acousto-optic land mine detection

Kasper van Wijk and John Scales

current numbers
a victim every 20 minutes $33 billion to clean em up 1100 years to go

challenges
safe accurate fast

what mine?
hundreds of shapes and avors AP: plastic hockey puck

current methods
metal detecting GPR chemical detecting acoustic

problem for the wavy methods

long s penetrate well, but image poorly short s image well, but penetrate poorly

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The Parametric Array:

Can you hear me now

x 10 1.5 particle velocity (mm/s) 1 0.5 0 0.5 1 1.5 0

0.005

0.01 0.015 time (s)

0.02

0.025

Power Spectrum Magnitude (dB)

40

50

60

70

80 1000 1200 1400 1600 Frequency (Hz) 1800 2000

reference beam target

vibrometer

vibrometry:
if these letters look red, slow down!

wavelength 2 10 (m)

0 10

2 10

4 10

6 10

8 10

10 10

12 10

size of a wavelength

soccer field

baseball

bacteria

water molecule

common name

microwaves ultraviolet radio waves infrared visible

gamma rays

sources

AM FM

radar

light bulb
12 10 14 10 16 10

Xray

frequency (Hz)

6 10

8 10

10 10

18 10

20 10

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acoustic mine response

resonance scattering

Hz amplitude

frequency

soil
kHz amplitude

mine

frequency

scattering of a mine in the lab

(ok, ok, it was a hole in aluminum...)

dimensions in mm 20 74 212 data line

20

cavity 55

10 35

source 278

0.0

y-position (mm) 8 9 10 11 12

13

0.5 time (ms) 1.0 1.5

0.008

position (mm) 9 11

13

15

0.011 time (ms)

0.013

0.015

Rayleigh

0.008

position (mm) 9 11

13

15

0.011 time (ms)

0.013

0.015

scattered

-0.006 -0.004 time (ms) -0.001 0.001 0.004 0.006

position (mm) 9 11

13

15

image

yposition [mm]

10

15 5 10 15

xposition [mm]

summarizing the system

tunable source robust detector advanced data processing

acknowledgments
John Scales and CWP Xander Campman and Delft University of Technology Gary Olhoeft