The underwater imaging sonar system with an acoustic lens is again receiving considerable attention because it does not require a complex beam-forming circuit. The lens system used in this type of sonar was designed by the ray theory or by a hybrid method of the ray and wave theories. In this report, a basic analysis was performed by an analytical method using a wave theory and by a numerical method using the parabolic equation (PE) method, to determine the convergent characteristics of a biconcave lens. The pressure field focused by the biconcave lens was measured in a water tank. The biconcave lens used in the experiment is made of acrylic resin with a radius of 20 cm and a radius of curvature of 20 cm. Measurements was conducted in a water tank at a frequency of 500 kHz. Sound pressure fields around the focal region measured by the experiments agreed well with the calculated ones by the analytical and PE methods.
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