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Design and implementation of audio transceiver using infrared laser for audio
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Design and Implementation of Audio Transceiver using Infrared
Laser for Audio Signal Detection1
Taif Aied Faisal*
taif.alawsi@outlook.com
*Laser and Optoelectronnics Engineering Department, Al-Nahrain
University, Baghdad, Iraq.

Abstract: the photo-transistor head and

then, the signal will be
In this work, an electronic
converted from optical to
device capable of receiving
electronic domain.
vibration modulated laser
signals was designed, the idea is The audio signal will pass
to convert these vibrations through the receiver
through the device to a hearable components which will
sound with high quality. The eliminate the noise by the filters
transmitter is composed of an and amplify the signal with the
infrared laser diode, and the TDA2002 large audio signal
receiver consists of photo- amplifier, then the signal will be
transistor, an integrated circuit converted to audio domain
of LM358, first order filter, throughout the speaker.
TDA2002 integrated circuit and
Experimental results proved
speaker. The vibrations made
that this device is able to
by the source will cause a
function properly through 20 m,
resonant frequency with the
with good sound quality, this
window, so the incident
was because the use of 1 W laser
infrared laser beam will have
diode of 808 nm.
this frequency, and then by
reflection from the window the
reflected laser beam will have Keywords:
vibrations as it's modulated
inside the beam. Laser modulation, Audio
amplifier, Sound quality,
The transceiver will make sure Threshold frequency, LM358,
that these vibrations will be TDA2002, Diode laser, IREDs.
directed to the receiver through

1
This work was part of my B.Sc. degree project and not all the details of the work is included in this
articles, it was done in 2013.

1
Introduction: microphone based on a laser-
photocell pair with a moving
The technique of using a light
stream of smoke or vapor in the
beam to remotely record sound
laser beam's path"). Sound
was probably originated by
pressure waves cause distur-
Léon Theremin in the Soviet
bances in the smoke that in turn
Union at or before 1947, when
causes variations in the amount
he developed and used the
of laser light reaching the photo
Buran eavesdropping system.
detector. A prototype of the
This is done by using a low
device was demonstrated at the
power infrared beam (not a
127th Audio Engineering Society
laser) from a distance to detect
convention in 2009 [3].
the sound vibrations in the glass
Recently, many approaches
windows as shown in fig. (1)
have been made to demonstrate
[1].
the detection of audio signal
from abroad distance, the laser
techniques are considered as
the most precise techniques [4,
5].
Experimental work:
The transmitter is the infrared
laser diode of wavelength
808nm and the receiver is
Fig. (1): The Buran eaves-
completely an electronic circuit,
dropping system made by Léon
it was designed accurately to
Theremin [1]
receive reflected laser beam
Lavrentiy Beria, had used this signal, which is then filtered and
Buran device to spy on the U.S., amplified again to reach the
British, and French embassies speaker terminals, as shown in
in Moscow. It has been reported fig. (2). The device was built
that the National Security and used practically in the
Agency (NSA) makes use of laboratory with the help of
laser microphones [2]. other electronic components
In 2009, U.S. patent was issued like mounting optics,
for a device that uses a laser oscilloscope, ammeter,
beam and smoke or vapor to voltmeter, and a mobile device
detect sound vibrations in free for audio generation.
air ("Particulate Flow Detection
2
 calculation of the sound
absorption coefficient, a curve
was plotted to show the
maximum allowable distance as
shown in fig. (3).
Conclusions:
The sound quality is affected by
laser power. Minimum losses
Fig. (2): The schematic diagram requires perpendicular
of the audio transceiver. incidence of the laser on the
window. The deviation angle is
Results and Discussion: proportional to the noise.
The results were obtained using References:
an oscilloscope at Peak-To-Peak
2 Volts and 10 m-Sec per [1] Bulat M. Galeyev and
division. A MATLAB program Vladimir Chudnovsky, "Special
was designed and executed to Section: Leon Theremin,
evaluate perfect values of the Pioneer of Electronic Art",
sound absorption coefficient Leonardo Music Journal (LMJ),
and the allowable distance that Vol. 6, Pp. '213-215', (1996).
the device works in it perfectly. [2] Albert Glinsky, "Theremin:
Ether Music and Espionage",
University of Illinois Press, Pp.
'519-521', (2000).
[3] C. P. Sandbank and M.
Schwartz, "Engineering &
Design Laser-Optic Microphone
Prototype", I.P.C. Business
Press, Pp. '25-37', (2009).
[4] Optical Wireless
Communications IV, SPIE, Vol.
Fig. (3): The distance power
4530, Pp. '84', (2014).
curve (the bold line is the limit
for the good signal quality). [5] Nancy and Gohring,
"TeraBeam's Light Speed"
The MATLAB results showed
Telephony, Vol. 238, No. 13, Pp.
that the absorption coefficient
'16', (2014).
of sound is 0.061 cm-1, after
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