Acoustic Cloning

This page centers on our paper published in Physical Review Applied 20, 064014 (2023) .

The paper is freely available from the ETH Research Collection.

An easy-to-read article can be found in the APS Physics "Focus" article.

A preprint is also available on arXiv.

Acoustic Cloning by Jonas Müller, ETH Zurich — "Acoustic Cloning" — Jonas Müller, ETH Zurich. Winner, Category 3 ("Locations and Instruments"), SNSF Image Competition 2023.

The following videos show the simulated acoustic wave fields for the same 2D waveguide as in the paper. In each video, different Green's functions are used to extrapolate the wave field.

Real scatterer vs. Holographic scatterer using heterogeneous Green's functions

Real scatterer vs. Holographic scatterer using scattering Green's functions

Real scatterer vs. Holographic scatterer using homogeneous Green's functions

The data and code supporting this work are available in the Zenodo repository (doi:10.5281/zenodo.16880576).

This work was funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (grant 197182).

How to cite

BibTeX for the paper and for the data and code on Zenodo. Clicking a block selects it, ready to copy.

@article{Muller2023_acoustic_cloning,
  author  = {M{\"u}ller, Jonas and Becker, Theodor S. and Li, Xun and
             Aichele, Johannes and Serra-Garcia, Marc and
             Robertsson, Johan O. A. and van Manen, Dirk-Jan},
  title   = {Acoustic cloning},
  journal = {Physical Review Applied},
  volume  = {20},
  number  = {6},
  pages   = {064014},
  year    = {2023},
  doi     = {10.1103/PhysRevApplied.20.064014}
}

@misc{Muller2025_acoustic_cloning_data,
  author    = {M{\"u}ller, Jonas},
  title     = {Acoustic Cloning},
  year      = {2025},
  publisher = {Zenodo},
  doi       = {10.5281/zenodo.16880576},
  url       = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16880576},
  note      = {Dataset}
}