Influence of the Measurement Volume on the Phase Error in Phase Doppler Anemometry. Part 1: Reflective mode operation

In phase Doppler anemometry (PDA), phase difference errors are caused by the Gaussian intensity distribution of the laser beam and the curvature of the phase fronts outside of the beam waist. This results in erroneous particle sizes. Based on a physical analysis by geometrical optics [1], this phase difference error is evaluated for reflected mode operation (Part I) and for refracted mode operation (Part II). By varying the particle trajectories statistically, the error in determining the particle size and the mass flow can be simulated. By the method described the error in the measured phase difference can easily be estimated.     

星地激光通信中接收光信号的仿真方法

星地激光通信中, 由于大气湍流等影响, 接收光信号将出现包络起伏现象, 严重时将引起接收系统突发误码。为研究其中突发误码的发生规律及其对通信有效性的影响, 对接收光信号包络起伏的仿真方法进行了研究。针对常规的仿真方法在计算量、资源消耗、仿真时间长度等方面存在的诸多弱点, 提出了一种使用Gauss随机过程的幂级数拟合接收光信号幅度的仿真方法, 该方法利用接收光信号均值、方差、偏态系数和峰度系数计算各阶系数, 最高取到3次方项, 并使用FFT/IFFT实现时间功率谱特征拟合。仿真结果证明了该仿真方法的合理性。     

A new synthetic detection technique for trackside acoustic identification of railroad roller bearing defects

The detection of railroad roller bearing defects is of great importance for railway traffic. The acoustic defective bearing detector (ADBD) via a trackside acoustic detection system (TADS) is a popular and reliable tool for trackside identification of railroad bearing incipient defects. However, the defective trackside acoustic signal of bearing is confronted with three challenges: demodulation of acoustic signal, removal of Doppler effect and enhancement of defect frequency. This paper proposes a synthetic detection technique to overcome these difficulties successively. In the technique, the signal envelope is first extracted by a new variable-resolution ridge demodulation (VRRD) method. Then the Doppler effect is removed in the envelope via a dynamic signal resampling method. Finally, the rectified defect frequency is enhanced through the means of logarithmic transformation and piecewise linear detrending. The VRRD technique extracts the envelope from the signal time–frequency distribution (TFD) along the Doppler shift curve of resonance frequency traced by an improved ridge extraction algorithm. The resampling method is carried out on the envelope according to the Doppler shift curve of defect frequency obtained by the same ridge extraction algorithm. The sidebands around defect frequency can be suppressed by the logarithmic transformation and the low-frequency non-linear trend can be removed by the detrending method. The signal amplitude is unified at the same time. Two practical bearing signals with inner-race and outer-race defects separately verify the effectiveness of proposed technique.     

Comodulation masking release in bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus)

The acoustic environment of the bottlenose dolphin often consists of noise where energy across frequency regions is coherently modulated in time (e.g., ambient noise from snapping shrimp). However, most masking studies with dolphins have employed random Gaussian noise for estimating patterns of masked thresholds. The current study demonstrates a pattern of masking where temporally fluctuating comodulated noise produces lower masked thresholds (up to a 17 dB difference) compared to Gaussian noise of the same spectral density level. Noise possessing wide bandwidths, low temporal modulation rates, and across-frequency temporal envelope coherency resulted in lower masked thresholds, a phenomenon known as comodulation masking release. The results are consistent with a model where dolphins compare temporal envelope information across auditory filters to aid in signal detection. Furthermore, results suggest conventional models of masking derived from experiments using random Gaussian noise may not generalize well to environmental noise that dolphins actually encounter.     

车载激光多普勒测速仪参数估计的Cramer-Rao下限

考虑到加速度和高斯型包络对激光多普勒测速仪的影响,在引入加速度分量的基础上,研究了高斯包络型多普勒信号的参数估计.根据数理统计的理论,分析了多普勒圆频率及其一阶变化率估计方差的Cramer-Rao下限(CRLB),给出了参数估计方差的CRLB计算公式,并讨论了各参数带修正的功率谱估计.理论分析及仿真结果表明:参数估计方...     

Numerical study of glare spot phase Doppler anemometry

The phase Doppler anemometry has (PDA) been developed to measure simultaneously the velocity and the size of droplets. When the concentration of particles is high, tightly focused beams must be used, as in the dual burst PDA. The latter permits an access to the refractive index of the particle, but the effect of wave front curvature of the incident beams becomes evident. In this paper, we introduce a glare spot phase Doppler anemometry which uses two large beams. The images of the particle formed by the reflected and refracted light, known as glare spots, are separated in space. When a particle passes through the probe volume, the two parts in a signal obtained by a detector in forward direction are then separated in time. If two detectors are used the phase differences and the intensity ratios between two signals, the distance between the reflected and refracted spots can be obtained. These measured values provide information about the particle diameter and its refractive index, as well as its two velocity components. This paper is devoted to the numerical study of such a configuration with two theoretical models: geometrical optics and rigorous electromagnetism solution.     

