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EMRP - ENG61 Future Grid WP1 - Optical Current Sensor

This document summarizes work on an optical current sensor. It discusses various system design approaches including interferometry and phase detection. It also covers fiber development using terbium-doped materials to improve sensor response. Programming for a lock-in amplifier interface and theoretical modeling of the sensor signal are discussed. The goal is a dynamic range of 1-10 kA and 0.1% measurement uncertainty.

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EMRP - ENG61 Future Grid WP1 - Optical Current Sensor

This document summarizes work on an optical current sensor. It discusses various system design approaches including interferometry and phase detection. It also covers fiber development using terbium-doped materials to improve sensor response. Programming for a lock-in amplifier interface and theoretical modeling of the sensor signal are discussed. The goal is a dynamic range of 1-10 kA and 0.1% measurement uncertainty.

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EMRP – ENG61 Future Grid

WP1 - Optical current sensor


2016-08-31
Work on the optical current sensor
• Targets and strategy
• System designs
• Interferometry detection – Renishaw / Arteche
• Phase detection – Profotech / ABB / etc.
• Free space propagation
• All fibre version
• Fibre development – University of Southampton and LNE
• New materials
• Reference measurments at LNE
• Programming API
• Theoretical support
Targets and strategy
• Targets
• 1 – 10 kA dynamic range.
• 100 ppm measurement uncertainty
• Strategy
• Selection of system working principle
• Interferometric, Sagnac and Reflective mode studied
• 633 nm instead of 1300 nm – 4 x higher response
• Tb doped fibres – higher response
• HiBi Spun fibre – avoid effects of birefringence
System designs
• System overview – Interferometric (Renishaw)
System designs
• Results – Interferometric (Renishaw)
System design
• System overview – reflective mode (Profotech)
System design
• System overview – open air design
Sensor systems
• Free space propagating version
Sensor systems
• All fibre version
• Fibre welding – Fujikura available at SP
• Components
• EOM
• 50/50 Splitter
• Splicing – Fujikura
• PM fibre
• Sensing fibre – Southampton
• End mirror coating
Fibre development - University of Southampton
• Tb doping of materials
• Tb-doped Al2O3-P2O5-SiO2, Tb-doped Al2O3-SiO2 and
P2O5-SiO2
• Manufacturing of preforms
• Spinning of fibres – pitch 3 – 7 mm
• HiBi fibres for optimum performance to counter
birefringence induced by bending.
• Characterization at LNE
Programming API - LabVIEW
• Started with electrical signals for testing of principles of the lock-in
amplifier
• Functions of the amplifier mapped
• Works with two simultaneous carrier waves and modulations
• Synchronization to AC signals still to solve.
• Hanning-compensation of unsynchronized sampling works.
Amplitude error ca 0,015 %.
• API and method of calibration
Theoretical dissemination – Chalmers
• Output signal is detected with a lock-in amplifier
• Make a Fourier series expansion to second order – Bessel functions
• Three different scale factors for the different overtones
– We want two of them
J1(4Amsin( 0 t))= J2(4Amsin( 0 t))
– One of them should ideally be zero
J2(4Amcos( 0 t))=0
– This can be achieved!

• We choose the amplitude (Am) and the frequency ( 0)


• Numerical example:
– Length of the sensor fibre: 10 m
– Phase modulation frequency should be 0.75 MHz
– Phase modulation amplitude should be 1.44 rad
Theoretical dissemination – Chalmers
• We set up the output signal according to
r(t) = Pcos(2 t) + iPsin( t)(t)
• In the ideal case we have
r(t) cos(4 f) + i sin(4 f) = exp(i4 f) = (exp(i2 f))2
• In the general case we assume
f r(t)

• A complete signal characterization…


– From fibre design parameters
• Via u and v in the Jones matrix
– To the Faraday angle
• Via the detected Fourier components
…which is nice!

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