TECHNOLOGY LICENSING OPPORTUNITY: Multi-Channel Atomic Magnetometer (MCAM)
Special Notice from Department of Energy.
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Notice details
- Agency
- Department of Energy
- Sub-tier agency
- ENERGY, DEPARTMENT OF
- Notice type
- Special Notice
- Solicitation number
- S-133667
- Product/service code
- 6635
- Place of performance
- Los Alamos, New Mexico
- Posted
- Jul 18, 2026
- Response deadline
- Dec 13, 2026
- Source
- SAM.gov
Description
Unlike conventional multichannel atomic magnetometers that require one vapor cell and one optical system for each sensing channel, the patented Multi-Channel Atomic Magnetometer (MCAM) architecture from Los Alamos National Laboratory replaces many independent atomic magnetometers with a single shared vapor cell and optical system that simultaneously generates multiple independent sensing channels. MCAM is a non-cryogenic multi-channel optical quantum sensor in a single module that captures ultra-faint biomagnetic signals from the brain, heart and other sources with sensitivity approaching that of the cryogenic SQUID-based systems that have defined the field for decades. MCAM delivers that performance at roughly one-tenth the per-channel cost without a drop of liquid helium. The module pairs one large alkali-metal vapor cell with broad pump and probe laser beams read out by a photodiode array, providing 16 independent sensing channels in a single housing, scaling into helmet-style arrays of hundreds of channels, and flexing around the patient rather than forcing the patient into a fixed cryogenic dewar. Together, these attributes more easily allow for magnetoencephalography, magnetocardiography and magnetic-particle imaging while accelerating overall magnetic imaging workflows. Ongoing development is aimed at extending the sensing architecture from the centimeter scale characterized in the current prototype toward micrometer-scale spatial resolution, opening a path into
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