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Evaluation of a Time Reversal Technique for Low Frequency Acoustic Measurements in a Reverberant Tank

pp. 185-190, vol. 2, 1999

S. Buogo
CNR - Istituto di Acustica "O.M. Corbino" Underwater Acoustics Laboratory, Roma, Italy

L. Pitolli
CNR - Istituto di Acustica "O.M. Corbino" Underwater Acoustics Laboratory, Roma, Italy

G. B. Cannelli
CNR - Istituto di Acustica "O.M. Corbino" Underwater Acoustics Laboratory, Roma, Italy

G. Pontuale
CNR - Istituto di Acustica "O.M. Corbino" Underwater Acoustics Laboratory, Roma, Italy

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Abstract: The objective of this work is to validate the efficiency of a recently proposed technique for acoustic measurements of transducer response. This technique allows measurements to be done in a reverberant tank at considerably lower frequencies than the limit imposed by free-field conditions. The method is based on time reversal, a concept originally developed for sound propagation in marine environment, that performs signal deconvolution. with a very little amount of data processing. It was seen that the method can be used to focus at a fixed point a transmit pulse several ms long, allowing calibrations down to the low kHz range in a 3-4 m tank. Early investigations already showed that the focusing of the acoustic field depends on the frequency. In this work, further measurements were done at the new tank facility of the Underwater Acoustics Laboratory at the Istituto di Acustica "O. M. Corbino" to evaluate the accuracy of the results.

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