Patent attributes
An arrangement for a fiber optic microphone having at least one pair of optical fibers, each having an input end portion and an output end portion made of a material having a critical refractive angle θcrit and having a numerical aperture NA. The input end portion of a first fiber is connectable to a source of light and the output end portion of a second fiber is connectable to a photoelectrical transducer. Both end portions have an inner diameter, an axis and a rim. The input and output end portions are mutually affixed along a single plane with their rims touching each other at a point, the axes forming an angle α therebetween. The rims are cut with respect to the axis, at an angle in a plane perpendicular to the single plane and to a bisector of angle α at the point, where α=2×θcrit−NA.
