THz辐射在DNA光谱研究中的应用

太赫兹(THz)辐射是一种新型的远红外相干辐射源,近年来在不同的研究领域中得到了广泛的应用,许多研究表明THz脉冲光谱学在生物和医学方面具有潜在的应用前景。文章简要介绍了THz辐射产生和探测的基本原理和方法;阐述了THz辐射在生物学和DNA分子光谱学研究的物理基础;讨论应用THz辐射研究DNA取得的成果及最新进展,展望应用THz辐射研究DNA分子的前景。     

THz光谱技术在炸药及其相关材料检测中的应用进展

太赫兹（THz）光谱技术近年来在航空航天、生命科学、安全检测等领域的应用进展迅速.由于许多炸药及其相关材料在THz波段具有特征吸收，许多非金属、非极性材料对THz波是透明的。且THz波具有低能性，THz光谱技术在安检中具有巨大的应用潜力．文章介绍了国际上THz光谱技术在炸药及其相关材料研究中的现状和进展及文章作者在炸药及其相关材料THz光谱研究方面的成果，讨论了THz技术应用于安全检测领域面临的挑战.     

周期极化非线性晶体中太赫兹波辐射研究

 从理论上详细研究了飞秒激光在周期极化非线性晶体中由光整流效应产生的太赫兹（THz）波辐射。利用天线辐射原理和光栅衍射理论，着重研究THz波辐射的频域场和时域场的分布。讨论和分析了THz波辐射的中心频率、频谱宽度和电场随辐射角的变化。研究表明，THz波的带宽反比于晶体的长度或光栅数，电场随辐射角呈准谐波变化。     

微纳光学结构与太赫兹辐射产生技术的研究进展

太赫兹(THz)技术在基础研究与产业应用中具有重要研究意义,但其广泛应用仍受限于高效、紧凑的THz源,特别是0.5～2.0 THz波段。目前,人们已经采用了多种技术产生THz辐射,基于光学的方法是其中最重要的手段。首先,针对THz脉冲波及连续波,基于光电导效应及非线性光学差频的THz辐射产生机理,总结了近年来微纳光学结构在提高泵浦光至THz转换效率上的应用。然后,分析了金属纳米光天线通过增强泵浦光局域电场提高THz辐射效率和将金属纳米光天线作为THz辐射源两种增强情况。最后,展望了其他类型的光学微纳结构,尤其是全介质光学天线支持的米氏谐振、无辐射模式以及连续域中束缚态等新颖物理现象在THz辐射产生中的增强作用。     

不同掺杂Zn0.95Cd0.05 Te〈110〉单晶的THz辐射特性研究

利用太赫兹(THz)时域光谱技术研究了不同掺杂的Zno95Cd0.05Te<110〉单晶产生THz辐射的特性.实验发现,当晶体的直流电阻率ρ＞102 Ω·cm时,晶体产生THz辐射的效率随着晶体电阻率的增加而增加,但当电阻率ρ＞106Ω·cm时,晶体产生THz辐射的效率出现饱和甚至可能下降.光谱测量结果表明,此类晶体在THz波段的透过率基本上取决于其低频电阻率,但除了晶体对THz辐射的吸收这一因素外,其色散性质的变化对晶体的THz辐射性能也有重要的影响.因此,当ZnCdTe晶体用于THz辐射产生和探测时,仅仅用材料的Hall电阻率不能完全表征器件的性能.     

ZnTe晶体中光学整流产生的THz辐射及其电光探测研究

借助抽运-探测技术研究了ZnTe晶体中光学整流产生的太赫兹(THz)辐射，利用ZnTe晶体的线性电光效应探测THz辐射场分布，观察到了较窄(约为0.2 ps)的THz场分布及相应较宽(响应超过4 THz，半峰宽约为2.4 THz)的THz频谱，并运用琼斯矩阵对实验结果进行了理论拟合. 研究了飞秒激光脉冲波长(750—850 nm)、脉冲宽度(56—225 fs)和晶体旋转与THz辐射产生的关系. 同时改变探测光偏振方向进行偏振调制，并从理论上分析了偏振调制对THz辐射探测的影响. 关键词： THz辐射 光学整流 电光探测 ZnTe     

