Taking advantage of multiple scattering to communicate with time-reversal antennas.
We present an experimental demonstration showing that, contrary to first intuition, the more scattering a mesoscopic medium is, the more information can be conveyed through it. We used a multiple input-multiple output configuration: a multichannel ultrasonic time-reversal antenna is used to transmit random series of bits simultaneously to different receivers which were only a few wavelengths apart. Whereas the transmission is free of error when multiple scattering occurs in the propagation medium, the error rate is huge in a homogeneous medium.
Derode
Arnaud
A
Laboratoire Ondes et Acoustique, ESPCI, Universite Paris VII, UMR 7587, 10 rue Vauquelin, 75005 Paris, France.
Tourin
Arnaud
A
de Rosny
Julien
J
Tanter
Mickaël
M
Yon
Sylvain
S
Fink
Mathias
M