海豚声散射特性的理论建模及实验研究

国内对蛙人和大型海洋哺乳动物声散射特性的研究很少,无法满足现代的防御需要。论文分析了海豚的回波机理,建立了海豚反向散射目标强度的球壳散射模型。采用比较法测得海豚对75kHz的声波反向散射目标强度为-25.8dB。根据实验结果,球壳散射模型对75kHz声波是适用的。     

水下蛙人被动探测测向实验研究

为了对携带开式呼吸器的水下蛙人进行被动探测,本文采用四个水听器组成的十字阵在浅海水域对水下开式蛙人进行了被动探测、测向实验。结果表明:蛙人辐射噪声具有周期性特征,其周期与蛙人的呼吸频率有关;另外,蛙人呼吸辐射噪声具有显著频带,并且其频带与蛙人携带的呼吸器有关。根据蛙人辐射噪声的显著频带和周期性特征,设计信号处理算法实现了对蛙人的被动声学探测识别。使用互相关方法处理一对水听器的接收信号,可以确定蛙人的方位,但是根据理论分析会出现一个假方位。对比十字阵中两对水听器的测向结果可确定蛙人的准确方位。     

基于多重散射强度和偏振特征的舰船尾流气泡激光探测方法

研究多重散射效应对舰船尾流气泡群光散射强度和偏振特征的影响是舰船光尾流探测以及新型光自导鱼雷研究的基础. 基于矢量Monte Carlo方法建立了舰船尾流气泡群激光后向探测仿真模型, 重点研究了尾流气泡群的多重散射机理,分析了多重散射效应、尾流气泡群密度对回波信号强度和偏振特征的影响规律. 基于粒子碰撞重要性抽样的基本思想, 在传统能量接收方法的基础上, 提出了回波光子偏振贡献接收方法和回波信号偏振信息统计方法, 解决了小视场系统光子返回概率低无法形成回波能量的难题. 构建了模拟尾流气泡群激光散射强度和偏振探测实验平台, 从实验的角度验证了模拟结果的准确性. 实验和模拟结果的一致性表明, 利用回波强度、偏振信息可表征气泡群距离、密度信息, 从而可对舰船尾流特别是低密度尾流进行高精度的探测和辨识. 关键词： Monte Carlo 偏振 多重散射 气泡     

抛光对光纤连接器回波损耗的影响

分别选用氧化铝和氧化硅材料的抛光砂纸,在施加不同抛光压力、抛光时间,以及抛光助剂等工艺条件下,实验研究了抛光对连接器回波损耗的影响规律。通过实验发现:氧化铝砂纸干式抛光使光纤连接器的回波损耗仅保持在32～38dB之间;氧化硅砂纸干式抛光会造成光纤端面污损,使得连接器的回波损耗降低到20dB以下;氧化铝与氧化硅砂纸湿式抛光均可使光纤连接器的回波损耗提高到45～50dB,但氧化铝砂纸湿式抛光会造成80nm以上的光纤凹陷。因此,制作高回波损耗的光纤连接器应优先选用氧化硅砂纸湿式抛光工艺,抛光时间应控制在20～30s。     

双层加肋球壳回波现象分析

双层加肋壳体是水下目标的典型结构。实验观测到双层加肋球壳回波的频率-角度谱在角度域呈现强烈的周期性振荡,在2 kHz～10 kHz频率范围内,这种振荡从低频到高频越来越明显。为了解释所观测到的现象,利用修正的板块元算法(Modified PEM)计算了不同入射角、不同频率下双层加肋球壳的回波,并与实验结果进行了对比分析。结果表明,目标强度随入射角的周期性剧烈起伏主要是由壳间肋板声散射导致的。     

一种简单高精度超声液位计系统的设计与实现

介绍了超声时延法测距的基本原理,设计并实现了一种基于DSP的超声液位计系统,改进国内同类产品精度和稳定度偏低的问题。利用选用的AD、DSP芯片特点,给出了一种简单高效率的超声换能器驱动电路和回波采集放大电路的实现方案;使用通用16位定点DSP芯片TMS320VC5502,实现测距算法,增强了后端数字信号处理能力;使用收发一体窄带超声换能器发射和接收超声信号,其中心频率20kHz,3dB带宽1kHz。实验结果表明,本系统测量范围为0.5～18m,测量精度可达到测量距离的0.5%。     

