Laser Excited Broadside Acoustic Array

Digitally Excited Reconfigurable Linear Antenna Array Using Swarm Optimization Algorithms

This paper describes the synthesis of digitally excited pencil/flat top dual beams simultaneously in a linear antenna array constructed of isotropic elements. The objective is to generate a pencil/flat top beam pair using the excitations generated by the evolutionary algorithms. Both the beams share common variable discrete amplitude excitations and differ in variable discrete phase excitations...

Laser-excited acoustic oscillations in silver and bismuth nanowires

Coherent acoustic oscillations in Bi and Ag nanowire samples were studied with a femtosecond pump-probe technique and detection of the scattered light. The observed optical and acoustic properties reflect the nanostructure of these materials. The electronic and lattice contributions to the excitation of coherent acoustic phonons are described using a two-temperature model. The excitation is per...

Picosecond X-ray diffraction studies of laser-excited acoustic phonons in InSb

We have employed time-resolved X-ray diffraction with picosecond temporal resolution to measure the timedependent rocking curves of laser-irradiated asymmetrically cut single InSb crystals. Coherent acoustic phonons were excited in the crystals by irradiation with 800-nm, 100-fs laser pulses at irradiances between 0.25 and 12 mJ/cm2. The induced time-dependent strain profiles (corresponding to ...

Characterization of a Polycrystalline Material with Laser-Excited Nonlinear Surface Acoustic Wave Pulses

2 Department of Physics, Texas A & M University, College Station, Texas 77843-4242, U.S.A. 3 General Physics Institute, Moscow 117942, Russia. 4 To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: [email protected] High-amplitude nonlinear surface acoustic waves (SAWs) generated by laser pulses were observed in polycrystalline material (stainless steel), and the nonlinear acoustic p...

Laser Excited Fluorescence of Dityrosine