State switched transducers: A new approach to high-power, low-frequency, underwater projectors

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 103, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 1428-1441

  Larson, Gregg D ^a   Rogers, Peter H ^a   Munk, Walter ^b  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE; ARTICLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA; SOUND INTENSITY; SOUND TRANSMISSION; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER;

EID: 0031917575     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.421283     Document Type: Article

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