Ultrasonic enhanced Brillouin light scattering in water

Brillouin light spectra in water was experimentally investigated by a scanning Fabry-Perot interferometer. The optical properties of the scattering media were modulated by a plane ultrasound wave. An enhancement up to 10 times of the Brillouin signal by modulation with the ultrasound wave has been seen clearly. The dependence of the Brillouin signal amplitude on the ultrasound frequency, amplitude and the position of the ultrasound field based to the light beam was investigated experimentally. Very strong dependence of the enhancement with experimental conditions was obtained.     

Pulsed Doppler flow-line spectrum for focused transducers with apodized apertures.

The properties of the single flow-line Doppler spectrum using pulsed wave (PW) ultrasound is studied on the basis of previously developed spectral theory for transducers with apodized apertures. It has been shown previously that the spectral width of Doppler signals from a sample volume in low velocity-shear flow is independent of the sample volume depth but that is not true for the spectra from the individual streamlines. The work presented here on the Doppler flow-line spectrum shows that its width should be invariant with flow-line location, if the sample volume depth is fixed. At the same time, for a transducer operating in PW mode not only the Doppler spectral width depends on the sample volume depth, but also the modal Doppler frequency shift changes with flow-line displacement in the illuminating field except if the sample volume centre and the beam focus coincide. The variation of modal Doppler frequency shift is the more explicit manifestation of the effect of wavefront curvature increasing for lines and sounding depths distant from the focal point. The values of the Doppler shift and spectral bandwidth are reported taking account of beam diffraction and variations in its geometry due to focusing.     

Optical Doppler shift with structured light

When a light beam with a transverse spatially varying phase is considered for optical remote sensing, in addition to the usual longitudinal Doppler frequency shift of the returned signal induced by the motion of the scatter along the beam axis, a new transversal Doppler shift appears associated to the motion of the scatterer in the plane perpendicular to the beam axis. We discuss here how this new effect can be used to enhance the current capabilities of optical measurement systems, adding the capacity to detect more complex movements of scatters.     

Experimental study of the Doppler shift generated by a vibrating scatterer

We report an experimental study of the backscattering of a sound wave of frequency f by a surface vibrating harmonically at frequency F (F < f) and amplitude A in the regime where the Doppler effect overcomes bulk nonlinear effects. When the duration to of the analyzed time series of the scattered wave is small compared to the vibration period, the power spectrum of the backscattered wave is proportional to the probability density function of the scatterer velocity, which presents two peaks shifted from f by roughly 2fAomega/c (omega = 2piF). On the contrary, when t0 > F(-1), sidebands at frequencies f +/- nF (n integer) appear in the power spectrum, which are due to the phase modulation of the backscattered wave induced by its reflection on a moving boundary. We use the backscattered power spectrum to validate the phase modulation theory of the Doppler effect in the latter case for 2kA < 1 and 2kA approximately > 1 (k = 2pif/c, where c is the wave velocity) and we test the validity of an acoustic nonintrusive estimator of A as a function of power spectrum bandwidth and of A itself.     

Frequency shifts of spectral lines induced by scattering from a rotational anisotropic particle

We investigate the scattering of a polychromatic plane light wave incident upon an anisotropic particle. It is different from light wave scattered by an isotropic particle that the frequency shifts of spectral lines will be induced by the rotation of the anisotropic particle. The analytical expression for the spectrum of the scattered field is derived and numerical examples are also illustrated. We suggest an application that the angular speed of rotation of the anisotropic scatterer can be scaled by measurement of the spectrum of the scattered field.     

