1953 R. H. Parmenter in PhysicalRev. LXXXIX. 990/2We discuss the effect on the conduction electrons of a crystal resulting from a single traveling longitudinal acoustic wave in the crystal... There are a few electrons..capable of being trapped by the moving electric field... Those having a maximum energy will..give rise to a net electric current... Such a generation of an electric current by a traveling acoustic wave may be called the *acousto-electric effect.
1968 New Scientist 23 May 402 Acousto-electric oscillators may also be useful for measuring changes in applied strain.
1984 Aviation Week & Space Technol. 3 Dec. 78A joint program..is under way to develop further a phase-insensitive ultrasonic transducer design based on the acoustoelectric rather than the piezoelectric response.
1959 New Scientist 8 Jan. 86/2 (heading) *Acoustoelectricity.
1984 Jrnl. AcousticalSoc. Amer. LXXVI. 826Creation of an SH magnetoacoustic surface mode akin to the Bleustein–Gulyaev mode of acoustoelectricity.
1970 Sci. Jrnl. May 46/3At a minimum the *acousto-electronic elements must accommodate half a wavelength end to end to allow the coupling and amplifying function to take place between the two types of wave.
1984 IEEE Trans. Sonics & Ultrasonics XXXI. 77/1In mass produced acoustoelectronic devices..the cost of packaging makes up a significant proportion of the total cost of the device.
1968 Sendai Symposium on Acoustoelectronics (Tohoku Univ. ) 6The term ‘*acoustoelectronics’ which has been used here in this Institute means a science of intermediate field between electronics and acoustics.
1975 Proc. Symp. Optical & Acoustical Microelectronics 1974 625The advantages of Gulyaev–Bleustein waves for acoustoelectronics are shown.
1967 Jrnl. Appl. Physics XXXVIII. 5152/1An *acousto-optic device.
1970 New Scientist 7 May 285 The acousto-optic modulator is a prism of fused quartz..with an electro-acoustic transducer..on one end.
1971 Nature 9 July 111/1 The focused light beam is made to scan rapidly over a selected area of the mirror by means of two acousto-optic light deflector cells.
1973 McGraw-Hill Yearbk. Sci. &Technol. 143/2Acoustooptic interaction..enables a tiny pencil-like laser beam to ‘write’ or make ‘dots’ of light in less than a millionth of a second.
1966 Applied Optics V. 1674/1 The high center frequency would require a solid *acoustooptical medium.
1970 New Scientist 21 May 377/1 Dr King has chosen rather to include an intermediate photographic recording stage and by doing so uses only one acousto-optical cell.
1982 Defense Electronics June 40/3 A 500-MHz bandwidth acousto-optical processor, wide IF bandwidth receiver..provides spectral surveillance.
1983 Ibid. Jan. 115/2The *acousto-optically Q-switched Nd:YAG laser..provides high peak energies.
1969 IEEE Jrnl. Quantum Electronics V. 331/1Acoustooptic laser modulators provide time-bandwidth products of more than 20000 and the theoretical feasibility of reaching even higher values has made *acoustooptics one of the most potent and versatile laser modulation methods available today.
1972 Sci. News 9 Dec. 381Practical applications of acoustooptics are showing up in many areas where laser light may be used to gain or transmit information.
1983 Washington Post 2 May (Business Suppl. ) 40/4Isomet designs and manufactures products that control lasers by acousto-optics, a technology that uses ultrasonic signals that are capable of diffracting beams of light.
ORIGIN: from acoustic adjective + -o- .
acousto-
combining form.
of sound or acoustic waves: Acoustoelectronics = the study of the conversion of electronic signals into sound waves.
acoustic and _____: Acousto-optic modulator = acoustic and optic modulator.