With Harris Corporation's Acousto-Optic Modulators, light from a coherent optical source is focused to a beam waist within the optical medium composed of low loss optical grade material, and is proportionally directed into a primary intense diffraction order when an acoustic pulse is introduced by a suitable RF source. The RF input signal is converted to an equivalent traveling acoustic pulse via a single crystal piezoelectric transducer which is alloy bonded to the fused silica substrate under high vacuum.
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Model H-111 Acousto-Optic Modulator , TeO2 Cavity Dumper/Pulse Picker The Model H-111 Acousto-Optic Modulator is a high-speed Brewster windowed device designed to support
pulse picking and mode-locking applications requiring higher diffraction throughput efficiency than is possible with fused silica devices offering similar modulation capability.
32-Channel UV Acousto-Optic Modulator Multichannel acousto-optic modulators are used to independently modulate an array of light beams for photolithographic printing, optical computing, and signal processing applications.
Model H-101 Acousto-Optic Modulator Si02 Cavity Dumper/Pulse Picker The Model H-101 Acousto-Optic Modulator is a high-speed Brewster windowed device designed to support pulse-picking and mode-locking applications.
requiring higher optical power
handling capability than is available
with single crystal devices offering similar
modulation capability.
