Bowtie Limited Diffraction Beams

Reference #:

1995-012

Inventors/Contributors

James F. Greenleaf, Ph.D., Jian-yu X. Lu, Ph.D.

Description

The newly discovered bowtie limited diffraction beams may achieve low sidelobes and high resolution over a large depth of field when applied to a pulse-echo system. Low sidelobes and high resolution over a longer depth of field when applied to pulse-echo system.

Patent Status

	U.S. Patent Number 5,492,121 Issued February 20, 1996