用于亚微米颗粒测量的后向散射光谱法

针对后向散射光谱粒径测量法对亚微米颗粒测量准确度较差的问题,提出了一种采用紫外光作为光源的测量方法.通过快速傅里叶变换计算了粒径为0.25～1 μm的聚苯乙烯亚微米颗粒的后向散射频谱,将频谱峰值对应的频率值与相应的颗粒粒径进行线性回归,各粒径值相对于回归直线的平均误差为±0.02 μm.结果表明,本文提出的300～40...     

跨微米尺度混合颗粒粒径的同步测量方法

基于多波长消光法和图像法颗粒测量原理,提出了跨微米尺度混合颗粒粒径同步测量方法,建立了亚微米-十微米尺度颗粒粒径消光光谱反演算法及十微米以上尺度颗粒粒径图像处理算法;采用分光棱镜,搭建了消光光谱与背光图像同步测量装置,利用500 nm～76.9μm粒径范围内的10种标准颗粒配成跨微米尺度混合颗粒样品并开展实验研究。结果表明:利用所提方法开展跨微米尺度混合颗粒粒径同步测量时,亚微米-十微米尺度颗粒消光光谱与十微米以上尺度颗粒背光图像的相互影响可忽略,可同步测量得到跨微米尺度混合颗粒粒径;利用消光法和图像法分别开展亚微米-十微米、十微米以上尺度颗粒粒径测量,与标准颗粒粒径相比,相对误差均小于8%,且测量重复性较好,这为跨微米尺度混合颗粒提供了一种有效的粒径测量手段。     

具有复合式法珀腔的光纤压力传感器的解调

对由三个反射面构成的复合式法珀腔的光纤法珀压力传感器进行了输出光谱理论分析,提取了含有传感器腔长信息的包络.提出了基于干涉级次拟合的解调算法,仿真分析了传感法珀腔腔长范围为160~215 μm的光谱信号.结果显示,在不同信噪比下,基于干涉级次拟合的算法可获得较好的测量准确度,同一信噪比下,该准确度不依赖腔长变化,也不依赖光谱解调波长分辨率变化.实验结果表明,基于干涉级次拟合结果曲线残差的均方根差为0.012 μm,验证了该算法的有效性.     

煤燃烧亚微米颗粒数浓度特性实验研究和理论分析

煤粉燃烧过程中亚微米颗粒数浓度的准确采样和测量是一个颇具挑战性的问题,本文基于清华大学高温-维炉实验系统产生的亚微米颗粒物,发展了适用于气溶胶扫描电迁移率颗粒粒径谱仪(SMPS)的两级氮气稀释水冷等速取样技术.为得到炉膛内亚微米颗粒的真实数浓度粒径分布,本文探索了不同稀释比对测量结果的影响,最后发展了基于成核、团聚和表...     

基于动态光散射研究pH值对茄红素胶囊粒径的影响

用微乳化技术结合复合团聚法制备了纳米及亚微米茄红素胶囊,基于动态光散射测量分析了环境p H值对胶囊的粒径大小及其分布的影响.结果表明,对纳米茄红素胶囊,当p H值为3.5、6.0及6.8时能稳定的分散,而p H值为7.4时则会出现明显的聚集现象;对亚微米茄红素胶囊,当p H值为3.5、6.0、6.8及7.4时其粒径分布均为双峰状态,其中粒径较大的为亚微米茄红素胶囊,粒径较小的为包覆不良的颗粒,且p H=7.4时的粒径明显小于其它三种p H值时的粒径.虽然亚微米胶囊在p H=7.4时粒径明显变小的结果与纳米胶囊相同,但亚微米胶囊并不像纳米胶囊那样出现聚集现象.     

光散射法测量颗粒尺寸、浓度的实验研究

为了能够准确快速地求解出微米量级颗粒系的尺寸和浓度,设计了一套基于Fraunhofer衍射,以线阵CCD为接收器件的实验颗粒测量装置.采用Shifrin积分变换方法,分析了给定样品颗粒的粒径分布、峰值、平均值和体积浓度.实验结果表明,与传统的Swithenbank方法采用环形光电管阵列为探测器接收衍射光强来反演颗粒分布方法相比,该方法不需要知道颗粒粒径上下限,各粒径区间间隔等预知信息,而且对粒径、浓度的实验测量值与理论值相差较小,样品峰值粒径为9.849 8 μm,与给定峰值的相对误差为3.432%,具有较高的测试准确度和较好的测试效果.     

