FCC结构胶体光子晶体的制备及其带隙特性测量

基于对光纤传输特性和胶体光子晶体制备方法的研究,提出了用外加电场控制的方法制备光子带隙位于通讯波段的FCC结构的胶体光子晶体,并用光纤系统测试胶体光子晶体的带隙特性.采用RSOFT模拟了胶体光子晶体的带隙,分析了带隙位于通讯波段时所需的胶体微球的基本参量(微球折射率和直径).采用自组装的方法,用步进电机控制玻璃基片向上的拉升速率.速率为5 μm/s,同时外加一电场.用扫描电镜观测胶体晶体的表面形貌,并设计了单模光纤系统测量胶体光子晶体的带隙特性.测试的透射谱线表明胶体光子晶体的带隙中心波长为1552 nm.测试结果和模拟结果具有很好的一致性,误差只有2 nm.     

平板电极间胶体晶体在电场作用下的各向同性压缩

用直径 300 nm的聚苯乙烯微球配制不同浓度的胶体晶体溶液, 将其快速注入内表面镀有导电薄膜的玻璃样品池中, 形成 (111) 晶面平行于玻璃表面的面心立方单晶结构. 通过激光衍射Kossel线方法, 研究了不同体积分数的胶体晶体样品 及它们在均匀电场作用下晶体结构的变化. 实验发现, 随着电场强度的增加, 胶体晶体表现为各向同性的压缩. 胶体晶体在恒定电场下始终保持面心立方结构, 晶格常数随着电场强度的增加逐渐减小. 实验结果可用电场力、电流体力学作用力及颗粒间静电斥力共同解释: 电场力使带电微球克服静电斥力并沿电场反方向运动导致晶体压缩, 而由电场力作用引起的电流体力学液流产生的持续推力使垂直于电场平面上的胶体微球相互靠近. 本实验为天宫一号搭载科学实验的地基实验. 关键词： 胶体晶体 Kossel衍射 结构变化     

一种胶体光子晶体修饰的光纤

设计了一种胶体光子晶体修饰的光纤. 采用恒温快速蒸发法直接在经切割刀处理后的光纤端面生长胶体晶体,再与另一根切割后的光纤在毛细玻璃管中完成对接,制备成胶体光子晶体修饰的光纤. 用扫描电子显微镜和光谱分析仪对样品的形貌、结构以及光学特性进行分析. 实验结果表明,粒径为640 nm、体积分数约为0.5%的SiO₂胶体微球溶液在60 ℃的情况下沉积,大约12 h后可得到质量较高的胶体光子晶体. 在SEM下,观察到端面的胶体晶体为面心立方(fcc)结构. 透射光谱证明,该结构在(111)面上     

A colloidal crystal microstructure fiber: fabrication and characterization

A method of fabricating colloidal crystal microstructured fiber is presented. The proposed structure relies on partial etching of the cladding layer of a single-mode fiber and growth of colloidal photonic crystals inside eroded area. The photonic crystal cylindrical annulus embedded in fiber is characterized by optical and scanning electron microscopy. The optical characterization was analyzed by optical transmission spectroscopy. The measurement results show a about 1550-nm band gap. The results also reveal the possibility of cladding cylindrical fibers with three-dimensional photonic crystals.     

晶体的双参量调制及其应用

利用折射率椭球分析法,分析了某些具有多重光学效应的光学晶体在两个外场同时作用下的一些特有调制规律.结果表明,当晶体的折射率椭球方程的三个交叉项中只有一项x1x2不为零时,可以得到其外场诱导新主轴折射率及其主轴取向的简单计算式.据此可以揭示出某些晶体在两个外加电场同时作用下将具有双横向电光Pockels效应,例如ˉ6点群的电光晶体.但一般晶体在双横向应力作用下不具有与双横向电光效应类似的调制特性,其弹光双折射大小与其应力差成正比,其双折射主轴方向一般为固定值.在相互垂直的外加应力和电场同时作用下,某些晶体(例如ˉ43m点群晶体)的双折射大小与外加应力和外加电场的加权几何平均值成正比,且新折射率主轴旋转角由外加应力和外加电场的比值来确定.晶体的上述双参量调制特性对设计新型光学调制器或传感器具有重要指导意义.     

Calculation of nonlinear optical polarization and phase matching in biaxial crystals

We present a general, analytical formula for the calculation of the unit vectors of the direction of vibration of the electric field strength in biaxial crystals. By means of this formula it is possible to calculate the effective nonlinearity for second-order nonlinear optical frequency conversion processes in biaxial crystals. For two highly efficient nonlinear optical crystals we have calculated the effective nonlinear susceptibility and walk-off angles. The results have been compared with numerical as well as experimental data of previous papers.     

