P2I-8 Transducer to Transducer Time Domain Signal Response Shaping in Ultrasonic Applications

Author

Sandoz, Jean-Paul

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., HE-ARC/HES-SO, Le Locle

fYear

2006

fDate

2-6 Oct. 2006

Firstpage

1801

Lastpage

1804

Abstract

This paper presents the investigation of a new solution whose purpose is to obtain a much shorter time domain response between two narrow-band transducers than the one which is produced by a short reference driving pulse (SRP). It is based on generating a new driving signal made up of an appropriate weighted series of SRP which will produce the desired objective time response (OTR). Concretely, the SRP time response of our targeted application is determined and the OTR is selected from it. Finally, the minimum mean square error (MMSE) criterion is applied to compute the weights of the new driving signal. Complete series of practical tests with different kinds of transducers operating in varied conditions have confirmed the theoretical results

Keywords

acoustic signal processing; mean square error methods; ultrasonic transducers; minimum mean square error; narrow-band transducers; short reference driving pulse; time domain signal response shaping; ultrasonic applications; Acoustic applications; Autocorrelation; Mean square error methods; Narrowband; Pulse shaping methods; Signal generators; Signal processing; Time domain analysis; Time factors; Ultrasonic transducers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Ultrasonics Symposium, 2006. IEEE

Conference_Location

Vancouver, BC

ISSN

1051-0117

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0201-8

Electronic_ISBN

1051-0117

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ULTSYM.2006.453

Filename

4152309