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- Patent Title: Employing depolarizer arrangements to mitigate interference in an optical link due to vibration and current effects
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Application No.: US16288061Application Date: 2019-02-27
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Publication No.: US11036008B2Publication Date: 2021-06-15
- Inventor: Allen Howard Rose , Fahmida Ferdous
- Applicant: General Electric Technology GmbH
- Applicant Address: CH Baden
- Assignee: General Electric Technology GmbH
- Current Assignee: General Electric Technology GmbH
- Current Assignee Address: CH Baden
- Agency: Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP
- Main IPC: G02B6/27
- IPC: G02B6/27 ; G01R15/24 ; G01R19/00

Abstract:
Techniques for reducing interference with sensor (light) signals and measurement in polarimetric fiber optic sensors from undesired effects of current and vibrations on light signals carried in fiber optic cables are presented. A sensor system comprises a first depolarizer associated with a fiber optic cable and in proximity to a light source that provides a light signal to such cable. First depolarizer depolarizes the light signal to produce a first depolarized light signal output to another portion of the fiber optic cable that can be wrapped around or associated with a conductor cable or ground cable. To reduce undesired polarizing effects on the first depolarized light signal due to current or vibrations from the conductor cable or ground cable, the system comprises a second depolarizer that depolarizes the (re)polarized light signal to produce a second depolarized light signal suitable for use in sensing current or voltage after additional processing.
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