A new fiber optic hydrophone is described. based on a distributed feedback fiber laser (DFB-fiber laser) Experimental arrangement consists of DFB-FL, unbalanced Mach-Zehnder interferometer, piezoelectric (PZT) modulator, detection and feedback control circuit, and oscillograph. Experimental results show that the bare DFB-FL hydrophone is extremely sensitive to small perturbations in their environment and can acquire exact acoustic signals.
Jin-yu Wang, Qing-mei Sui, Jun Chang, Tong-yu Liu, Liang-zhu Ma, Jia-sheng Ni. A new DFB-fiber laser hydrophone[J]. Optoelectronics Letters,2007,3(4):264-266