Application of Photonic Crystal Fiber in Optical Fiber Current Sensors

• Authors: K. Barczak
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Optical fibers may be applied in the technique of measuring electric current, particularly as so-called optical current transducers. They are small in size, cheap, light and safe. Their sensitivity, however, connected with the Faraday effect, is rather poor, and they are also susceptible to considerable disturbances (deformations of the fibers). Their sensitivity can be increased by lengthening the path of effect, but this involves also an increase of noise and greater fluctuations of the measured signal due to changes of internal stresses induced by external factors. These negative phenomena can be reduced by applying fibers less sensitive to deformations. The author supposes that photonic crystal fiber with a glass core may display such properties. Orifices in the cladding can to some extent prevent the propagation of deformations from outside the core, and thus decrease the birefringence of the fiber induced by elastooptic effects. The paper presents preliminary measurements of typical photonic crystal fiber exposed to mechanical vibrations.

Keywords

EN

42.70.-a; 42.79.Pw; 33.20.Kf; 42.25.Bs

Discipline

• 42.70.-a: Optical materials(see also 81.05.-t Specific materials: fabrication, treatment, testing and analysis)
• 42.25.Bs: Wave propagation, transmission and absorption[see also 41.20.Jb—in electromagnetism; for propagation in atmosphere, see 42.68.Ay; see also 52.40.Db Electromagnetic (nonlaser) radiation interactions with plasma and 52.38-r Laser-plasma interactions—in plasma physics]
• 33.20.Kf: Visible spectra
• 42.79.Pw: Imaging detectors and sensors(see also 85.60.Gz Photodetectors)

• Journal: Acta Physica Polonica A
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 122
• Issue: 5
• Pages: 793-795

Dates

published

2012-11

Contributors

author

K. Barczak

• Department of Optoelectronics, Institute of Physics, Silesian University of Technology B. Krzywoustego 2, 44-100 Gliwice, Poland

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Identifiers

DOI

10.12693/APhysPolA.122.793