• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of IIIuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers Conference
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• 2007.05a
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• pp.334-337
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• 2007

본 연구는 출력특성의 안정성과 정밀성이 우수한 광전류센서의 개발을 위하여 센싱부의 온도변화에 따른 출력신호를 검토하고, 온도변화에 따른 출력특성이 안정된 센싱부를 적용하여 출력특성을 연구하였다. 기존 광전류센서에서 중요시스템인 센싱부의 광섬유의 온도특성과 Verdet 상수의 온도의존도에 따라 출력신호가 불안정하다. 이러한 광전류센서의 온도변화에 따른 오차를 개선하기 위해 센싱부에 대한 온도특성을 분석하고, 온도변화에 내구성이 뛰어난 소재를 적용함으로써 센싱부의 안정된 출력특성을 가지는 광전류센서를 개발하고자한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of IIIuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers Conference
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• 2007.05a
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• pp.342-345
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• 2007

본 연구에서는 광섬유형(Fiber Optic Current Sensor) 광전류센서 구성 시 발생하는 선형복굴절(Linear Birefringence)의 보상에 용이한 수직원형틀(Orthogonal Loop Type) 센서헤드(Sensor Heads)를 개선하여 1 Cross 수직원형틀(l Cross Orthogonal Loop Type)을 제시하였다. 그리고 기존의 페루프형 원형틀 (Closed Loop Type), 수직원형틀 그리고 1 Cross 수직원형틀의 편광상태를 비교하였다. 그 결과 편광상태 측정 시 페루프 원형틀을 수직원형틀로 교체할 경우 15.3%, 1 Cross 수직원형틀로 교체할 경우 33.8%의 선형복굴절 감소 효과가 나타났다. 이에 1 Cross 수직원형틀을 광전류센서에 적용할 경우 안정된 편광특성으로 고신뢰성 광전류센서 개발 가능성을 높게 할 것이다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.22 no.7
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• pp.1607-1612
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• 1997

A new method of stabilizing a Sagnac optical fiber current sensor is presented. This method is characterized by creating aproper amount of circular birefringence the fibersagnac, whose correaponding value of rotation angle is (m+1/2)$\pi$-$2\Psi$, removes the effect of linear birefringence and leads to achieve good stability. Using the technique the stability of the current sensor was improved more than 10 times to within ${\pm}2.3{%}$ at 300Arms.

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.30 no.6
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• pp.249-254
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• 2019

An optical current sensor device that measures electric current by the principle of the Faraday effect was designed and fabricated. The polarization-rotated reflection interferometer and the quadrature phase interferometer were introduced so as to improve the operational stability. Complex structures containing diverse optical components were integrated in a polymeric optical integrated circuit and manufactured in a small size. This structure allows sensing operation without extra bias feedback control, and reduces the phase change due to environmental temperature changes and vibration. However, the Verdet constant, which determines the Faraday effect, still exhibits an inherent temperature dependence. In this work, we tried to eliminate the residual temperature dependence of the optical current sensor based on polarization-rotated reflection interferometry. By varying the length of the fiber-optic wave plate, which is one of the optical components of the interferometer, we could compensate for the temperature dependence of the Verdet constant. The proposed optical current sensor exhibited measurement errors maintained within 0.2% over a temperature range, from 25℃ to 85℃.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.6 no.1
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• pp.89-98
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• 2002

Optical current sensor and optical voltage sensor modules were designed and fabricated to improve measurement error and insulation in automatic power distributor By using Faraday effect, optical current sensor with an $\alpha$-iron core was designed and fabricated to minimize current induction of the other phase and was optimized to maintain linearity. Optical voltage sensor was fabricated owing to the pockets effect and adopted spatial electric field type because of small room in an automatic power distributor. To connect a distributor with an external terminal for signal processing, optical multi connector was designed, fabricated and tested for coupling loss and gas leakage. The linearity of optical current sensor for applied current maintains variation of smaller than 2.5% for applied current range from 20A to 700A. The linearity of optical voltage sensor was smaller than 1% for appling voltage from 6.6kV to 19.8kV. Since the measured characteristics are good, these devices can be considered as being applicable in practice.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.111-116
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• 2006

