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From: cradens@uceng.UC.EDU (carl radens)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Can lasers be deflected electroMAGNETically?
Summary: Acousto-optic scanning and deflection
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Date: 2 Jan 90 18:00:03 GMT
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In article <13100@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu>, kimf@tybalt.caltech.edu (Kim Flowers) writes:
> Would it be possible to cause a laser beam to scan by deflecting it
> off or through a piezoelectric (?) mirror or lense?  If so, by how much?
> Kim Flowers
> kimf@tybalt.caltech.edu

Acousto-optic devices operate by a photo-elastic interaction.
Many examples of practical bulk devices and optical guided wave
devices have been presented in the technical literature.
Bulk devicesy are commercially available in Lithium Niobate and some of
the III-V compound semiconductors.

See: _Electro-Optical and Acousto-Optic Scanning and Deflection_
by M. Gottlieb et al., Marcel Dekker, 1983.

Carl Radens, Cincinnati
cradens@uceng.uc.edu