Fiber optic magnetostrictive transducers for magnetic field sensing

Kyung-Shik Lee; Hyun Seo Kang; Moo Yuan Park

doi:10.1117/12.215498

1 December 1995 Fiber optic magnetostrictive transducers for magnetic field sensing

Kyung-Shik Lee, Hyun Seo Kang, Moo Yuan Park

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Optical Engineering, Vol. 34, Issue 12, (December 1995). https://doi.org/10.1117/12.215498

Abstract

A number of fiber optic magnetostrictive transducers were fabricated using various metallic glass ribbons made of Co₇₀Fe₁₀B₂₀, Co₇₆Fe₄B₂₀, Co₈₀B₂₀, Ni, Fe₇₉B₁₆Si₅, and Fe₄₀Ni₃₈Mo₄B₁₈ and were characterized by a typical optical fiber Mach-Zehnder interferometer constructed by splicing the fiber transducers to the single-mode-fiber sensing arm. The ac magnetostrictive responses for the metallic glasses measured with the fiber optic sensing system show that the dc-bias field (H_p) for the maximum response with a Co₇₀Fe₁₀B₂₀ ribbon is ~ 0.97 Oe, that with a Ni ribbon is 23 Oe, and with a Fe₇₉B₁₆Si₅ ribbon is 5.7 Oe. A magnetostriction function describing the magnetostrictive response of the transducer was also empirically found. The measured effective magnetostrictive parameters and saturation magnetostrictions are 1.3 x 10^-7/Oe² to 7 x 10^-7/Oe² and -4.6 x 10^-6 to 5.7 x 10^-6, respectively. The optical fiber sensors exhibit minimum detectable fields H_min of the order of between 10^-5 Oe(rms)/√Hz and 10^-7 Oe(rms)/√Hz above 1 kHz at their respective dc-bias fields H_p. The H_min can be much further improved by reducing the level of noises that limit the phase resolution to ~ 10^-4 rad/√Hz in the interferometer.

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Kyung-Shik Lee, Hyun Seo Kang, and Moo Yuan Park "Fiber optic magnetostrictive transducers for magnetic field sensing," Optical Engineering 34(12), (1 December 1995). https://doi.org/10.1117/12.215498

Published: 1 December 1995

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