Structural and properties of heavy metal oxide Faraday glass for optical current transducer

• Properties and structure of high concentration of heavy metal oxide magneto-optical glasses were studied.
• A home-made magneto-optical current transducer prototype was constructed using selected glass.
• The sensitivity of the magneto-optical current transducer is good.

The influences of PbO, Bi2O3 and GeO2 contents on mechanical, thermal, magneto-optical and structural properties of PbO–Bi2O3–GeO2–B2O3 glass system were investigated. A magneto-optical current transducer MOCT prototype with sensitivity of 7.56 nW/A was constructed based on selected glass with good properties.