A fabry-perot fibre-optic hydrophone for the measurement of ultrasound induced temperature changes

Proceedings - IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium

Volumn 1, Issue , 2006, Pages 536-539

  Morris, Paul ^a   Hurrell, Andrew ^b   Zhang, Edward ^a   Rajagopal, Srinath ^b   Beard, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Precision Acoustics Ltd   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARACTERISATION; FABRY-PEROT; FIBRE OPTIC; HIFU TRANSDUCERS; INDUCED TEMPERATURE; INTERFEROMETRIC DETECTION; OPTICAL THICKNESS; RESPONSE TIME; SIMULTANEOUS MEASUREMENT; SPATIAL LOCATION; SYSTEM-BASED; TEMPERATURE CHANGES; THERMAL PERFORMANCE; TRANSDUCTION MECHANISM; TUNING SPEED; ULTRASOUND EXPOSURE; ULTRASOUND FIELDS; WIDE-BAND;

FABRY-PEROT INTERFEROMETERS; HYDROPHONES; PLASTIC FILMS; POLYMER FILMS; POLYMERS; SENSORS; THERMAL EXPANSION; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS;

ULTRASONICS;

EID: 67649131272     PISSN: 10510117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ULTSYM.2006.139     Document Type: Conference Paper

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