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Bulk-Wave Acousto-Optic Bragg Diffraction

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Guided-Wave Acousto-Optics

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Diffraction of light by a narrow beam of high-frequency sound is called Brillouin scattering after the man who predicted it in 1922. If the sound beam is wide enough and the light incident upon it is at the appropriate angle, the diffraction which then takes place is most generally referred to as Bragg diffraction in analogy to the selective reflection of X rays by the lattice planes of crystals first described by W.H. Bragg in 1913. The ultrasonic phenomenon was verified experimentally in 1932 by P. Debye and F.W. Sears in the U.S.A. and by R. Lucas and P. Biquard in France.

“mais la lumière diffusée dans une direction qui fasse un angle 2θ avec le rayon incident provienda uniquement de l’onde élastique dont la direction de propagation soit la bissectrice de l’angle 2θ des duex rayons, et dont la longeur d’onde Λ satisfasse ἀ la formule (2Λsinθ=θ;/n).”

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Wade, G. (1990). Bulk-Wave Acousto-Optic Bragg Diffraction. In: Tsai, C.S. (eds) Guided-Wave Acousto-Optics. Springer Series in Electronics and Photonics, vol 23. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-75225-4_2

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