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Appl Opt
; 42(10): 1769-72, 2003 Apr 01.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-12683754
ABSTRACT
A new scheme of the Faraday effectcurrent sensor of a magnetic ring-core type is reported. With this scheme a uniaxial magnetic garnet film is obliquely inserted into a very narrow gap in the ring core and a probe light beam is passed through the garnet film in the transverse direction to the core. It is experimentally demonstrated that this current sensor shows good sensitivity as well as good isolation from surrounding currents, particularly because of the very narrow core gap allowed. This transverse scheme is much simpler and less expensive than the known longitudinal scheme and can offer a practical optical current sensor of a ring-core type.