Point source in a phononic grating: stop bands give rise to phonon-focusing caustics

We use locally-excited gigahertz surface phonon wavepackets in microscopic line structures of different pitches to reveal profound anisotropy in the radiation pattern of a point source in a grating. Time-domain data obtained by an ultrafast optical imaging technique and by numerical simulations are...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Maznev, Alexei, Veres, Istvan A., Profunser, Dieter M., Every, Arthur G., Matsuda, Osamu, Wright, Oliver B.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Chemistry
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: IOP Publishing 2013
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/78019