A novel fibre Bragg grating hydrophone system

A novel fibre Bragg grating (FBG) hydrophone system is introduced in the paper. The influence of the sound pressure on the FBG is transformed to light intensity measurement with tuned laser. Elastic material and matched FBGs are employed to enhance the sensitivity of the hydrophone system. The hydrophone system can operate in a wide acoustic frequency range from 100Hz to 3kHz and good linear relationship is observed between the output light intensity and the sound pressure.