An
optical fiber current sensing controller module, where an
optical transmitter is energized from a
DC source and emits an
optical field of calibrated intensity and
wavelength to a linear
polarizer which generates a reference
signal which is then launched in alignment with the transmission axes of a
polarization maintaining optical fiber link to a remote and passive
fiber optic
current sensor (FOCS), where the linearly polarized optical pulse traverses a complete circular path around an energized conductor and is subject to
polarization plane rotation in proportion to the
magnetic flux density with the integration equal to
electric current magnitude according to
Ampere's law, and the rotated polarized optical pulse is transmitted back to the
optical fiber current sensing controller module via a return
fiber optic cable, where the Stokes vector polarization parameters for the returned optical
signal are calculated by splitting the elliptically polarized field into four components, passing these components through an analyzer comprised of a linear horizontal
polarizer, a linear vertical
polarizer, a linear polarizer with transmission axis set at 45 degrees, and a linear polarizer with transmission axis set at 135 degrees, respectively, and where the four separate outputs of the four
fiber optic polarizing filters are connected respectively to four separate photodiodes which transduce each
optical intensity to analog
voltage outputs which are sampled by a
digital signal processing chipset, where the Stokes vector parameters for the polarized optical
signal are calculated directly from the digitally sampled array of
optical intensity values transduced by the photodiodes, and the change in polarization state from which
electrical current is measured is derived by comparing the initial
linear polarization Stokes vector of the generated reference signal with the measured
Stokes parameters of the elliptically polarized optical signal received from the analyzer, and where a sample of the generated polarized reference signal is measured at a
photodiode to monitor online sensor network optical attenuation and reference signal power fluctuations.