학술논문

Potentialities of an Electro-Optic Crystal Fed by Nuclear Magnetic Resonant Coil for Remote and Low-Invasive Magnetic Field Characterization
Document Type
Periodical
Source
IEEE Sensors Journal IEEE Sensors J. Sensors Journal, IEEE. 13(4):1274-1280 Apr, 2013
Subject
Signal Processing and Analysis
Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Robotics and Control Systems
Coils
Magnetic resonance imaging
Crystals
Optical sensors
Noise
Biomedical optical imaging
Optical imaging
Electro-optics
magnetic field sensor
magnetic resonance imaging
nuclear magnetic resonance
Language
ISSN
1530-437X
1558-1748
2379-9153
Abstract
In this paper, we demonstrate the use of a ${\rm LiTaO}_{3}$ crystal associated with a typical nuclear magnetic resonant loop coil to perform an optically remote radio frequency magnetic-field characterization. The whole transduction scheme is theoretically and experimentally studied. The measurement dynamics reaches 60 dB. The minimum detectable magnetic field is lower than 1 nT, which corresponds to an induced inner crystal electric field as low as 30 mV/m. To evaluate the spatial potentialities of the sensor, a 1-D mapping of the field along an asymmetric butterfly-shaped loop coil is performed. The result is in good agreement with finite-difference time-domain simulations and demonstrates the vectorial behavior of the sensor device.