Title
An Acoustic Sensor Based on Active Fiber Fabry-Pérot Microcavities.
Abstract
We demonstrate an active acoustic sensor based on a high-finesse fiber Fabry-Perot micro-cavity with a gain medium. The sensor is a compacted device lasing around 1535 nm by external optical pumping. The acoustic pressure acting on the sensor disturbs the emitted laser frequency, which is subsequently transformed to beat signals through a delay-arm interferometer, and directly detected by a photo-detector. In this configuration, the sensing device exhibits a high sensitivity of 2.6 V/Pa and a noise equivalent acoustic signal level of 230 mu Pa/Hz1/2 at a frequency of 4 kHz. Experimental results provide a wide frequency response from 100 Hz to 18 kHz. As the sensor works at communication wavelength and the output laser can be electrically tuned in the 10 nm range, a multi-sensor network can be easily constructed with the dense wavelength division multiplexing devices. Extra lasers or demodulators are unnecessary thus the proposed sensor is low cost and easy fabrication. The proposed sensor shows broad applications prospect in remote oil and gas leakage exploration, photo-acoustic spectrum detection, and sound source location.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.3390/s20205760
SENSORS
Keywords
DocType
Volume
acoustic sensor,fiber Fabry-Perot cavity,micro-laser
Journal
20
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
20.0
1424-8220
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Xin-Xia Gao100.34
Jinming Cui200.34
Ming-Zhong Ai300.34
Yun-Feng Huang400.68
Chuanfeng Li5125.78
Guangcan Guo6229.33