Turning optical fiber cable into microphone

[Blake Hadley]

The way they describe it, they send light down a cable, then watch for the
reflection to come back to them.

The reflection should look the same with every single pulse of light,
unless something affects it, which in this case would be the vibrations of
sound.

So it should pick up sound along the entire length of cable, which would
return a lot of ambient noise if you're trying to hear inside someone's
house from all the way back at a utility company.

I don't know how good their audio filtering abilities are, but it seems
like wherever you take measurements can't be too far from what you want to
hear.

On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 1:56 PM, This 1s <this1s at mailbox.org> wrote:

> Looking for stuff I found this post:
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> http://blogs.wsj.com/tech-europe/2012/09/04/turning-a-fiber-optic-cable-into-a-microphone/
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> Is internet cable in house a hot mic?
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> Is it the end of the fiber, the field around the cable, or both?
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> Thanks in advance :D
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