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Magnetic field monitoring devices are essential for studying and operating high-temperature superconducting (HTS) magnets. Apart from conventional Hall sensor, passive optical fiber sensor is also an option for magnetic field monitoring. In this article, we proposed a novel access based on yttrium iron garnet magneto-optic (YM) sensor, which is one kind of optical fiber sensors, to measure magnetic fields generated by an HTS double pancake coil. Moreover, we used a magnetic field bypass tube made of silicon steel material to expand the measurement range of YM sensor. The test results of YM sensor in liquid nitrogen demonstrated that the YM sensor was benchmarked against Hall probe up to 24.7 mT at 77 K. Using a silicon steel tube to shield magnetic field could extend the field measurement range to 37.6 mT. YM sensor could be one of the promising methods for monitoring HTS magnet magnetic field.

In the high-temperature superconducting (HTS) magnets applications, fast quench detection is very important to protect the magnets from burning out. Usually, the method of voltage measurement is widely applied to detect quench. However, this method is not satisfied for large HTS magnets intrinsically. Besides, a novel quench detection, which is measured by Raman-scattering-based distributed temperature sensors (DTS) using flexible optical fibers, is suggested to be a potential candidate. To verify the feasibility of this method, we prepared a DTS system based on interrogating Raman-scattering signals and a no-insulation (NI) HTS coil mounted by a 2-m length optical fiber as a test sample. The main results show that critical current of the NI coil is 111 A. In the continued overcurrent-induced quench state under coil current of 160 A, the temperature rise was observed obviously at the position of 1.2 m in the optical fiber, and the temperature was up to 94 K in the near middle region of top surface in the NI coil.

No-insulation (NI) coil made of 2G high-temperature superconductor tape is widely used in a dc magnet due to its excellent performance of engineering current density, thermal stability, and mechanical strength. While the charging/discharging delay of the NI coil has become the biggest obstacle to applying it into an ac power device. In this paper, as a preliminary study, we test the capability of the NI coil to shield alternating magnetic field (AMF). When shielding AMF, the NI coil works in inductive mode such that each turn in the NI coil is induced at the same time and there might no longer exist any delay caused by turn-to-turn current path. To verify this hypothesis, three closed-loop coils, two NI coils, and an insulated (INS) coil are fabricated. The result of the contrast experiments shows that the NI coil could shield all the alternating magnetic flux through it, independent of turn-to-turn resistance and frequency of the background AMF. This capability is promising for the NI coil to be applied in the inductive superconducting fault current limiter (iSFCL) as the secondary winding, which can shield all the magnetic flux generated by the primary winding to keep the impedance of the iSFCL at a very low level during normal the operation of the power system.