A study on absolute pressure measurement of ultrasonic cleaning machine using fiber optical probe hydrophone under cavitation

Abstract

　Authors investigated whether the absolute sound pressure in the ultrasonic cleaning machine can be measured by fiber optic probe hydrophone (FOPH) under cavitation. Since the intensity on the cavitation bubble collapse is high in the frequency range of about 30 to 100 kHz, the sound pressure measurement using FOPH was applied to ultrasonic cleaning machine with the use of a submerged ultrasonic transducer with frequency of 35.5 kHz. In the case of cavitation bubble collapse occurs frequently, it is confirmed that fundamental and harmonic components can be measured by FOPH. And also, the sound pressure distribution was compared to the analysis result using finite element method.