학술논문

High-Sensitivity Optically Modulated Scatterer for Electromagnetic-Field Measurement
Document Type
Periodical
Source
IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement IEEE Trans. Instrum. Meas. Instrumentation and Measurement, IEEE Transactions on. 56(2):486-490 Apr, 2007
Subject
Power, Energy and Industry Applications
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Optical modulation
Optical scattering
Electromagnetic scattering
Electromagnetic measurements
Optical sensors
Testing
Photoconductivity
Performance evaluation
Imaging phantoms
Mobile handsets
Optically modulated scatterer (OMS)
radiated field
specific absorption rate (SAR)
Language
ISSN
0018-9456
1557-9662
Abstract
The optically modulated-scatterer (OMS) technique is developed for electromagnetic-field-distribution measurement with minimum disturbance to the field under test. In this paper, an OMS with newly designed photoconductive-switching structure is proposed. The performances of the new OMS are evaluated with a monostatic-field-measurement system. Measurement results show that an improvement of 6 to 8 dB in sensitivity is achieved compared to previous OMS devices. The developed OMS was used in an electromagnetic-field-distribution mapping system to measure the field distribution in a cubic phantom radiated by a mobile phone. The results show the suitability of this OMS for specific-absorption-rate measurement application.