An interferometric current sensor based on optical fiber micro wires

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 19, 2010, Pages 19951-19956

  Belal, Mohammad ^a   Song, Zhang Qi ^a,b   Jung, Yongming ^a   Brambilla, Gilberto ^a   Newson, Trevor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF DEFENSE TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL FIBERS; WIRE;

ALTERNATING CURRENT; CURRENT SENSORS; CURRENT SIGNAL; MICRO WIRE; OPTIC FIBER; OPTICAL PHASE SHIFTS; RESPONSIVITY; THERMALLY INDUCED;

SENSORS;

ARTICLE; ELECTRICITY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; INSTRUMENTATION; INTERFEROMETRY; REFRACTOMETRY; THERMOGRAPHY; TRANSDUCER;

ELECTRIC WIRING; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; INTERFEROMETRY; REFRACTOMETRY; THERMOGRAPHY; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 77957000023     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.019951     Document Type: Article

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