Waveguide invariant estimation in elastic Pekeris waveguide

Focus on sound intensity,particle velocity,complex sound intensity and waveguide impedance,the formation mechanism of interference structures in range-frequency domain for the above four kinds of physical quantities in Pekeris waveguides is analyzed based on Normal Mode Theory.Also,a sea-trial with broadband radiated source is conducted to verify the analysis results.Both the simulation results and the analysis of sea-trial data indicate that,in range-frequency domain,the four kinds of physical quantities will exhibit a stable interference structure which can be expressed with waveguide invariant β.Among these quantities,the coherent components of complex sound intensity can better reflect the interference characteristics of the waveguide.Finally,a multi-scale linear filter is introduced to deal with the sea-trial LOFAR(Low Frequency Analysis Recording) spectrum,the processing results show that the proposed filter can effectively enhance the interference characteristics in images,and conductively detect and extract striations' information from interference structures in LOFAR spectrum.     

Striation-based beamforming for estimating the waveguide invariant with passive sonar

The waveguide invariant summarizes the pattern of constructive and destructive interference between acoustic modes propagating in the ocean waveguide. For many sonar signal-processing schemes, it is essential to know the correct numerical value for the waveguide invariant. While conventional beamforming can estimate the ratio between the waveguide invariant and the range to the source, it cannot unambiguously separate the two terms. In the present work, striation-based beamforming is developed. It is shown that the striation-based beamformer can be used to produce an estimate for the waveguide invariant that is independent of the range. Simulation results are presented.     

Efficiency of sound field focusing in an oceanic waveguide with background internal waves

The efficiency of focusing a reversed wave and the possibility of scanning the focal point in a shallow sea in the presence of an anisotropic field of background internal waves are theoretically considered. The localized fields are controlled by varying the transmission frequency without a change in the distribution of the reversed field over the array aperture. The effect of the periodically repeated focal spots is analyzed. Numerical calculations are performed for the longitudinal and transverse orientations of acoustic path relative to the propagation direction of internal waves.     

Efficiency of sound field focusing at a long distance in an oceanic waveguide with background internal waves

The efficiency of focusing a reversed wave and the possibility of scanning with the focal spot at long distances in a shallow sea in the presence of an anisotropic field of background internal waves are theoretically investigated. The localized fields are controlled by varying the transmission frequency without a change in the distribution of the reversed field over the array aperture. The effect of periodically repeated focal spots is analyzed. Numerical calculations are performed for the longitudinal and transverse orientations of acoustic path with respect to the propagation direction of internal waves. The effect of perturbation on the stability and efficiency of focusing is discussed. A comparative analysis of the data obtained for long and short distances is performed.     

Interferometric method for estimating the sound source velocity in an oceanic waveguide

The noise immunity of an algorithm for estimating the radial component of sound source velocity, based on the data on frequency shifts of field interferencemaxima, has been investigated. A limiting estimate for the input signal-to-noise ratio, which determines the algorithm efficiency, is obtained. The results of computational and natural experiments are reported.     

Wave method for estimating the sound source depth in an oceanic waveguide

An experimental estimation of the sound source depth, based on measuring the amplitude ratio for neighboring wave field modes, has been performed on the Pacific shelf under the following conditions: path length about 10 km at a sea depth of about 53m; pneumatic source signal in the band of 200±10 Hz. The predictive parameters of the bottom have been reconstructed from the envelope of the signal received by a single detector. The noise immunity of the algorithm and its sensitivity to variations in the bottom parameters have been analyzed. The experimental results are found to be in good agreement with the theoretical predictions.     

Correlation reception of a diffraction sound field in an oceanic waveguide

Intensity matched processing is considered for a diffracted signal when the object is detected by the main lobe of the shadow scattered sound field. The consideration is based on the few-parameter model that adequately describes the characteristics of the desired signal. It is shown that, in the absence of noise and fluctuations in the parameters of the medium, the proposed algorithm provides the determination of the exact parameters of the signal and the moving object.     

