A novel configuration for the transducer of magnetostrictive fiber-optic interferometric sensors

Abstract

A novel configuration for the transducer of magnetostrictive fiber-optic sensors was proposed and implemented. It is composed of a rectangle and two half-circles. The transducer with the novel configuration has not only higher sensitivity than that of traditional configurations, but good directivity. The magnetostriction was analyzed compared with that of cylindrical transducers. It is shown that the system sensitivity can be improved by increasing the long-side of rectangle and shortening the perimeters of the two half-circles.Two transducers with cylindrical and racetrack configurations were fabricated. Moreover, an experimental setup to measure the low-intensity magnetic field detection responses was built up. Experimental results verified the analysis.For its good directivity, three of them can be compounded as a vector magnetometer to measure three orthogonal components of magnetic field.

Fiber-Optic Electric Field Sensor Based on Electrostriction Effect

“…Optical fiber extracts from the upper and lower ball cracks and comes to fiber Bragg grating demodulator. Transducer is one of the core components of the sensor [5], so selecting the appropriate transducer material is important. Electrostriction is the fundamental electromechanical coupling in all materials-everything is electrostrictive [6].…”