渔业声学回波散射测量系统的宽频带换能器

针对目前渔业声学宽频带回波散射测量系统采用多个不同频带的换能器合成、结构复杂且不方便携带的缺点,本文提出一种使用低机械品质因数、高谐振频率的积层压电致动器作为核心压电元件的"朗之万"型宽带水声换能器。测试结果表明,该换能器适用的频率范围为20 kHz~150 kHz,在三个渔业声学常用频率38 kHz、70 kHz、120 kHz下的-3 dB波束宽度分别为20.0°、11.5°、5.0°,可以满足对常见渔业资源种类的宽带声学回波散射特征的测量要求。     

单块非平面环形腔激光器的强度噪声抑制技术研究

研究了LD泵浦1319nm单块非平面环形腔(NPRO)激光器的强度噪声特性,发现随着输出功率的增加,弛豫振荡峰频率从100kHz向280kHz移动,同时弛豫振荡峰宽度增加但幅度降低,且在弛豫振荡峰处发生π相位跃变,在600kHz以上频率区域,噪声已经接近量子噪声极限。自行设计的噪声抑制电路在实现足够大增益的同时,在500kHz附近获得了约65°的相位超前,由此获得了优于通常同类实验的噪声抑制结果:当弛豫振荡峰频率为230kHz时,弛豫振荡峰处和低频区域的强度噪声幅度分别被抑制了45dB和20dB。     

基于偏振信息探究水下环境气泡群对目标成像的影响

水下光学成像是海底探索和目标识别的一个重要方式.由于海浪、船舶尾流以及海洋生物游动与呼吸等原因,存在着大量的气泡.气泡群的光散射作用往往会使水下目标成像效果受限、难以识别,并且一般的光学技术难以消除气泡对成像的影响.针对上述问题,本文先从理论上推导和仿真了入射光线在水下单气泡、气泡群中以及目标表面的光强和偏振信息的变化;然后在构建了水下气泡实验平台的基础上探究了光源入射角度的改变以及成像波段的变化对气泡环境中目标偏振成像的影响;研究了不同金属材质目标物的强度和偏振信息的变化趋势;分析了水下目标在不同气泡群厚度条件下强度和偏振信息的变化趋势;最后利用偏振特征提取与视觉信息保留的图像融合方法抑制气泡对水下目标成像的影响.实验结果显示气泡群中目标成像会受到多种因素的影响,利用偏振图像融合方法会使气泡群受到较好的抑制,并提高了水下目标的清晰度.     

鳀鱼(Engraulis japonicus)目标强度的模型法研究

采用声散射理论和目标强度近似模型评估法对黄海鲤鱼（Engraulis japonicus）的声散射特征和目标强度进行了数值计算与评估研究。散射模型由鱼鳔模型和鱼体模型两个部分构成，其中鱼鳔采用充满气体的椭球体模型，鳔除外的鱼体采用充满液体的椭球体模型。理论数值计算所需参数取自全长12．6cm的鲤鱼个体，其鱼鳔尺寸利用X光照片测得。平均目标强度利用模型算得的不同角度下的声散射强度与鲲鱼倾角分布函数的卷积计算，其中倾角（度）的分布函数设为N（-3．9，12．8^2）。结果显示，鲲鱼对声波的散射具有明显指向性；在38kHz和120kHz工作频率下，鲲鱼的最大背向目标强度分别为-41．2dB和-39．5dB，有效平均目标强度分别为-48．0dB和-51．5dB，与实测结果吻合较好。另外还对鲲鱼的反向散射指向性特征、目标强度的频率特征以及鱼鳔对鲲鱼整体目标强度的贡献等进行了分析与讨论。以上研究表明，模型法作为现场测定研究方法的重要补充和认知鱼类声学散射特性的有效途径，可在我国鱼类目标强度的研究中发挥重要作用。     

再入体缩比模型湍流等离子体电磁散射特性测量

介绍了在弹道靶上利用二级轻气炮发射再入体缩比模型开展湍流等离子体电磁散射特性模拟试验方法、湍流等离子体的雷达散射截面积(RCS)测量方法。给出了模型尾迹湍流等离子体的电磁散射特性测量典型试验结果,对获得的试验结果进行了分析,并与一阶畸变波Born方法计算结果进行了比较。结果表明:合理选择缩比模型发射速度和飞行环境压力,在弹道靶上能够模拟产生湍流等离子体;利用激光阴影成像技术获得的锥模型尾迹流场图像证实了尾迹转捩的出现及其湍流形成;在给定的试验条件下,锥模型及其绕流RCS测量值比其尾迹RCS测量值高3个数量级,比背景散射电平高0.5~2.5个数量级,且信号没有周期性,幅度脉动范围为1~15dB,频率脉动范围0.4~40kHz;锥模型湍流尾迹RCS的脉动可能是尾迹电子密度的脉动引起的;单站X波段雷达系统测量的锥模型尾迹亚密湍流等离子体的散射信号测量值与计算结果变化规律一致;弹道靶RCS测量技术可用于再入体缩比模型湍流等离子体电磁散射特性研究,为开展相关研究提供了一种有效的地面模拟实验研究途径。     

