Faraday current sensor using space-variant

Jorge Luis Flores-Nuñez; Jose A. Ferrari; César Daniel Perciante

doi:10.1117/1.3041772

1 December 2008 Faraday current sensor using space-variant

Jorge Luis Flores-Nuñez, Jose A. Ferrari, César Daniel Perciante

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Optical Engineering, Vol. 47, Issue 12, 123603 (December 2008). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.3041772

Abstract

A Faraday current sensor using spatially inhomogeneous analyzers is presented. In the proposed optical architecture, the light waves coming from the sensor head travel in free space reaching a space-variant analyzer, and then they are acquired by a (one-or two-dimensional) photodetector array. This allows a full determination of the Faraday rotation induced by the electrical current, even in the case of a nonideal optical system (e.g., analyzer with poor polarization ratio). The proposed method resembles well-known techniques of phase-shifting interferometry. Validation experiments using linearly variant and azimuthal (radial) analyzers are presented and different detection schemes are compared.

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Jorge Luis Flores-Nuñez, Jose A. Ferrari, and César Daniel Perciante "Faraday current sensor using space-variant," Optical Engineering 47(12), 123603 (1 December 2008). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.3041772

Published: 1 December 2008

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