Study of Frequency Response Characteristics in Microphone Used by Optical Sensor

• Published in: Transactions on electrical and electronic materials Vol. 9; no. 3; pp. 128 - 133
• Main Authors: Yeom, Keong-Tae, Kim, Kwan-Kyu, Kim, Yong-Kab
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: Korean
• Published: 한국전기전자재료학회 25.06.2008
• Subjects: Acousto-optic sensor; Microphone; Optical sensor; Transducer; Transducer; Optical sensor; Acousto-optic sensor; Microphone
• ISSN: 1229-7607; 2092-7592

In this paper, in order to analyze property of frequency response in microphone using optical sensor, acousto-optic sensor system has been implemented. The capacitance microphone and fiber-optic transmission path type fiber-optic microphone (FOM) have weaknesses in directivity, size, weight, and price. However suggested optical microphone can be constituted by cheap devices, so it has many benefits like small size, light weight, high directivity, etc. Head part of optical microphone which is suggested in this paper is movable back and forth by sound pressure with the attached reflection plate. Operating point has also been determined by measuring the response characteristics. The choosing the point, which has maximum linearity and sensitivity has changing the distance between optical head and vibrating plate. We measured the output of the O/E transformed signal of the optical microphone while frequency of sound signal is changed using sound measurement /analysis program, "Smaart Live" and "USBPre", which are based on PC, and compared the result from an existing capacitance microphone. The measured optical microphone showed almost similar output characteristics as those of the compared condenser microphone, and its bandwidth performance was about 4 kHz at up to 3 dB.