Physical Acoustics

Section I: Invited Papers.- The Role of Surface Acoustic Waves in Scanning Acoustic Microscopy.- Ultrasonic Waves in Monodimensional Periodical Composites.- What To Do When Your World Turns Nonlinear.- Thermal Waves for Material Inspection.- Ultrasonic Backscattering: Fundamentals and Applications.- Lasers in Acoustics.- Optical Generation and Detection of Ultrasound.- Acousto-Optical Interaction in a Medium with Regulated Anisotropy.- Surface and Subsurface Waves for Characterization of Weakly and Highly Anisotropic Materials.- Complex Harmonic Plane Waves.- Use of Short Pulses and Ultrasonic Spectroscopy in Scattering Studies.- Optical Nearfield of Ultrasonic Light Diffraction.- Resonance Scattering Spectroscopy by the M.I.I.R.- Reflection and Refraction of Heterogeneous Waves at Plane Interfaces.- Modulation Effects in Light Diffraction by Two Ultrasonic Beams and Applications in Signal Processing.- Photoacoustics Applied to Liquid Crystals.- Recent Development of Ultrasonic Motors.- Section II: COMMUNICATIONS and POSTERS.- Photoacoustic and Photothermal Characterization of Amorphous Semiconductors Thin Films.- Two-Beam Bragg Diffraction.- High-Frequency Modulation of the White Light with Acoustooptic Modulator.- Leaky Waves in Solid-Liquid-Solid Systems. Acoustoelectronic Microanalysis of Viscous-Elastic Properties for Liquids of Biological Nature.- Acoustic Wave Propagation in Media Containing Two-Dimensional Periodically Spaced Elastic Inclusions.- Scattering of Shear Horizontal Waves by Massive Metallic Electrodes in SAW Devices.- Acoustooptic Interaction Application to Optical Wavefront Analysis.- Determination of Parameters for the Simulation of Surface Acoustic Wave Devices with Finite Elements.- Analysis of the Nearfield of Laser Light Diffracted by a Plane Ultrasonic Wave.- Magnetoelastic Mode Effect on Spin-Wave Instability Threshold.- Methods of Acoustic Microscopy in Investigation of High-Temperature Superconductors.- On the Extension of Horn Theory to Non-Uniform Visco-Elastic Rods.- Enhanced Propagation in a Foamy Medium.- Analysis of Surface Acoustic Wave in Layered Structure with Periodic Delamination.- Surface Acoustic Wave Scattering by Elliptic Metal Disk on Anisotropic Piezoelectric Halfspace.- Optical Detection and Analysis of Non-Linear Optoacoustic Waves.- Experimental Study of Guided Waves Propagating at the Interface Between a Fluid Cylinder and a Liquid Medium.- Surface Acoustic Wave Reception by an Interdigital Transducer.- Underwater Sound Scattering by Surface Gravity Waves.- Finite Amplitude Acoustic Waves Radiating from a Non-Resonant Vibrating Plate.- Scholte-Stoneley Waves in a Multilayered Medium with Elastic Bond Conditions at an Interface.- Sound Intensification in Foam.- The Influence of Heat Transfer and Liquid Flow on Sound Propagation in Foam.- The Peculiarity of Non-Linear Waves Evolution in Bubbly Liquids.- Boundary Element Method Analysis of Surface Acoustic Wave Devices.- Application of the Finite Element Method to Analyze the Scattering of a Plane Acoustic Wave from Doubly Periodic Structures.- Sound Propagation in Glass-Ceramic.- Visualization of the Resonances of a Fluid-Filled Cylindrical Shell Using a Low Frequency Schlieren System.- Light Scattering on Magnetostatic Waves in Thin-Film Gyrotropic Waveguide.- Rayleigh Wave Tomography.- Optical Interferometric Detection of Plate Waves on Circular Piezoelectric Transducers.- Experimental Study of Reflected Beam Profile by Two-Layer Plate Systems Immersed in Water.- Study of Phase Transitions by Frequency Dependent Photoacoustic Measurements.- Multichannel Acoustooptical Modulators and their Applications in the Devices of Signal Processing.