A two-dimensional cylindrical acoustic concentrator is designed with multilayered alternative homogeneous materials, which can focus acoustic field and enhance acoustic energy in a given area. The frequency response analysis of the acoustic concentrator demonstrates that the acoustic energy can be concentrated within the device over a wide frequency band. Meanwhile, there are contradictory relations between the acoustic concentrating performances in the inner region and the scattering properties in the outer region of these concentrators. When the contradictory relations satisfy compromise balance, the concentration ratio can reach at least 70%.

Based on the resonant frequency spectra of a high-overtone bulk acoustic resonance, a model for nondestructive evaluation of the elastic plate thickness is given. The simulations demonstrate that the thickness deviations of the elastic plates are sensitive to two parameters: the parallel resonance frequencies and the spacing of parallel resonance frequencies (SPRF). At the normal and transition regions of the SPRF curves, the parallel resonance frequencies periodically linearly decrease with the increase of thickness deviations, which is applicable for evaluating the thickness deviations of the plates.

The potential operating conditions of acoustic dual-negative refraction (ADNR) are investigated by band structure theory for scatterers with different shapes and symmetries. Specifically, two types of lattices (triangular and honeycomb) and four different shapes of scatterers (circle, hexagon, square and triangle) are considered. Based on the generation mechanism of the ADNR effect, which is dependent on the frequency of the incident wave at the overlapping second and third Bloch bands, the optimum operating frequencies of ADNR with different crystal structures are given. The calculations demonstrate that the ADNR effect can be generated at the normalized frequency from 0.8 to 1.05.

The conjugation length-dependent nonlinear optical properties of fluorenone-based linear conjugated oligomers have been investigated by experimental and theoretical methods. Infrared spectra and the steady-state absorption spectra show that the increase of conjugated unit could enhance the stretching vibration peaks of C=C and lead to a red-shift of the absorption peaks. Meanwhile, the two-photon fluorescence (TPF) intensity is gradually enhanced with the increase of excitation energy, and the TPF efficiency is obviously higher after the introduction of fluorene-ethylene units. The sum-overstates approach was used to model the two-photon absorption (TPA) cross-sections of oligomers, and the theoretical values agree well with the experimental data obtained from the femtosecond open-aperture z-scan technique. The results exhibit that the extension of conjugated system indeed plays a role in the improvement of TPA behavior of oligomers.