多层奥氏体钢中超声相控阵辐射声场分析

针对一维线性超声相控阵透过楔块,在多层不同晶轴取向的奥氏体钢中的声场辐射问题,结合高斯声束等效点源模型以及基于时间最小原理的射线追踪法,给出了各层介质中透射声场的计算方法。将奥氏体钢近似为横向各向同性介质,计算了相控阵透过楔块,在晶轴取向为0°的奥氏体钢中的无延时纵波声场,计算结果与COMSOL仿真结果相吻合,从而验证了所用方法的正确性。通过加入不同的延迟法则,仿真计算了三层含有不同晶轴取向(0°,30°,100°)的奥氏体钢中的纵波声场,实现了相控阵声场的偏转与聚焦,分析了偏转声场与聚焦声场的传播特性。仿真结果表明,不同的晶轴取向将导致不同的声束偏转以及聚焦效果。通过延迟激励各阵元,虽然可以控制声束偏转或聚焦到预定位置,但是晶轴取向仍会对声束宽度以及幅值产生一定的影响。      

Finite size panoramic optical system integrated design

Aiming at the present situation of the panoramic target detection field, one laser target panoramic optical system on finite size is designed. The laser transmission optical system proposes a partition beam layout method, namely 360° omnidirectional detection can be realized by 6 fan-shaped light beams with 60° × 1° field angle. The receiving system position and size can be determined based on calculation the transformation of the Gaussian beam through the lens. After the computing and optimizing the lens curvature radius and other optical parameters, the integrated design of the transmission and receiving optical system is completed. The system echo signal experiment is carried out, and the experimental results show the error of the actual value and theoretical value is less than 4.8%. The system works stably and the anticipated design effect is achieved.     

Generalized Theory for the Simultaneous Measurement of Particle Size and Velocity using laser doppler and laser two-focus methods

Essentially the laser two-focus (L2F) and laser Doppler anemometer (LDA) are time-of-flight anemometers. The velocity of particles in the micrometre range is determined within the limits of an optically fixed measurement distance. For this only one optoelectronic receiver for the detection of the scattered light is required [1, 2]. With an arrangement of two receiving optics, positioned under an off-axis angle φ and an elevation angle ± ψ to the optical axis of the measurement system, a resolution of three-dimensional structures can be achieved and with regard to spherical particles it is possible to determine the dimensions by means of the temporal or phase shift of the signals in the receiving optics. A particle size-dependent distance inside the measurement volume can be fixed, which has to be passed in order to change the signal from one receiving optics to the other. An LDA with an arrangement of two receiving optics for particle sizing is known as a phase Doppler anemometer (PDA); an L2F designed with two receiving optics can be termed a pulse-displacement two-focus anemometer (P2F). The physical analysis of the two methods with respect to a temporal signal displacement in the receivers yielded new results.     

考虑帧间信息的语音带宽扩展

语音带宽扩展是为了提高语音质量,利用语音低频和高频之间的相关性重构语音高频的一种技术。高斯混合模型法是语音带宽技术中被广泛应用的一种方法,但是,该方法的映射函数是分段线性函数,且没有考虑语音前后帧的相关信息。因此,提出了一种基于条件受限玻尔兹曼机的方法。该方法利用条件受限玻尔兹曼机提取了语音信号的帧间信息,同时将语音低频、高频特征参数映射为高阶统计特性,深层发掘和模拟了语音低频和高频之间的非线性关系。客观和主观对比测试结果都表明,该方法性能优于传统的高斯混合模型方法。      

Experimental detection of an ELF radio pulse associated with the gamma-ray burst of December 27, 2004

We compare the experimentally observed and model waveforms of the electromagnetic pulse associated with an abrupt change in the height of the Earth–ionosphere cavity, which was caused by an intense gamma-ray burst that arrived from the cosmic source in December 27, 2004. Polarization and spectral properties of the burst are examined. It is shown that the experimentally observed extremely low frequency (ELF) radio pulse exceeds the level of a regular Schumann-resonance background signal severalfold, and its waveform is close to the calculated one. The wave arrival angle is close to the direction towards the epicenter of the ionospheric disturbance. The time of pulse arrival at the Karymshino observatory (52.83°N, 158.13°E) is about 0.16 s ahead of the burst recording time.     