1.66 μm和 1.55 μm光源对长距离光纤拉曼温度传感器测量时间影响的理论对比

通过理论分析,在综合考虑长距离光纤拉曼温度传感器中各光学器件波长相关特性的基础上,比较了1.66 μm和1.55 μm光源对传感器测量时间的影响.计算结果表明,由于各光学器件在1.5 μm波段的高性能和最大允许入纤脉冲峰值功率的增加,采用1.66 μm光源的光纤拉曼温度传感器,最高可获得约1.94倍的背向反斯托克斯信号.在相同空间分辨率和温度分辨率的情况下,测量时间可以降低约3/4.     

KB镜成像模拟以及与菲涅耳波带板成像的比较

采用坐标变换方法自编光线追迹程序模拟了Kirkpatrick-Baez镜在X射线波段的掠入射成像,获得了视场、分辨率等结果.比较了给定参量条件下Kirkpatrick-Baez镜与菲涅耳波带板两种高分辨X射线成像的特性,给出两者各自适用范围.Kirkpatrick-Baez镜成像有比较高的系统效率,在视场中心的空间分辨能力可达0.71 μm,但偏离视场中心±200 μm,空间分辨能力显著下降至6 μm,适用于较小视场的成像.菲涅耳波带板成像不仅在视场中心可以实现0.39 μm的空间分辨能力,偏离视场中心达±13 mm,空间分辨能力也几乎不变,可实现大视场高分辨成像.     

一种光栅信号细分算法的FPGA实现

 提出了一种基于FPGA的光栅位移传感器信号细分处理技术,采用CORDIC（坐标旋转数字计算机）解算相位,同时结合单准确度浮点运算,将辩向、粗码计数、相位解算、粗码精码浮点运算集成于单片FPGA实现,保证了细分的准确度、细分数据的有效计算准确度及信号处理的速度.设计中采用Altera公司的Cyclone II_EP2C20F484C8型芯片进行验证,对20 μm栅距的光栅尺信号进行细分处理,实验结果证实了该方法的正确性和可行性.     

RGB三波段消光法测量细微颗粒粒度分布研究

提出了采用彩色相机RGB信号实现三波段消光法测量微米级颗粒粒度分布的方法。当一束平行白光入射到弥散细微颗粒时,测量不同波长的透射光强信号,用多波长消光法理论反演可以测得被测弥散细微颗粒粒度。当用彩色相机拍摄透射光,得到的图像实际是RGB三个波段的透射光信号,该信号与相机的RGB响应曲线、光源光谱特性、被测颗粒粒径及颗粒浓度有关。对RGB三波段信号用消光法理论进行分析和反演计算,可以得到细微颗粒的粒度分布。通过数值模拟与实验验证,表明用彩色相机RGB三波段消光法可以测量亚微米到3 mm大小的颗粒粒度分布。将该方法与图像法颗粒粒度测量相结合,可以将彩色相机测量颗粒粒度的范围拓展到从亚微米到数百微米。     

Incoherent and coherent backscattering of light by a layer of densely packed random medium

The problem of light scattering by a layer of densely packed discrete random medium is considered. The theory of light scattering by systems of nonspherical particles is applied to derive equations corresponding to incoherent (diffuse) and interference parts of radiation reflected from the medium. A solution of the system of linear equations describing light scattering by a system of particles is represented by iteration. It is shown that the symmetry properties of the T-matrices and of the translation coefficients for the vector Helmholtz harmonics lead to the reciprocity relation for an arbitrary iteration. This relation is applied to consider the backscattering enhancement phenomenon. Equations expressing the incoherent and interference parts of reflected light from statistically homogeneous and isotropic plane-parallel layer of medium are given. In the exact backscattering direction the relation between incoherent and interference parts is identical to that of sparse media.     

粉末倍频系数的模拟研究

根据Kurtz粉末倍频理论,使用光纤光谱仪自行设计搭建一个粉末倍频测试系统,该系统可在基频光波入射方向不变的情况下,通过转动旋转臂在不同方向探测二次谐波,并且具有较高的精确度和灵敏度。使具有位相匹配特性的颗粒尺寸范围扩大为46μm～250μm 。使用波长为1.064μm的基频光,对KIO3晶体粉末的倍频效应进行了测试。测试结果表明,KIO3晶体粉末透射倍频光具有位相匹配特性。这一测试结果与已报道结果相一致。通过数值模拟实验测试曲线,获得了KIO3晶体粉末的倍频系数d2ω的值为9.7×10-12m/V。这一模拟值与已报道的KIO3晶体对该基频光波产生的倍频系数d32的值相吻合。由此可见,该方法切实可行。并且可推广应用到其他晶体材料的非线性特性测试研究。     

