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I'm supposed to give a seminar tomorrow for my 300 level experimental physics paper. The experiments we do our reports on are pre-determined and I pulled the short straw with the most bloody complicated on here, the acousto-optic modulator. I'm trying to get my head around it and I've spend the good part of the day and not gotten very far. I understand that you require constructive interference to produce the maxima and due to the varying refractive indices of the material we will get a weird equation. But the equation we are given is
sin (θ) = λ/2nd
Where θ the bragg angle, d is the wavelength of the sound wave in the acousto optic modulator. So it seems odd to me firstly how are the multiple maxima produced when the light in angle must equal the light out angle shouldn't that just produce on maxima. Secondly how can we just chuck n in for the quoted refractive index of the crystal when this varies at every point. How the hell is this equation derived specifically for brillouin scattering. There are no good sources of this on the internet.
Please help, thanks.
sin (θ) = λ/2nd
Where θ the bragg angle, d is the wavelength of the sound wave in the acousto optic modulator. So it seems odd to me firstly how are the multiple maxima produced when the light in angle must equal the light out angle shouldn't that just produce on maxima. Secondly how can we just chuck n in for the quoted refractive index of the crystal when this varies at every point. How the hell is this equation derived specifically for brillouin scattering. There are no good sources of this on the internet.
Please help, thanks.