Higher order diffracting-grating transducers

摘要

Abstract: A new method of blood-flow measurement requires construction of transducers that act like diffraction gratings, producing beams at variable angles as a function of the signals driving them. A new transducer structure that eases fabrication and operation of such transducers is presented and its operation experimentally verified. This transducer is called a higher-order diffracting-grating transducer because, like a higher-order optical diffraction grating, the periodicity of its elements is based on a multiple number of wavelengths. The theory and experimental results for this new transducer structure are shown to agree. !11