Abstract:
This disclosure depicts a virtual image viewing system including a component to be worn by an observer in the manner of spectacles, the system being responsive to a source of video signals and associated deflection signals and to a laser beam for establishing a virtual optical image representing said video signals which is visible only to the observer. In one embodiment the system includes flying spot scanning means which is responsive to the deflection signals and which receives the laser beam for deflecting the beam in two dimensions and for converging the beam to form an unmodulated flying spot raster. A Bragg light-sound interaction cell constituting the component to be worn is responsive to the video signals and receives light from the flying spot raster for modulating the received light to develop a virtual image representing the video signals which is visible only to the observer. Other embodiments are depicted.
Abstract:
Light-beam scanning angles obtainable from light-sound interaction are increased by introducing dispersion of the sound waves. In one general approach, the sound waves are passed through a fixed grating or otherwise through a medium which is dispersive by reason of its character. In another general approach, vibrational dispersion is obtained by launching a longitudinal wave in response to either a shear wave or an extensional wave.
Abstract:
A transducer capable of large excursions in response to a signal takes the form of a coiled element of ferroelectric material. Shear stresses produced in opposite faces of the element oppose each other, so that each incremential portion of the element is subjected to a net torsional or twisting stress about its centerline, with resulting axial displacement of the coil. The element may be coiled either helically or spirally. Such axial movement may be used, for example, to drive the cone of a loudspeaker. In one general approach, a pair of electrodes, spaced side-by-side and helically wound on the outer surface of a coiled tube, are coupled across a signal source. In another form, the coiled element is composed of a pair of joined sections which carry symmetrically mirrored electrode pairs canted to the element centerline and embracing oppositely poled portions of the mating sections. The driving signals are coupled interdigitally to the electrode pairs. The transducers also may be operated in the reverse mode as generators.
Abstract:
A body of piezoelectric material propagates acoustic surface waves. A first surface wave interaction device is actively coupled to that surface to interact with the waves. Spaced on the same surface from the first device is a second such interaction device. The interaction devices are segmented into a plurality of interjacent arrays of electrode elements and the spacing between successive electrode elements is equal to an integral multiple of one-half wavelength at the desired operating frequency. The arrays are electrically coupled in series and are disposed to effect cumulative interaction with the surface waves.