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24 February 2011 Characterizing the performances of an advanced acousto-optical filter exploiting the collinear calcium molybdate crystalline cell
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In 1970 - 80s, novel optical spectral devices, electronically tunable acousto-optical filters (AOFs) had been proposed and developed. During the years gone AOFs have been remarkably progressed, and now they are widely exploited, for instance, in astrophysical observations. Schematically, AOFs can be separated on collinear and non-collinear filters, depending on the relative directions of passing the waves through crystalline cell, as well as on sequential and parallel ones, depending on the algorithm of spectrum analysis. Their features are characterized by the amplitude and spectral parameters. Here, we consider a few estimations of an advanced collinear AOF based on calcium molybdate single-crystal. In principle, this new AOF with a 15-microsecond time-aperture operates over all the visible range exhibiting 60%-efficiency at the electric power 1.0 W. Direct square-law dependence for crystal's length and inverse square-law dependence for its bandwidth on this minimal size make possible optimizing this advanced collinear AOF.
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Alexandre S. Shcherbakov, Je. Maximov, Daniel Sanchez Lucero, and Karla J. Sanchez Perez "Characterizing the performances of an advanced acousto-optical filter exploiting the collinear calcium molybdate crystalline cell", Proc. SPIE 7917, Nonlinear Frequency Generation and Conversion: Materials, Devices, and Applications X, 791715 (24 February 2011); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.875764
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KEYWORDS
Acoustics

Crystals

Calcium

Light scattering

Optical filters

Laser crystals

Visible radiation

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