Laser removal of mold growth from paper

Femtosecond laser nano-processing by enhanced light scattered from nanospheres has received much attention. Enhanced scattered near field enables us to ablate nanoholes at nanometer scales below the diffraction limit. In addition, the interference between the scattered far field and the irradiated laser enables us to fabricate spatially controlled periodic surface structures. In this paper, we simulated the time evolution of scattered near field and far field during the free electron excitation in silicon (Si) by femtosecond laser irradiation. The optical property of Si changes from dielectric to metal-like Si due to the increase of the free electron number density excited by femtosecond laser pulse. It is elucidated that the scattered field of Si shifts from Mie scattering to plasmonic scattering during laser irradiation. We achieved the optimal free electron density and laser intensity for precisely controlled periodic surface structures fabrication. We explained the temporal behavior of the scattering near field and far field from the standpoint of dielectric function of the materials.     

A direct method of particle sizing based on the statistical processing of scattered photons from particles executing Brownian motion

A direct method of determining the mean diameter of particles executing Brownian motion is presented. The temporal coherence of the scattered field from submicroscopic particles illuminated by laser light is a function of both the integration time and the particle diameter. The temporal degree of coherence of the time-averaged scattered intensity decreases as the integration time increases. Statistical processing of the scattered photons leads to a method of particle sizing (average diameter), which circumvents the need for digital autocor-relation or power spectral estimation.     

Instabilities of waves in nonlinear disordered media

We develop a self-consistent theory of temporal fluctuations of a speckle pattern resulting from the multiple scattering of a coherent wave in a weakly nonlinear disordered medium. The speckle pattern is shown to become unstable if the nonlinearity exceeds a threshold value. The instability is due to a feedback provided by the multiple scattering and manifests itself in spontaneous fluctuations of the scattered intensity. The development of instability is independent of the sign of nonlinearity.     

用光电子能谱相位确定法同时测量阿秒超紫外线XUV脉冲的频率和强度时间分布

介绍阿秒超紫外线(XUV)激发惰性气体原子产生光电子并在强激光电场中运动的半经典近似 方法，以及同时、直接、全面地测量阿秒XUV脉冲频率和强度时间分布的光电子能谱相位确定法. 采用飞秒超短脉冲激光和XUV间的交叉关联技术，从不同激光强度下、与激光线性极化方向成0°或180°方向上测得的光电子能量积分谱，可以重建XUV的频率和强度时间分布. XUV脉冲时间宽度的测量范围从1／4到1／2激光振荡周期，时间分辨率取决于激光束和XUV脉冲之间的相对延时控制精度和光路抖动时间. 所述方法可用于在阿秒尺度上的超快速测量，以及有关电子在原子和分子中运动的超快速动力学过程研究. 关键词： 阿秒测量 光电子能谱 相位确定法 超紫外线 频率和强度时间分布     

Comparison between instantaneous and integral intensities in dynamic speckle pattern interferometry

A new speckle measurement technique called temporal speckle pattern interferometry or time sequential speckle pattern interferometry has been developed recently. Its principle is that by capturing the temporal speckle patterns related to the object deformation or displacement, the whole-field displacement, the amplitude of the vibrating object and the shape of the tested object can be calculated through speckle intensity fluctuation scanning technique or Fourier-transforming method. In this paper, we combine the analytical and numerical methods to simulate the properties of the time demodulation in temporal speckle patterns interferometry techniques. The performance of three kinds of temporal phase sequences, power, exponential and harmonic phase sequences, are studied with the parameters of temporal speckle intensity fluctuation, the value of the spatial phase term, optical integral time of the recording camera and the initial phase of the temporal speckle intensities. The results indicate that the normalized value and period change of the instantaneous intensity are nearly coincident with that of the integral intensity for the harmonic temporal phase sequences and are different for the power and exponential temporal phase sequences.     

Specific features of the manifestation of the Doppler effect in diffraction of focused coherent beams in a scattering flow

Intensity fluctuations of a dynamic speckle field formed by diffraction of sharply focused coherent beams in a random flow are studied. Dependences of the form of the spectrum of scattered light intensity fluctuations on the speckle observation angle, flow velocity, and concentration of scatterers are found. The influence of the unscattered component on the formation of the statistically inhomogeneous dynamic speckle field is determined.     

