Remote angular displacement sensor based on Faraday effect: Experiment and modeling
Author(s) -
C. M. Park,
Yevgen Melikhov,
S. J. Lee
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
applied physics letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.182
H-Index - 442
eISSN - 1077-3118
pISSN - 0003-6951
DOI - 10.1063/1.2201892
Subject(s) - angular displacement , angular resolution (graph drawing) , optics , displacement (psychology) , detector , laser , faraday cage , physics , faraday effect , interferometry , laser beams , materials science , acoustics , magnetic field , psychology , mathematics , combinatorics , quantum mechanics , psychotherapist
Recently, we have reported a magneto-optic angular displacement (MOAD) sensor where both the incident and reflected laser beams pass through a magneto-optic (MO) film. In this letter, we report a modified MOAD sensor where only a reflected laser beam passes through the MO film. With the modified configuration, the modified MOAD sensor is a truly remote sensor such that the MO film can be located close to the detector and far from the sample. Furthermore, the modified sensor system can measure angular displacements with an improved resolution of 1×10−3 deg, which is ten times better than that previously reported.
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