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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 01, 1980
Filed:
Aug. 09, 1978
Joseph F Weller, Oxon Hill, MD (US);
James D Crowley, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Thomas G Giallorenzi, Springfield, VA (US);
The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy, Washington, DC (US);
Abstract
Two input transducers launch oppositely-propagating acoustic surface waves on a piezoelectric substrate. The waves are compressed to a smaller beamwidth and then laterally confined in a diffused channel waveguide where non-linear interaction occurs at increased energy densities due to the beam compression. In one embodiment the beam compression is accomplished in multistrip couplers. In another embodiment, diffused horn-shaped channels are provided for compressing the beamwidth. Both piezoelectric and semiconductor convolvers are disclosed.