Acousto-Optic Devices and Their Defence Applications

The book Is a balanced presentation of theory, fabrication and characterisation techniques and application of the acousto-optic devices. It is written with a view to help a beginner who wants to enter in this field, but does not know where to start and search in the vast available literature. Without going into tedious mathematics, the author has tried to make aware the underlying principles of topics like convolvers and correlators. From the applications point of view, applications of these devices have been given in detail which have direct relevance with the defence equipment technology.