Parametric transformation of the amplitude and frequency of a whistler wave in a magnetoactive plasma

The results of experiments studying the propagation of a high-frequency whistler wave in a magnetized plasma duct in the presence of an intense low-frequency wave also related to the whistler frequency range are reported. Amplitude-frequency modulation of the high-frequency whistler wave trapped in the duct was observed. A deep amplitude modulation of the signal that can lead to its splitting into separate wave packets is observed. It is shown that an increase in the wave propagation path leads to a broadening of the wave frequency spectrum and to a shift of the signal spectrum predominantly toward the red side. The transformation of the frequency of the high-frequency wave is related with the time-dependent perturbation of the external magnetic field by the field of the low-frequency whistler wave (the relative perturbation of the magnetic field δB/B≤5×10^?2).     

Beam and phase effects in angle-beam-through-transmission method of ultrasonic velocity measurement

The accuracy of a plane wave approximation for phase velocity measurements in isotropic and anisotropic material using the angle-beam-through-transmission method has been investigated numerically and experimentally. In this method the velocity is measured in different propagation directions as a function of incidence angle. The effect of two factors on the measurement accuracy have been discussed: intrinsic phase shift of the transmitted signal through a fluid-solid interface and beam diffraction due to the finite beam size of receiver and transmitter. It is shown that the interface-induced phase shift can introduce an error in time delay measurements of the shear wave after the first critical angle and that this time delay error can be accurately corrected for. Numerical results obtained by a time-domain beam model show that except at the critical angles, the finite width of the transmitter and receiver only affects the amplitudes of the transmitted signals and has almost no effect on the measured zero-cross time delay; therefore the plane wave approximation for obtaining phase velocity from the measured time delay data by this method and the plane wave interface-induced phase correction are fully applicable.     

Lateral displacement of a Gaussian beam reflected from absorbing media

Lateral displacements of well-focused beams reflected from absorbing media are demonstrated in this paper. The incident beam is modeled as a tapered wave with a Gaussian spectrum. The field solutions are obtained on both sides of the interface by solving analytically from Maxwell's equations and by matching the boundary conditions at the interface. Numerical simulations are presented and the field values as well as the time-averaged power densities are computed. The influences of the polarization, the angle of incidence and the beam width on the displacement are discussed. The origin of the displacement lies in the absorption of the media, for which there is a phase shift between the incident and reflected waves. Because of this phase shift, the center of the reflected beam does not coincide with that of the incident one, similar to the Goos-Hänchen shift.     

Forming of Space Charge Wave with Broad Frequency Spectrum in Helical Relativistic Two-Stream Electron Beams

We elaborate a quadratic nonlinear theory of plural interactions of growing space charge wave(SCW) harmonics during the development of the two-stream instability in helical relativistic electron beams. It is found that in helical two-stream electron beams the growth rate of the two-stream instability increases with the beam entrance angle. An SCW with the broad frequency spectrum, in which higher harmonics have higher amplitudes, forms when the frequency of the first SCW harmonic is much less than the critical frequency of the two-stream instability.For helical electron beams the spectrum expands with the increase of the beam entrance angle. Moreover,we obtain that utilizing helical electron beams in multiharmonic two-stream superheterodyne free-electron lasers leads to the improvement of their amplification characteristics, the frequency spectrum broadening in multiharmonic signal generation mode, and the reduction of the overall system dimensions.     

Distortion of the focused finite amplitude ultrasound beam behind the random phase layer

The field of spectral components of a focused finite-amplitude ultrasound beam in water behind the layer that introduces a constant shift randomly distributed over its plane is studied experimentally and numerically. Based on the focal field distributions obtained and the criterion proposed, the degree of maintenance of the focusing condition for the first six harmonics of the beam radiated at 1.1 MHz is evaluated. Several layer positions at a distance from the radiator are considered. It is shown that focusing of the higher-order harmonics may be less subjected to destruction by the phase layer than that of the wave at the fundamental frequency. The theory and experiment are compared for the 90° and 180° phase layers. For the latter case, selective destruction of focusing of the odd harmonics is demonstrated.     

