Large-scale remotely interrogated arrays of fiber-optic interferometric sensors for underwater acoustic applications

The fiber-optic interferometric acoustic sensor array has established itself as a potential alternative to the conventional sonar array based on electroceramic transducers. In this paper, we discuss all the aspects of a large-scale fiber-optic interferometric sensor array. We review the basic operat...

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Published in:IEEE sensors journal 2003-02, Vol.3 (1), p.19-30
Main Authors: Cranch, G.A., Nash, P.J., Kirkendall, C.K.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Acoustic arrays
Acoustic sensors
Amplifiers
Arrays
Fiber optics
Large-scale systems
Multiplexing
Optical fiber sensors
Optical fibers
Optical interferometry
Optical noise
Optical signal processing
Sensor arrays
Sensors
Sonar
Underwater acoustics
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Summary:The fiber-optic interferometric acoustic sensor array has established itself as a potential alternative to the conventional sonar array based on electroceramic transducers. In this paper, we discuss all the aspects of a large-scale fiber-optic interferometric sensor array. We review the basic operating principles of the fiber-optic interferometric sensor, signal processing, and multiplexing techniques, we present results from a noise model for a full size system, and we determine the benefit of incorporating a remotely-pumped optical amplifier in the array. As a practical example we describe the design and construction of a prototype array with 96 hydrophones incorporating a remotely pumped erbium-doped fiber amplifier, called the fiber-optic bottom mounted array, which is based on a dense wavelength division and time division multiplexed architecture. These arrays have applications in military sonar and seismic surveying.
ISSN:1530-437X
1558-1748
DOI:10.1109/JSEN.2003.810102