Eur. Phys. J. AP 6, 331-333 (1999)
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjap:1999175

Electro-acoustic modulator for X-ray based digital data transmission

¹ European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, B.P. 220, 38043 Grenoble Cedex, France
² Laboratoire de Cristallographie, CNRS, B.P. 166, 38042 Grenoble Cedex, France
³ Institute of Microelectronics Technology, Russian Academy of Sciences, 142432 Chernogolovka, Moscow District, Russia

Corresponding author: tucoulou@esrf.fr

Received: 11 January 1999
Accepted: 15 March 1999
Published online: 15 June 1999

Abstract

An experiment of high-frequency X-ray beam modulation for fast digital data transfer by X-rays is presented in this paper. The modulation of the beam is performed by diffraction on surface acoustic waves whose time-structure contains already the information to be transmitted. It has been possible to connect two computers via an X-ray beam and to perform digital data transfers at a speed of a few kbits/s.