Experimental study of inspection on a metal plate with defect using ultrasound lock-in thermographic technique

The ultrasound lock-in thermographic technique was developed to detect interfacial defects and cracks in a metal plate. Discrete correlation method (DCM), Fourier transformation method (FTM), Short Time Fourier transformation (STF) and Discrete Wavelet Transformation (DWT) algorithms were used to extract the characteristic information of the thermal wave signal generated by ultrasonic wave modulated. It is found that STF and DWT algorithms are available for analyzing the thermal wave signal generated by ultrasonic wave modulated due to higher signal–noise ratio. Experiments were performed to investigate the effect on the amplitude contrast and phase angle contrast by the ultrasound transducer position, initial sonotrode action force and modulation frequency, respectively. Experimental results show that transducer position closed to the defect, higher initial sonotrode action force loaded and optimal modulation frequency selected are help to detect the defects of metal plate using ultrasound lock-in thermographic technique.     

Detection of moving objects and flows in liquids by ultrasonic phase conjugation

The possibility for the application of the method of parametric phase conjugation of ultrasonic waves in measuring the velocity of moving objects and flows is investigated. Results of experimental measurements of the Doppler frequency shift are presented for a low-frequency wave (1 MHz) generated by phase-conjugate waves (10 MHz and 11 MHz) propagating in opposite directions in the presence of a moving scatterer. The super high sensitivity of the phase of the low-frequency wave to variations in the spatial position of the scatterer is used to measure the velocity of the object. The presence of flows in the region of propagation of phase-conjugate waves returned leads to an uncompensated Doppler shift of the phase of the phase-conjugate wave at the primary radiation source. The implementation of this feature of ultrasonic phase conjugation for the detection and measurement of the flow velocities in a liquid is demonstrated experimentally.     

Local heating of a liquid-like medium by a phase-conjugate ultrasound beam with self-adaptive focusing

Local heating of a liquid-like medium by means of self-adaptive focusing of a high-power phase conjugate ultrasound wave has been experimentally implemented. A sample of organic silicon polymer with a reflecting inhomogeneity was placed in water and exposed to a plane ultrasound beam so as to make the reflected acoustic field partially to enter the phase conjugation device. A parametrically amplified and conjugate wave was self-adaptively focused back to the inhomogeneity. Thermocouple measurements revealed ultrasound heating, which was localized near the inhomogeneity and depended weakly on its position within the aperture of the incident ultrasound beam. Themaximum heating value was about 6.5°C in 120 s with a frequency of ultrasound of 4.75MHz and a mean power of phase conjugate wave of about 0.1W.     

Model for continuously scanning ultrasound vibrometer sensing displacements of randomly rough vibrating surfaces

An analytic model is developed for the time-dependent ultrasound field reflected off a randomly rough vibrating surface for a continuously scanning ultrasound vibrometer system in bistatic configuration. Kirchhoff's approximation to Green's theorem is applied to model the three-dimensional scattering interaction of the ultrasound wave field with the vibrating rough surface. The model incorporates the beam patterns of both the transmitting and receiving ultrasound transducers and the statistical properties of the rough surface. Two methods are applied to the ultrasound system for estimating displacement and velocity amplitudes of an oscillating surface: incoherent Doppler shift spectra and coherent interferometry. Motion of the vibrometer over the randomly rough surface leads to time-dependent scattering noise that causes a randomization of the received signal spectrum. Simulations with the model indicate that surface displacement and velocity estimation are highly dependent upon the scan velocity and projected wavelength of the ultrasound vibrometer relative to the roughness height standard deviation and correlation length scales of the rough surface. The model is applied to determine limiting scan speeds for ultrasound vibrometer measuring ground displacements arising from acoustic or seismic excitation to be used in acoustic landmine confirmation sensing.     

