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Design of multi-frequency acoustic kinoforms

Brown, MD; Cox, BT; Treeby, BE; (2017) Design of multi-frequency acoustic kinoforms. Applied Physics Letters , 111 (24) , Article 244101. 10.1063/1.5004040. Green open access

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Abstract

Complex diffraction limited acoustic fields can be generated from a single element transducer using inexpensive 3-D printable acoustic kinoforms. This is extremely promising for a number of applications. However, the lack of ability to vary the field limits the potential use of this technology. In this work, this limitation is circumvented using multi-frequency acoustic kinoforms for which different acoustic fields are encoded onto different driving frequencies. An optimisation approach based on random downhill binary search is introduced for the design of the multi-frequency kinoforms. This is applied to two test cases to demonstrate the technique: a kinoform designed to generate the numerals “1,” “2,” and “3” in the same plane but at different driving frequencies, and a kinoform designed to generate 3 sets of eight foci lying on a circle with a driving-frequency-dependent radius. Field measurements from these samples confirmed that multi-frequency acoustic kinoforms can be designed that switch between different arbitrary, pre-designed, acoustic field patterns in the target plane by changing the driving frequency

Type: Article
Title: Design of multi-frequency acoustic kinoforms
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1063/1.5004040
Publisher version: http://doi.org/10.1063/1.5004040
Language: English
Additional information: © 2017 Author(s). All article content, except where otherwise noted, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/ licenses/by/4.0/)
Keywords: Science & Technology, Physical Sciences, Physics, Applied, Physics, DIFFRACTIVE PHASE ELEMENTS, FABRICATION, HOLOGRAPHY, LIMITS, COLOR
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Med Phys and Biomedical Eng
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10041222
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