A fiber optic PD sensor using a balanced Sagnac interferometer and an EDFA-based DOP tunable fiber ring laser

Sensors (Switzerland)

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 8398-8422

  Wang, Lutang ^a   Fang, Nian ^a   Wu, Chunxu ^a   Qin, Haijuan ^a   Huang, Zhaoming ^a  

^a SHANGHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Acoustic sensing; DOP; Fiber optic sensors; Partial discharges; Polarization; Sagnac interferometer

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); ELECTRIC CORONA; FIBER OPTIC SENSORS; FIBERS; FREQUENCY RESPONSE; POLARIZATION; POWER TRANSFORMERS; RING LASERS; SENSORS;

ACOUSTIC EMISSION SIGNAL; ACOUSTIC SENSING; DOP; EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; HIGH FREQUENCY RESPONSE; SAGNAC INTERFEROMETER; SIGNALTONOISE RATIO (SNR); TUNABLE FIBER RING LASER;

PARTIAL DISCHARGES;

EID: 84900482543     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s140508398     Document Type: Article

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