Abstract: A surface acoustic wave resonator has two solid-type interdigital transducers and two grating reflectors arranged on a piezoelectric substrate or on a surface acoustic wave substrate which contains a piezoelectric material and the reflectors are arranged outside these transducers. If the electrode pitch of the interdigital transducers is suitably different from the pitch of grating of the reflectors, ripples caused by the triple transit echo at frequencies other than the peak frequency are deviated so as to lie outside the stop band of the reflectors, so that spurious responses are suppressed. In this case, the number of electrode pairs Ni of the interdigital transducers should satisfy a relation, Ni.gtoreq..pi./.epsilon., wherein .epsilon.