Communications – electrical: acoustic wave systems and devices – Signal transducers – Underwater type
Patent
1981-06-25
1983-12-20
Tudor, Harold J.
Communications, electrical: acoustic wave systems and devices
Signal transducers
Underwater type
367153, H04R 2300
Patent
active
044221673
ABSTRACT:
A wide-area acousto-optic hydrophone which uses signal and reference laser beams together with interferometric methods for detecting underwater acoustic signals. The signal beam is distributed across the wide sensing area of the hydrophone using beam folding techniques while being directly transmitted through a sensing chamber filled with an optically transparent bulk material, the refractive index of which varies with the incident acoustic pressure thereby modulating the signal beam. Concurrently, a reference beam of equal length and folded in an identical pattern is directly passed through an adjacent chamber filled with the same bulk material. A microhole joins the two chambers, to expose the reference beam to the same static pressure and temperature fluctuations as the signal beam thus serving as a low pass filter. The modulated signal beam and the unmodulated reference beam are then combined and superimposed on the surface of a photodetector, the output of which is proportional to the phase shifts produced by the incident acoustic signals.
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Beers Robert F.
McGill Arthur A.
McGowan Michael J.
The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of
Tudor Harold J.
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