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Optical Current Sensors for Electric Power Grid Modernization

Allen H. Rose, +1 more
- 24 Jun 2009 - 
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Optical current transducers will advance the modernization of the power grid, because of the economic cost, environmental cost, safety, reliability, and metrology performance improvements they make to the measurement of current at high voltages as mentioned in this paper.
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This article is published in Energy.The article was published on 2009-06-24. It has received 4 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Reliability (semiconductor) & Voltage.

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Complete Model Development for an Optical Current Transformer

TL;DR: In this article, an analog circuit model is constructed from the developed transfer function via a network synthesis method, and a digital model is presented by transforming the developed transferred function into a digital domain transfer function using bilinear transformation.
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Modeling and simulation of polarization errors in Sagnac fiber optic current sensor

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the influence of several main error factors on optical polarization error characteristics theoretically, including extinction ratio in polarizer, phase delay in quarter wave retarder, splice angular between quarter-wave retarder and polarization maintaining fiber.
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Optical Polarization Errors in Sagnac Fiber Optic Current Sensor

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyze the characteristics of optical components in Sagnac fiber optic current sensor theoretically, and demonstrate the methods to build optical polarization error models by using Poincare sphere and Jones matrix respectively.
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Optical current sensor by self-compensating the Faraday effect

TL;DR: In this paper, a new optical current sensor architecture based on a polarimetric configuration and a control system for self-compensation of the Fara day effect taking place at the sensor he ad.
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Transforming the Electric Infrastructure

Clark W. Gellings, +1 more
- 01 Dec 2004 - 
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that if the electric power grid is to meet 21st-century demands, society will need to invest in extensive modernization, which will require massive investment in extensive modernization.