We report the design and operation of a surface-emitting surface acoustic wave (SAW) acousto-optical modulator which behaves as a cm-scale linear hologram in response to an applied electronic waveform. The modulator is formed by an optical waveguide, transducer, and out-coupling surface grating on a 1 mm-thick lithium niobate substrate. We demonstrate the ability to load and illuminate a 9-region linear hologram into the modulator's 8 mm-long interaction region using applied waveforms of 280-320 MHz. To the best of the authors' knowledge, this is the first demonstration of a monolithically-integrated, surface-emitting SAW modulator fabricated using lithographic techniques. Applications include practical implementations of a holographic display.
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@article{arxiv.1906.11610,
title = {Surface-emitting electroholographic SAW modulator},
author = {Joy C. Perkinson and Michael G. Moebius and Elizabeth J. Brundage and William A. Teynor and Steven J. Byrnes and James C. Hsiao and William D. Sawyer and Dennis M. Callahan and Ian W. Frank and John J. LeBlanc and Gregg E. Favalora},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1906.11610},
year = {2020}
}
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6 pages plus 1 page of long-form references; 6 figures