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This Letter reports on a tip-sensitive all-silica fiber-optic Fabry–Perot (TAFOFP) ultrasonic hydrophone for measuring high intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) fields. The all-silica fiber-optic structure ensures that the TAFOFP ultrasonic hydrophone can withstand HIFU fields and the tip-sensitive configuration ensures that the TAFOFP ultrasonic hydrophone can achieve a high spatial resolution of 125 μm. The experimental results have shown that the TAFOFP ultrasonic hydrophone could stably measure the peak positive ultrasonic pressure as high as 4.34 MPa, and the measured ultrasonic pressure distributions of the HIFU field by the fabricated TAFOFP ultrasonic hydrophone agreed well with those by the piezoceramic needle hydrophone.

High intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) focusing precision is limited by conventional focusing ultrasound methods. The aim of this study is to develop an ultrasonic focusing modality by using a spherical cavity transducer with open ends. Experimental measurements and numerical simulations were performed to study the acoustic field and the induced tissue lesion using this transducer. The results demonstrate that the focusing zone is smaller while the focusing gain of sound pressure is higher (about 3 times) than the conventional concave focusing method. The results demonstrate great clinical potentials of enhancing the precision of HIFU therapy to the sub-wavelength level.