Peculiarities of the acousto-optical interactions of Bessel light beams in crystals

Abstract

The noncollinear acousto-optical filtration of diffracted Bessel light beams in uniaxial paratellurite crystals has been investigated. With the use of the method of overlap integrals it is shown that independently on the order of Bessel light beams in the conditions of transverse phase-matching of diffracted waves in the range of optical spectrum of 0.4-1.1 nm in paratellurite crystals the bandwidth of transmission of ∼0.52 nm is reached due to detuning from Bragg’s synchronism only. It is shown that in uniaxial gyrotropic crystals polarization-independent diffraction of Bessel light beams is possible, i.e. Bragg diffraction efficiency is independent of the polarization state of the incident beam. It has been stated that the physical reason of such diffraction is simultaneous realization of two processes of anisotropic scattering under which the Bragg synchronism conditions are realized for the orthogonally polarized elliptical Bessel beams.