Acousto-Optic Signal Processing Device Performance

David L. Hecht

doi:10.1117/12.957325

Abstract

Acoustooptic devices provide the function of electrical to optical input transducers in many real-time optical processors of electronic signals. Particular implementations and applications emphasize modulation in space or time connected by a traveling-wave relation. Principal two-dimensional processor.s are spectrum analyzers and correlators. Multiport AO cells are useful in three-dimensional optical processing of two variables, such as frequency and phase. The performance of AO devices is limited by ef5iciency-bandwidth aperture tradeoffs which limit time bandwidths to approximately 10 for most practical devices. High efficiency devices (100%/W) have been developed for bandwidths up to approximately 600 MHz. At wider bandwidths, material attenuation and acoustooptic characteristics sharply limit efficiency, although near ideal piezoelectric transducers can be fabricated.

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David L. Hecht, David L. Hecht, "Acousto-Optic Signal Processing Device Performance", Proc. SPIE 0180, Real-Time Signal Processing II, (21 September 1979); doi: 10.1117/12.957325; https://doi.org/10.1117/12.957325

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