The masking level difference for signals placed in masker envelope minima and maxima

Previous data on the masking level difference (MLD) have suggested that NoSpi detection for a long-duration signal is dominated by signal energy occurring in masker envelope minima. This finding was expanded upon using a brief 500-Hz tonal signal that coincided with either the envelope maximum or minimum of a narrow-band Gaussian noise masker centered at 500 Hz, and data were collected at a range of masker levels. Experiment 1 employed a typical MLD stimulus, consisting of a 30-ms signal and a 50-Hz-wide masker with abrupt spectral edges, and experiment 2 used stimuli generated to eliminate possible spectral cues. Results were quite similar for the two types of stimuli. At the highest masker level the MLD for signals coinciding with masker envelope minima was substantially larger than that for signals coinciding with envelope maxima, a result that was primarily due to decreased NoSpi thresholds in masker minima. For most observers this effect was greatly reduced or eliminated at the lowest masker level. These level effects are broadly consistent with the presence of physiological background noise and with a level-dependent binaural temporal window. Comparison of these results with predictions of a published model suggest that basilar-membrane compression alone does not account for this level effect.     

Comodulation masking release: evidence for multiple cues

Signal detection was determined in conditions where the masker was a 10-Hz-wide noise band centered on the signal, and in conditions where either a comodulated or noncomodulated noise band (centered at 0.8 times the signal frequency) was also present. Signal frequencies of 500 or 2000 Hz were investigated. In one condition of the first experiment, the signal was exactly the same 10-Hz-wide noise band as the masker, added to the masker in phase. This condition was designed to limit the availability of cues based upon dip listening, suppression, beating, or across-frequency differences in noise envelope correlation, but to afford a cue based upon across-frequency envelope amplitude difference. The narrow-band noise signal resulted in approximately the same magnitude of comodulated masking release (CMR) as was found for a pure-tone signal. This result suggested that one important cue for CMR is an across-frequency difference in envelope amplitude. Stimulus conditions in the second experiment were intended to disrupt cues of across-frequency envelope amplitude difference, but to afford cues based upon across-frequency differences in noise envelope correlation. In this experiment, cues based upon envelope amplitude were impoverished by randomly varying the level of the flanking band from interval to interval, and by adjusting the level in the on-signal band to be the same in the nonsignal intervals as the level of noise plus signal in the signal interval. Again, substantial CMRs occurred, suggesting that another cue for CMR may be envelope pattern or correlation. The results of these experiments indicated that CMR is probably based upon more than one stimulus variable.     

空间光混频器分光比调整与90°相位差补偿方法

对空间光混频器的90°相位差补偿的几种方法进行了比较分析,并在此基础之上提出了两种新方法.第一种方法采取旋转本振光支路的1/4波片来补偿相位差,旋转信号光支路的第一个1/2波片来调整I路与Q路分光比;第二种方法通过旋转本振光支路的1/2波片和1/4波片到计算出来的角度来实现预定的相位差和分光比.对两种方法进行仿真分析和系统实验.采用第一种方法时,1/4波片快轴与x轴的夹角在-10°~10°变化时,相位差补偿范围为-14°~29°,分光比在0.7~1.4范围内变化;当1/2波片的快轴与y轴的夹角在35°~55°变化时,分光比在0.47~2.1范围内变化.采用第二种方法求解出I/Q路相位差分别为80°、85°、90°、95°、100°,I/Q路分光比分别为0.5、0.75、1、1.5、2时,1/2波片的快轴和1/4波片的快轴的位置.采用这两种方法均可以简单而精确地实现设定的相位差和分光比,有利于光锁相环的相位锁定以及解调出的信号强度的提高.     

Enhanced photoacoustic imaging in tissue-mimicking phantoms using polydopamine-shelled perfluorocarbon emulsion droplets

The current work features process parameters for the ultrasound (25 kHz)-assisted fabrication of polydopamine-shelled perfluorocarbon (PDA/PFC) emulsion droplets with bimodal (modes at 100–600 nm and 1–6 µm) and unimodal (200–600 nm) size distributions. Initial screening of these materials revealed that only PDA/PFC emulsion droplets with bimodal distributions showed photoacoustic signal enhancement due to large size of their optically absorbing PDA shells. Performance of this particular type of emulsion droplets as photoacoustic agents were evaluated in Intralipid®–India ink media, mimicking the optical scattering and absorbance of various tissue types. From these measurements, it was observed that PDA/PFC droplets with bimodal size distributions can enhance the photoacoustic signal of blood-mimicking phantom by up to five folds in various tissue-mimicking phantoms with absorption coefficients from 0.1 to 1.0 cm⁻¹. Furthermore, using the information from enhanced photoacoustic images at 750 nm, the ultimate imaging depth was explored for polydopamine-shelled, perfluorohexane (PDA/PFH) emulsion droplets by photon trajectory simulations in 3D using a Monte Carlo approach. Based on these simulations, maximal tissue imaging depths for PDA/PFH emulsion droplets range from 10 to 40 mm, depending on the tissue type. These results demonstrate for the first time that ultrasonically fabricated PDA/PFC emulsion droplets have great potential as photoacoustic imaging agents that can be complemented with other reported characteristics of PDA/PFC emulsion droplets for extended applications in theranostics and other imaging modalities.     

