A Fiber Optic PD Sensor Using a Balanced Sagnac Interferometer and an EDFA-Based DOP Tunable Fiber Ring Laser

A novel fiber-optic acoustic sensor using an erbium-doped fiber amplifier (EDFA)-based fiber ring laser and a balanced Sagnac interferometer for acoustic sensing of the partial discharge (PD) in power transformers is proposed and demonstrated. As a technical background, an experimental investigation...

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Main Authors: Lutang Wang, Nian Fang, Chunxu Wu, Haijuan Qin, Zhaoming Huang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2014-05-01
Series:Sensors
Subjects:
DOP
Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/14/5/8398