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Null-broadening in a waveguide.

J S Kim·W S Hodgkiss·W A Kuperman·H C Song
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Null-broadening, introduced in plane wave beamforming, is extended to an ocean waveguide in the context of matched field processing. The method is based on the minimum variance processor with white noise constraint and the distribution of fictitious sources using the theory of waveguide invariants. The proposed method is demonstrated in simulation as well as with data collected during the SWellEx-96 experiment. As another application, it is shown that the width of a null can be controlled in an adaptive time reversal mirror with a source-receive array.

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J S Kim, W S Hodgkiss, W A Kuperman, H C Song. 2002. Null-broadening in a waveguide.. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.1488139

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