Experiments on Maxwell's fish-eye dynamics in elastic plates
Experiments on Maxwell's fish-eye dynamics in elastic plates
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DOI:
10.1063/1.4905730
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发表时间:
2015-01-12
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4
通讯作者:
Sebbah, Patrick
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作者:
Lefebvre, Gautier;Dubois, Marc;Sebbah, Patrick
We experimentally demonstrate that a Duraluminium thin plate with a thickness profile varying radially in a piecewise constant fashion as h(r) = h(0) (1 + (r/R-max)(2))(2), with h(0) = 0.5 mm, h(R-max) = 2 mm, and R-max = 10 cm, behaves in many ways as Maxwell's fish-eye lens in optics. Its imaging properties for a Gaussian pulse with central frequencies 30 kHz and 60 kHz are very similar to those predicted by ray trajectories (great circles) on a virtual sphere (rays emanating from the North pole meet at the South pole). However, the refocusing time depends on the carrier frequency as a direct consequence of the dispersive nature of flexural waves in thin plates. Importantly, experimental results are in good agreement with finite-difference-time-domain simulations. (C) 2015 AIP Publishing LLC.