Small-slope simulation of acoustic backscatter from a physical model of an elastic ocean bottom

An underwater acoustic experiment with a two-dimensional rough interface, milled from a slab of PVC, was performed at a tank facility. The purpose was to verify the predictions of numerical models of acoustic rough surface scattering, using a manufactured physical model of an ocean bottom that featured shear effects, nonhomogeneous roughness statistics, and root-mean-square roughness amplitude on the order of the acoustic wavelength. Predictions of the received time series and interface scattering strength in the 100-300 kHz band were obtained from the Bottom Reverberation from Inhomogeneities and Surfaces-Small-Slope Approximation (BORIS-SSA) numerical scattering model. The predictions were made using direct measurements of scattering model inputs-specifically, the geoacoustic properties from laboratory analysis of material samples and the grid of surface heights from a touch-trigger probe. BORIS-SSA predictions for the amplitude of the received time series were shown to be accurate with a root-mean-square residual error of about 1 dB, while errors for the scattering strength prediction were higher (2-3.5 dB). The work is part of an ongoing effort to use physical models to examine a variety of acoustic scattering and propagation phenomena involving the ocean bottom.     

Gender differences in children's singing voices: acoustic analyses and results of a listening test

Ultrasonic coded transmitters (UCTs) producing frequencies of 69-83 kHz are used increasingly to track fish and invertebrates in coastal and estuarine waters. To address concerns that they might be audible to marine mammals, acoustic properties of UCTs were measured off Mission Beach, San Diego, and at the U.S. Navy TRANSDEC facility. A regression model fitted to VEMCO UCT data yielded an estimated source level of 147 dB re 1 μPa SPL @ 1 m and spreading constant of 14.0. Based on TRANSDEC measurements, five VEMCO 69 kHz UCTs had source levels ranging from 146 to 149 dB re 1 μPa SPL @ 1 m. Five Sonotronics UCTs (69 kHz and 83 kHz) had source levels ranging from 129 to 137 dB re 1 μPa SPL @ 1 m. Transmitter directionality ranged from 3.9 to 18.2 dB. Based on propagation models and published data on marine mammal auditory psychophysics, harbor seals potentially could detect the VEMCO 69 kHz UCTs at ranges between 19 and >200 m, while odontocetes potentially could detect them at much greater ranges. California sea lions were not expected to detect any of the tested UCTs at useful ranges.     

Broadband acoustic scattering measurements of underwater unexploded ordnance (UXO)

In order to evaluate the potential for detection and identification of underwater unexploded ordnance (UXO) by exploiting their structural acoustic response, we carried out broadband monostatic scattering measurements over a full 360 degrees on UXO's (two mortar rounds, an artillery shell, and a rocket warhead) and false targets (a cinder block and a large rock). The measurement band, 1-140 kHz, includes a low frequency structural acoustics region in which the wavelengths are comparable to or larger than the target characteristic dimensions. In general, there are aspects that provide relatively high target strength levels ( approximately -10 to -15 dB), and from our experience the targets should be detectable in this structural acoustics band in most acoustic environments. The rigid body scattering was also calculated for one UXO in order to highlight the measured scattering features involving elastic responses. The broadband scattering data should be able to support feature-based separation of UXO versus false targets and identification of various classes of UXO as well.     

Level dependence of auditory filters in nonsimultaneous masking as a function of frequency

Auditory filter bandwidths were measured using nonsimultaneous masking, as a function of signal level between 10 and 35 dB SL for signal frequencies of 1, 2, 4, and 6 kHz. The brief sinusoidal signal was presented in a temporal gap within a spectrally notched noise. Two groups of normal-hearing subjects were tested, one using a fixed masker level and adaptively varying signal level, the other using a fixed signal level and adaptively varying masker level. In both cases, auditory filters were derived by assuming a constant filter shape for a given signal level. The filter parameters derived from the two paradigms were not significantly different. At 1 kHz, the equivalent rectangular bandwidth (ERB) decreased as the signal level increased from 10 to 20 dB SL, after which it remained roughly constant. In contrast, at 6 kHz, the ERB increased consistently with signal levels from 10 to 35 dB SL. The results at 2 and 4 kHz were intermediate, showing no consistent change in ERB with signal level. Overall, the results suggest changes in the level dependence of the auditory filters at frequencies above 1 kHz that are not currently incorporated in models of human auditory filter tuning.     

