US 12,030,085 B2
Acousto-optic coupling techniques and related systems and methods
Peter Rakich, New Haven, CT (US); Prashanta Kharel, Cambridge, MA (US); William Renninger, Rochester, NY (US); and Ryan Orson Behunin, Flagstaff, AZ (US)
Assigned to Yale University, New Haven, CT (US)
Appl. No. 16/488,223
Filed by Yale University, New Haven, CT (US)
PCT Filed Feb. 28, 2018, PCT No. PCT/US2018/020197
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Aug. 22, 2019,
PCT Pub. No. WO2018/160679, PCT Pub. Date Sep. 7, 2018.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/465,104, filed on Feb. 28, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2020/0030849 A1, Jan. 30, 2020
Int. Cl. B06B 1/04 (2006.01); G02F 1/11 (2006.01); G10K 15/00 (2006.01); H01S 3/08 (2023.01); H03F 3/00 (2006.01)
CPC B06B 1/04 (2013.01) [G10K 15/00 (2013.01); H01S 3/08059 (2013.01); H03F 3/00 (2013.01); G02F 1/11 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A resonator, comprising:
a plano-convex crystal structure having at least a planar face and a convex face;
at least one pump input arranged to supply light to the planar face of the plano-convex crystal structure; and
at least one controller configured to direct light onto the planar face of the plano-convex crystal structure via the at least one pump input such that the light propagates through the plano-convex crystal structure from the planar face to the convex face and produces a coherent acoustic phonon mode across the plano-convex crystal structure.