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EPSRC Reference: GR/L80584/01
Title: OPTICAL FIBRES HAVING LINEAR ELECTRO-OPTIC EFFECT AND THEIR APPLICATION TO ELECTRIC FIELD
Principal Investigator: Payne, Professor Sir DN
Other Investigators:
Kazansky, Professor P
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Project Partners:
National Grid QinetiQ
Department: Optoelectronics Research Ctr (closed)
Organisation: University of Southampton
Scheme: Standard Research (Pre-FEC)
Starts: 01 April 1998 Ends: 31 March 2001 Value (£): 130,630
EPSRC Research Topic Classifications:
Instrumentation Eng. & Dev. Optical Devices & Subsystems
EPSRC Industrial Sector Classifications:
Manufacturing
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This project which is a collaboration between the Opteoelectronics Research Centre (ORC) at the University of Southampton and the Physics Department at the University of Kent (UKC), centres around the production and exploitation of a novel optical component, optical fibre in which the linear electro-optic effect is present. Its application to measuring electric field both at low frequencies used in the power indusry and at frequencies up to the GHz region using interferometric and fibre laser-based sensors will be investigated with the object of developing a generic intrinsic fibre sensor technology. Work will be undertaken in order to improve the understanding of the mechanism of poling, to increase the magnitude of the effect and to pull a range of fibres optimised in shape and composition. Fibres will be investigated as interferometric and fibre laser-based intrinsic electric field sensors with applications to the power industry and to construct high-frequency probes. Key features: use of poled fibre to make integrated field measurements to find the true potential difference between two points, all dielectric probes capable of measuring RF fields at GHz frequencies, multiplexing probes.
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