Digital Signal Demodulator Calibration System and Method for Optical Hydrophones

Abstract

A system for digitally demodulating optical hydrophone signals is provided. The system includes an optical hydrophone connected to an analog-to-digital converter and further connected to a digital signal processor. Within the digital signal processor, a demodulator is calibrated by a preferred automatic calibration circuit such that mixer frequencies are coherently mixed with the incoming acoustic signals received by the hydrophone. The automatic calibration circuit preferably determines an extreme case of phase offset by following a programmable routine including a series of tests. After the extreme case is detected, the precise phase calibration is known and provided to the demodulator mixer tables. The automatic calibration circuit can be utilized for automatic calibrations of multisensor systems containing large numbers of hydrophones.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 13, 2002
Accession Number
ADD020017

Entities

People

  • Antonio L. Deus Iii
  • Chris M. Hansen
  • David J. Moretti
  • Gregory H. Ames
  • Michael Amaral

Organizations

  • United States Department of the Navy

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Human Systems
  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acoustic Detectors
  • Acoustic Signals
  • Calibration
  • Converters
  • Demodulation
  • Demodulators
  • Detection
  • Detectors
  • Filters
  • Frequency
  • Hydrophones
  • Inventions
  • Low Pass Filters
  • Measurement
  • Multisensors
  • Optical Fibers
  • Phase Shift

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Computer Science/Computer Engineering/Data Science/Digital Signal Processing.
  • Electrical Engineering
  • Optical Physics and Photonics.