Electricity: measuring and testing – Measuring – testing – or sensing electricity – per se – Using radiant energy
Patent
1991-05-20
1993-12-21
Snow, Walter E.
Electricity: measuring and testing
Measuring, testing, or sensing electricity, per se
Using radiant energy
3242441, 359281, G01D 534
Patent
active
052724336
ABSTRACT:
A polarimetric directional field sensor comprises an emitter and receiver (1) of measurement signals, connected by optical fibers (2, 2a, 2b) to a portable probe (3). The probe (3) comprises an optical element (11, 13) sensitive to the field to be measured and means (9, 20) for polarizing the measurement signal. The optically sensitive element (11, 13) is in the form of a birefringent crystal having a crystalline structure which provides at least one plane in which the induced birefringence is modified by a single component of the field to be measured. The crystal is cut and oriented in the probe so that the direction of propagation of the optical measurement signal inside the crystal is normal to this plane, the polarizing means (9, 20) being oriented at 45.degree. to the orthogonal axes in which the crystal's refractive indices are modified by the desired component of the field.
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Pirelli Cavy S.p.A.
Snow Walter E.
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