Characterization of a broadband all-optical ultrasound transducer - From optical and acoustical properties to imaging

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 55, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1867-1877

  Hou, Yang ^b   Kim, Jin Sung ^b   Huang, Sheng Wen ^b   Ashkenazi, Shai ^a,b   Guo, L Jay ^a,b   O'Donnell, Matthew ^a,c  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c University of Washington   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICAL PROPERTIES; ALL-OPTICAL; CENTER FREQUENCIES; CW LASERS; FAR FIELDS; GLASS SUBSTRATES; GOLD LAYERS; GOLD NANO STRUCTURES; HIGH FREQUENCIES; HIGH FREQUENCY ULTRASOUNDS; HIGH RESOLUTIONS; HIGH-FREQUENCY ULTRASOUND IMAGING; IN-BETWEEN; MULTIPLE MEASUREMENTS; OPTICAL-; PULSE ECHOES; RESONANCE WAVELENGTHS; THICK GOLD LAYER; TRANSDUCER SURFACE; ULTRASOUND DETECTION; ULTRASOUND GENERATION; ULTRASOUND IMAGING; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCERS;

ACOUSTIC WAVES; GOLD; LASERS; MICROCHANNELS; NANOSTRUCTURES; OPTICAL DESIGN; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS; RESONANCE; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS; ULTRASONIC DEVICES; ULTRASONIC PROPAGATION; ULTRASONIC SCATTERING; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONIC TRANSMISSION; ULTRASONICS;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; TRANSDUCER;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; OPTICAL DEVICES; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 49549102873     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2008.870     Document Type: Article

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