Emitting long-distance spiral airborne sound using low-profile planar acoustic antenna

Shuxiang Gao, Yunbo Li, Chengrong Ma, Ying Cheng () and Xiaojun Liu ()
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Shuxiang Gao: Nanjing University
Yunbo Li: Southeast University
Chengrong Ma: Nanjing University
Ying Cheng: Nanjing University
Xiaojun Liu: Nanjing University

Nature Communications, 2021, vol. 12, issue 1, 1-7

Abstract: Abstract Recent years have witnessed a rapidly growing interest in exploring the use of spiral sound carrying artificial orbital angular momentum (OAM), toward establishing a spiral-wave-based technology that is significantly more efficient in energy or information delivering than the ordinary plane wave technology. A major bottleneck of advancing this technology is the efficient excitation of far-field spiral waves in free space, which is a must in exploring the use of spiral waves for long-distance information transmission and particle manipulation. Here, we report a low-profile planar acoustic antenna to modulate wavefronts emitted from a near-field point source and achieve far-field spiral airborne sound carrying OAM. Using the holographic interferogram as a 2D modulated artificial acoustic impedance metasurface, we show the efficient conversion from the surface wave into the propagating spiral shape beam both numerically and experimentally. The vortex fields with spiral phases originate from the complex inter-modal interactions between cylindrical surface waves and a spatially-modulated impedance boundary condition. This antenna can open new routes to highly integrated spiral sound emitters that are critical for practical acoustic functional devices.

Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-22325-7

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