• DocumentCode
    1075203
  • Title

    Wide-band guided wave acoustooptic Bragg deflector using a tilted-finger chirp transducer

  • Author

    Lee, Chin C. ; Liao, Kuan-yang ; Chang, Chin L. ; Chen Tsai

  • Author_Institution
    Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
  • Volume
    15
  • Issue
    10
  • fYear
    1979
  • fDate
    10/1/1979 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    1166
  • Lastpage
    1170
  • Abstract
    A tilted-finger chirp transducer which had evolved from multiple tilted-tranducers was used to realize wide-band acoustooptic Bragg deflection in a Y -cut LiNbO3waveguide. A deflector bandwidth of 50 percent centered at 500 MHz and a diffraction efficiency of 16 percent at an RF drive power of 200 mw have been measured. Some comments on the relative merits of a tilted-finger chirp transducer versus multiple transducers for wide-band acoustooptic Bragg deflection are made.
  • Keywords
    Acoustooptic deflectors; Bragg scattering; Acoustic transducers; Bandwidth; Chirp; Diffraction; Frequency response; Phase shifters; Power dividers; Radio frequency; Surface acoustic waves; Wideband;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Quantum Electronics, IEEE Journal of
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9197
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/JQE.1979.1069907
  • Filename
    1069907