title: Analysis of the optimum optical incident angle for an imaging acousto-optic tunable filter.
abstract: The selection of the incident polar angle is very important in the entire design of the noncollinear acousto-optic tunable filter (AOTF). The authors discussed how the factors, including tuning range of wavelength, the acoustic frequency, the acousto-optic figure of merit, the spectral bandwidth, the spread of filtered beam and the wavelength dependence, influence the selection of the optimum incident polar angle. By an accurate theoretical analysis, a method of selecting the optimum incident angle was presented. The analysis was significant for improving the performance of the imaging AOTF from the visible to the infrared.
authors: Chunguang
authors: C
authors: Zhang
authors: Zhonghua
authors: Z
authors: Zhang
authors: Hao
authors: H
authors: Wang
authors: Yu
authors: Y
authors: Yang