Acousto-optic control of speckle contrast in multimode fibers with a cylindrical piezoelectric transducer oscillating in the radial direction

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 20, 2009, Pages 17536-17546

  Ha, Woosung ^a   Lee, Sejin ^a   Jung, Yongmin ^b   Kim, Jun Ki ^c   Oh, Kyunghwan ^a  

^a Yonsei University   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^c FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED OPTICS AND PRECISION ENGINEERING   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBERS; PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSDUCERS; PIEZOELECTRICITY; SPECKLE; TRANSDUCERS; VIBRATION ANALYSIS;

INTENSITY MODULATIONS; PARTIAL COHERENCE; PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSDUCERS (PZT); POWER SPLITTING; RADIAL DIRECTION; SINGLE FRAMES; SPECKLE CONTRASTS; TIME-AVERAGED;

MULTIMODE FIBERS;

GLASS FIBER;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; MICROELECTROMECHANICAL SYSTEM; OSCILLOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSDUCER;

ACOUSTICS; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LASERS; MICRO-ELECTRICAL-MECHANICAL SYSTEMS; OPTICAL FIBERS; OSCILLOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 70349669590     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.017536     Document Type: Article

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