- An Acoustic Ray Analysis of Wave Dispersion in Layered Structures.- The Angular Resolution of Acousto-Optical Lamb Mode Detection.- Inhomogeneous Plane Waves in Layered Media.- Depth Profiling by Fourier Analysis of Photoacoustic Signals.- A New Method for the Detection of Viscoelastic Solid Resonances: The Im/Re Spectrum.- The Mode Method in the Theory of Acoustic Wave Diffraction on Division Boundaries Between Different Structures.- Acoustic Waves in Two-Phase Media.- Propagation Velocity and Attenuation Coefficient of Rayleigh-Type Waves on Rough Solid Surfaces.- Localized Wave Transport of Pulsed Beam Energy.- Imaging Vertically Oriented Defects with Multi-SAFT.- Temperature Dependence of Optical Energy Gap in (As)x(Se)1?x and (Ge)x(Se)1?x Glasses.- Investigations of Photoacoustic Signals in Powders.- Photothermal-Wave Diffraction and Interference in Condensed Media: Experimental Evidence in Aluminum.- Evaluation of the Thickness of Shells by the M.I.I.R.- The Nth Order Approximation Method in Acousto-Optics and the Condition for "Pure" Bragg Reflection.- An Improved Theory of Photoacoustic Signal Generation in Gases and Liquids.- Theory of Photoacoustic Effect in Linear and Nonlinear Gyrotropic Piezoelectric Crystals.- Effects of Self-Action - Unexplored Field of Nonlinear Acoustics of Solid Surfaces.- A Novel Technique for Interface Wave Generation.- Parametric Mixing Effects in Surface Acoustic Waves Caused by Gas Bubbles in Liquids.- Photoacoustic Investigation of Optical Energy Gap in As-Se-Te Glasses.- Interferometric Probing of Optically Excited Surface Acoustic Wave Pulses for Thin Film Characterization.- Investigation of Thermal Wave Interference in CdGa2S4 by the Photoacoustic Method.- Pressure Waves Propagation in Gas-Liquid Foam.- Thermosensitivity of Generalized Rayleigh Waves for Rotated Y-Cuts in ?-Quartz.- Compression Elastic Wave Velocity and Absorption Measured by Electrical Impedancemetry.- Isolation of Resonances of a Cylindrical Target Immersed in Water by Means of a New Method Using Phase Information.- Acoustic Emission Characteristics of Schists and Sandstones.- Optoacoustic Raman Gain Spectroscopy of Binary Mixtures.- Light-induced Vortex Current Generation as a New Mechanism of Photoacoustic Phenomena in Semiconductors.- Some Aspects of Lateral Waves Generation and Detection by Acoustic Microscopy Using V(z) Technique.- Study of Inhomogeneous and Heterogeneous Ultrasonic Waves in Kidney Stones.- Scattering of Acoustic Waves in Randomly Inhomogeneous Media by means of the Small Perturbations Method.- Electroacoustic Effect in Capillars Containing an Electrolyte.- Scholte Wave Diffraction by a Periodically Rough Surface.- Quantitative Determination of Absorption Using Coupled Amplitude and Phase Photoacoustic Spectra.- Acoustooptic Reflection Coefficient for Bounded Beams on Plates Using Inhomogeneous Wave Description.- Reflection and Transmission Characteristics of an Alberich-Type Acoustic Barrier.- Acousto-Optical Filtration of Electromagnetic Radiation in Ultraviolet Region.- On the Theory of Acoustooptic Interaction in Fabry-Perot Cavities.- Secluded Supersonic Surface Wave in the Transversely Isotropic Materials.- The Inverse Acoustic Scattering Problems for One-dimensional Lossy Media.- High Resolution Laser Picosecond Acoustics in Thin Films.- Photoacoustic Simultaneous Studies of Thermal Conductivity, Diffusivity and Heat Capacity Over the Smectic A-Nematic Phase Transition in Alkylcyanobiphenyls with Varying Nematic Range.- Properties of Surface Acoustic Wave Devices under Strong External Fields.- Acoustooptic Nonreciprocity.- Author index.