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中国物理学会期刊

基于时空编码超表面的声学无旁瓣聚焦

Acoustic Sidelobe-Free Focusing Based on Space-Time-Coding Metasurfaces

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  • 在声聚焦的实际应用中,旁瓣抑制对于降低非目标区域能量泄露与信号干扰具有重要意义。声学超表面凭借对声波幅值与相位的精确调控能力,为旁瓣抑制提供了有效的实现途径。然而,传统的声学超表面多为被动结构,或依赖复杂馈电网络实现幅相联合调制,难以灵活构建满足不同应用场景需求的幅值权重分布,从而限制了无旁瓣聚焦的可控性与适应性。为此,本文提出一种基于时空编码超表面的声学无旁瓣聚焦方法,可以在不同聚焦位置实现高效旁瓣抑制。该方法基于旁瓣抑制理论模型,通过现场可编程门阵列调控超构单元的时变参数,在超表面上同步构建高斯型幅值分布与聚焦所需的相位梯度,使声场能量在目标位置高效汇聚,同时显著削弱旁瓣分量(峰值旁瓣比降低可达81.0%)。该方法为超声治疗、无损检测等领域中可控声学旁瓣抑制提供了新的技术思路与实现途径。

     

    Sidelobe elimination is essential in practical acoustic focusing applications for reducing energy leakage and signal interference in non-target regions. Acoustic metasurfaces (AMs) provide an effective platform for sidelobe suppression due to their abilities to precisely manipulate the amplitude and phase of incident waves. However, most existing AMs are either passive or rely on complex feeding networks for simultaneous amplitude and phase modulation (APM), which severely limits their flexibility in implementing optimized amplitude-weighting schemes for effective suppression. Here, we propose a sidelobe-free acoustic focusing strategy based on a space-time-coding (STC) metasurface, enabling efficient sidelobe elimination at different focal positions. By exploiting spatiotemporal acoustic impedance modulation, the STC metasurface achieves simultaneous and precise APM, with a continuously tunable amplitude range of 0-1 and a full 0-2π phase coverage. Based on the amplitude-weighted sidelobe suppression theory, the time-varying parameters of the metasurface unit cells are dynamically engineered to synthesize a Gaussian amplitude distribution and the phase gradient required for acoustic focusing across the metasurface aperture. As a result, acoustic energy can be efficiently concentrated at the desired focal location, with sidelobe components significantly suppressed. Specifically, we demonstrate high-quality sidelobe-free focusing at different positions, such as (-2.5λ, 3λ) and (1.5λ, 4λ), where the average peak sidelobe ratio (PSLR) is reduced by approximately 81.0% and 74.6%, respectively. This work provides a versatile and reconfigurable approach for controllable acoustic sidelobe suppression and facilitates precise acoustic focusing in applications such as ultrasonic therapy and nondestructive testing.

     

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