Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Yukiko Yoshikawa

Hisashi Minemoto

Nobuki Itoh

Satoshi Ishizuka

Daisuke Ishiko

An optical magnetic field sensor probe for detecting a magnetic field to be measured as an output light intensity, by disposing a polarizer, a magneto-optical device, and an analyzer mutually different in the transmission and polarization direction with respect to said polarizer, along the running direction of light, has an input optical fiber for feeding into to said polarizer through a first lens, and an output optical fiber for emitting an output light from said analyzer through a second lens, wherein said input optical fiber, said first lens, said magneto-optical device, said second lens and said output optical fiber are composed in a confocal optical system, and said first lens and said second lens are drum lenses.

Optical magnetic field sensor probe

Magneto-optical element

Optical magnetic field sensor probe having drum lenses

An optical fiber sensor which comprises a substrate having a groove pattern, an optical fiber which includes a shaped, bare optical fiber portion of an inverted U form and capable of being received or accommodated in the groove pattern of the substrate, and jacketed optical fiber portions extending from the shaped optical fiber rod portion at opposite ends thereof, and an optical modulation unit which is fixedly provided in a light path of the bare optical fiber portion and placed in at least one groove formed in the substrate. A method for fabricating the sensor is also described. The sensors include magnetic filed/current, electric field/voltage and temperature sensors.

Optical fiber sensors and method for making the same

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Osaka, Japan

Yukiko Yoshikawa