Papanicolaou, George; Ryzhik, Leonid; Sølna, Knut The parabolic wave approximation and time reversal. (English) Zbl 1027.76049 Mat. Contemp. 23, 139-159 (2002). Summary: We analyze the phenomenon of super-resolution in time-reversal acoustics. A signal recorded by an array of transducers and sent back, reversed in time approximately, refocuses on the original source point. The refocusing resolution is improved in an inhomogeneous medium when the pulse has rich frequency content. We show that the back-propagated signal is self-averaging in this situation. This explains the statistical stability of the time-reversal refocusing and super-resolution. Cited in 3 Documents MSC: 76Q05 Hydro- and aero-acoustics 76M35 Stochastic analysis applied to problems in fluid mechanics Keywords:parabolic wave approximation; time-reversal acoustics; refocusing resolution; statistical stability PDFBibTeX XMLCite \textit{G. Papanicolaou} et al., Mat. Contemp. 23, 139--159 (2002; Zbl 1027.76049)