Experimental investigation of potentialities of seismoacoustic sea-bottom sounding using coherent pulse signals

We describe the results of experimental investigations of the seismoacoustical sounding of the bottom structure of the Caspian Sea. They were obtained using a ship towed hydroacoustic emitter of LFM pulse signals in several frequency ranges of frequency band from 100 to 1000 Hz. Based on the high coherence and relatively high frequencies of emitted signals, the results point to feasibility of substantial improvement in noise immunity and resolution of sounding the bottom rocks?? structure at depths of up to 1000 m thanks to combined application of a series of procedures of coherent processing of incoming signals. The processing involves matched filtering of individual pulses, coherent accumulation of pulse trains within the horizontally uniform bottom area, and adaptive path accumulation of pulses accounted for inclination of individual reflecting layers. The resulting gain in noise immunity came to about 30 dB, which points to possibility of efficient use of relatively low-power (up to 100 W) coherent sources for seismoacoustic sounding of sea bottom at minimal damage to local ecology.     

Using diffractograms to evaluate optical systems with coherent illumination

A new approach to measuring aberrations of an optical system with coherent illumination is introduced. The optical system is evaluated by use of a so-called weak phase object and by digital image recording and processing. Based on the contrast transfer function theory for coherent systems, the main aberrations of the optical system can be determined. This is a convenient approach to evaluating and measuring complex optical systems with numerous optical elements after assembly and can serve as a simple performance test of an optical instrument in the field.     

基于时空滤波理论的低频声场干涉结构研究

基于时空滤波理论, 采用相干函数、功率响应函数、扩展分布函数、双频函数四个系统函数较波导不变量更全面地描述了低频声场的相干结构. 理论分析、仿真研究和海试数据处理都验证了低频声场存在稳定的干涉结构, 当目标由远及近、又由近及远做匀速直线运动时, 相干函数(LOFAR图)的干涉结构为一簇类双曲线; 功率响应函数的干涉图表征了简正波群时延的差分, 体现了其频散特性; 扩展分布函数能反映LOFAR图上干涉条纹的斜率大小; 而双频函数能体现相慢度的差分. 各个系统函数均能特别突出干涉结构的某方面的特征, 各有特色.     

Phonon considerations in the reduction of thermal conductivity in phononic crystals

Periodic porous structures offer unique material solutions to thermoelectric applications. With recent interest in phonon band gap engineering, these periodic structures can result in reduction of the phonon thermal conductivity due to coherent destruction of phonon modes characteristic in phononic crystals. In this paper, we numerically study phonon transport in periodic porous silicon phononic crystal structures. We develop a model for the thermal conductivity of phononic crystal that accounts for both coherent and incoherent phonon effects, and show that the phonon thermal conductivity is reduced to less than 4% of the bulk value for Si at room temperature. This has substantial impact on thermoelectric applications, where the efficiency of thermoelectric materials is inversely proportional to the thermal conductivity.     

Benefits from a speckle noise family on a coherent imaging transmission

We analyze image transmission in a coherent imaging system, in the presence of speckle noise modeled with the family of Gamma probability density functions of varying order. It is demonstrated that speckle noise can improve the transmission of a coherent image. Exact analytical expressions are obtained for both the best achievable performance and the optimal amount of speckle noise maximizing the transmission efficacy. These expressions allow us to analyze and control the conditions under which the coherent imaging system can take advantage of the speckle noise. The influence of the contrast in the coherent image, and of the order of the Gamma probability density describing the statistical fluctuations of the speckle, are given special attention. These results make a contribution to the understanding of the mechanisms of improvement by noise in nonlinear information processing.     

光源对相干层析系统特性的影响

在分析相干层析系统成像机理的基础上，从理论上研究了光源对系统成像特性的影响，在考虑干涉条纹的强度用概率函数处理的条件下，由分析得出相干层析成像系统相当于一个复振幅的线性空间不变系统，从而给出相干函数和光源的功率谱密度之间的关系。通过对使用不同光源的系统相干传递函数比较，得出了采用具有较大线宽的低相干光源，系统的空间分辨率更好，可使测量更精确的结论。本文的工作为光学相干层析成像系统的优化设计提供了理论依据。     

Simulation analysis of an active cancellation stealth system

Active cancellation stealth is a smart signal blanking method, that it has become an important developing direction on modern stealth technology. In order to further explore the active cancellation stealth technology, we are considering the detection and cancellation of receiving/transmitting antenna pattern is different. Put forward active cancellation system simulation structure diagram based on MATLAB/SIMULINK, where the phased array radar system as the modelling object, and established the active cancellation stealth system mathematical model based on digital radio frequency memory (DRFM) and the radar signal processing system of the coherent video simulation model, based on linear frequency modulation and radar coherent pulse signal simulation, verified the rationality and validity of the design, as the active cancellation stealth engineering technology laid the foundation.     

