Recent Progress in Fiber-Optic Hydrophones

Abstract

Fiber-optic hydrophone (FOH) is a significant type of acoustic sensor, which can be used in both military and civilian fields such as underwater target detection, oil and natural gas prospecting, and earthquake inspection. The recent progress of FOH is introduced from five aspects, including large-scale FOH array, very-low-frequency detection, fiber-optic vector hydrophone (FOVH), towed linear array, and deep-sea and long-haul transmission. The above five aspects indicate the future development trends in the FOH research field, and they also provide a guideline for the practical applications of FOH as well as its array.

Keywords

Fiber-optic hydrophone / large-scale array / very-low-frequency detection / fiber-optic vector hydrophone / towed linear array / deep sea / long-haul fiber transmission

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