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Progressive Degenerate Ellipsoidal Phase Plug

Authors: Hughes, Charles

AES Convention 139 · Paper 9388 · October 2015

Abstract

This paper will detail the concepts and design of a new phase plug. This device can be utilized to transform a circular planar wave front to a rectangular planar wave front. Such functionality can be very useful for line array applications as well as for feeding the input, or throat section, of a rectangular horn from the output of conventional compression drivers. The design of the phase plug allows for the exiting wave front to have either concave or convex curvature if a planar wave front is not desired. One of the novel features of this device is that there are no discontinuities within the phase plug.

Details

Published in
AES Convention 139
AES Convention
139
Paper number
9388
Publication date
October 6, 2015
Session subject
Transducers
Affiliation
Excelsior Audio, Gastonia, NC, USA (See document for exact affiliation information.)
Type
Convention Paper