Frontiers of Optoelectronics, Volume. 2, Issue 2, 192(2009)

A new magnetic sensor with Mach-Zehnder/Sagnac optical fiber interferometer

Shuguang LI*, Xinwan LI, Xin WANG, and Jianping CHEN
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  • State Key Laboratory of Advanced Optical Communication Systems and Networks, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
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    This paper presents a new structure for magnetic sensor with Mach-Zehnder/Sagnac optical fiber interferometer. The magnetostrictive optical fiber sensor is placed in one of the two arms of the Mach-Zehnder interferometer, which can detect the optic phase shift by testing the length difference of the arm caused by environmental magnetic field. Because of forward and backward transmission in the arms, the Mach-Zehnder/ Sagnac optical fiber interferometer can deduce twice exactly of the phase shift proportional to the length difference as Mach-Zehnder interferometer. Theoretically, description of the Mach-Zehnder/Sagnac interferometer is given, and some main issues in the magnetic field sensor with optical fiber interferometer are demonstrated with experiments. The magnetic sensors are implemented using the proposed methods.

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    Shuguang LI, Xinwan LI, Xin WANG, Jianping CHEN. A new magnetic sensor with Mach-Zehnder/Sagnac optical fiber interferometer[J]. Frontiers of Optoelectronics, 2009, 2(2): 192

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    Paper Information

    Received: Nov. 20, 2008

    Accepted: Dec. 29, 2008

    Published Online: Oct. 8, 2012

    The Author Email: LI Shuguang (shuguangli@sjtu.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.1007/s12200-009-0038-4

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