title: Comparison of laser interferometry and radiation force method of measuring ultrasonic power.
abstract: The aim of this paper is to compare two different methods for the calculation of the ultrasonic output power of underwater transducers: the radiation force balance, which is the standard method, and the laser heterodyne interferometry, which is rather used to depict displacement or velocity distributions of the acoustic field. Here it is shown that the latter can also be used to calculate the acoustic time-average power with an uncertainty of about 22%, the radiation force balance giving an uncertainty of 12% (with 95% confidence). The interferometry experiments performed with two transducers working at 2.25 MHz and 8.25 MHz showed that they produce different acoustic fields (respectively Gaussian and Lorentz-sigmoidal distributions). Taking into account the acoustic field profiles, the acoustic time-average power from interferometry was calculated. It was found very similar to the time-average power measured with the radiation force balance in the plane-wave assumption.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire de Résonance Magnétique des Systèmes Biologiques, UMR 5536, CNRS, Université de Bordeaux 2, 146 rue Léo Saignat, case 93, 33076 Bordeaux cedex, France. madelin@rmsb.u-bordeaux2.fr
authors.forename: Guillaume
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Madelin
authors.forename: Bernard
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Hosten
authors.forename: Christine
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Biateau
authors.forename: Charles
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Mougenot
authors.forename: Jean-Michel
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Franconi
authors.forename: Eric
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Thiaudière
mesh_terms: D000162:Acoustics; D007368:Interferometry; D007834:Lasers; D011827:Radiation; D014159:Transducers; D014465:Ultrasonics