202 results about "Fiber optic current sensor" patented technology

A lightning-strike detecting apparatus comprises: receptors (lightning members) that are provided at a plurality of locations on a wind turbine blade; lightning conductors that extend from these receptors to guide lightning-strike current to ground; a plurality of optical-fiber current sensors that are provided on the respective lightning conductors, detect lightning-strike current flowing in the lightning conductors, and output an optical signal; an optical signal converter that receives the individual optical signal output from these optical-fiber current sensors, converts the optical signals to the respective characteristic electrical signals, and outputs the electrical signals; and a controller that identifies the type of the electrical signal input from the optical signal converter, determines a lightning-strike spot on the basis of the type, and reports the lightning-strike spots.

The invention discloses an all-fiber current sensor consists of a 3x3 polarization-maintaining fiber coupler. One embodiment of the invention, a straight-through type interferometric all-fiber current sensor, comprises a light source, a 3x3 polarization-maintaining fiber coupler, fiber polarizers, a 1/4 fiber wave sheet and a transduction fiber ring. The light source is connected with one end of the 3x3 polarization-maintaining fiber coupler; the two ports of the 3x3 polarization-maintaining fiber coupler are respectively connected with two fiber polarizers; and the other ends of the two fiber polarizers are respectively connected with the transduction fiber ring by the 1/4 fiber wave sheet; one port of the 3x3 polarization-maintaining fiber coupler is vacant; and the rest two ports of the 3x3 polarization-maintaining fiber coupler are respectively connected with a signal processor by two photoelectric detectors. In addition, another embodiment of the invention, a reflection type interferometric all-fiber current sensor, also uses the 3x3 polarization-maintaining fiber coupler. The all-fiber current sensor avoids phase differences made artificially and makes the current transduction system woke more stably.

A system for lightning detection is provided. The lightning detection system includes a conductor configured to receive a lightning strike and transmit a lightning induced current. The system also includes a fiber optic current sensor configured to detect multiple lightning parameters from the lightning induced current and to modulate a beam of radiation in response thereto. The system further includes an electro-optic module configured to receive and convert said beam of radiation from the fiber optic current sensor to an electrical signal.

The invention discloses a sensing fiber used in a reflective all-fiber current sensor. The sensing fiber comprises a polarization-preserving fiber, wherein the polarization-preserving fiber comprises a non-rotating section, a rotation-starting section and a uniform rotation section in turn; and a reflective film is plated at the tail end of the uniform rotation section. The sensing fiber has the characteristics of simple manufacturing and low cost.

The invention brings forward a fiber current sensor. The fiber current sensor comprises an optical path unit and an FP cavity which are connected through a polarization maintaining fiber. A quarter wave-plate is connected between the polarization-maintaining fiber and the FP cavity; the optical path unit comprises a light source, an optical circulator, a fiber polarizer and an optical phase modulator which are successively connected; the optical circulator is also connected with a signal processing unit through a photoelectric detector; the FP cavity comprises a polarization-maintaining coupler, a first Faraday rotating mirror, a second Faraday rotating mirror, and a sensing fiber for connecting with a current lead to be detected; one end of the sensing fiber is connected with the first Faraday rotating mirror; the other end of the sensing fiber is connected with one port at one side of the polarization-maintaining coupler; and two ports at the other side of the polarization-maintaining coupler are respectively connected with the second Faraday rotating mirror and the quarter wave-plate. The sensor provided by the invention can improve the precision of current measurement, especially for the measurement of low currents, so that a feasible method is provided for current measuring engineering of the fiber current sensor.

The invention relates a method for making a sensor coil of a reflective optical fiber current sensor. A groove which takes the shape of the spiral of Archimedes is processed on a ring-shaped metallic framework, and sensitive fiber is wound in the groove; after filled with fiber paste and fixed, the groove is sealed; finally, the stress on the sensitive fiber is released by temperature ictus and vibration, thus causing the state of the sensitive fiber to be stable. The method of the invention can ensure that the sensitive fiber coil has good stability even under certain perturbation and can guarantee the ideal measuring precision; meanwhile, in the method of the invention, the metallic framework is adopted, so as to reduce the making difficulty and cost and realize the consistency of winding easily with respect to the technique.

