Diffraction of Waves on Periodical Structures: Acoustic, Ultrasonic and Acousto-Optical Diffraction Phenomena

Monday, December 3, 2007 4:00 p.m. Professor Nico F. Declercq Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA, USA http://www.me.gatech.edu and Georgia Tech Lorraine Laboratory for Ultrasonic Nondestructive Evaluation Metz-Technopole, France http://www.georgiatech-metz.fr Diffraction effects, caused by the interaction of sound with periodical structures, occur in many fields of acoustics. In ultrasonics those effects are often used to…