Birefringent Phased Array Bragg Cells

Abstract

This paper presents theoretical and experimental results of wideband acousto-optic Bragg cells development. bination of birefringent phase matching and phased array techniques is described. Experimental results show that the use of phased transducer arrays increases the t angential phase frequency of the birefringent Bragg cell, as predicted by the theoretical analysis. A new design utilizing com