You normally think of fiber optic as something used in network cables. However, scientists employ dedicated fibers to detect earthquakes. In simple terms, they fire a laser down the fiber and watch…
  • Cocodapuf@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Honestly, why not investigate the utility of this? Could one develop a fiber optic coil based microphone? It would probably result in a microphone immune to RF and magnetic interference.

      • Cocodapuf@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        2 months ago

        Well I suspect that most feedback would still occur, because that’s largely an effect of sound from a speaker being picked up through the mic, then played back again through the speaker, over and over…

        So you’ll run into feedback issues whenever you have a mic playing back to a speaker in the same place. (Any amplification scenario)