The picosecond holographic grating generation and detection of ultrasonic waves are described. Two mechanisms, a heating mechanism and a stimulated Brillouin scattering mechanism, are described. These permit the generation of tunable ultrasonic waves in the MHz to GHz range. It is demonstrated that the two mechanisms can be distinguished by the distinct time dependences of the diffraction of a ...

By scattering particles and causing dissipation, waves in a collisionless shock play a role similar to collisions in an ordinary gas. In describing the waves and instability that occur near a shock three regions must be considered: (1) the transition region, (2) the upstream region, and (3) the downstream region. The transition region is usually characterized by an abrupt broadband burst of ele...

We develop a quantum theory of the nonlinear interaction between intense surface acoustic waves and electrons in a quantum well in the regime of moving quantum wires and dots. In the quantum nonlinear regime, the sound attenuation exhibits quantum oscillations and dramatically decreases with increasing quantization. In the case of dynamically created electron dots formed by two acoustic waves, ...

This paper studies the propagation of shear waves in a composite structure consisting of a piezoelectric layer perfectly bonded over a micropolar elastic half space. The general dispersion equations for the existence of shear waves are obtained analytically in the closed form. Some particular cases have been discussed and in one special case the relation obtained is in agreement with existing r...

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We consider waves propagating through multiscale media. Much is known about waves propagating through a medium that satisfies a scale separation assumption with random fluctuations on a microscale. Here we go beyond this situation and consider waves propagating through a medium defined in terms of a long range process. Such a medium can, for instance, be modeled in terms of a one-dimensional fr...

Recent work on second sound acoustic turbulence in superfliud '̂ He is reviewed. Observations of forward and inverse energy cascades are described. The onset of the inverse cascade occurs above a critical driving energy and it is accompanied by giant waves that constitute an acoustic analogue of the rogue waves that occasionally appear on the surface of the ocean. The theory of the phenomenon is...