Phase conjugation with a single bubble

Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys. 2005 Oct;72(4 Pt 2):046601. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.72.046601. Epub 2005 Oct 4.

Abstract

It is recalled how the nonlinear interaction between a gas bubble and an external extra pressure can yield phase conjugation. Using the Glauber representation, we show that the effect of the latter is formally analogous to that of a pi pulse in nuclear magnetic resonance, so that the acoustic equivalent of spin echoes may be expected in a bubble cloud. An experimental attempt to observe phase conjugation is reported in the single-bubble case.