The invention discloses an all optical-fiber current sensor based on magnetic fluid and a multi-mode interference structure. The all optical-fiber current sensor comprises a signal detection unit and a sensing unit. The signal detection unit comprises an SLD light source, a 50:50 optical fiber beam splitter, an adjustable optical fiber attenuator, a photoelectric balance detector, a data collection card, a computer, a power-on coil and a programmable power source. The sensing unit comprises a multi-mode coreless optical fiber arranged in a quartz capillary tube, the portion between the quartz capillary tube and the multi-mode coreless optical fiber is filled with magnetic fluid, the two ends of the multi-mode coreless optical fiber are respectively connected with single-mode input and output optical fibers in a welding mode, and the two ends of the quartz capillary tube are sealed by optical solidification glue. According to the all optical-fiber current sensor based on magnetic fluid and the multi-mode interference structure, the sensitivity of the magnetic field generated by the magnetic fluid to the currents and the multi-mode interference theory are used, the change relation between light intensity and currents is directly detected and output to achieve the purpose of detecting currents, and the defect that the polarized light detection method adopted by a traditional all optical-fiber current sensor is not stable is overcome.

The invention provides a novel optical fibre current sensor system, comprising a control unit and a sensing head connected with the control unit through a sensing optical cable. The sensing head comprises an electric cable and a sensing optical cable winding the electric cable; a sensing optical fibre and a reference optical fibre are encapsulated in the sensing optical cable; magnetostrictive materials are coated on the sensing optical fibre; the control unit comprises a laser, an optical fibre coupler connected with the laser, a reflector connected with the optical fibre coupler through thesensing optical cable, a photoelectric converter connected with the optical fibre coupler, a data processor connected with the photoelectric converter and a signal collector connected with the data processor and used for collecting output signals of the data processor and transmitting the signals to a computer for analysis and processing. The system adopts the optical fibre as the sensing medium and has the characteristics of high sensitivity, small volume, anti-electromagnetic interference, high-voltage resistance, favorable safety, and the like when compared with the traditional current sensor.

The invention relates to a miniature optical fiber current sensor probe and a making method thereof. The probe is formed by butt welding a D type fiber bragg grating (9) sputtered with a TbDyFe thin film (10) and an uncoated reference grating (8) with the same central wavelength as the D type fiber bragg grating (9), wherein the D type fiber bragg grating (9) sputtered with the TbDyFe thin film is formed by sputtering a layer of giant magnetostrictive material TbDyFe thin film on a fiber bragg grating with polished sides, and the thickness of the thin film is 2-20 mum. The miniature optical fiber current sensor probe is made by combining a magnetostrictive TbDyFe thin film sensitive to a magnetic field with an anti-electromagnetic interference D type fiber bragg grating. Because a magnetic-control sputtering process, a heat processing process and a temperature compensation technique are adopted, the accuracy and the sensitivity of a sensor are greatly improved, and the volume of the sensor probe is greatly reduced, thereby the sensor probe is beneficial to the miniaturization of an optical fiber current sensor.

The invention discloses a method for manufacturing a full-fiber quarter wave plate. A Sagnac interferometer type full-fiber current transformer comprises modules such as a sensing light path, a transmission fiber from a high-voltage part of 110kV to 550kV to 1,000kV to a control room of a power station, a signal processing electronic circuit, an interface circuit of a merging unit and the like, accords with the standard of IEC 60044-8, and is applicable to the industry of electric transmission and transformation and other situations for measuring high current. A full-fiber current sensor realizes current sensing by changing a phase of circularly polarized light of a (gauge outfit) in a sensitive coil through the current. The method for manufacturing the quarter wave plate, namely a key component for realizing mutual conversion of linearly polarized light and circularly polarized light in the full-fiber current transformer comprises the steps of selecting a wave plate, welding the wave plate, a transmission light path and the sensing light path, and protecting welding spots.

An optical current sensor having a reflection interferometer (1, 10) has, in its fiber-optic lead (2), a polarization-maintaining first fiber branch (20) for two forward-traveling orthogonally polarized waves and a polarization-maintaining second fiber branch (20′) for two backward-traveling orthogonally polarized waves. In this case, the two fiber branches (20, 20′) are connected to one another via a coupler (8) on the sensor side. The first fiber branch (20) is connected to a light source (4) and the second fiber branch (20′) is connected to the detector (5). A means for phase shifting (7) is funcionally connected to at least one of the fiber branches (20, 20′). It is thus possible to achieve a quasi-static control of the phase shift of the waves, so that less stringent requirements can be made of the means for phase shifting than of the phase modulators that are usually used in current sensors of this type.

