Acta Optica Sinica, Volume. 41, Issue 2, 0206001(2021)

Air-Backed Mandrel Fiber Optic Microphone with a Resonant Photoacoustic Tube

Gang Zhang1,2, Xuqiang Wu1,2, Hui Wang3, Qiang Ge4, Cheng Zuo1,2, Guofeng Yu5, Chun'an Tang6, and Benli Yu1,2、*
Author Affiliations
  • 1Key Laboratory of Opto-Electronic Information Acquisition and Manipulation of Ministry of Education, Anhui University, Hefei, Anhui 230601, China
  • 2Information Materials and Intelligent Sensing Laboratory of Anhui Province, Anhui University, Hefei, Anhui 230601, China
  • 3Anhui Ideteck Co., Ltd., Hefei, Anhui 230088, China
  • 4School of Mathematics and Physics, Anhui Polytechnic University, Wuhu, Anhui 241000, China
  • 5State Key Laboratory of Deep Coal Mining & Environment Protection, Huainan Mining (Group) Co., Ltd., Huainan, Anhui 232001, China;
  • 6State Key Laboratory of Coastal and Offshore Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, Liaoning 116024, China
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    Acoustic sensor and photoacoustic cell are key components of laser-based photoacoustic spectroscopy. In this paper, we proposed an air-backed mandrel fiber optic microphone with a resonant photoacoustic tube, combining the technologies of fiber Michelson interferometer, phase generated carrier demodulation, and longitudinal resonant photoacoustic cell. In the microphone, we fabricated a sensing arm by wrapping a 10-meter ultra-thin single-mode fiber on a copper capillary tube that was also utilized as the resonant tube of the photoacoustic cell. Besides, a 5-cm reference arm has been isolated from sound and vibration. Furthermore, the resonant frequency of the microphone was designed to be slightly lower than the first-order longitudinal resonant frequency of the photoacoustic cell to achieve quasi-double resonance as the resonant frequency of the microphone was stable. The experimental results show that the minimum resolution is 0.69 μPa/Hz 1/2 at the resonant frequency of 1443 Hz, and the linearity of acoustic pressure and voltage response is 99.98% (5 mPa-3 Pa) with a dynamic range of 112.52 dB at 1 kHz. In conclusion, the microphone can be applied for trace gas detection in high-temperature, explosive, or high-electromagnetic-interference environments.

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    Gang Zhang, Xuqiang Wu, Hui Wang, Qiang Ge, Cheng Zuo, Guofeng Yu, Chun'an Tang, Benli Yu. Air-Backed Mandrel Fiber Optic Microphone with a Resonant Photoacoustic Tube[J]. Acta Optica Sinica, 2021, 41(2): 0206001

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    Paper Information

    Category: Fiber Optics and Optical Communications

    Received: Jul. 30, 2020

    Accepted: Aug. 19, 2020

    Published Online: Feb. 28, 2021

    The Author Email: Yu Benli (benliyu@ahu.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.3788/AOS202141.0206001

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