Method of and apparatus for changing frequency power and/or delay time of wave energy

Abstract

Abstract A device for processing electromagnetic wave energy by converting the wave energy to spin waves and/or elastic waves, the present disclosure being particularly directed to the concept of providing a device made up of a single-crystal material which contains non-uniform material parameters to give graded values of material saturation 4 pi Ms. The material discussed in greatest detail is YIG and the non-uniform material parameters are furnished by doping the YIG with gallium. The graded material parameters in combination with an external magnetic bias field H result in an internal magnetic bias field H. The electromagnetic energy as it enters the material is acted upon in a manner that is influenced greatly by the contour of H. The contour of H in the present disclosure, in turn, is predetermined to present gradations in H which will allow the conversion mentioned and which allow predetermination of the wavenumber k of the magnons and/or phonons thereby formed. Furthermore, the place or space within the crystal at which conversion occurs can be somewhat determined by the profile of H thereby provided.

Inventors

• 👤 Frederic R Morgenthaler

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