Determination of the hydrophone phase-frequency response by its amplitude-frequency response

Abstract

One of the tasks of the COOMET 786/RU/19 pilot comparisons is to check the correctness of the hydrophone model proposed in VNIIFTRI, consisting of an advance line and a minimum-phase part, including the effect of sound diffraction and resonance properties of the active element. This model makes it possible to use the Hilbert transform to obtain the phase-frequency response from the amplitude-frequency response as well as for inverse operation. The results of measuring experiments performed using facilities of the State Primary Standard GET 55-2017 are presented. For many practical tasks, it is not necessary to obtain the phase-frequency response for an acoustic center of the receiver. It is enough to determine the shape of the phase-frequency response using much less laborious methods. The question of which of the characteristics is expedient to determine during calibration - for an acoustic center, or for a point on the surface of an active element, deserves a discussion among specialists performing acoustic measurements.