Interferometric hydrophone reference leg low frequency compensation

An interferometer inhibits a received low frequency acoustic signal that is below the pass band of interest from appearing in the output. The interferometer has a conventional optical hydrophone in the signal leg to sense both the high and low frequencies of an acoustic signal. The reference leg has means for accepting a low frequency acoustic signal to modulate the coherent light path length while inhibiting the desired high frequency signal. On recombining the signals from both the signal and reference legs the low frequency signal appearing in both legs is canceled and only the high frequency signal appearing in the signal leg reaches the output. In an alternate embodiment the reference leg mandrel is placed internal to the sensor mandrel and provides a low frequency compensation chamber.