Abstract

The phonon modes of a thick plate and a thick plate coated with a thin film are discussed in the light of recent experiments on Brillouin scattering in thin film optical waveguides. Using the reflection coefficients for bulk waves, we have obtained the field structures, the mode normalization for excitation by thermal fluctuations, and the density of states for these modes. Both bulk and surface (Rayleigh, Sezawa, and Love) phonons are discussed.

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