Abstract

Parametric acoustic array (PAA) can leverage the nonlinear behavior of sound travelling through the nonlinear medium (e.g., air, water, human tissues) to generate low-frequency broadband high-directivity sound due to the self-demodulation of finite-amplitude modulated ultrasonic waves. However, while propagating, self-demodulated signals (hereon message) interact one with another, leading to message deformation and increase of the total harmonic distortion (THD). This makes it problematic to use powerful PAA to control complex low-frequency signals. This work explores a method for reducing THD by optimizing the input signal using various digital signal processing algorithms. The sustainability of the required spectral components with distance and the spatial boundaries of the operation of the proposed optimization algorithm are also investigated experimentally with a 520-channel hexagonal PAA and numerically. The simulations were done via k-wave acoustic toolbox considering nonlinearities and power law absorption.

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