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29 September 2005 Collinear acousto-optical coupled states and binary modulation of light
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We consider some properties of the collinear acousto-optical interaction and principles of the binary encoded digital modulation of light based on exploiting collinear three-wave coupled states. The features of linearized dispersion relations are successfully used to show that the parametric coupling of light waves, being accomplished by the acoustic wave, modifies the dispersion relations for both the light waves and shapes two branches of nonlinear dispersion, whose curvatures are opposite in sign. The analytical model of shaping acousto-optical three-wave weakly coupled states is presented. The exact analytical solution allows deriving the localization condition for coupled states as well as simulating both spatio-frequency and phase distributions. The analysis developed was tested experimentally using the collinear Bragg regime of acousto-optical interaction in uniaxial single crystal. The experiments carried out make it possible to observe the dynamics of reshaping acousto-optic three-wave weakly coupled states under variations in the acoustic pulse width and the frequency mismatch. Applying the technique of localizing the coupled states to the problem of binary modulation of light beam, the conversion of multi-bit electronic signals into binary encoded optical pulse trains is demonstrated.
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Alexandre S. Shcherbakov and Arturo Aguirre Lopez "Collinear acousto-optical coupled states and binary modulation of light", Proc. SPIE 5953, Acousto-optics and Photoacoustics, 59530E (29 September 2005); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.622277
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KEYWORDS
Acoustics

Binary data

Light scattering

Dispersion

Electronics

Acousto-optics

Modulation

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