抛物面镜系统的光学图像处理

讨论了抛物面镜的变换特性;提出用一个凹抛物面反射镜组成光学图像处理系统,进行了相干光,部分相干光和白光的若干光学图像处理实验,证明了系统的可行性,并对系统的实用意义作了若干讨论.     

A study on large coherent structures and noise emission in a turbulent round jet

A moderate Reynolds number,and high subsonic turbulent round jet is investigated by large eddy simulation.The detailed results(e.g.mean flow properties,turbulence intensities,etc.)are validated against the experimental data,and special attention is paid to study motions of coherent structures and their contributions to far-field noise.Eulerian methods(e.g.Q-criteria andλ2criteria)are utilized for visualizing coherent structures directly for instantaneous flow fields,and Lagrangian coherent structures accounting for integral effect are shown via calculating fields of finite time Lyapunov exponents based on bidimensional velocity fields.All visualizations demonstrate that intrusion of three-dimensional vortical structures into jet core occurs intermittently at the end of the potential core,resulting from the breakdown of helical vortex rings in the shear layer.Intermittencies in the shear layer and on the centerline are studied quantitatively,and distinctively different distributions of probability density function are observed.Moreover,the physical sound sources are obtained through a filtering operation of defined sources in Lighthill’s analogy,and their distributions verify that intrusion of vortical structures into the core region serves as important sound sources,in particular for noise at aft angles.The facts that intermittent behaviors are caused by motions of coherent structures and correlated with noise generation imply that to establish reasonable sound sources in active noise production region based on intermittent coherent structures is one of the key issues for far-field noise prediction.     

Small metal nanoparticle recognition using digital image analysis and high resolution electron microscopy

In this paper, we present a system developed to identify metal nanoparticles at different orientations, using digital image processing and analysis. The correct identification is important in nanotechnology, where it is possible to build structures for different purposes at the nanometric level. The recognition system computes automatically different characteristics such as: nanoparticle area, polygons, symmetry and molecular arrays (twins) in order to recognize different nanostructures. All these characteristics are obtained through the use of morphological, texture (co-occurrence matrix) and region analysis. Complexity issues, advantages, and results are presented and discussed.     

Incoherent light-induced self-organization of molecules

Although coherent light is usually required for the self-organization of regular spatial patterns from optical beams, we show that peculiar light-matter interaction can break this evidence. In the traditional method of recording laser-induced periodic surface structures, a light intensity distribution is produced at the surface of a polymer film by an interference between two coherent optical beams. We report on the self-organization followed by propagation of a surface relief pattern. It is induced in a polymer film by using a low-power and small-size coherent beam assisted by a high-power and large-size incoherent and unpolarized beam. We demonstrate that we can obtain large size and well-organized patterns starting from a dissipative interaction. Our experiments open new directions to improving optical processing systems.     

基于光学相干测振系统的微悬臂梁缺陷检测

提出了基于光学相干测振（optical coherence vibrometer, OCV）系统的微悬臂梁缺陷检测方法。自搭建的OCV系统最大振动位移量程、最大振动频率分别为2.574 mm和138.5 kHz,应用该系统对含缺陷微悬臂梁-附加质量块耦合结构进行振动测量获得其固有频率,并利用附加质量块对固有频率的影响特性实现了对缺陷的定位。在对系统采集到的干涉光谱信号处理的过程中,采用FFT（fast Fourier transform, FFT）+ FT（Fourier transform, FT）细化频谱校正算法进行误差校正,精度可提高1 000倍以上,使系统实现纳米量级的位移测量。实验结果表明,该方法能够有效识别微悬臂梁的缺陷位置,为微小型结构的缺陷检测提供了一种新的方法,同时拓展了光学相干测振技术在工程结构无损检测的应用。     

用超快电子衍射技术研究Al薄膜的超快动力学行为

超快电子衍射（UED）技术因其同时具有亚皮秒的时间分辨和亚毫埃的空间分辨能力,成为研究物质瞬态结构变化,特别是研究晶格材料超快动力学的有力工具.应用国内首台自行研制的UED系统,我们实时测量了超快激光脉冲激发下,20 nm金属Al多晶薄膜产生的相干声子和晶格热运动.实验结果显示,在晶格热运动加剧的同时,热应力的作用使晶格产生了相干振荡,并最终膨胀达到新的平衡位置.实验中测得的振荡周期以及晶格上升的温度与理论计算的结果符合较好,展示了UED技术在超快晶格动力学研究方面的广阔应用前景 关键词： 超快电子衍射 相干声子 晶格热运动     

Coherent structure analysis of spatiotemporal chaos

We introduce a measure to quantify spatiotemporal turbulence in extended systems. It is based on the statistical analysis of a coherent structure decomposition of the evolving system. Applied to a cellular excitable medium and a reaction-diffusion model describing the oxidation of CO on Pt(100), it reveals power-law scaling of the size distribution of coherent space-time structures for the state of spiral turbulence. The coherent structure decomposition is also used to define an entropy measure, which sharply increases in these systems at the transition to turbulence.     

