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Faraday current sensors and the significance of subtended angles

Fisher, Norman E., Jackson, David A., Woolsey, G.A. (1997) Faraday current sensors and the significance of subtended angles. Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, 63 (2). pp. 119-123. ISSN 0924-4247. (doi:10.1016/S0924-4247(97)01584-7) (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:18426)

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0924-4247(97)01584-7

Abstract

A series of experiments, involving measurements of Faraday rotation for light beams in linear and closed-loop optical current sensors, confirms that the degree of Faraday rotation of the polarization azimuth of a linearly polarized light beam, travelling in the vicinity of a current-carrying wire, is a linear function of the angle subtended at the wire by the beam. The experiments have been used to demonstrate the magnitudes of the errors that occur for different path geometries in a triangular closed-loop bulk-glass current sensor. The results of this work should enable geometrical design criteria for bulk-glass current sensors to be more readily established in future. (C) 1997 Elsevier Science S.A.

Item Type: Article
DOI/Identification number: 10.1016/S0924-4247(97)01584-7
Uncontrolled keywords: Bulk-glass current sensors, Faraday current sensors, Optical current sensors, Subtended angles
Depositing User: T. Nasir
Date Deposited: 22 Oct 2009 13:02 UTC
Last Modified: 16 Nov 2021 09:56 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/18426 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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Jackson, David A..

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