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中国物理学会期刊

结构改进的厘米尺寸谐振腔的磁场传感特性

CSTR: 32037.14.aps.70.20210247

Magnetic field sensing performance of centimeter-scale resonator with optimized structure

CSTR: 32037.14.aps.70.20210247
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  • 基于光力谐振腔的磁力仪在应用时主要受限于灵敏度和检测带宽两个指标. 本文设计了一种厘米尺寸的回音壁模式谐振腔结构, 可探测6 Hz至1 MHz频率范围内的交变磁场, 在无磁屏蔽、室温环境下、无直流偏置磁场时, 其最佳灵敏度在123.8 kHz可达530 pT·Hz–1/2, 探测带宽和最佳灵敏度分别为同尺寸谐振腔的11倍和1.67倍. 该磁场传感器仅需100 μW的光功率, 功耗很低. 后续通过优化系统噪声、提升器件磁场响应能力等手段可进一步提升其传感性能, 有望在电力系统故障监测和医学诊断等领域发挥其应用潜力.

     

    Applications of magnetometers are affected mainly by their sensitivities and detection bandwidths. Till now, the applications of the centimeter-scale optomechanical magnetometer have been still limited by those two factors. In order to improve its sensing performance in a low frequency regime of the alternating current (AC) magnetic field sensor based on centimeter-scale whispering gallery mode resonator, we design a new centimeter-scale crystalline whispering gallery mode resonator which has different relative distributions of the magnetostrictive material (Terfenol-D) and the optical material (CaF2) from the unoptimized centimeter-scale whispering gallery mode resonator. Experimental results show that this new resonator is able to detect the AC magnetic field ranging from 6 Hz to 1 MHz, and a peak sensitivity of 530 pT·Hz–1/2 at 123.8 kHz is achieved without DC bias field in a magnetically unshielded non-cryogenic environment. On condition that the optical quality factor is at the same level of 108 and there is no DC bias magnetic field, the best sensitivity of the optimized resonator is 11 times higher than that of the unoptimized resonator, and the corresponding detection frequency band is expanded by 1.67 times, switching from the frequency band of 10 Hz–600 kHz to 6 Hz–1 MHz. Besides, the device only needs 100 μW light intensity to operate, which offers us a low optical power consumption magnetometer. Within the detection frequency band, the proposed magnetometer can detect both a single frequency alternating magnetic field signal and an alternating magnetic field signal covering a certain frequency range. It can detect 50 or 60 Hz alternating magnetic field signal generated by current in the wire so that the working status of the power system can be monitored. If the sensing performance is further improved, it may be able to detect the magnetic field signal at frequency in a range of 1 kHz–10 MHz generated by the partial discharge current and the extremely low frequency human body magnetic field signal located in a frequency band of 10 mHz–1 kHz. Further improvement in sensing performance is possible through optimizing the system noise and the magnetic field response capability of the device, which might allow the device to possess the applications in the fields of power system fault monitoring and medical diagnosis.

     

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