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Deborah Berebichez's Abstract
TIME-REVERSAL FOR TEMPORAL COMPRESSION AND SPATIAL FOCUSING OF
ACOUSTIC WAVES IN ENCLOSURES
Time-reversal is the process whereby a signal is emitted by a source and
propagates in a medium with scatterers in it. The waves are recorded at a
receiver over a time much larger than the original pulse duration so as to
capture the multiple scattering. The receiver then reverses the waveform
in time and re-emits it into the same channel. The waves back-propagate
through the medium retracing the multiple scattering paths taken on the
way to the receiver and ultimately refocus at the original source location
in space and time. Time-reversal in an enclosure with a single detector
achieves spatial focusing of the acoustic energy to within one half of a
wavelength of the initial sound signal.
A two-dimensional finite-difference time-domain code was calibrated to
study the phenomena of time compression and spatial focusing of
time-reversed acoustic signals in closed environments with strong
reverberations. By varying several factors such as reflectivity of the
walls and the addition of randomly-placed detectors and scatterers in the
enclosure, the quality of spatial focusing is investigated.
One of our main results is that time-reversal in enclosures with a keyhole
aperture of size comparable to the width of the initial wave front
achieves tight spatial focusing of the acoustic field at the source.
Despite the limitation that the keyhole is perceived as "the source" by
the detector, the relative magnitude and temporal-delay information of the
reverberant wave fields in the source chamber and in the detector chamber
indicate the actual source location.
Time-reversal in complex indoor environments is tested. Regardless of
whether the transmission or the reception of the signal are done from an
area cluttered with nearby scatterers, the acoustic field distribution
after time-reversal is higher in the area close to where the time-reversed
waveform is transmitted. Due to its characteristic spatial focusing of
signals, time-reversal can deliver trains of pulses to desired locations.
However, our results show that the
temporal compression obtained is not sufficient to eliminate inter-symbol
interference (ISI) in the transmitted message.
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