Continual deformation analysis with scanning phase method and time sequence phase method in temporal speckle pattern interferometry

If a laser beam illuminates a continual deformation object surface, it will lead to a temporal speckle pattern on the observation plane. Recording this time-dependent speckle pattern the deformation of the surface of an object can be obtained. Two methods, scanning phase method (SPM) and time sequence phase method (TSPM), have been introduced for measuring the displacement caused by the deformation in temporal speckle pattern interferometry (TSPI). Their principle is that by capturing a series of speckle interference patterns related to the object deformations, the fluctuations in the intensity of the interference patterns can be obtained. Through scanning these fluctuations and estimating both the average intensity and modulation of the temporal speckle interference patterns, the phase maps for whole-field displacements are calculated. In this way one is capable of quantitatively measuring continual displacements simply using a conventional electronic speckle pattern interferometry (ESPI) system without phase shifting or a carrier. The elaboration on the new methods is given in this paper and experiments are performed to demonstrate their performance with a conventional ESPI system.     

Measuring temporal fluctuation on femtosecond scale in a random medium

We report an observation of femtosecond optical fluctuations of transmitted light when a coherent femtosecond pulse propagates through a random medium. They are a result of random interference among scattered waves coming from different trajectories in the time domain. Temporal fluctuations are measured by using cross-correlated frequency optical gating. It is shown that a femtosecond pulse will be broadened and distorted in pulse shape while it is propagating in random medium. The real and imaginary components of transmitted electric field are also distorted severely. The average of the fluctuated transmission pulses yields a smooth profile, probability functions show good agreement with Gaussian distribution.     

Noncircularity of light field scattered by non-Gaussian reliefs

Dependences of the degree of circularity of a scattered electromagnetic field on the type and the structure of a relief are considered. It is shown that, for strongly rough non-Gaussian surfaces, the degree of circularity of the field is smaller than that for the normal surface, and that the speckle contrast for bimodal surfaces can achieve values greater than unity. Errors that arise upon calculating the contrast and shape of the speckle intensity distribution density are analyzed without taking into account the noncircularity of the scattered field.     

散射介质中多重散射太赫兹脉冲的时域统计特性

对散射介质中多重散射太赫兹脉冲的时域统计特性进行了分析.给出了时间延迟量取不同值时电场的概率分布、散射场强度及其概率分布、散射场实部和虚部的概率分布.由于脉冲的宽带特性及瞬间特性,多重散射场概率统计分布与不同时间延迟量有关,太赫兹脉冲多重散射场的统计特性分布是非平稳过程.     

Simulation of dynamic speckle sequences and its application to the analysis of transient processes

Dynamic speckle has been used in recent years to analyse several transient processes that are produced in industrial and biological applications. We present here a numerical simulation to generate a temporal sequence of dynamic speckle patterns which is based on a model used for speckle formation by the superposition of waves from discrete scattering centres. It is demonstrated that the first and second statistics of the intensity of each speckle image, the time history of the speckle pattern, the temporal evolution of the correlation coefficient, and the power spectral density of the intensity generated by the proposed model reproduce quite well those obtained from experimentally recorded data. The process of a fast drying paint is presented as an example of the application of the proposed numerical model.     

时域飞秒散斑的特性与测量

阐述了飞秒激光脉冲在随机介质传播过程中产生时域散斑的原理,并对时域飞秒散斑进行了测量. 时域飞秒散斑的产生是飞秒脉冲在随机介质中经历多重散射形成的随机干涉现象在时域的体现. 初步讨论了时域散斑的统计特性并给出了相应的实验结果. 关键词： 时域散斑 飞秒脉冲 随机介质     

Single exposure photography applied to a slow flow field

A speckle photography technique has been applied to measuring the velocity profiles of laminar and turbulent flow through pipes of circular cross-section. A single exposure photography technique has been used to visualize slow fluid flow. The fluids used were seeded with tracer particles whose size range from 20 to about 120 μm in diameter. A mathematical expression representing the recorded intensity is presented. A single exposure with a long exposure time was taken on a holographic film material. The recorded intensity was represented by the convolution product of the image formed and a rectangular function representing a one-dimensional continuous motion. The analysis shows that the intensity distribution of the Fourier spectrum of the diffracted image follows a sinc² function on a noise background representing the scattered light of the tracer particles.     