THz辐射电光探测原理分析新方法

采用线性电光效应耦合波理论，得到一种全新简便的基于线性电光效应的THz辐射电光探测 原理的分析方法.这种方法不仅适用于一切各向同性晶体，也适用于探测光沿光轴传播的单 轴晶体.它可以方便地描述在探测光偏振状态和THz辐射电场方向都任意的情况下探测器的行 为，并可以得到探测器的优化设计方案.同时此方法不需要复杂的坐标变换，计算方便简洁 ，而且得到一些在其他理论中没有得到的结论，有望给电光探测器设计者提供有益的参考 . 关键词： 电光探测器 THz 线性电光效应耦合波理论     

Colloidal interactions and self-assembly using DNA hybridization

The specific binding of complementary DNA strands has been suggested as an ideal method for directing the controlled self-assembly of microscopic objects. We report the first direct measurements of such DNA-induced interactions between colloidal microspheres, as well as the first colloidal crystals assembled using them. The interactions measured with our optical tweezer method can be modeled in detail by well-known statistical physics and chemistry, boding well for their application to directed self-assembly. The microspheres' binding dynamics, however, have a surprising power-law scaling that can significantly slow annealing and crystallization.     

Enhancement of ablation rate and production of colloidal nanoparticles by irradiation of metals with nanosecond pulsed laser in presence of external electric field

This paper presents the results of experimental study on the effect of electric field on the ablation rate during the nanosecond pulsed laser ablation of aluminum and copper in deionized water. The effect of electric field strength on the material removal rate and its mechanisms were investigated both in the electric field parallel and perpendicular to the laser beam path schemes. The ablation rate was estimated by measuring the dimensions of craters on the target induced by laser. The crater dimensions and optical properties of the produced colloidal nanoparticles were characterized by means of optical microscopy and UV–Vis absorption spectroscopy, respectively. The results indicate that pulsed laser ablation in the presence of an electric field significantly leads to higher material removal rate. The experimental results also confirm that the crater geometry extremely depends on the direction of the electric field with respect to the laser beam direction. The UV–Vis spectra show that the nanoparticles production efficiency increases with increasing the electric field strength.     

二氧化硅胶体球自组装光子晶体的研究

光子晶体由于具有光子带隙和光子局域等一系列优异的光学特性而受到了人们广泛的关注。由于采用胶体颗粒自组装法制备光子晶体制备工艺简单,所需要的费用也较低,因此已成为制备可见光至红外波段三维光子晶体的一种简便有效的方法。采用垂直沉积法制得了三维光子晶体薄膜,并用扫描电子显微镜和紫外-可见光-近红外分光光度计对其显微结构和光学特性进行了详细的研究。结果表明,自组装薄膜在三维方向上都具有有序结构,其密排面平行于载波片的表面。制备的光子晶体薄膜具有明显的光子带隙特性,带隙中心波长为956nm。研究了带隙中心波长同入射线与密排面法线夹角之间的变化关系,其结果与理论值吻合得很好。     

Dynamic effects in photorefractive crystals at simultaneous read–write of holographic gratings

A two-level model of a simultaneous read–write of holographic gratings in photorefractive crystals has been developed for the nonstationary case at the applied electric field and unequality of recording beam intensities. The recurrent relationships both for the internal field amplitudes and for the amplitudes of the optical waves involved in interactions have been obtained. The use of a truncated power series expansion has allowed to obtain the expressions for diffraction efficiency and intensities of optical waves in nonstationary case. The obtained results were used for the analysis of simultaneous read–write dynamics in Bi₁₂SiO₂₀ crystals.     

Applied electric field to fabricate colloidal crystals with the photonic band-gap in communication waveband

The macropore silica colloidal crystal templates were assembled orderly in a capillary glass tube by an applied electric field method to control silica deposition. In order to achieve the photonic band gap (PBG) of colloidal crystal in optical communication waveband, the diameter of silica microspheres is selected by Bragg diffraction formula. An experiment was designed to test the bandgap of the silica crystal templates. This paper discusses the formation process and the close-packed fashion of the silica colloidal crystal templates was discussed. The surface morphology of the templates was also analyzed. The results showed that the close-packed fashion of silica array templates was face-centered cubic (FCC) structure. The agreement is very good between the experimental data and the theoretical calculation.     