Level discrimination as a function of level for tones from 0.25 to 16 kHz

Difference limens for level (delta L in dB = 20 log [(p + delta p)/p], where p is pressure) were measured as a function of level for tones at 0.25, 0.5, 1, 2, 4, 8, 10, 12, 14, and 16 kHz. At each frequency, test levels encompassed the range from near threshold to 95 dB SPL in steps of 10 dB or smaller. The stimulus duration was 500 ms and the interstimulus interval was 250 ms. An adaptive two-alternative forced-choice procedure with feedback was used. Results for six normal listeners show individual differences among listeners, but the general trends seen in the average data clearly are present in the individual data and show the following. First, the delta Ls at all but the highest frequencies are generally smaller at high levels than at low levels. Second, the delta Ls at equal SPLs are largely independent of frequency up to about 4 kHz, but increase with frequency above 4 kHz. Third, at 8 and 10 kHz, the delta Ls are clearly nonmonotonic functions of level, showing consistent deterioration in the mid-level delta Ls relative to the low- and high-level delta Ls. The present data are discussed qualitatively in terms of current models of level discrimination.     

Audiogram of a striped dolphin (Stenella coeruleoalba)

The underwater hearing sensitivity of a striped dolphin was measured in a pool using standard psycho-acoustic techniques. The go/no-go response paradigm and up-down staircase psychometric method were used. Auditory sensitivity was measured by using 12 narrow-band frequency-modulated signals having center frequencies between 0.5 and 160 kHz. The 50% detection threshold was determined for each frequency. The resulting audiogram for this animal was U-shaped, with hearing capabilities from 0.5 to 160 kHz (8 1/3 oct). Maximum sensitivity (42 dB re 1 microPa) occurred at 64 kHz. The range of most sensitive hearing (defined as the frequency range with sensitivities within 10 dB of maximum sensitivity) was from 29 to 123 kHz (approximately 2 oct). The animal's hearing became less sensitive below 32 kHz and above 120 kHz. Sensitivity decreased by about 8 dB per octave below 1 kHz and fell sharply at a rate of about 390 dB per octave above 140 kHz.     

激光在准球形边界卷云中传输的衰减和透过特性

高空卷云主要由各种不同形状的冰晶粒子组成,是地空链路上激光信号传输的重要影响因素。依据高空卷云中冰晶粒子的分布特征和散射特性,采用C版本的离散纵标法（CDISORT）,充分考虑地球球形曲率及云层冰晶粒子多次散射影响因素,研究准球形边界云层的激光透过率和衰减特性,并比较了太阳天顶角不同时平面平行模式和准球面模式下卷云大气激光透过率的差异,数值计算了三种激光波长（0.65,1.06和3.8 μm）在卷云中传输时的衰减和透过特性。计算结果表明：较小太阳天顶角（小于80°）入射时,两种模式下卷云大气激光透过率相对误差很小,其中0.65 μm激光波长入射时两种模式下的相对误差仅为1.72%,较大太阳天顶角（大于80°）入射时,两种模式下卷云大气激光透过率相对误差明显增大,0.65 μm激光波长入射时两种模式下的相对误差最大达到69%;卷云粒子单次散射时,激光在云层的衰减与卷云粒子有效半径、传输距离、光学厚度及激光波长等因素有关,随光学厚度的增加,云层的激光透过率减少,1.06 μm激光波长入射时透过率最大,3.8 μm激光波长入射时透过率最小;0.65和1.06 μm激光波长入射时,随云层粒子有效半径的增加激光透过率逐渐增加,而3.8 μm波长激光,随云层粒子有效半径的增加激光透过率逐渐减少,随相对方位角的增加,云层的激光透过率减少,且不同卷云传输模型对激光透过率也存在不同的影响。该研究工作将为开展地空链路星载、机载激光通信、激光雷达探测等工程系统中的激光信号云层传输特性的应用提供理论支持,同时也可进一步拓展为地空链路激光遥感、制导和预警等应用提供预先理论研究基础。