Abstract:Electromagnetic pulse sound source (Boomer) is a commonly used explosion sound source in marine seismic exploration, and the deep-sea application of such explosion sound source needs to solve cavitation suppression problem. In this paper, a deep-sea boomer source based on pressure compensation balance is proposed. A boomer transducer with a maximum working pressure of 20MPa is developed and tested in a high-pressure anechoic tank. Through the analysis of the hydrophone outputs under different energy and pressure levels, it can be seen that an air sac with the initial pressure of 0.5MPa can effectively balance the internal and external pressure of the transducer, solve the problem of cavitation suppression, and realize the excitation of broadband pulse sound waves. The repeatability of the acoustic wave is very good, and the minimum correlation coefficient is to 0.986. With the increase of working pressure from 0.5MPa to 20MPa, the main change in acoustic characteristics is the amplitude attenuation (204.6dB to 194.2 dB) and width compression (182μs to 88μs), and the main frequency (2.3kHz as the center) slightly shifted to high frequency. Compared with the hydrophone output in the process of pressure rising and downing in the high-pressure anechoic tank, it can be seen that the repeatability of the acoustic wave is better. The higher the pressure, the better the waveform consistency, indicating that the boomer transducer based on pressure compensation balance has a more stable performance under high pressure environment.