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A short cavity distributed feedback (DFB) fiber laser is used for low frequency acoustic signal detection. Three DFB fiber lasers with different central wavelengths are chained together to make three-element vector hydrophone with proper sensitivity enhancement design, which has extensive and significant applications to underwater acoustic monitoring for the national defense, oil, gas exploration, and so on. By wavelength-phase demodulation, the lasing wavelength changes under different frequency signals can be interpreted, and the sensitivity is tested about 33 dB re pm/g. The frequency response range is rather flat from 5 Hz to 300 Hz.
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This work is supported by Shandong Key Research and Development Projects (No. 2015GSF115006), National Nature Science Foundation (No. 61605102), and Young Science Foundation of Shandong Academy of Sciences (No. 2016QN002).
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Zhang, X., Zhang, F., Jiang, S. et al. Short cavity DFB fiber laser based vector hydrophone for low frequency signal detection. Photonic Sens 7, 325–328 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13320-017-0453-x
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