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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 17, 2002
Filed:
Aug. 14, 2000
Ottmar Beierl, Aurachtal, DE;
Thomas Bosselmann, Marloffstein, DE;
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;
Abstract
A magnetic field is measured with the aid of the Faraday effect. Light is coupled into a Faraday element subjected to the magnetic field, the light having a linearly polarized first component at a first wavelength and an unpolarized second component at a second wavelength different from the first. A light signal is coupled out of the Faraday element and is split optically into a first light signal component with the first wavelength and a second light signal component with the second wavelength. A first measurement signal is derived from the first light signal component and a second measurement signal is derived from the second light signal component and these are used to form a corrected measurement signal S. In this way, attenuation influences in the transmission paths can be largely compensated for, even when measuring a magnetic field which is constant over time or a magnetic field with a component which is constant over time.