Designing limited diffraction beams
- 1 January 1997
- journal article
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control
- Vol. 44 (1), 181-193
- https://doi.org/10.1109/58.585215
Abstract
Theoretically, limited diffraction beams can only be produced with an infinite aperture. In practice, they can be closely approximated with a finite aperture over a large depth of field. Because of this property, these beams could have applications in medical imaging, tissue characterization, Doppler velocity estimation, and nondestructive evaluation (NDE) of materials, as well as other physics-related areas such as electromagnetics and optics. In this paper, a new method is developed to design limited diffraction beams of desired beam shapes within a finite aperture of interest. It uses previously discovered limited diffraction beams such as Bessel beams and X waves as basis functions, and constructs new beams with linear superpositions of the bases. To construct a new beam of a desired shape, coefficients of the basis functions in the linear superposition are chosen so that the difference between the new beam and a desired beam is minimized under the criterion of least-squares error within the aperture. This procedure is implemented by digitizing both the basis beams and desired beams in the aperture and solving a system of linear equations from its normal equation. The method is applied to several desired beams that are limited diffraction beams known previously. Results show that the designed beams and the desired beams are virtually identical. If the desired beams are not solutions to the wave equation, the designed beams are new limited diffraction beams that are similar in shapes to the desired beams. This suggests that the method may be a powerful and practical tool for developing new limited diffraction beams of desired properties.Keywords
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