Thermal detuning effects in a standing wave acoustooptic modulator
Abstract
The acoustic absorption loss in a standing wave acoustooptic modulator produces a temperature rise in the acoustooptic medium that can lead to distortion, discrete transitions, and hysteresis in curves of diffracted optical power vs frequency or temperature. Experimental data obtained with a barium sodium niobate standing wave modulator are presented.
- Publication:
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Applied Optics
- Pub Date:
- June 1978
- DOI:
- Bibcode:
- 1978ApOpt..17.1824R
- Keywords:
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- Acousto-Optics;
- Modulators;
- Signal Distortion;
- Standing Waves;
- Temperature Effects;
- Acoustic Attenuation;
- Acoustic Propagation;
- Helium-Neon Lasers;
- Lasers and Masers;
- MODULATORS;
- ACOUSTOOPTICS;
- OPTICAL COMMUNICATIONS