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Liwei Chen1, Jun Fan1,2, Zhixiong Gong1,2
1State Key Laboratory of Ocean Engineering, School of Ocean and Civil Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200240, China.
Abstract:
The suppression of direct forward scattering is challenging for object detection in the underwater environment under the incidence of quasi-planar waves. In this work, we study the lateral spatial phase of forward acoustic scattering in a vortex beam from a sphere. By subtracting a stable incident contribution, the forward scattering is extracted from the total field with good agreement between our experimental measurements and numerical simulations. A cross correlation method of the spatial phase is proposed, and results show a linear dependence of the phase singularity shift versus the sphere's offset to the beam axis, which may be potential for the underwater target detection and positioning by using the spatial phase information as the degree of freedom. © 2026 Acoustical Society of America.
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