多缝夫琅禾费衍射缺级现象分析研究

本文讨论了多缝夫琅禾费衍射的光强分布特点,编写Matlab程序绘制光强分布曲线,分析了多缝夫琅禾费衍射缺级现象的影响因素,与单缝衍射因子和缝间干涉因子有关．     

菲涅尔多缝衍射的数值计算

本文直接由菲涅尔一基尔霍夫衍射积分公式出发,通过数值积分的方法,计算菲涅尔单缝、双缝以及多缝衍射的光强分布,绘制出其相应的光强分布曲线.同时给出了计算菲涅尔多缝衍射的光振动分布的具体表达式.研究结果对于理解菲涅尔衍射现象具有重要的理论参考意义.     

狭缝法合肥光源高亮度注入器发射度测量系统

为了测量受空间电荷效应支配的发射度,合肥光源高亮度注入器采用了狭缝法进行测量,研究了基于狭缝法发射度测量系统的构成,并以实例比较了单狭缝和多狭缝在发射度测量系统中的应用。两种测量方法的结果表明:单狭缝法测量的结果更接近于模拟计算值,可有效避免子束团之间的重叠,适用范围更广。实验结果表明:在240 pC电荷量情况下,合肥光源高亮度注入器仍然具有较小的归一化发射度,为（1.840.085） mmmrad。     

Generation of 1D interference patterns of Bloch surface waves

Interference patterns of Bloch surface waves with a period that is significantly less than the wavelength of incident radiation are formed using dielectric diffraction gratings located on the surface of photonic crystal. The simulation based on electromagnetic diffraction theory is used to demonstrate the possibility of high-quality interference patterns due to resonant enhancement of higher evanescent diffraction orders related to the excitation of the Bloch surface waves. The contrast of the interference patterns is close to unity, and the period is less than the period of the diffraction structure by an order of magnitude.     

Plasmon mechanism of light transmission through a metal film or a plasma layer

It is shown that a smooth metal film (or a plasma layer) can be made transparent for an electromagnetic wave when two identical subwavelength diffraction gratings are placed on both sides of the film. The electromagnetic wave transmission through the metal film is caused by excitation of evanescent surface waves (plasmons) and their transformation into propagating waves at the gratings. A model which is developed analytically shows that the problem of the wave transmission is physically equivalent to the problem of excitation of two coupled resonators of evanescent waves which are formed at the two film surfaces.     

菲涅耳衍射的数值计算

利用Mathematica软件分别计算了单缝衍射及双缝衍射的光强分布,成功解决了菲涅耳衍射的计算这一较难问题,并得到了双缝衍射向杨氏双逢干涉过渡的具体条件,完成了实验室内难以完成的任务.     

平面变线距光栅衍射场的解析表达式

利用多缝干涉原理计算了平面变线距光栅的衍射场分布,给出了它的主极大位置、半宽度等物理量.讨论了该光栅在成像参量变化时对光栅衍射场的影响,得到了变线距光栅单色器参量变化的限制范围.     

Multilevel phase Fresnel zone plate lens as a near-field optical element

We propose and develop a new solid immersion lens (SIL), which is called the multilevel phase Fresnel zone plate lens (FZPL) for the near-field (evanescent wave) microscopy. The simple analysis is presented by using the scalar diffraction theory. The outstanding advantages of this FZPL are that it both focuses incident waves and produces evanescent waves. A FZPL can effectively concentrate the high angle rays important for the high resolution in comparison with the conventional SILs. The optical system equipped with the FZPL is not only simple in the assembly but also effective in making an optical head unit.     

Optical forces acting on a nanoparticle placed into an interference evanescent field

We describe a general way how to calculate analytically optical forces acting on Rayleigh particles or colloids placed into interference field made by evanescent waves. In this paper we focus on a configuration with three interfering waves and we present a comprehensive analysis of optical trap positions, depths, and forces depending on the configuration and polarisation of the incident waves. Particle behaviour is predicted including optical sorting according to the particle refractive index.     

Huygens-Fresnel diffraction and evanescent waves

Based on a modified Huygens-Fresnel principle valid in the near field, we analytically verify the exponential wave decay of evanescent waves. This field decay along the propagation direction can be considered as the result of interference between elementary oscillating dipole sources rather than point sources. Specific examples where the modified Huygens-Fresnel principle is applicable are also examined. In particular, the diffraction through a single nano-slit, as well as, the propagation of an engineered input leading to a subwavelength focus are presented.     

光的干涉和衍射的Matlab数值模拟

利用Matlab数值模拟杨氏双缝干涉、单缝衍射和光栅衍射的图案和光强分布曲线,并讨论了光的非单色性对干涉条纹的影响.     

The role of propagating and evanescent waves in scanning near-field optical microscopy

Theoretical study on the image formation in scanning near-field optical microscopy is carried out in the framework of the direct moment method. Information brought, respectively, by the propagating and evanescent components in the optical near field that is collected by a scanning fiber tip with a sub-wavelength aperture is numerically and systematically analyzed in the light of the resolution achieved by the microscope. The analyses reveal that resolutions beyond the diffraction limit can be achieved even in the absence of the evanescent waves. That is, it is incorrect or at least incomplete to believe that a microscope that collects only the propagating waves is limited by the diffraction. Our studies show that a scanning near-field optical microscope can achieve resolutions beyond the diffraction limit by collecting only the propagating waves.     