Innovative Phase Doppler Systems and their Applications

Theoretical and practical limits on the applicability of PDA are established, using generalized theoretical formulations of various physical processes governing the operation of a phase Doppler system. Furthermore, several innovative solutions are introduced to prevent the commonly occuring problems of PDA, such as Gaussian profile effect, non-monotonic response and 2π-ambiguity. Generalized formulations have also enabled new applications, such as sizing of submicron particles, particle material recognition, measurements with non-standard geometries. Selected results of measurements in particulate flows, using innovative PDA systems, are also presented.     

Application of optical time-domain reflectometry for the interrogation of fiber Bragg sensors

A reflectometric approach is proposed for the polling and multiplexing of sensitive elements on fiber Bragg gratings (FBGs). The method is based on the power measurement of the radiation reflected by the FBG using a conventional fiber-optic time-domain reflectometer. The multiplexing of sensors is based on the time separation of signals. Requirements on the Bragg diffraction gratings that provide the linear dependence of the received signal on the FBG mechanical stress and temperature are determined. In the measurements of the FBG relative elongation and temperature, the threshold sensitivities are 0.8 × 10^?4 (80 μstrain) and 5°C, respectively. Due to its simplicity and efficiency, the reflectometric method of FBG polling and multiplexing can be used to solve various measurement problems, in particular, the safety monitoring of the stressed-strained elements in building structures.     

旋转双阵元水下目标定向方法

提出一种旋转双阵元的水下目标定向方法,通过旋转双阵元,主动产生目标到达信号的多普勒效应,结合目标声波信号到达时间差,联合利用时间差和多普勒信息对目标进行定向.通过目标函数的设定,使得两路信号经过延时和伸缩后达到最佳匹配所对应的方向即为目标方向.仿真结果表明,在设定的场景下,本文提出的方法对于各个方向的目标均有良好的定向效果,对于1000m的目标平均定向角度误差小于1°;相对于双阵元到达时间差方法,具有更好的精度和鲁棒性。实验结果验证了旋转双阵元定向方法在实际应用中的有效性.      

The effect of blood acceleration on the ultrasound power Doppler spectrum

The purpose of the present work was to study the influence of blood acceleration and time window length on the power Doppler spectrum for Gaussian ultrasound beams. The work has been carried out on the basis of continuum model of the ultrasound scattering from inhomogeneities in fluid flow. Correlation function of fluctuations has been considered for uniformly accelerated scatterers, and the resulting power Doppler spectra have been calculated. It is shown that within the initial phase of systole uniformly accelerated slow blood flow in pulmonary artery and aorta tends to make the correlation function about 4.89 and 7.83 times wider, respectively, than the sensitivity function of typical probing system. Given peak flow velocities, the sensitivity function becomes, vice versa, about 4.34 and 3.84 times wider, respectively, then the correlation function. In these limiting cases, the resulting spectra can be considered as Gaussian. The optimal time window duration decreases with increasing acceleration of blood flow and equals to 11.62 and 7.54 ms for pulmonary artery and aorta, respectively. The width of the resulting power Doppler spectrum is shown to be defined mostly by the wave vector of the incident field, the duration of signal and the acceleration of scatterers in the case of low flow velocities. In the opposite case geometrical properties of probing field and the average velocity itself are more essential. In the sense of signal–noise ratio, the optimal duration of time window can be found. Abovementioned results may contribute to the improved techniques of Doppler ultrasound diagnostics of cardiovascular system.     

Radio-frequency μSR experiments at the ISIS pulsed muon facility

This paper explores the use of pulsed radio-frequency (RF) techniques to remove the frequency limitations imposed on conventional transverse muon spin rotation (μSR) experiments at a pulsed muon source by the finite muon pulse width. The implementation of the 90° pulse technique is demonstrated by observing the free precession signal of diamagnetic muons implanted in polythene, the change in signal amplitude as a function of RF pulse length is plotted and the precise condition for a 90° pulse determined. The technique is evaluated by comparing measurements made using conventional spin rotation experiments to those employing pulsed RF methods. The potential for applying standard NMR multiple-pulse methods to the μSR experiment is considered and the use of two-pulse RF sequences (90° _x ?τ?90° _x and 90° _x ?τ?180° _x ) to form a muon spin echo demonstrated.