Optical sensor arrangement including polarization-altering sensor
First Claim
1. Optical sensor arrangement having a light emission arrangement (2) for the feeding-in of a first emission light beam into a first emission optical waveguide (3) and a second emission light beam into a second emission optical waveguide (14), having a polarizer (5), coupled with the two emission optical waveguides for the generation of a linearly polarized light beam from both the first and second emission light beams, and having an optical sensor (1) for the alteration of the state of polarization of a supplied polarized light beam as a function of a physical quantity acting on the sensor and for the supply of a sensor light beam formed from a polarized light beam, characterized in that behind the optical sensor (1) there is disposed an analyzer (7) for the separation of each sensor light beam into two linearly polarized reception light beams, a light receiving arrangement (12), for the formation of electrical signals from the reception light beams to determine the physical quantity by an evaluation circuit (13) and a first reception optical waveguide (9) and a second reception optical waveguide (11), for feeding the reception light beams to the light receiving arrangement.
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Abstract
The invention relates to an optical sensor arrangement having a light emitting arrangement (2), which feeds a first emission light beam into a first emission optical waveguide (3) and a second emission light beam into a second emission optical waveguide, having a polarizer (5), which is coupled with the two emission optical waveguides and generates from the first and second emission light beam a respective linearly polarized light beam, and having an optical sensor (1), which alters the state of polarization of a supplied polarized light beam as a function of a physical quantity acting on the sensor and which supplies a sensor light beam formed from a polarized light beam. Behind the optical sensor (1) there is disposed an analyzer (7), which separates each sensor light beam into two linearly polarized reception light beams, one of which is fed to a light receiving arrangement (12) via a first reception optical waveguide (9) and the other via a second reception optical waveguide (11). From the reception light beams, the light receiving arrangement forms electrical signals, from which an evaluation circuit ( 13) determines the physical quantity.
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- 1. Optical sensor arrangement having a light emission arrangement (2) for the feeding-in of a first emission light beam into a first emission optical waveguide (3) and a second emission light beam into a second emission optical waveguide (14), having a polarizer (5), coupled with the two emission optical waveguides for the generation of a linearly polarized light beam from both the first and second emission light beams, and having an optical sensor (1) for the alteration of the state of polarization of a supplied polarized light beam as a function of a physical quantity acting on the sensor and for the supply of a sensor light beam formed from a polarized light beam, characterized in that behind the optical sensor (1) there is disposed an analyzer (7) for the separation of each sensor light beam into two linearly polarized reception light beams, a light receiving arrangement (12), for the formation of electrical signals from the reception light beams to determine the physical quantity by an evaluation circuit (13) and a first reception optical waveguide (9) and a second reception optical waveguide (11), for feeding the reception light beams to the light receiving arrangement.
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