Acousto-optic tunable filter using phased-array transducer with linearized RF to optical frequency mapping

Sangtaek Kim; Lu Gao; Kelvin Wagner; Robert T. Weverka; Robert Mcleod

doi:10.1117/12.622623

29 September 2005 Acousto-optic tunable filter using phased-array transducer with linearized RF to optical frequency mapping

Sangtaek Kim, Lu Gao, Kelvin Wagner, Robert T. Weverka, Robert Mcleod

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Proceedings Volume 5953, Acousto-optics and Photoacoustics; 59530M (2005) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.622623
Event: Congress on Optics and Optoelectronics, 2005, Warsaw, Poland

Abstract

We present an optimized design of an acousto-optic tunable filter (AOTF) using a phased-array transducer for a spectrally-multiplexed ultrafast pulse-shaping RF beamformer application. The momentum-space interaction geometry is used to optimize an AOTF using acoustic beam-steering techniques in combination with acoustic anisotropy in order to linearly map the applied RF frequency to the filtered output optical frequency. The appropriate crystal orientation and phased-array transducer design are determined to linearize the RF to optical frequency mapping even in the presence of optical dispersion of the birefringence. After optimizing the phased-array transducer, acoustic anisotropy, and optical anisotropic diffraction geometry, the designed AOTF will compensate for the birefringent dispersion of TeO₂ to give a linear modulation of RF frequencies onto the corresponding optical frequencies. This linearized frequency mapped AOTF is required for a squint-compensated, wavelength-multiplexed, optically processed RF imager.

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Sangtaek Kim, Lu Gao, Kelvin Wagner, Robert T. Weverka, and Robert Mcleod "Acousto-optic tunable filter using phased-array transducer with linearized RF to optical frequency mapping", Proc. SPIE 5953, Acousto-optics and Photoacoustics, 59530M (29 September 2005); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.622623

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