Patent ID: 9436061
Filing Date: 2016-09-06
CPC Classification: G02F

Claim Text:
1. An acousto-optic modulator comprising: an acousto-optic medium having a configuration of a polyhedron with not less than seven surfaces; and a piezoelectric transducer provided on a seventh surface (C′) of the acousto-optic medium, wherein the seventh surface (C′) has four respective sides shared by twelfth, thirteenth, tenth, and eleventh surfaces (E′, F′, G′, and H′), four angles defined between the seventh surface (C′) and the twelfth, thirteenth, tenth, and eleventh surfaces (E′, F′, G′ and H′) are each ninety degrees, one of the twelfth and thirteenth surfaces (E′ and F′) serves as a light input surface, and the other one of the twelfth and thirteenth surfaces (E′ and F′) serves as a light output surface, and a number of surfaces (D′