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2004-08-06

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0408140v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Materials Science

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10.1103/PhysRevE.71.018602

In their comment, A. Hakansson, J. Sanchez-Dehesa, F. Cervera, F. Meseguer, L. Sanchis, and J. Llinares say that our conclusion stating that diffraction prevails over refraction in acoustic lenses whose aperture is of several wavelengths, such as those addressed in our calculations [N. Garcia, M. Nieto-Vesperinas, E. V. Ponizovskaya, and M.Torres, Phys. Rev. E 67, 046606 (2003)] and in their experiments [F.Cervera, L. Sanchis, J. V. Sanchez-Perez, R. Martinez-Sala, C. Rubio, F.Meseguer, C. Lopez, D. Caballero, and J. Sanchez-Dehesa, Phys. Rev. Lett.88, 023902 (2003)], is misleading because the size of their lenses is larger than ours. They state that diffraction effects are negligible at the scale of their experiments. In this reply we calculate the propagation of a plane wave through both a lens and a slab of aluminum cylinders, identical to those presented by such authors in previous experiments, by using a finite difference time domain (FDTD) method. We then compare our results to the experiments previously reported by the authors of the comment and significant differences are found. Our present calculations show that refraction and diffraction are intrinsically interwoven also at the scale of their experiments.

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