HIGH CURRENT MEASUREMENT WITH TEMPERATURE COMPENSATION

摘要

A non-contact device for measuring current in a conductor (10). The device includes an interferometer with an optical fiber (20) th extends around the conductor (10) and through which light beams pass. The magnetic field around the conductor (10), caused by th current conducted through the conductor (10), causes a phase shift in the light beams, which is measured. The measured current is corrected as a function of the temperature of at least the fiber (20), and possibly also the temperature of the quarter wave plate and/ the compensation coil in the mterferometer Multiple sensors (50-54) are evenly spaced and mounted to the fiber (20) in the preferr embodiment, and the signals from the sensors are averaged. The average signal is used to correct the measured current.