Pickup suppression in sagnac-based fiber-optic acoustic sensor array

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6004, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Blin, Stéphane ^a   Bishop, Michael ^a   Parameswaran, Krishnan ^a,b   Digonnet, Michel J F ^a   Kino, Gordon S ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b JDS UNIPHASE   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic sensor arrays; Fiber optic sensing; Sagnac interferometer

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVES; DATA ACQUISITION; FIBER OPTICS; OPTICAL SENSORS; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ACOUSTIC SENSOR ARRAYS; FIBER-OPTIC SENSING; SAGNAC INTERFEROMETER;

OPTICAL DEVICES;

EID: 33644646927     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.633773     Document Type: Conference Paper

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