High-frequency acousto-optic effects in Bragg reflectors

Farmer, D.J., Akimov, Andrey V., Gippius, N.A., Bailey, James, Sharp, James S. and Kent, Anthony (2014) High-frequency acousto-optic effects in Bragg reflectors. Optics Express, 22 (12). pp. 15218-15231. ISSN 1094-4087

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Abstract

Picosecond acoustic interferometry was used to study the acousto-optic properties of a distributed Bragg reflector (DBR) manufactured from two immiscible polymers (cellulose acetate and polyvinylcarbyzole). Picosecond strain pulses were injected into the structure and changes in its reflectance were monitored as a function of time. The reflectance exhibited single-frequency harmonic oscillations as the strain pulse traversed the DBR. A transfer matrix method was used to model the reflectance of the DBR in response to interface modulation and photo-elastic effects. This work shows that photo-elastic effects can account for the acousto-optic response of DBRs with acoustically matched layers.

Item Type: Article
RIS ID: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/730723
Schools/Departments: University of Nottingham, UK > Faculty of Science > School of Physics and Astronomy
Identification Number: https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.22.015218
Depositing User: Sharp, James
Date Deposited: 30 Jun 2016 08:24
Last Modified: 04 May 2020 16:49
URI: https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/id/eprint/34496

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