Nonlinear optical properties of nanometer-size silver coated polydiacetylene composite vesicles and resulting Langmuir–Blodgett films

Noble metal-coated PDA composite vesicles were expected to increase the effective third-order nonlinear optical susceptibility χ ⁽³⁾(ω), due to the enhancement of the optical electric field induced by localized surface plasmon resonance. Different size (20, 50 and 80 nm) Ag colloidal nanoparticles were coated on the outer surface of polydiacetylene (PDA) vesicles to form PDA/Ag nanocomposite vesicles and the size-dependent effect of Ag colloidal nanoparticles on NLO properties enhancement has been explored. The explanation based on the competition of a size-dependent light-confinement effect and a size-dependent dielectric constant of Ag particles had been presented. Furthermore, these PDA/Ag composite vesicles were successfully immobilized onto the solid substrate by the Langmuir–Blodgett (LB) method and their linear and nonlinear optical properties were characterized, respectively. Obviously, PDA/Ag composite vesicles Langmuir–Blodgett (LB) films promoted the enhancement of the third-order NLO properties.     

Optical study of the spontaneous ferroelectric phase transition in lead scandoniobate single crystals

A study is reported of the optical transmission and small-angle light scattering (SAS) in ordered and disordered stoichiometric single crystals of lead scandoniobate (PSN) with a zero and a dc electric field applied. It is shown that the spontaneous phase transition occurring in both crystals is accompanied by a sharp peak in SAS intensity, which implies the percolation nature of this transition. A field-temperature phase diagram has been constructed for the PSN single crystals studied in the work.     

Leaky modes of channel waveguides with uniaxial anisotropy

An exact numerical method for analyzing the propagation properties of leaky modes of inhomogeneous channel optical waveguides with a complex uniaxial diagonal permittivity tensor is developed. The method is based on solving the system of integro-differential equations formulated with respect to transversal components of the magnetic field and the longitudinal component of the electric field. Some results of investigation of leaky modes of diffused channel waveguides in LiNbO₃ and LiTaO₃ crystals are given.     

Electrically tunable diffraction of light from 2D nematic colloidal crystals

We show that diffraction of visible light from 2D dipolar nematic colloidal crystals can be tuned electrically. When the external electric field of ∼ 1V/μm is applied in a direction perpendicular to the plane of the 2D colloidal crystal, the induced strain is highly anisotropic, and the inter-colloidal spacing changes by as much as 20% along one direction and ∼ 2% along the perpendicular one. Although the speed of response is in the range of several seconds, this novel mechanism could provide interesting photonic applications.     

Depolarization of light in microstructured fibers filled with liquid crystals

In the paper we analyze microstructured optical fibers filled with typical nematic liquid crystals, i.e., 5CB and 6CHBT under influence of external electric field or temperature. We use the modified Mueller matrix method with an additional depolarization matrix to calculate degree of polarization changes of the light propagating in the liquid-crystal infiltrated microstructured optical fibers. Preliminary experimental results of light depolarization measurements during propagation in these microstructured fibers are also presented.     

Electro- and magneto-optical measurements of electric field strength in magnetic colloids based on liquid dielectrics

The distribution of the electric field strength in liquid dielectrics containing colloidal magnetite particles was investigated based on the data of electro- and magneto-optical experiments. It is shown that the field distribution between plane-parallel electrodes is nonuniform. The dependences of the field enhancement in the near-electrode region on the temperature and average field strength in the cell are determined. The parameters of the near-electrode space charge are calculated based on the data of optical experiments.     

Optical properties of silver colloidal centers in KCl crystals

The Ag colloidal centers in additively colored KCl: Ag crystals have been studied by optical and electron microscope methods. The transmission electron microscope studies reveal that the colloidal particles are spherical in shape and have a size distribution which can be described by the skewed zeroth order logarithmic distribution (ZOLD) function. The band shape of the experimental absorption spectra of colloidal particles agrees well with that calculated on the basis of Mie theory, if the optical constants are suitably modified and if the particle size distribution is taken into account. If the particle size is so small that the size distribution cannot be measured by electron microscope the optical absorption bands can be used to determine the size distribution parameters provided the distribution is well described by ZOLD, which in turn is used to calculate theoretical extinction bands.     

Visible transmission through metal-coated colloidal crystals

Large-scale periodically structured metal films with enhanced optical transmission in visible frequencies were fabricated by depositing silver onto colloidal crystals. The obtained transmission properties are similar to those observed through periodical hole arrays in planar metal films. We have experimentally observed two enhanced transmission pass bands in visible frequencies in these metal films due to the excitation of surface plasmon polaritons. The peak positions of the pass bands depend on the size of the colloidal spheres. The transmission spectra highly depend on the incident angle for p-polarized light but are weak for s-polarized light. Our fabrication method provides a promising approach for the fabrication of large-scale low-cost plasmonic crystals with submicrometer periodicity.