In this paper, the image sensor using the a-Si:H TFT is proposed. The optimum amorphous silicon thin film is deposited using plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD). TFT and photodiode both with the thin film are fabricated and form image sensor. The photodiode shows that Idark is $10^{-12}A$, Iphoto is $10^{-9}A$ and Iphoto/Idark is $10^3$, respectively. In the case of a-Si:H TFT, it indicates that Ion/Ioff is $10^6$, the drain current is a few ${\mu}A$ and Vth is $2\~4$ volts. For the analysis on the fabricated image sensor, the reverse bias of -5 voltage in ITO of photodiode and $70{\mu}sec$ pulse in the gate of TFT are applied. The image sensor with good property was conformed through the measured photo/dark current.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Communication Sciences Conference
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• 1996.06a
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• pp.366-368
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• 1996

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of IIIuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers Conference
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• 2003.11a
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• pp.223-226
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• 2003

본 연구에서는 패러데이 효과(Faraday Effect)를 이용한 초고압 전력설비에서의 광전류 센서의 특성에 대한 기초 연구를 하였다. 광원은 Laser Diode(1310[nm])를 사용하고, 수신부는 PIN-Photodiode를 사용하였다. 센싱부로 사용한 광섬유는 single mode unjacked fiber를 사용하였고, 편광기를 사용하여 빛의 광학적인 편파면을 이용한 전류측정이 가능함을 확인할 수 있었다. 측정 결과에서는 전류에 따른 출력 신호가 나옴으로써 기존 문헌상의 결과와 동일하다는 것을 알 수 있었고 센싱부로 사용한 파이버의 길이에 따른 출력차이를 통해 파이버의 길이가 길수록 강도가 커진다는 것을 알 수 있었다. 또한 길이에 따라 출력의 차이뿐만 아니라 선형성까지도 차이가 난다는 것을 알 수 있었다. reference 값과 광전류센서의 출력 강도와의 오차율을 구했을 때 5[m] 10[m]길이의 광섬유 각각에 대해서 1000[A]이상의 값에서 각각 약 -0.9[%], -0.4[%]의 오차율을 보임을 확인했다. 여기서 인가한 전류값과 길이 즉, 감은 수에 따라 그 오차율이 점점 나아질 수 있다는 것을 알 수 있었다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.54 no.5
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• pp.17-23
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• 2017

Optical current sensors are suitable for operation in high voltage and high current environments such as power plants due to they are not affected by electromagnetic interference and have excellent insulation characteristics. However, as they operate in a harsh environment such as large temperature fluctuation and mechanical vibration, high reliability of the sensor is required. Therefore, many groups have been working on enhancing the reliability. In this work, an integrated optical current sensor incorporating polarization-rotated reflection interferometer is proposed. By integrating various optical components on a single chip, the sensor exhibits enhanced stability as well as the solution for low-cost optical sensors. Using this, we performed the characterization for the actual field application. By using a large power source, the current of 0.3 kA~36 kA was applied to the photosensor and the linear operation characteristics were observed. The error of the sensor was within $0{\pm}.5%$. Even when operating for a long time, the error range of the sensor was kept within $0{\pm}.5%$. In addition, the measurement of the frequency response over the range of 60 Hz to 10 kHz has confirmed that the 3-dB frequency band of the proposed OCT is well over 10 kHz.

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.14 no.4
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• pp.399-405
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• 2003

We manufactured a clamp-type optical current transformer (COCT) head using FD10 glass. It was manufactured of two parts of FD10 glass with symmetrical structure and was designed so that light propagates along the critical angle in order to avoid a phase difference with the light within the sensor head at reflection. Also, we measured and analyzed the current of conductor from 0 to 1,000 AT, change of optical power with incidence angle of light, temperature and polarization of light, long-term current measurement using COCT head, and demonstrated the feasibility of manufactured COCT through those experiments.