillation with the frequency locked at the atomic
Larmor precession frequency is formed; and measuring the oscillation frequency and calculating the external magnetic
field intensity according to the gyromagnetic ratio. The invention has the advantages of high sensitivity, large bandwidth, fast response and small volume.