Waveguide tapering for beam-width control in a waveguide transducer

In a waveguide transducer that transmits an ultrasonic wave through a waveguide unit to a test structure, it is most preferred to send a non-dispersive ultrasonic wave of a narrow beam width. However, there is an unresolved conflict between the generation of the non- or less-dispersive wave and the transmission of a narrow-beam wave into a test structure. Among others, the thickness of the waveguide unit in a waveguide transducer is the key variable determining these two conflicting criteria, but the use of a uniformly-thick waveguide of any thickness cannot fulfill the two conflicting criteria simultaneously. In this study, we propose a specially-engineered tapered waveguide unit for the simultaneous satisfaction. An excitation unit is installed at the end of the thin region of the tapered waveguide and generates only the lowest non-dispersive shear-horizontal wave. Then the generated wave propagates through the tapered region of the waveguide unit and reaches the thick region of the waveguide with insignificant mode conversion to higher modes. If the tapered waveguide is used, the surviving lowest mode in the thick region of the waveguide is shown to carry most of the transmitted power and is finally propagated into a test structure. Because the beam size of the propagated wave and the thickness of the contacting waveguide region are inversely related, the thick contacting region of the tapered waveguide ensures narrow beam width. Numerical and experimental investigations were performed to check the effectiveness of the proposed waveguide-tapering approach.     

Diffraction of sound pulses on an elastic spherical shell submerged in an oceanic waveguide

The paper is devoted to simulating an acoustic field scattered by an elastic spherical shell placed in a waveguide with a fluid attenuating bottom. The emitted signal is a wideband pulse with a Gaussian envelope. The normal wave method is used in the frequency domain for calculating the field of a point source in a free waveguide and the shell scattering coefficients. Movement of the receiver along a vertical straight line located behind the shell makes it possible to obtain a “three-dimensional” image of the field scattered by the shell. In this representation, the horizontal axis is time; the vertical axis is the submersion depth of the receiver; the intensity shows the amplitude of the received signal. Such three-dimensional structures make it possible to analyze the dependence of the complex diffraction structure of the acoustic field on receiver depth. In the considered numerical example, a thin, elastic, spherical shell is located near the attenuating fluid bottom.     

圆阵宽带恒定束宽波束形成的实验研究

为了检验“任意结构阵列宽带恒定束宽波束形成新方法”(声学学报,2001; 26 (1):55—58)一文中提出的方法是否在实际系统中可行,我们针对24元均匀圆阵进行了湖上实验。基于实验数据,在覆盖一个倍频程带宽的8个频率点上形成了恒定束宽波束。实验圆阵的实测阵列流形和理论阵列流形存在较大误差,这表明该文采用的可适用于任意结构阵列的宽带恒定束宽波束形成方法具有良好的宽容性。     

Folded waveguide circuit for broadband MM wave TWTs

In millimeter wave band, the folded waveguide circuit exists some advantages such as wide operating frequency band, high mechanism strength, better heat disspation, easy fabrication and lower cost. It is expected that contradictory between broadband and high power in millimeter wave range can be solved by using the folded waveguide circuit. Computational results of dispersion character and coupling impedance of the folded waveguide are given. It is shown that the folded waveguide has wide bandwidth character in millimeter wave band.     

Tapered hollow waveguide for focusing infrared laser beams

A tapered hollow waveguide that can focus a laser beam into a small beam spot is proposed for medical and dental applications. We fabricated hollow tapered optics by using a traveling torch, and the shape was formed as a precise linear taper. For a hollow taper tip with input and output diameters of 700 and 200 microm, respectively, the insertion loss is as small as 0.7 dB in a 10 mm long taper. The hollow taper optic producing a 200 microm spot withstands input energy of 100 mJ. Because a focusing lens is unnecessary at the output end, the laser beam can be introduced into a deep and narrow spot with these tapered optics.     

Arrival-time structure of the time-averaged ambient noise cross-correlation function in an oceanic waveguide

Coherent deterministic arrival times can be extracted from the derivative of the time-averaged ambient noise cross-correlation function between two receivers. These coherent arrival times are related to those of the time-domain Green's function between these two receivers and have been observed experimentally in various environments and frequency range of interest (e.g., in ultrasonics, seismology, or underwater acoustics). This nonintuitive result can be demonstrated based on a simple time-domain image formulation of the noise cross-correlation function, for a uniform distribution of noise sources in a Pekeris waveguide. This image formulation determines the influence of the noise-source distribution (in range and depth) as well as the dependence on the receiver bandwidth for the arrival-time structure of the derivative of the cross-correlation function. These results are compared with previously derived formulations of the ambient noise cross-correlation function. Practical implications of these results for sea experiments are also discussed.     

