Wavelength-scale gas-filled cuboid acoustic lens with diffraction limited focusing

We report both numerically and experimentally the acoustic focusing of a cuboid of 2λ side, where λ is the wavelength in air. From these results, it can be derived that its focusing capabilities are close to the diffraction limit: at frequency of 5000 Hz, acoustic beam waist is about 0.5 wavelength and the gain is 8.8 dB. The flat structure lens proposed open new possibilities to design and built new lightweight and low cost acoustic lenses for different applications.

Source: Results in Physics - February 16, 2019 Category: Physics Source Type: research