One of our latest developments regards the achievement of an omnidirectional acoustic transducer able to work in marine environment in a wide band of frequency. Our research has involved allowing a fairly linear variation of the impedance active component. This paper presents some aspects concerning the effective achievement of the acoustic transducer and the compensation of the impedance reactive component in order to obtain a maximum transfer of power. The acoustic transducer have a specific construction and are made of PZT-type piezoelectric ceramic obtained in laboratory. Some essential aspects of the measurement methodology and the results obtained are also addressed.

Date Published: 23 February 2000
PDF: 6 pages
Proc. SPIE 4068, SIOEL '99: Sixth Symposium on Optoelectronics, (23 February 2000);

Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 4068:
SIOEL '99: Sixth Symposium on Optoelectronics
Teodor Necsoiu; Maria Robu; Dan C. Dumitras, Editor(s)