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So how does this work? Is it the same as the kind of phase cancellation that you often see with two speakers playing the same tone, but just with lots of elements (and an ultrasonic source)?


As far as I understand yes, I would also guess that it is analogous to a phased array antenna, but with sound waves


It's a sound laser, or maybe I'm remembering the video in this link wrong on the terminology and the SASER is different? Maybe it's just "sound from ultrasound"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonon

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_amplification_by_stimula...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBdVfUnS-pM

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_from_ultrasound


This is not a sound laser; the beam has some similar properties to a laser (e.g. collimation), but it works more like a directional antenna.


Yeah I think you're correct. Really interesting distinction


Its quite interesting. The directional ultrasonic array broadcasts a carrier frequency, not unlike am radio. You can read about the function of this sort of device at hackaday.

https://hackaday.com/2019/02/14/creating-coherent-sound-beam...




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