Synthesis and analysis of linear and nonlinear acoustical vortices.

Acoustical screw dislocations are synthesized in various configurations with a versatile experimental setup. The experimental setup is based on the inverse filter technique and allows one to synthesize one or more acoustical vortices with a chosen width, position, and topological charge. An interesting feature of this experimental facility to study screw dislocation behavior is the direct measurement in amplitude and phase. This characteristic is used to develop an original method of decomposition of an acoustical vortex field in order to analyze the acoustical vortices. Moreover, the behaviors of two acoustical vortices of the same or opposite charge have been studied experimentally and compared to theoretical laws.