波束开角对多普勒测频结果的影响

具有不同波束开角的声学多普勒测速设备未标定的测速结果存在偏差。基于水底椭圆散射模型研究了波束开角对声学多普勒测速结果的影响,对提高声学测速性能具有实际意义。水底椭圆散射模型下,足印上不同方位传播损失和散射强度存在差异,导致频谱不对称,测频结果偏小。利用不对称系数量化频谱不对称程度,若波束开角增大,方位不对称系数随之增大,测频偏差增大,推导了波束开角导致的测频偏差解析式。分析仿真和外场试验数据测频结果可知,不同多普勒频移下测频偏差和理论计算值相符,不同波束开角下实际测频偏差与理论公式计算的测频偏差均随波束开角增大而增大。     

Rotationally symmetric scattering from anisotropic media

It is reported that the rotationally symmetric distributions of the spectral density and the spectral degree of coherence of the scattered field in the far zone can be produced by appropriate choices of the effective radius and the correlation length of the scatterer, when a polychromatic plane light wave is incident upon a Gaussian-correlated, quasi-homogeneous, anisotropic medium. The necessary and sufficient conditions are presented. Our results are illustrated by numerical examples.     

A spiral wave front beacon for underwater navigation: transducer prototypes and testing

Transducers for acoustic beacons which can produce outgoing signals with wave fronts whose horizontal cross sections are circular or spiral are studied experimentally. A remote hydrophone is used to determine its aspect relative to the transducers by comparing the phase of the circular signal to the phase of the spiral signal. The transducers for a "physical-spiral" beacon are made by forming a strip of 1-3 piezocomposite transducer material around either a circular or spiral backing. A "phased-spiral" beacon is made from an array of transducer elements which can be driven either in phase or staggered out of phase so as to produce signals with either a circular or spiral wave front. Measurements are made to study outgoing signals and their usefulness in determining aspect angle. Vertical beam width is also examined and phase corrections applied when the hydrophone is out of the horizontal plane of the beacon. While numerical simulations indicate that the discontinuity in the physical-spiral beacon introduces errors into the measured phase, damping observed at the ends of the piezocomposite material is a more significant source of error. This damping is also reflected in laser Doppler vibrometer measurements of the transducer's surface velocity.     

Modulation-spectral method for analyzing the amplitude-phase structure of optical inhomogeneities of objects

An original solution to the phase problem in optics is considered as applied to the problems of recording and analysis of the amplitude-phase structure of optical fields used for studying fine structures and inhomogeneities in steady-state objects producing effects to fractions of the wavelength period. The problem is solved by probing objects using radiation with a known structure. Intensity distributions of the probing field are detected at the exit from the object by using the modulation-spectral method directly for the spatial frequency spectrum and for the spatial frequency spectrum subjected to additional modulation formed in a special way, which is realized in the plane under study and provides visualization of the phase information contained in the light field in some form. The intensity distributions obtained make it possible to calculate the two-dimensional amplitude-phase structure of the field analyzed and, hence, the fine structure of the optical inhomogeneities of the object analyzed for the chosen probing direction. For steady-state objects, probing in a number of directions is possible. Information on the bulk structure of the inhomogeneities under study can be obtained by using the information available on the symmetry of the object. Two variants of action of the medium on probing radiation are considered. In the first one, the action is related to spatial field modulation (described by the multiplication operation); in the second one, the action leads to redistribution of radiation in the plane studied (described by the convolution operation).     

环形光束的非线性传输及聚焦特性研究

针对用于产生光镊的环形光束,利用分步傅里叶-贝塞尔变换算法,对二维环形超高斯光束的非线性传输及聚焦过程进行了数值模拟,给出了环形光束聚焦场附近的光强分布,并分析了非线性调制对聚焦性质(包括焦面中心光强、焦面光强的横向分布、轴上光强和光束质量)的影响.研究表明,从聚焦角度来看,非线性调制中的位相调制比振幅调制对环形光束聚焦性质的影响程度要大;从非线性传输角度来看,随着非线性介质长度的增加,位相调制和振幅调制对环形光束聚焦性质各有不同程度的加剧,其中非线性作用对振幅调制的影响要比位相调制明显.