Ballistic effects and intersubband excitations in multiple quantum well structures

We have studied the transport properties of electrons in asymmetric quantum well structures upon far-infrared optical excitation of carriers from the lowest subband into the continuum. Here the photocurrent consists of a coherent component originating from ballistic transport upon excitation, and of an incoherent part associated with asymmetric diffusion and relaxation processes, which occur after the coherence has been lost. The signature of the coherent contribution is provided by a sign reversal of the photocurrent upon changing the excitation energy. This sign reversal arises from the energy-dependent interference between continuum states, which have a twofold degeneracy characterized by positive and negative momenta. The interference effect also allows us to estimate the coherent mean free path ( nm at 77 K). In specifically designed device structures, we use both the coherent and incoherent components in order to achieve a pronounced photovoltaic infrared response for detector applications.     

Dissipative finite degrees of freedom dynamical system and description of optical systems with saturable amplification, saturable losses and filtering

Single-mode fiber optical system with saturable amplification, saturable losses and spectral filtering as proposed by Rozanov and Fedorov (1998) [10] is studied. The system of ordinary differential equations (ODE’s) that can help investigation of the original physical system is proposed. It allows calculation of linear and nonlinear fixed points as well as the study of their stability, so it can be used for analysis of coherent structures and their classification. Derived system of ODE’s extends the earlier one proposed by van Saarloos and Hohenberg (1992) [2], for the analysis of coherent structures of the qubic-quintic Ginzburg-Landau equation, by including additionally the temporal dependences of the gain and losses. In order to verify it, it was applied to the earlier considered cases of fast and slow changes in the amplification and losses. Earlier obtained localized structures namely pulses, have been observed via numerical solution of the proposed system. In addition, new families of fronts have been identified.     

Issues in the realization of strained-layer quantum well optoelectronic devices

Ion-beam processing is the ideal complement to modern lattice-mismatched (strained-layer) heteroepitaxy for optoelectronic device fabrication. Bandstructure engineering of optoelectronic devices through the use of lattice strain is presented, and the effects of ion-beam processing on III–V strained-layer heteroepitaxial structures are summarized. Representative results from ion-implanted optoelectronic devices are presented to illustrate these principles.     

Shaping the beam profile of a partially coherent beam by a phase aperture

By use of a tensor method, an analytical formula for a partially coherent Gaussian Schell-model (GSM) beam truncated by a circular phase aperture propagating through a paraxial ABCD optical system is derived. The propagation properties of a GSM beam truncated by a circular phase aperture in free space are studied numerically. It is found that the circular phase aperture can be used to shape the beam profile of a GSM beam and generate partially coherent dark hollow or flat-topped beam, which is useful in many applications, e.g., optical trapping, free-space optical communication, and material thermal processing. The propagation factor of a GSM beam truncated by a circular phase aperture is also analyzed.     

Engineering a material for biomedical applications with electric field assisted processing

In this work, using multiple co-flows we demonstrate in-situ encapsulation of nano-particles, liquids and/or gases in different structural morphologies, which can also be deposited in a designated pattern by a direct write method and surface modification can be controlled to release encapsulated material. The range of possibilities offered by exposing a material solution to an applied electric field can result in a plethora of structures which can accommodate a whole host of biomedical applications from microfluidic devices (microchannels, loaded with various materials), printed 3D structures and patterns, lab-on-a-chip devices to encapsulated materials (capsules, tubes, fibres, dense multi-layered fibrous networks) for drug delivery and tissue engineering. The structures obtained in this way can vary in size from micrometer to the nanometer range and the processing is viable for all states of matter. The work shown demonstrates some novel structures and methodologies for processing a biomaterial.     

Structural order and chaos in a one-dimensional quantum atomic chain

The spatial structure of a quantum chain of atoms interacting with a space-periodic field is analysed. Discrete maps for the average atomic positions in coherent states are obtained. Conditions for the existence of commensurate, incommensurate structures and “quantum structural chaos” are determined at zero temperature.