The 80th JSAP Autumn Meeting 2019

Presentation information

Oral presentation

3 Optics and Photonics » 3.8 Optical measurement, instrumentation, and sensor

[21a-E205-1~12] 3.8 Optical measurement, instrumentation, and sensor

Sat. Sep 21, 2019 9:00 AM - 12:15 PM E205 (E205)

Minoru Tanabe(AIST), Takeo Minamikawa(Tokushima Univ.)

9:30 AM - 9:45 AM

[21a-E205-3] Ultra-compact Optical Current Sensor using Ferromagnetic Material

Masao Takahashi1 (1.Toshiba Infrastructure systems & solution corporation)

Keywords:Optical Current Sensor, Ferromagnetic Material, Faraday Effect

Optical sensors are applied for current measurement for control and protection of substations.
There are some advantage such as good electric insularion, small size, but the price is the bottleneck and it is not popular except in high voltage applications.
The development of signal processing technology makes it easy to compensate for disturbances such as temperature and distortion.
We have developed a low-cost oprical current sensor with an emphasis on simplifying the configuration without requiring high accuracy. The diameter of the sensor unit is about 1 mm and can be measured simply by placing it near the current path.