Faraday plasma current sensor with compensation for reciprocal birefringence induced by mechanicalperturbations



Document title: Faraday plasma current sensor with compensation for reciprocal birefringence induced by mechanicalperturbations
Journal: Journal of applied research and technology
Database: PERIÓDICA
System number: 000224161
ISSN: 1665-6423
Authors: 1
Institutions: 1Centro de Investigaciones en Optica A.C, México, Distrito Federal. México
Year:
Season: Jul
Volumen: 1
Number: 2
Pages: 157-163
Country: México
Language: Inglés
Document type: Artículo
Approach: Descriptivo
Spanish abstract Se utilizó un sensor de corriente hecho de fibra óptica empleando el efecto Faraday, para medir la corriente en el plasma de un tokamak. Para reducir la influencia de ruido mecánico en la sensitividad del sensor, se propone un arreglo óptico de dos pasos con un espejo variable de Faraday colocado en un extremo de la fibra. Experimentalmente se observo una disminución, de dos ordenes de magnitud, en la influencia de la birefringencia lineal producida externamente por un modulador piezocerámico de fibra
English abstract A Faraday fiber-optic current sensor was employed to measure the tokamak plasma current. In order to decrease the influence of mechanical perturbations on the sensor sensitivity, a two-pass optical scheme with a variable Faraday mirror at the fiber end is proposed. A decrease, by two orders of magnitude, in the influence of the linear birefringence produced by an external piezoceramic fiber modulator was experimentally observed
Disciplines: Física y astronomía,
Ingeniería
Keyword: Optica,
Ingeniería de instrumentos,
Sensores,
Corrientes,
Flujo,
Visualización,
Convección natural
Keyword: Physics and astronomy,
Engineering,
Optics,
Instrumentation engineering,
Sensors,
Currents,
Flow,
Visualization,
Natural convection
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