Ultrasound object fields in air reconstructed using digital phase conjugation

A scanning laser Doppler vibrometer is used to record 2D ultrasound fields in air. The laser light of the vibrometer traverses the sound field to and from a rigid reflector and determines the velocity field, a quantity proportional to the sound pressure rate, in each scanned point relative to the sound source. The object sound is the scattered field from objects outside the recording area. Digital reconstruction using phase conjugation (time reversal) of the object sound field is then performed and the original object field intensity and phase is reconstructed.