Infrared Acousto-Optic Materials: Applications, Requirements, And Crystal Development

M. Gottlieb; G. W. Roland

doi:10.1117/12.7972632

1 December 1980 Infrared Acousto-Optic Materials: Applications, Requirements, And Crystal Development

M. Gottlieb, G. W. Roland

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Optical Engineering, Vol. 19, Issue 6, 196901 (December 1980). https://doi.org/10.1117/12.7972632

Abstract

The power requirements for acousto-optic devices increase with wavelength as X2, so it becomes extremely important for infrared operation to have very high figure-of-merit materials available. Potentially important infrared applications include scanners for laser radar, choppers for surveillance satellites, and acousto-optic tunable filters for a variety of systems. Higher efficiency materials are also important as thin films for integrated optic devices, such as the spectrum analyzer, and several bulk acoustic wave-optical waveguide concepts. A large number of materials of the sulfosalt class have been identified as having very desirable acousto-optic properties, and will find use in a number of these applications. More development of these materials is required to make them of suitable quality, and new compositions must be examined to achieve high performance.

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M. Gottlieb and G. W. Roland "Infrared Acousto-Optic Materials: Applications, Requirements, And Crystal Development," Optical Engineering 19(6), 196901 (1 December 1980). https://doi.org/10.1117/12.7972632

Published: 1 December 1980

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