Acousto-Optic Modulator Driven by Surface Acoustic Waves |
| S. Kakio
Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Medicine and Engineering, University of Yamanashi, Kofu 400-8511, Japan |
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| In this paper, an introduction to the design, fabrication, evaluation, and application of acousto-optic modulators using the Bragg diffraction of an optical guided wave in a channel optical waveguide due to a surface acoustic wave is provided. First, the surface acoustic wave mode dependence in the acousto-optic Bragg diffraction was discussed by considering the surface acoustic wave power required for the maximum diffraction P100 calculated using coupled mode theory and the measured P100 in Ti-diffused planar optical waveguides fabricated on LiNbO3 substrates. Next, performances of several devices that the author and the coworkers developed are reviewed. These include a waveguide-type acousto-optic modulator using a tapered crossed-channel proton-exchanged optical waveguide on a 128°-rotated Y-cut LiNbO3 substrate for an optical wavelength of 1.55 μm, a monolithically integrated tandem acousto-optic modulator in which several waveguide-type acousto-optic modulators are connected in tandem on the same substrate, and a waveguide-type acousto-optic modulator in which laser lights of the three primary colors, red, green, and blue, can be modulated by the same modulator at the same driving frequency. |
DOI: 10.12693/APhysPolA.127.15 PACS numbers: 42.79.Jq, 43.35.Sx, 78.20.Hp, 78.20.hb |