Generation of sub-half-wavelength micro-optical traps by dichroic evanescent standing waves

The bi-dimensional optical lattices formed by several sets of laser evanescent standing waves propagating at the surface of a dielectric prism are investigated. The characteristics of the optical traps including their depths and the sizes are analysed. It is shown that the micro-optical lattice with a sub-half-wavelength size can be achieved by the interference of the selected evanescent waves. The scheme together with the recently developed atomic chip may be used for atomic quantum manipulation.     

Aharonov-Bohm effect revisited

The Aharonov-Bohm (AB) effect shows that electromagnetic potentials can influence an electron in a field-free region. The single-slit and double-slit electron diffraction patterns are explicitly calculated here by the Feynman path integral method for different configurations of the magnetic field in order to compare the effect of the vector potential with the effect of the magnetic field. When an electron passes through a magnetic field behind the slits, the whole diffrection pattern is shifted due to the Lorentz force. When an electron passes through two slits with magnetic flux confined to a small cylinder between them, the double-slit diffraction pattern is shifted within the single-slit diffraction envelope. The asymmetric diffraction pattern corresponds to a nonzero average displacement and momentum of the electron even though the field exerts no force on the electron. This behavior can be understood on the basis of a quantum-mechanical interference effect. The classical limit of the electron diffraction patterns is taken to obtain the classical particle distributions. The effect of the potential vanishes in the classical limit, while the effect of the magnetic field persists because of the Lorentz force.     

Pairs of opposite decaying evanescent waves in random media and tunneling radiative transfer

A tunneling mechanism of radiative transfer through a dielectric random medium is revealed applying technique of Dyson and Bethe-Salpeter equations for electromagnetic wave multiple scattering by medium inhomogeneities (scatterers) with near fields effects in scattered fields. The mechanism consists in existing inside of a random inhomogeneity a pair of virtually opposite decaying evanescent waves whose interference results in energy flux.     

Evanescent wave holographic recording in nanosize thick chalcogenide glass films

The results of holographic gratings recording in 29, 15 and 8 nm thick As₂S₃ films are presented in the paper. The method is based on the interference of surface-propagating evanescent waves, created by total internal reflection. The condition for successful recording is the penetration depth of these inhomogeneous waves to be greater than the films thickness. In this case, the film’s refractive index does not affect the total internal reflection (TIR) condition and could be greater than the input glass prism. The experimentally obtained low diffraction efficiencies by this holographic recording technique is due to the very low refractive index modulation, but the good signal-to-noise ratio - better than 50:1 and Bragg-type diffraction are a base for future applications of this grating formation method in nanotechnology.     

Limits for superfocusing with finite evanescent wave amplification

Perfect lensing using negative refractive index materials and radiationless electromagnetic interference both provides extreme subwavelength focusing by "amplifying" evanescent wave components that are usually lost. This Letter provides a relation between the achievable focus spot size, the amplification available, and the focal length. This may be considered as a revised version of Abbe's diffraction limit for focusing systems that have evanescent wave amplification. It is useful in comparing the amplification achieved in various subwavelength focusing implementations as well as determining when it is better to use existing near-field techniques, such as simple diffraction from an aperture or slit, than to attempt complicated superfocusing.     

Superluminal propagation of evanescent modes as a quantum effect

Contrary to mechanical waves, the two‐slit interference experiment of single photons shows that the behavior of classical electromagnetic waves corresponds to the quantum mechanical one of single photons, which is also different from the quantum‐field‐theory behavior such as the creations and annihilations of photons, the vacuum fluctuations, etc. Owing to a purely quantum effect, quantum tunneling particles including tunneling photons (evanescent modes) can propagate over a spacelike interval. With this picture we conclude that the superluminality of evanescent modes is a quantum mechanical rather than a classical phenomenon.     

用计算机研究光的多缝衍射

依据光栅衍射理论，利用计算机的计算功能和作图功能对光的多缝衍射实验进行了模拟．由于采用了面向对象的编程语言C＋＋，使得软件的使用非常简单，只要任意设定实验的参数，计算机就会快速地绘出各种复杂的衍射图线，并准确地再现光栅衍射的现象及规律．便于对光的干涉和衍射现象进行深入的研究。     

High-resolution imaging of a long-distance target with a single-slit streak-tube lidar

Streak-tube lidar (STIL) is an excellent laser-imaging system, which can provide a high-resolution 4D-image. Compared to multi-slit STIL (MS-STIL), single-slit STIL (SS-STIL) can offer much higher image resolution using beam compression. This advantage is important for identification of a long distance target. We propose a method for increasing the SS-STIL-system resolution and perform an experiment on high-resolution imaging of a long-distance target. Since the beam-compression rate is limited due to the resolution of the streak-tube photocathode, we propose a method for defining the proper laser-beam shape in the STIL-system design.