Abstract
A SAW waveguide directional coupler that was used to provide a raised-cosine apodization of the SAW beam intensity, in order to achieve sidelobe suppression of an integrated acoustooptic filter, is demonstrated. The SAW guide coupler consisted of two closely spaced, evanescently coupled parallel acoustic waveguides. A single guided SAW mode was excited by a miniature transducer imbedded in a 100-mum-wide waveguide, and in excess of 99% of the SAW energy was transferred from the original waveguide to the coupled guide, and back, across a gap of 20 mum. The coupling length (for complete crossover) was 9.8 mm and depended exponentially on gap, as expected. This SAW coupler resulted in 10-dB sidelobe suppression compared to an unapodized acoustooptic filter.
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