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Applied Physics Letters / Volume 97 / Issue 5 / INTERDISCIPLINARY AND GENERAL PHYSICS

Appl. Phys. Lett. 97, 054103 (2010); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3474616 (3 pages)

Three-dimensional acoustic lenses with axial symmetry

Lorenzo Sanchis1, Andrés Yánez2, Pedro L. Galindo2, Joaquín Pizarro2, and Juan Martínez Pastor1

1UMDO (Unidad Asociada al CSIC-IMM), Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales, Universidad de Valencia, P.O. Box 22085, 46071 Valencia, Spain
2Dpto de Lenguajes y Sistemas Informáticos, Grupo Sistemas Inteligentes de Computación, CASEM, Universidad de Cádiz, 11510 Puerto Real, Spain

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(Received 9 June 2010; accepted 12 July 2010; published online 2 August 2010)

In this paper a technique to design three dimensional (3D) devices to focus acoustic waves composed of scattering elements is proposed. The devices are designed and optimized in two dimensions (2D) with the help of a genetic algorithm and the 2D multiple scattering formalism. The transition from 2D to 3D is made by applying a rotation operation to the optimized design, thus passing from a set of 2D circular scatters to their equivalent 3D concentric rings of circular section and finite dimensions, considerably improving its performance. The method has been applied to the design and theoretical characterization of a single-focus acoustic lens and a tunable lens capable of changing the focal length with frequency. A prototype lens was fabricated using aluminum rings clamped to a rigid frame, obtaining a good agreement between theory and experiment.

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KEYWORDS and PACS

Keywords

acoustic devices

PACS

  • 43.20.-f

    General linear acoustics

  • 43.38.-p

    Transduction; acoustical devices for the generation and reproduction of sound

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0003-6951 (print)  
1077-3118 (online)

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