Directional Acoustic Luneburg Lens Waveguide

TL;DR

This paper presents a novel acoustic waveguide design using a cascaded Luneburg Lens structure, combining theoretical, numerical, and experimental methods to demonstrate effective acoustic wave focusing and guidance.

Contribution

It introduces a new cascaded ALL waveguide design with graded index achieved through additive manufacturing, validated by experiments and simulations.

Findings

Experimental results match numerical simulations

Effective acoustic wave focusing demonstrated

Novel graded index waveguide achieved

Abstract

This paper investigates the acoustic Luneburg Lens (ALL) as a design framework for guiding acoustic wave propagation. In this study, we propose to develop an acoustic waveguide based on the characteristics of both acoustic wave focusing and collimation of cascaded ALLs. The continuous variation of refractive index of the ALL is achieved by using lattice unit cells with a graded filling ratio. A cascaded ALL waveguide device is fabricated based on the additive manufacturing technique. The experimental results obtained with this device are consistent with the numerical simulations and theoretical calculations.