• Title/Summary/Keyword: Fiber-optic Sensor

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Polarimetric fiber-optic current sensor system using a twisted fiber sensing coil (비틀린 광섬유 센서코일을 이용한 편광분석형 광섬유 전류센서)

  • 송민호;김기혁
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Illuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers
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    • v.18 no.2
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    • pp.135-141
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    • 2004
  • We developed a polarimetric fiber-optic current sensor system for protective relaying usage. A fiber sensing coil that consisted of a length of twisted fiber and a FRM (Faraday rotator mirror) was used in order to suppress the linear birefringence effect. From the experiments with various sensing coil configurations and environmental conditions, the proposed current sensor system showed feasibility of suppressing environmental noises, and the obtained measurement stability was less than $\pm$3% at rated primary current.

An Intensity Based Self-referencing Fiber Optic Sensor Using Tunable Fabry-Perot Filter and FBG (가변 페브리-페로 필터와 FBG를 이용한 광세기 기반 자기기준 광섬유 센서)

  • Choi, Sang-Jin;Pan, Jae-Kyung
    • Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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    • v.50 no.3
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    • pp.146-152
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    • 2013
  • In this paper, we have proposed and experimentally demonstrated an intensity-based self-referencing fiber optic sensor. The proposed fiber optic sensor consists of a broadband light source (BLS), fiber Bragg grating (FBG), tunable Fabry-Perot (F-P) filter, and LabVIEW program. We define the measurement parameter (X) and the calibration parameter (${\beta}$) to determine the transfer function(H) of the self-referencing fiber optic sensor, and the validity of the theoretical analysis is confirmed by experiments. The self-referencing characteristic for the proposed system has been validated by showing that the measurement parameter (X) is invariant for BLS optical power attenuations of 0 dB, 3 dB, and 6 dB. Also, the measured result is irrelevant to the FBGs with different characteristics. This means that the proposed fiber optic sensor offers the flexibility for determining the FBGs needed for implementation. Experimental results for the proposed fiber optic sensor are in good agreement with a theoretical analysis for BLS optical power attenuations and for three FBG pairs with different characteristics. So, the proposed fiber optic sensor has several benefits, including the self-referencing characteristic and the flexibility to determine the FBGs.

A Study on the Comparison between an Optical Fiber and a Thermal Sensor Cable for Temperature Monitoring (온도 모니터링을 위한 광섬유 센서와 온도센서 배열 케이블의 비교 연구)

  • Kim, Jung-Yul;Kim, Yoo-Sung;Song, Yoon-Ho
    • Proceedings of the Korean Geotechical Society Conference
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    • 2006.03a
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    • pp.1100-1109
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    • 2006
  • In this study, two different technologies which can measure temperature simultaneously at many points are introduced. One is to use a thermal sensor cable that is comprised of addressable thermal sensors connected in parallel within a single cable. The other is to use an optic fiber with Distributed Temperature Sensing (DTS) system. The difference between two technologies can be summarized as follows. A thermal sensor cable has a concept of 'point sensing' that can measure temperature at accurate position of a thermal sensor. So the accuracy and resolution of temperature measurement are up to the ability of the thermal sensor. Whereas optic fiber sensor has a concept of 'distributed sensing' because temperature is measured by ratio of Stokes and anti-Stokes component intensities of Raman backscatter that is generated when laser pulse travels along an optic fiber. It's resolution is determined by measuring distance, measuring time and spatial resolution. The purpose of this study is that application targets of two temperature measurement techniques are checked in technical and economical phases by examining the strength and weakness of them. Considering the functions and characteristics of two techniques, the thermal sensor cable will be suitable to apply to the assessment of groundwater flow, geothermal distribution and grouting efficiency within 300m distance. It is expected that the optic fiber sensor can be widely utilized at various fields (for example: pipe line inspection, tunnel fire detection, power line monitoring etc.) which need an information of temperature distribution over relatively long distance.

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All-Fiber Optic Gyroscope (전광파이버형 광파이버 자이로)

  • Kim, In-Soo S.;Kim, Yo-Hee
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 1998.07e
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    • pp.1840-1842
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    • 1998
  • Gyroscope is a very important core sensor, as a rotation sensor in inertial space, in inertial guidance and navigation system on aeronautics, plane, vessel and so on for civilian and millitary applications. Mechnical gyroscopes, adopting a principle of spinning a top, have been used in many application system. These mechnical gyroscopes need high power consumption, long warming time and complicated peripheral devices. But fiber-optic gyroscopes, based on the Sagnac effect, have novel advantages as small volume. simple scheme, low power consumption and high reliability. So we have developed a Intermediate grade All-fiber Optic Gyroscope, which has open-loop and minimum reciprocal configuration scheme. We have designed feedback circuits for stability of amplitude and phase using four lock-in amplifier(LIA) circuits and also used for noise limitation. This paper describes the scheme of optical part and electronic part and also test results of this all-fiber optic gyroscope. The performance have been achieved as long-term bias drift of $9.54^{\circ}/h$, random walk of $0.0317^{\circ}/\sqrt{h}$ and dynamic range of ${\pm}150\;deg/s$.

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Fiber-optic Ccurrent Sensor Using a Long-period Fiber Grating Inscribed on a High Birefringent Fiber (복굴절이 큰 광섬유에 제작된 장주기 광섬유 격자를 이용한 광섬유 전류 센서)

  • Lee, Yong-Wook
    • The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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    • v.56 no.10
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    • pp.1823-1825
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    • 2007
  • Based on Faraday effect, the variation of current flowing through the conductor can be encoded as that of azimuth angle of light polarization propagating through the fiber coil wound onto the conductor. The amount of current can be obtained by measuring the variation of the light intensity transformed from that of the azimuth angle through a polarization analyzer. In this paper we propose a fiber-optic current sensor system that employs a fiber polarization analyzer as a sensor interrogation device. The fiber polarization analyzer was prepared by inscribing a long-period fiber grating on a high birefringent fiber. At the fixed wavelength of 1522.5 nm, the fabricated fiber device has the polarization extinction ratio of more than 25 dB. The measurement of large current up to 600 Arms was accomplished based on a simple fiber interrogation device and the measurement output of the sensor system showed a good linearity.

Detection of excited vibration frequency on the latticed fence structure using a distributed fiber optic sensor (격자형 구조물의 외부 진동 주파수 탐지를 위한 분포형 광섬유 센서 설계 및 실험)

  • Lee, Jongkil
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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    • 2002.11a
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    • pp.329.1-329
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    • 2002
  • To detect external vibration signals on the latticed fence structure, distributed fiber optic sensor using Sagnac interferometer was fabricated and tested. The latticed structure fabricated with dimension of 170cm in width and 180cm in height, the optical fiber, 50m in lengtn, distributed and fixed on the latticed structure. It was verified the sensitivity of the Sagnac interferometer using the PZT phase modulator. Fiber-optic external vibration signal applied to the latticed structure from 100㎐ to several ㎑. (omitted)

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Fiber-Optic Current Sensor Using a Faraday Rotator Glass Fiber Sensor Coil (Faraday Rotator Glass 광섬유 전류센서)

  • 김기혁;송민호
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Illuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers
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    • v.18 no.4
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    • pp.28-33
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    • 2004
  • We developed a fiber-optic CT for large current monitoring in power systems. We used a FRG fiber sensor coil to suppress CT output degradation caused by linear birefringence, and different optical sources were used to compare their noise characteristics. From the experiments, we obtained output variation less than $\pm$0.4(%) when the sensor coil suffered mechanical perturbations, and the ASE source showed -23(㏈) less noise in the output than singlemode laser diode.