Fiber-optic microphones for battlefield acoustics

Applied Optics

Volumn 46, Issue 13, 2007, Pages 2486-2491

  Wooler, John P F ^a,b   Crickmore, Roger I ^a  

^a QINETIQ   (United Kingdom)

^b HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBER OPTICS; FREQUENCY RESPONSE; INTERFEROMETRY; SENSOR ARRAYS; SENSORS;

BATTLEFIELD ACOUSTICS; LOW FREQUENCY; MICROPHONE DESIGN;

MICROPHONES;

EID: 34250313674     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.46.002486     Document Type: Article

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