Acta Optica Sinica, Volume. 28, Issue 1, 92(2008)

Physical Mechanism and Solution of Aliasing in Phase Generated Carrier Modulation-Demodulation of Interferometric Fiber-Optic Hydrophone

Wang Zefeng*, Hu Yongming, Meng Zhou, Ni Mini, and Xiong Shuidong
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    Signal aliasing is one of puzzling questions of a practical fiber-optic hydrophone system based on phase generated carrier (PGC) modulation-demodulation. The physical mechanism of signal aliasing is analyzed theoretically and simulated by computer. The results show that increasing the modulation frequency and lowering the sensitivity of the fiber-optic hydrophone cannot effectively resolve the signal aliasing induced by high-frequency interfering signal. A novel acoustic low-pass filtering scheme is proposed based on the principle of acoustic low-pass filters. A simple fiber-optic hydrophone with an acoustic low-pass filter is designed and fabricated. The acoustic pressure phase sensitivity is measured in a standard standing-wave duct. The experimental results show that the fiber-optic hydrophone has fine characteristics of acoustic low-pass filtering, and can restrain the high-frequency interfering signal strongly. The low-frequency acoustic sensitivity is about -140 dB (0 dB=1 rad/μPa), the attenuation of high frequency is bigger than 20dB. The scheme is very simple and economical, can be used to eliminate the signal aliasing in a practical phase generated carrier modulation-demodulation system effectively.

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    Wang Zefeng, Hu Yongming, Meng Zhou, Ni Mini, Xiong Shuidong. Physical Mechanism and Solution of Aliasing in Phase Generated Carrier Modulation-Demodulation of Interferometric Fiber-Optic Hydrophone[J]. Acta Optica Sinica, 2008, 28(1): 92

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    Category: Instrumentation, Measurement and Metrology

    Received: Mar. 5, 2007

    Accepted: --

    Published Online: Jan. 29, 2008

    The Author Email: Zefeng Wang (hotrosemaths@163.com)

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