Multichannel Acoustooptical Modulators and Their Applications in the Devices of Signal Processing

The authors are the representatives of a not great research group, which is engaged in the acoustooptical (AO) methods applications for information (signal) processing from the early sixties. Within the great number of AO—devices the more perspective are the space—time electrical signal processors. The basis of such processors are the multichannel AO space—time modulators. The problems of design and manufacturing of the bulk multichannel AO—modulators are under consideration. Some results of their use in the information processing devices are presented.