Time reversed reverberation focusing in a waveguide

Time reversal mirrors have been applied to focus energy at probe source locations and point scatterers in inhomogeneous media. In this paper, we investigate the application of a time reversal mirror to rough interface reverberation processing in a waveguide. The method is based on the decomposition of the time reversal operator which is computed from the transfer matrix measured on a source-receiver array [Prada et al., J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 99, 2067-2076 (1996)]. In a similar manner, reverberation data collected on a source-receiver array can be filtered through an appropriate temporal window to form a time reversal operator. The most energetic eigenvector of the time reversal operator focuses along the interface at the range corresponding to the filter delay. It is also shown that improved signal-to-noise ratio measurement of the time reversal operator can be obtained by ensonifying the water column with a set of orthogonal array beams. Since these methods do not depend upon a priori environmental information, they are applicable to complex shallow water environments. Numerical simulations with a Pekeris waveguide demonstrate this method.     

Legendre函数加权的声纳宽频带恒定束宽波束特性分析*

为了处理水声信号,声纳阵列通常需要形成宽频带恒定束宽的波束。采用两种阵元加权方法分析二维圆弧形恒定束宽换能器声纳阵列:球面Legendre函数加权方法和柱面Legendre函数加权方法。分别对球面阵、柱面阵和平面阵这三种几何结构的声纳阵列进行分析,并且计算波束宽度和波束方向。结果表明,在宽频带范围内,除了柱面Legendre函数加权的球面阵之外,其余Legendre函数加权的声纳阵列均能利用简单的、不随频率变化的阵元权重和阵元延时,形成恒定束宽的波束,并且具有较小的旁瓣,此外波束方向与预设方向也较为一致。相对于其他恒定束宽波束形成方法,Legendre函数加权方法能利用较低的计算复杂度来实现良好的宽频带恒定束宽的波束特性。     

Waveguide invariant analysis for modeling time-frequency striations in a range-dependent environment

The waveguide invariant is a useful parameter for understanding the behavior of interference patterns (e.g., striations in time-frequency plots) resulting from broadband acoustic sources in shallow water waveguides. It is possible to model these striations for range-dependent environments using conventional parabolic equation methods; although this approach can be computationally intensive as a full field must be created for each frequency and azimuthally dependent geometry. This letter discusses the formulation and use of a range-dependent waveguide invariant distribution that can be used to describe spectral striation patterns using a fraction of the computing power required by parabolic equation methods.     

球谐域类正则化宽带超指向性波束形成算法

提出一种球谐域类正则化宽带超指向性波束形成算法,通过结合超指向性波束形成器与延迟求和波束形成器控制阵列白噪声增益和指向性因数,推导类正则化宽带超指向性波束形器的球谐域表达式。在此基础上设计新的可控指向性因数波束形成器,可在不显著放大低频白噪声的前提下实现设定的波束宽度。采用32元球阵的仿真结果表明,对于语音测试场景,类正则化波束形成器的最高PESQ得分相比于传统的超指向性波束形成器与延迟求和波束形成器分别提高了约0.5和0.4,平均词错率分别减少了约9.5%和8.1%。主观测试实验也表明类正则化波束形成器在方向性噪声和扩散场噪声环境下都可以获得更好的主观听觉感受。利用实验数据对算法性能进行测试,实验结果同样验证了该方法在实际声学环境中的有效性。     

任意结构阵列宽带恒定束宽波束形成新方法

提出了一种任意结构阵列宽带恒定束宽波束形成的新方法.该方法把任意结构阵列的响应向量表示成以Bessel函数为核函数的级数之和,并将高阶项截断,然后把频带内各个频率点上的阵列响应向量转化到参考频率上,从而得到恒定束宽波束形成向量,使得各个频率上的波束和参考波束相同.同时,本文还给出了一种基于自适应处理的参考波束优化方法.结合均匀分布离散国阵所作的计算机仿真验证了本文所提方法的有效性.