Enhancement of the efficiency of acousto-optic Bragg diffraction due to optical activity. A case of Pb${}_5$Ge${}_3$O${}_{11}$ crystals

Oksana Mys, Myroslav Kostyrko, Ivan Orykhivskyi +3

We show that the existence of optical activity in an optical material can lead to essential enhancement of acousto-optic (AO) figure of merit for this material. The reason is that…