Light scattering properties of sea-salt aerosol particles inferred from modeling studies and ground-based measurements

Direct climate radiative forcing depends on the aerosol optical depth τ, the single scattering albedo ?, and the up-scatter fraction β; these quantities are functions of the refractive index of the particles, their size relative to the incident wavelength, and their shape. Sea-salt aerosols crystallize into cubic shapes or in agglomerates of cubic particles under low relative humidity conditions. The present study investigates the effects of the shape of dried sea-salt particles on the detection of light scattering from the particles. Ground-based measurements of scattering and backscattering coefficients have been performed with an integrating nephelometer instrument for a wavelength . The measurements are compared to two models: the Mie theory assuming a spherical shape for the particles and the Discrete Dipole Approximation (DDA) model for the hypothesis of cubic shape of the sea-salt aerosols. The comparison is made accurately by taking into account the actual range of the scattering angles measured by the nephelometer in both models that is from 7° to 170° for the scattering coefficient and from 90° to 170° for the backscattering coefficient. Modeled scattering and backscattering coefficients increase for nonspherical particles compared to spherical shape of particles with diameter larger than about 1 μm. However, the comparison of the modeling results with the measurements gives best agreement for particles diameter less than about 1 μm. The size distribution of the particles is measured with two instruments with different size bins: an electrical low-pressure impactor (ELPI) and an aerodynamic particle sizer (APS). It is found that the size of the bins of the instruments to determine the number concentration of the particles in accordance with their diameter is critical in the comparison of measurements with modeling.     

Comparison between the lab observations and DDA computations on the backscattering features of sphere-cone-oblate ice particles

Twenty sphere-cone-oblate ice particles are simulated for their backscattering observations in a microwave lab and calculations are done with the DDA method. The lab experiment and the DDA theory are briefly presented in this paper. The theoretical results are compared with the lab observations. It is shown that the theoretical results are consistent with the experimental data in general and that the backscattering ability of sphere-cone-oblate ice particles increases as the particle size parameter increases, and fluctuates in the so-called resonance region. The backscattering cross sections of sphere-cone-oblate ice particles depend not only on their sizes equivolume spherical radii R_e but also on their shapes. There is a statistically linear relationship between differential reflectivity Z_DR and the shape factor, 2a/h, which is the ratio of the horizontal scale to the vertical scale of a particle.     

Polarization of light backscattered by small particles

We study scattering of light by wavelength-scale spherical, cubic, and spheroidal particles as well as clusters of spherical particles for equal-volume-sphere size parameters 4≤x≤10 and refractive indices 1.1≤m≤2.0. Such particles exhibit three specific features in the regime of backscattering: first, the intensity shows a backscattering peak; second, the degree of linear polarization for unpolarized incident light is negative; and, third, the depolarization ratio is double-lobed. We find that the overall characteristics of the scattering-matrix elements can be explained by an internal field composed of waves propagating in opposite directions near the particle perimeter and forming standing waves, as well as a wave propagating forward with the wavelength of the internal medium. When moving from the central axis of the particle toward its perimeter, the internal field changes from a forward-propagating wave with a wavelength dictated by the particle refractive index toward a standing wave with an apparent wavelength of the surrounding medium. The mapping of the internal field to the scattered far field is like an interference dial where rotation of the dial by a quarter of a wavelength on the particle perimeter results in a change from a destructive to constructive interference feature in the angular patterns (or vice versa). The dial is a manifestation of a well-known rule of thumb: the number of maxima or minima in the scattering-matrix elements is given by the size parameter. We explain the backscattering peak as deriving from the backward-propagating internal wave near the particle perimeter. Negative polarization follows from the spatial asymmetry of the internal fields: inside the particle, the fields are amplified near the central plane perpendicular to the polarization state of incident light, resulting in more pronounced interference effects for the perpendicular polarization than for the parallel polarization. The double-lobe feature in the depolarization results from the same internal-field structure with leading cross-polarized fields located slightly different from the copolarized fields. We discuss practical implications of these findings for the retrieval of particle sizes, shapes, and refractive indices from observations and laboratory experiments.     

