Hydrophone Transduction Mechanism.

Abstract

A sensing portion for an interferometric planar hydrophone is disclosed which comprises: a support assembly; a plurality of hollow compliant mandrels mounted to the support assembly in a fixed planar relationship with respect to each other to form a planar configuration; a sensing optical fiber sequentially wound around each of the plurality of mandrels to form a single, serial, optical sensing arm or path between an input position on a first one of the plurality of mandrels and an output position on a last one of the plurality of mandrels; and an acoustically transparent material encapsulating the sensing portion to form a sealed compliant planar hydrophone.

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 21, 1993
Accession Number
ADD015911

Entities

People

  • A. B. Tveten
  • A. Dandridge
  • A. M. Yurek

Organizations

  • United States Department of the Navy

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Assembly
  • Detection
  • Detectors
  • Fibers
  • Hydrophones
  • Materials
  • Optical Detection
  • Optical Fibers
  • Textiles

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