The purpose of this book is to introduce the reader to the acoustic wave concepts required for the design of a wide range of acoustic devices, and to discuss some of these devices in detail. My aim has been to describe a wide range of classical and more recently developed theoretical methods, such as perturbation and coupled wave theories, and to show how these concepts are applied to understanding the wide range of acoustic devices now being used in practical applications. The subjects covered in this book reflect my own research interests during the last ten years. Many of the new results are due to the original work of myself and my colleagues Bert Auld, Marvin Chodorow, Pierre Khun-Yakub, John Shaw, and Cal Quate, and our research associates and students in the Ginzton Laboratory at Stanford University. Most of the text was first developed for class notes and taught by me, at Stanford, in two separate one-quarter graduate courses, “Theory of Acoustic Devices” and “Analog Signal Processing.”

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