Sensitivity improvement of an optical current sensor with enhanced Faraday rotation

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 15, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 2246-2252

  Li, Gongde ^a,b,c   Kong, Michael G ^a,b,d,e   Jones, Gordon R ^b,f,g   Spencer, Joe W ^b,g,h  

^a IEEE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c CHANGCHUN INSTITUTE OF OPTICS   (China)

^d ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^f Ctr Intelligent Monitoring Syst   (United Kingdom)

^g Institution of Electrical Engineers

^h Department of Electrical Engineering ^*

Author keywords

Current measurement; Faraday effect; Magnetooptic transducers; Optical fiber measurements; Optical reflection; Sensitivity

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CURRENT MEASUREMENT; EQUIVALENT CIRCUITS; FARADAY EFFECT; LIGHT REFLECTION; MAGNETOOPTICAL DEVICES; OPTICAL ROTATION;

OPTICAL CURRENT SENSORS; SENSITIVITY IMPROVEMENT TECHNIQUE;

OPTICAL SENSORS;

EID: 0031336390     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/50.643549     Document Type: Article

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