Virtual acoustics in inhomogeneous media with single-sided access
K. Wapenaar (TU Delft - Applied Geophysics and Petrophysics, ImPhys/Acoustical Wavefield Imaging )
J.A. Brackenhoff (TU Delft - Applied Geophysics and Petrophysics)
Jan Thorbecke (TU Delft - Applied Geophysics and Petrophysics)
Joost Van der Neut (ImPhys/Acoustical Wavefield Imaging )
Evert Slob (TU Delft - Applied Geophysics and Petrophysics)
Eric Verschuur (ImPhys/Acoustical Wavefield Imaging )
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Abstract
A virtual acoustic source inside a medium can be created by emitting a time-reversed point-source response from the enclosing boundary into the medium. However, in many practical situations the medium can be accessed from one side only. In those cases the time-reversal approach is not exact. Here, we demonstrate the experimental design and use of complex focusing functions to create virtual acoustic sources and virtual receivers inside an inhomogeneous medium with single-sided access. The retrieved virtual acoustic responses between those sources and receivers mimic the complex propagation and multiple scattering paths of waves that would be ignited by physical sources and recorded by physical receivers inside the medium. The possibility to predict complex virtual acoustic responses between any two points inside an inhomogeneous medium, without needing a detailed model of the medium, has large potential for holographic imaging and monitoring of objects with single-sided access, ranging from photoacoustic medical imaging to the monitoring of induced-earthquake waves all the way from the source to the earth's surface.
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