Optical acoustic detector based on a fiber Fabry-Perot interferometer

Applied Optics

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 489-492

  Park, Hee Su ^a   Thursby, Graham ^a   Culshaw, Brian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; ELECTRIC FIELDS; FABRY-PEROT INTERFEROMETERS; LIGHT MODULATION; MIRRORS; PHASE MODULATION; ULTRASONIC DEVICES;

IN-LINE FLAT MIRRORS; MICROSAMPLES; OPTICAL ACOUSTIC DETECTORS; WAVELENGTH;

PHOTODETECTORS;

EID: 13444311884     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.44.000489     Document Type: Article

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