Light-scattering methods for modelling algal particles as a collection of coated and/or nonspherical scatterers

Ocean reflectance or ocean colour measurements are an important tool for oceanographic studies of phytoplankton dynamics. Theoretical models based on homogeneous, spherical particles underestimate algal backscattering and thus reflectance values. It is our understanding that more advanced light-scattering methods must be employed, both for refractive index retrieval (Mie, Aden–Kerker) with inverse models, and for backscattering calculations (Extended Boundary Condition Method, EBCM). The measured optical properties of a monospecific bloom of the marine brown tide pelagophyte Aureococcus anophagefferens are used to compare the effects of assuming various simulated particle geometries. Computational results from polydisperse, coated spherical particles show results that compare better to experimental reflectance values than calculations based on homogeneous spheres. No noticeable change in simulated reflectance values is observed when a randomly oriented coated spheroidal (rather than spherical) geometry is assumed for the particle population. Our results suggest that a layered spherical geometry, based on Aden–Kerker theory, can adequately reproduce experimentally determined light-scattering properties even supposedly shape-sensitive properties such as the backscattering coefficient.     

Interrelating scattering characteristics to internal electric fields for Gaussian-random-sphere particles

We investigate the single-scattering interference mechanism related to the negative polarization branch (NPB) and intensity enhancement branch (IEB) near the backscattering direction for wavelength-scale Gaussian-random-sphere particles. Previously, we showed that for wavelength-scale spherical particles there is a two-part mechanism related to the longitudinal and the transverse components of the internal electric fields that are responsible for producing both the NPB and IEB near the backscattering direction. For comparison with the previous study, we have chosen the ensemble-averaged parameters of the Gaussian-random-sphere particles to be equivalent to those for spherical particles. We conclude that the same mechanism also can explain the NPB and IEB for non-spherical particles and that the mechanism seems to be stronger inside spherical particles, mainly because of stronger interference, and becomes weaker as the particle becomes more non-spherical.     

Constraints on PSC particle microphysics derived from lidar observations

Based on extensive T-matrix computations of light scattering by polydispersions of randomly oriented, rotationally symmetric nonspherical particles, we analyze existing lidar observations of polar stratospheric clouds (PSCs) and derive several constraints on PSC particle microphysical properties. We show that sharp-edged nonspherical particles (finite circular cylinders) exhibit less variability of lidar backscattering characteristics with particle size and aspect ratio than particles with smooth surfaces (spheroids). For PSC particles significantly smaller than the wavelength, the backscatter color index and the depolarization color index β are essentially shape independent. Observations for type Ia PSCs can be reproduced by spheroids with aspect ratios larger than 1.2, oblate cylinders with diameter-to-length ratios greater than 1.6, and prolate cylinders with length-to-diameter ratios greater than 1.4. The effective equal-volume-sphere radius for type Ia PSCs is about 0.8 μm or larger. Type Ib PSCs are likely to be composed of spheres or nearly spherical particles with effective radii smaller than 0.8 μm. Observations for type II PSCs are consistent with large ice crystals (effective radius greater than 1 μm) modeled as cylinders or prolate spheroids.     

Aerosol sounding with a lidar system based on a DF laser

These are the first experimental data obtained with a mobile aerosol lidar system based on a multiwavelength DF laser (λ=3.6–4.2 μm). The use of a polychromator and 10-channel recording system allowed us to determine the spectrum of aerosol backscattering by using only a single pulse of sounding laser radiation. The backscattering signals have been obtained from simulated aerosol clouds of different substances at a distance of 0.7 km. The obtained data confirm the applicability of aerosol backscattering spectra for recognition of aerosol impurities in the atmosphere. Satisfactory agreement between the measured and theoretically predicted spectral behavior of backscattering was attained under the assumption that our aerosol particles had been coated with a water layer 10 μm thick. PACS 84.40.Xb     

Size Measurement of Very Small Spherical Particles by Mie Scattering Imaging (MSI)

The Mie Scattering Imaging method (MSI) gathers out‐of‐focus images of dispersed spherical particles present in a laser light sheet and extracts the individual particle diameter from these images. The general idea of the method has been around for more than a decade and a number of papers has dealt with it over recent years. Our work focuses on small particle sizes from 20 μm down to 2 μm, a range which has not been tackled so far although it is of great importance in particle systems. We present an optical set‐up with a special arrangement of camera lenses that allows to work in this range. An evaluation algorithm based on correlation of the experimental optical information with theoretical Mie scattering was found to give the most accurate results for particle sizing. Besides accuracy measurements on solid spheres the versatility of the method is demonstrated by an example of transient droplet growth between 2–7 μm.