Affiliations: Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, K S School of Engineering and Management, Bengaluru, India; Affiliated to Visvesvaraya Technological University, Belagavi, Karnataka, India
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Corresponding author. D.K. Manu, Research Scholar, Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, K S School of Engineering and Management, Bengaluru, India. E-mail: manu.d.k@kssem.edu.in.
Abstract: Increasingly challenging problems have been addressed in the field of underwater acoustics. The critical topics of research have been increasing the sensitivity of Sensors, measurement of sound intensity, locating target from the source, measurement of radiating power, etc. In this proposed research work, the fiber optic hydrophone sensitivity is increased by varying different parameters like dimensions of the materials, Poisson’s Ratio and Young’s Modulus of the mandrel. The fiber optic hydrophone is composed of different materials- Nylon, Aluminum, Polystyrene, Fiber, and Polyurethane. The design of the hydrophone is carried out using finite element analysis tools. The parameters of the hydrophone (mandrel) have been varied, and the analytical result shows that there is a considerable increase in sensitivity. These results demonstrate that there is an improvement in the hydrophone sensitivity by around 20 db in contrast with the existing hydrophone. From this result, we are now focusing on customizing the design and further validating the design, in the future.