光电导开关产生太赫兹电磁波双极特性分析

利用光电导体产生太赫兹电磁波(THz波)，THz远场辐射波形与光电导体材料的载流子寿命、偏置电场以及触发光有直接关系.用不同方法对低温GaAs(LT-GaAs)和半绝缘GaAs(SI-GaAs)光电导开关辐射的THz电磁波所呈现的双极特性进行了模拟计算.结果表明，LT-GaAs光电导开关辐射THz波呈现双极性的主要原因是光生载流子寿命小于一个THz波产生时间；而光生载流子寿命大于100ps的SI-GaAs光电导开关，在不同的实验条件（不同偏置电场、不同光脉冲能量）下，产生的THz波呈现双极特性的主要原因分别是载流子发生了谷间散射和空间电荷电场屏蔽. 关键词： 光电导开关 THz电磁波 载流子寿命 空间电荷屏蔽     

太赫兹波的产生、传播和探测

 太赫兹（THz）辐射通常指的是频率在0·1THz～10THz之间的电磁波,其波段在微波和红外之间,见图1。THz电磁辐射具有非常独特的性质,它可以透过各种生物体、电介质材料以及气相物质,这些介质在THz波段具有丰富的吸收和色散性质,通过测量并分析样品的THz信号便可以获得关于材料中的物质成分和物理、化学以及生物学信息。太赫兹频域在高数据率通信、保密通信、精确制导和隐藏武器探测等方面有重要的应用。因此,近年来这个新兴的研究领域---THz电磁辐射的产生及应用,正在受到各国科学家的极大关注。     

基于THz技术的农产品品质无损检测研究

农产品品质备受关注,而由品质变化引发的农产品安全事故频繁,开发农产品品质的快速无损检测技术成为研究热点。太赫兹波(THz)是介于微波与红外之间的电磁辐射,由于其独特的优势,具有重要的科学研究价值。近年来,随着THz辐射源和探测器研究的不断突破,大大丰富了THz的应用研究。与其他检测技术相比,作为一种新型检测技术,THz辐射具有安全和高信噪比等重要特征,能获得传统检测方法无法获得的物理、化学和生物等信息,在质量安全检测与控制、生物医学和通信等领域的应用前景广阔。首先介绍了THz波的概念和主要性质,接着对THz技术在农产品品质检测应用上的研究进展进行综述,分析THz探测技术存在的问题,对THz技术的应用潜力进行展望,最后提出THz技术在储粮品质检测中新的应用和广阔前景。     

太赫兹时域光谱技术在气体探测中的应用(英文)

太赫兹辐射是一种新型的远红外相干辐射源,近年来在不同的研究领域得到了广泛的应用。本文简要介绍了THz时域光谱技术;阐述了THz辐射应用于气体光谱的研究及其进展;比较了傅立叶变换,线性预测编码及小波变换算法在气体探测中的应用     

Self-organization of five species in a cyclic competition game

Cyclic competition game models, particularly the “rock–paper–scissors” model, play important roles in exploring the problem of multi-species coexistence in spatially ecological systems. We propose an extended “rock–paper–scissors” game to model cyclic interactions among five species, and find that two of the five can coexistent when biodiversity disappears, which is different from the “rock–paper–scissors” game. As the number of fingers is five, we named the new model the “fingers” game, where the thumb, forefinger, middle finger, ring finger, and little finger cyclically dominate their subsequent species and are dominated by their former species. We investigate the “fingers” model in two ways: direct simulations and nonlinear partial differential equations. An important finding is that the number of species in a cyclic competition game has an influence on the emergence of biodiversity. To be specific, the “rock–paper–scissors” model is in favor of maintaining biodiversity in comparison with the “fingers” model when the variables (population size, reproduction rate, selection rate, and migration rate) are the same. It is also shown that the mobility and reproduction rate can promote or jeopardize biodiversity.     

Contrastive analysis on tone between Putonghua and Taiwan Mandarin

The differences of the pitch and duration of Chinese syllables between Putonghua （PTH） and Taiwan Mandarin （TM） were studied. The speech materials to be used are not only isolated syllables, but also sentences. The results reveal that： For the isolated syllables, T1 and T2 in TM are influenced by Minnan dialect, therefore their pitch are lower than those in PTH. T3 is fall-rise in PTH, while it is fall in TM. Moreover, the syllable duration sequence for different tone is T3〉T2〉T1〉T4 in PTH, while it is T1〉T2〉T3〉T4 in TM. For the syllables in sentences, T2 is mid-rise in PTH, while it is mid-level in TM. And the T3 is longer than T4 but shorter than T1 or T2 in PTH, while it is the shortest in TM. Furthermore the effects of prosodic phrase boundary on duration for different tones are almost the same in PTH, but the lengthening part of T1 or T2 is longer than that of T3 or T4 in TM.     