The autocorrelation function of polychromatic laser speckle patterns near the image plane

The autocorrelation function of polychromatic speckle patterns produced near the image plane of a double diffraction imaging system is experimentally studied. The condition under which the polychromatic speckle field obeys Gaussian statistics is further investigated as a function of the numberN of scattering cells, using the average contrast of the speckle intensity fluctuations. The profile of the autocorrelation function is next investigated as a function ofN and the defocused distance from the image plane. It is found that the average contrast and autocorrelation function of the polychromatic speckle intensity fluctuations converge less rapidly with an increase inN than those of the monochromatic ones.     

Scattering of a general partially coherent beam from a diffuse target in atmospheric turbulence

The second-order and fourth-order statistical moments of the speckle field from a diffuse target in atmospheric turbulence are studied which have great influence on the performance of lidar systems. By expanding a general rotationally symmetric beam as a sum of Gaussian–Schell model(GSM) beams, the mean intensity of the general beam propagating over a distance in an atmospheric turbulence is formulated. Expressions for the degree of coherence(DOC) and the normalized intensity variance of the scattered field of a general beam from a rough surface in turbulence are derived based on the extended Huygens–Fresnel principle. The general expressions reduce to the well-known forms for a GSM beam. Another example for the general beam used in this paper is the collimated flat-topped beam. The results of both kinds of beams show that the intensity profile on the target plane is a key factor affecting the statistical characteristics of the speckle field.A larger beam spot on the target plane induces a smaller coherence length and a smaller normalized intensity variance of the received field. As turbulence gets stronger, the coherence length becomes smaller, and the normalized intensity variance firstly increases and declines to unity finally.     

Spectral-interferometric method for retrieving femtosecond pulse envelope

We propose a new, spectral-interferometric, technique of complete characterization of ultrashort pulses. The technique is based on employing, as a reference, a sub-parabolic pulse with a known phase formed in a single-mode fiber from the pulse under study. The proposed method has been tested experimentally with femtosecond pulses. Initial phases and temporal profiles of intensity of tested pulses have been restored.     

Laser-phase determination methods and transfer equations for direct temporal structure measure- ments of atto- and femtosecond XUV pulses

In this paper the laser-phase determination methods and transfer equations are presented to directly reconstruct the detailed temporal structures of ultra-short extreme ultraviolet (xuv) pulses from the measured photoelectron energy spectra (PES). Each transfer equation includes one of PID (proportional-integral-differential) terms of PES. The intensity and instantaneous frequency of attosecond xuv can be retrieved from the integral term of PES. The intensity profiles of narrow bandwidth atto- and femtosecond xuvs can be rebuilt from the proportional and differential terms of PES respectively. The methods and equations may be used to improve time resolutions in measuring ultrashort pulses.     

Statistical properties of speckle intensity variations in the diffraction field under illumination of coherent light

The statistical properties of speckle intensity variations produced by coherent light in the diffraction field of diffusely transmitting objects are investigated experimentally with intimate relation to their surface roughness. The probability distribution and the average contrast of intensity variations in speckle patterns are studied as a function of the surface roughness of the objects and the receiving plane in the diffraction field.     

纵向运动双散射散斑场的动态特性研究

研究了慢纵向运动双散射散斑场的统计性质,得出纵向运动双散射散斑振幅自相关函数、强度涨落自相关函数,并由此得出,夫朗和费衍射区内的接收平在上任意点上的自相关函数是时间的非平稳随机过程,而在光轴附近小区域内,强度涨落自相关函数是时间的平稳随机过程,相关时间与散射体纵向运动速度或反比,理论和实验结果相一致。     

An effect of curvature of rotating diffuse objects on the dynamics of speckles produced in the diffraction field

The time correlation function is analyzed of the speckel intensity fluctuation produced in the Fresnel diffraction field from a rotating diffuse object under illumination of a Gaussian laser beam. The dependence of the curvature radius of the rotating diffuse object on the time correlation length of the speckle intensity fluctuation is especially explored by taking into account the size of the detecting aperture. The theoretical results are confirmed experimentally for detecting apertures with various sizes. It is shown that a detecting aperture with an appropriate size is required. It becomes useful for determining the radius of curvature of the rotating diffuse object from measurements of the time correlation length of the speckle intensity fluctuation.