Imaging surface-acoustic fields in a longitudinal leaky wave resonator

Acoustic wave fields in a surface-acoustic-wave resonator employing the longitudinal leaky wave mode have been imaged using a scanning Michelson laser interferometer. The synchronous one-port resonator is fabricated on YZ -cut lithium niobate. The vibration amplitude component perpendicular to the surface has been measured at several frequencies around the fundamental-mode resonance frequency of 1.54 GHz and around the Rayleigh-wave resonance frequency of 0.82 GHz. The longitudinal beating pattern, typically observed in the resonators utilizing Rayleigh waves, is not observed in the longitudinal leaky surface acoustic-wave resonator within the measured frequency range.