All-optical hydrophone insensitive to temperature and to static pressure

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PATENT NO 9103713
APP PUB NO 20140036635A1
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13642519

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The invention consists of an optical hydrophone, an optical fiber element forming a laser cavity, housed in a mechanical structure which comprises an open cylindrical rigid body, defining the cavity enclosing a fluid and in which the optical fiber element is housed, and closed at its ends by two end caps which keep the optical fiber element permanently under tension, in a longitudinal rectilinear position inside the cavity. The end caps are configured in such a way that when the exterior pressure varies, they undergo a deformation giving rise to a variation in the length of the optical fiber element and that when the temperature varies, they undergo a deformation giving rise to a variation in the length of the optical fiber element which compensates for that induced on this element by the temperature variation. The mechanical structure furthermore exhibits one or more orifices allowing equilibration of the static pressures.

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THALES92190 MEUDON

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Doisy, Martine Plascassier, FR 9 60
Lardat, Raphael Roquefort-les-Pins, FR 5 10
Launay, Francois-Xavier Biot, FR 1 6
Roux, Gerard Opio, FR 5 176

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