Electricity: measuring and testing – Magnetic – Magnetometers
Patent
1982-05-12
1985-07-23
Strecker, Gerard R.
Electricity: measuring and testing
Magnetic
Magnetometers
324 96, 350408, G01R 33032, G01R 2912
Patent
active
045310920
ABSTRACT:
A method and system for measuring quantities of electricity or magnetism by use of two light beams of different wavelengths and prescribed relative intensities. Emitted by respective light sources, the two beams are combined as by an interference filter to travel through a common optical fiber to a modulator station, where the beams are first plane polarized. The plane-polarized beams enter an optical modulator, therein to be modulated by the Pockels or Faraday effect in accordance with an electric or magnetic quantity to be measured. Then, after passing a quarter-wave plate as required, the modulated beams fall on a wavelength-dependent, selective polarizing filter, which polarizes only one of the incident beams into an intensity-modulated beam and which passes the other as a non-intensity-modulated beam. The beams are again sent over a common optical fiber to a beam splitter, which separates the beams from each other. Placed after the beam splitter, two photodetectors sense the intensities of the separated intensity- and non-intensity-modulated beams respectively. The electric or magnetic quantity is calculated, as by a digital computer, from the relative intensities of the intensity- and non-intensity-modulated beams falling on the photodetectors and the relative intensities of the beams as emitted by the light sources.
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Edmonds Warren S.
Iwatsu Electric Co. Ltd.
Strecker Gerard R.
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