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Five-axis-optical-fiber-gradiometer

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Five-axis optical fiber gradiometer

Details

Inventors: Bobb, Lloyd C.;
Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, DC)
Primary Examiner: Nelms; David C.
Assistant Examiner: Wieland; Charles
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Beers; Robert F., Hansen; Henry, Burdett; James R.

A magnetic field gradiometer includes a geometric arrangement of fiber op sensors through which light from a single frequency laser is transmitted. Having a pair of single-mode optical fibers, each of which are coupled to a magnetostrictive element, each sensor is formed in the manner of a Mach-Zehnder interferometer which is oriented to detect the spatial variation in a particular orthogonal component of the magnetic field by phase comparison of the light transmitted through its respective pair of fibers.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION What is claimed is: 1.
A five-axis magnetic field gradiometer, comprising: a single-frequency laser; a first plurality of three interferometers, each of said first plurality including two single-mode optical fibers operatively connected to receive light from said laser and a first pair of magnetostrictive elements, each element connected to respective ones of said fibers for changing the length of said fibers in accordance with their respective magnetic field components, each of said first pairs positioned in a different plane mutually perpendicular to the other planes and the elements of each of said first pairs spaced apart a predetermined distance and positioned parallel to each other and to one of the planes and equidistant from the other plane; a second plurality of two interferometers, each of said second plurality including two single-mode optical fibers that are operatively connected to receive light from said laser and a second pair of magnetostrictive elements, each element connected to respective ones of said fibers for changing the length of said fibers in accordance with their respective magnetic field components, the elements of each of said second pairs positioned collinearly and spaced apart a predetermined distance and each of said second pairs positioned parallel to respective pairs of planes; first converter means operatively connected to said first and second pluralities for converting the light output from said pluralities to electrical signals indicative thereof; and second converter means connected to receive the electrical signals and convert the signals to magnetic field gradient component values.
2.
Apparatus according to claim 1, wherein each of said magnetostrictive elements comprises: a magnetostrictive cylinder about the circumference of which is bonded a predetermined length of its respective fiber.
3.
Apparatus according to claim 1, wherein each of said magnetostrictive elements comprises: a magnetostrictive coating applied uniformly to the surface of its respective fiber

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