The approach has been tested a number of times to "laser-read" the
sound from a guitar. They got too much self-noise, I think, cause of
some inevitable laser -parameter.
Klas.
At 16:22 2006-10-10, you wrote:
>Syd Curtis wrote:
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> > ... New Scientist magazine Issue of 30 Sept 2006, p 29:
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> > "California inventor David Schwartz has filed a patent (US
> 2006/0182300)
> > on a hyper-sensitive microphone. Instead of using sound waves to force=
a
> > heavy diaphragm to move, it fires a laser beam through a volume of mois=
t
> > air. Incoming sound waves make water droplets in the air vibrate, whic=
h
> > modifies the laser beam's strength in sync with the sound - in other wo=
rds
> > making it act as a microphone."
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>Water droplets? That implies saturated air. And the odd passing cosmic
>ray might be able to induce the formation of water droplets for you ...
>sounds like a cloud chamber to me, but then I never bothered to listen
>to a cloud chamber.
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>-- Mike
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>"Microphones are not ears,
>Loudspeakers are not birds,
>A listening room is not nature."
>Klas Strandberg
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