In a fiber-optic current sensor, a 22.5° Faraday rotator, which is part of the sensing fiber coil, determines the working point of the sensor. The coil is operated with substantially linearly polarized light or incoherent substantially left and right circularly polarized light waves. In one arrangement, a polarization beam splitter generates two optical signals that vary in anti-phase with changing current. A signal processor determines the current from the two anti-phase signals. Appropriately detuned and oriented fiber-optic half-wave or quarter-wave retarders before the fiber coil are used to reduce or cancel the adverse effects of temperature and bend-induced birefringence on the measurement signal. Moreover, the temperature may be derived from the difference in the bias of the anti-phase signals and may be used to cancel temperature effects in the signal processor.

The invention discloses an electric power system harmonics analysis method based on a multilayered feedforward neural network in the electric power system signal testing technology field. In the invention, an electric power system voltage or current signal is obtained through an optical fiber voltage sensor or an optical fiber current sensor, single hidden layer of the multilayered feedforward neural network is established; an excitation function is a sine and a cosine function and a variable parameter is a harmonic amplitude and an angular frequency; a Hanning window is performed to an obtained electric power system signal; and then discrete fourier transform (DFT) is performed; the sine and cosine component amplitude of each corrected subharmonic and the harmonic angular frequency are taken as an initial weight value of the neural network; an RPROP algorithm training is employed on the basis of the initial weight value; the amplitude and the frequency of the each subharmonic can be acquired according to the trained weight value. By using the method of the invention, accuracy of a calculating result is high and a speed is fast. The harmonic wave analysis accuracy at short sampling time can be greatly raised. A principle is simple and the method is easy to be realized.

The invention discloses a capacitive equipment partial discharge detection method based on an optical fiber current sensor. The capacitive equipment partial discharge detection method based on the optical fiber current sensor mainly comprises the following steps: establishing a mathematical model of the optical fiber current sensor; designing the structure of the optical fiber current sensor; analyzing and testing the performance of the optical fiber current sensor; testing a local discharge experiment system. According to the capacitive equipment partial discharge detection method based on the optical fiber current sensor, which is disclosed by the invention, the defects of poor antijamming capability, low reliability, small applicable range and the like in the prior art can be overcome, and the advantages of good antijamming capability, high reliability and big applicable range can be realized.

The invention discloses an all-fiber current sensor and a polarization state control method thereof. The all-fiber current sensor comprises a laser device, a fiber loop assembly for sensing the change of a current magnetic field, a first polarization controller arranged at the input end of the fiber loop assembly, a second polarization controller arranged at the output end of the fiber loop assembly, a fast polarization state detector and a high pass filter which are sequentially arranged. Being different from the all-fiber current sensor in the prior art, the invention has no polarizer and analyzer, but directly detects the change of polarization state on the equator of a Poincare sphere based on the principal state principle and filters temperature interference and other environmental interferences by means of the filter.

The invention discloses a bore-tunneling electrical ahead monitoring device based on an optical fiber current sensor, and a detection method thereof. The bore-tunneling electrical ahead monitoring device is composed of a constant current source, a voltmeter, a laser light source, the optical fiber current sensor and an anchor rod. A tunneling part of a tunnel boring machine (TBM) is supplied with a constant current I, a circle of an optical fiber winds around the rear part of a cutterhead and the rear part of a shield, the magnitude of current on each of the cutterhead, the shield and TBM rear guaranteeing equipment can be obtained by using the optical fiber current sensor, and voltage on the shield is measured for calculating apparent resistance of a geologic body, so as to judge water content and rock class of the geologic body. Compared with the traditional bore-tunneling electrical ahead monitoring method, the bore-tunneling electrical ahead monitoring device based on the optical fiber current sensor omits a great deal of pre-insulating operation.

The invention relates to a ring cavity type all-fiber current sensor, including a phase modulator, a delay coil, a 1/4 wave plate and a fiber ring cavity which are sequentially arranged on the light path of incident light, wherein the fiber ring cavity, the 1/4 wave plate, the delay coil and the phase modulator are also sequentially arranged on the light path of return light; the fiber ring cavity includes a sensing fiber and a coupler, the port on one side of the coupler is connected with the 1/4 wave plate, two ports on the other side of the coupler are respectively connected with two ends of the sensing fiber, and the splitting ratio of the coupler is 1:99 to 15:85. According to the ring cavity type all-fiber current sensor, the Faraday phase shift caused by current can be significantly increased, and meanwhile the cost is reduced and the small current measurement accuracy and measurement range of the fiber current sensor are improved.

