Musical instrument recordings made with a fiber Fabry-Perot cavity: photonic guitar pickup

Autor: Peter Kung, Hans-Peter Loock, Daniel Paz-Soldan, Nicholas Ballard
Rok vydání: 2010
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Zdroj: Applied optics. 49(11)
ISSN: 1539-4522
Popis: A 1 cm long, low-finesse fiber-optic cavity was used as a transducer for the vibrations of the soundboard of an acoustic guitar and of a violin. The reflected light is detected and then amplified and recorded using conventional audio instrumentation. The fiber-optic pickup is found to have a high response range in both amplitude (up to 100 microm displacement) and audio frequency (DC to 20 kHz) and good linearity up to a displacement of 225 microm. The audio noise is found to arise from the fiber-optic cables and, to a lesser extent, from the laser and laser driver.
Databáze: OpenAIRE