Experimental study on downstep in Chinese intonation

Downstep in pitch contour of Chinese Putonghua is examined using subtly designed sentences by controlling tone combinations. The results show both automatic and nonautomatic downstep phenomena exist in Chinese. In non-automatic downstep, low tones compress downwards the pitch range of the following syllables. and the main influence of downstep is on topline. Low tone not only lower the topline behind it, but also raise the high tones before it, the effects are compatible with each other. In automatic downstep, the topline of pitch contour in intonational phrase is presented as a linear downtrend, but it differs among speakers due to the effect of personal stress practice. In comparison with downstep phenomenon in other tone or non-tone languages, the downstep ratio in Chinese is not constant, and the domain of downstep is not limited within the adjacent tones.     

Abelian-Higgs phase of SU(2) QCD and glueball energy

It is shown that SU(2) QCD admits an dual Abelian-Higgs phase, with a Higgs vacuum of a type-Ⅱ superconductor. This is done by using a connection decomposition for the gluon field and the random-direction approximation. Using a bag picture with soft wall, we presented a calculational procedure for the glueball energy based on the recent proof for wall-vortices [Nucl. Phys. B 741(2006)1].     

Signal generation in an isotropic medium in scanning electron acoustic microscope

Based on the research in Ref. [5][Materials Science and Engineering, 1989; A122： 57 63], an improved model of heat source is set up, the different modes of Lamb wave in an isotropic sample generated by a chopped electron beam at frequency f are obtained with integral transform and normal function expansion method, and the output signal of PZT coupled at the back surface of the sample is found out. The generation mechanism of SEAM （Scanning Electron Acoustic Microscopy） signal is discussed. It shows that the SEAM is a near field imaging technique with high spatial resolution and its best lateral spatial resolution is about 2√2α （α is the radius of the focused electron beam）. Some of experimental results of SEAM images are presented in the paper and it shows that the spatial resolution of SEAM is better than 0.5 μm and smaller than the thermal diffusion length of the sample. Therefore the character of near field imaging in SEAM is also proved experimentally.     

High efficiency filtering using two-dimensional photonic crystal coupled cavity structures

Transmission spectra of coupled cavity structures (CCSs) in two-dimensional (2D) photonic crystals (PCs) are investigated using a coupled mode theory, and an optical filter based on CCS is proposed. The performance of the filter is investigated using finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method, and the results show that within a very short coupling distance of about 3λ, where λ is the wavelength of signal in vacuum, the incident signals with different frequencies are separated into different channels with a contrast ratio of 20 dB. The advantages of this kind of filter are small size and easily tunable operation frequencies.     

Real-time restoration of rotational blurred image using gradient-loading

The key to the restoration of rotational motion blurred image is how to restore the image under a low cost and to correct the irreversibility of the degradation function matrix.Based on the special qualities of degradation function matrix and precise deduction in space-domain, we present a new approach using gradient-loading for restoration of rotational blurred image.By easily adding a gradient operator, the irreversibility of the original matrix is corrected and can be applied for inverse filtering then.Gradientloading is the optimized approach which combines the advantages of both the approaches using constrained least square filtering and traditional diagonal-loading.Compared with the approach using least square filtering, its peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR) is improved from 3.18 to 6.46dB, while the computing time is reduced to 1/2-1/3.Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness, noise-resistibility, robustness, and low complexity of this approach, which make it more suitable for real-time environment.     

All-Optical Logic Device Using Bent Nonlinear Tapered Y-Junction Waveguide Structure

We propose an all-optical logic device made of a bent tapered Y-junction waveguide with a Kerr-type nonlinear interface. It could provide an AND gate, OR gate, and exclusive-OR (XOR) gate. We could obtain different transmission results by adjusting the bending angle. The numerical simulation results show that the device functions as AND, OR, and XOR gates.     

Real-time, continuous-wave terahertz imaging by a pyroelectric camera

Real-time, continuous-wave terahertz (THz) imaging is demonstrated. A 1.89-THz optically-pumped farinfrared laser is used as the illumination source, and a 124 × 124 element room-temperature pyroelectric camera is adopted as the detector. With this setup, THz images through various wrapping materials are shown. The results show that this imaging system has the potential applications in real-time mail and security inspection.