Embodiments of the present invention provide a sensor probe for fiber-based electric current sensors. The sensor probe includes a conductor of spiral shape and a relatively straight optical fiber being placed at a through-hole formed by the spiral shape conductor. An electric current conveyed by the spiral shape conductor causes polarization direction of a light traveling along the optical fiber to rotate. By detecting the amount of rotation that the light experiences at the ends of the optical fiber, the amount of current carried by the spiral shape conductor is determined. Method of making the sensor probe is also disclosed.

The ivnention discloses a current sensor based on optical sensing and a corresponding temperature sensor. The current sensor comprises: a light source, a first transmission fiber, an optical current sensor probe comprising a beam shifter, a Faraday material, an output beam shifter, a second transmission fiber, an optical detection unit and a measurement module. According to the invention, a polarization insensitive current and magnetic sensor and a system thereof adopting active temperature compensation can ensure sensing precision, measurement range and stability of the optical fiber current sensor when sensing the circuit.

The invention discloses a full optical fiber sensing head of optical fiber current sensor, which is designed to solve the problems of the prior sensing head such as inconvenience in achieving field installation and detachment. The f sensing head of the invention comprises a beam, a turning angle member, an adjusting member, a connection angle member and a hose. The beam comprises a first lower beam, a first upper beam, a second lower beam, a second upper beam, a third lower beam, a third upper beam, a fourth lower beam and a fourth upper beam. The turning angle member comprises a turning angle A lower plate, a turning angle A lower plate, a turning angle B lower plate, a turning angle B upper plate, a first bending angle lower plate, a first bending angle upper plate, a second bending angle lower plate and a second bending angle upper plate. The connection angle member comprises a connection angle A lower plate, a connection angle A upper plate, a connection angle B lower plate and a connection angle B upper plate. The adjusting member comprises an A adjusting member, a B adjusting member, a C adjusting member and a D adjusting member with the same structures. The full optical fiber sensing head of the invention can be installed and detached on live line with short detachment time. By adopting modularization design ideal, the invention can achieve miniaturized structure design to effectively reduce the weight and the size of the sensing head configuration.

The invention discloses an interference type fiber optic current sensor based on magneto-optic modulation. The interference type fiber optic current sensor based on the magneto-optic modulation comprises a broadband light source, a fiber optic polarizer, a fiber optic coupler, a Faraday magneto-optic modulator, a round polarization-maintaining transmission optical cable, a sensing fiber ring, a photoelectric detector and a signal processing unit. The non-reciprocal magneto-optic modulation avoids the using of a large quantity of polarization-maintaining delay lines, and modulation speed can be decreased at the same time. Due to the using of the round polarization-maintaining transmission optical cable, the polarization state of light is well controlled, and alignment of a polarization main shaft is not needed during welding. According to the interference type fiber optic current sensor based on the magneto-optic modulation, technical difficulty of an active modulation scheme of the interference type fiber optic current sensor can be greatly reduced.

The invention discloses a multi-light-path reflecting optical fiber current sensor, which comprises a light source, a polarizer, an optical fiber coupler, a transmission optical fiber, a single solenoid, a sensing head, a first self-focusing lens, a second self-focusing lens, a third self-focusing lens, an analyzer and two optical detectors, wherein the light source is arranged in front of the polarizer; the optical fiber coupler is arranged behind the polarizer and connected with an input end of the single solenoid through the transmission optical fiber and the first self-focusing lens in sequence; an output end of the single solenoid is connected with the second self-focusing lens, the transmission optical fiber and the third self-focusing lens in sequence; the analyzer is arranged in front of the third self-focusing lens; and the two optical detectors are arranged in front of the analyzer. The sensitivity of the multi-light-path reflecting optical fiber current sensor is higher than that of a linear optical fiber current sensor by about 500 times, the multi-light-path reflecting optical fiber current sensor is simple in structure, and system sensitivity can be flexibly regulated by adjusting the quantity of optical channels in glass.