Differential twin receiving fiber-optic magnetic field and electric current sensor utilizing a microfiber coupler
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A Random-displacement Measurement by Combining a Magnetic Scale and Two Fiber Bragg Gratings
Published on: September 30, 2019
Abstract:
A magnetic field and electric current meter is proposed based on a differential twin receiving microfiber coupler (MC) sensor. The sensor is fabricated by bonding a MC and an aluminium (Al) wire together. With the small diameter of several micrometers, the output power at each port of the coupler shows high sensitivity to the distortion of Al wire from the Lorentz force induced by the magnetic field or the thermal expansion caused by the electric current. The ratio of the difference to the sum of the output signals from the two output ports can be used to eliminate the variation in the sensitivity. Using our proposed sensor, we measured a magnetic field sensitivity of ~0.0496 mT(-1), current sensitivity of ~1.0899 A(-1) without any magnetic field, and good repeatability are also shown in this paper.
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