Enhanced Backscattering and Modal Echo of Reverberant Elastic Waves
- 22 May 2000
- journal article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 84 (21), 4942-4945
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.84.4942
Abstract
We report experimental evidence for coherent backscattering of waves in a three-dimensional elastic body. Ultrasonic spectral energy density consequent to a transient excitation is measured as a function of time and of distance from the source. In accord with the predictions of random matrix theory, an enhancement is found near the source by a weak localization factor of 2 at early times, but a factor of 3 at late times. The effect appears to be independent of absorption.Keywords
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