Simultaneous acquisition of all four forms of circular polarization Raman optical activity: results for α‐pinene and lysozyme

A new circularly polarized (CP) Raman spectrometer is described that demonstrates simultaneous acquisition of all four forms of circular polarization Raman optical activity (ROA). The instrument is a design extension of a commercially available back scattering circular polarization (SCP) ROA spectrometer. Circular polarization of the incident beam is introduced with a quarter‐wave plate, and a half‐wave plate alternately positioned in and out of the beam controls the modulation between right circular polarization (RCP) or left circular polarization (LCP) states. Combining this modulation with the simultaneous detection of RCP and LCP scattered Raman radiation allows the measurement of incident circular polarization (ICP), SCP, in‐phase dual circular polarization(DCP_I) and out‐of‐phase DCP_II‐ROA. In addition, three different forms of backscattered Raman spectra, namely unpolarized, highly polarized, and depolarized Raman spectra, as well as a degree of circularity spectrum are obtained. The performance of the new all‐CP ROA spectrometer is evaluated with neat α‐pinene and aqueous hen lysozyme solution. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

磁光光纤Bragg光栅中圆偏振光的非线性传输特性

提出了磁光光纤Bragg光栅的理论模型,给出了圆偏振光在磁光光纤光栅中传播的非线性耦合模方程. 研究表明,在磁光光纤Bragg光栅中,光栅引起正反传播方向的导波光发生耦合,法拉第效应引起磁圆双折射效应,而非线性效应则将左旋和右旋圆偏振光耦合在一起,它们的共同作用可使双稳态状态发生反转、非线性光控光开关阈值功率降低. 与传统光纤光栅相比,利用左旋和右旋磁圆偏振光之间的交叉相位调制实现的脉冲整形具有磁光偏置可调特性,为基于磁光光纤光栅的动态灵活全光3R再生器的研制提供了理论基础. 关键词： 磁光光纤Bragg光栅 圆偏振光 脉冲整形     

Polarization imaging in atmospheric environment based on polarized reflectance retrieval

A method for calculating the atmospheric parameters measurement accuracy requirement based on polarized reflectance retrieval is proposed. The at-sensor polarization states with different atmospheric parameters content are simulated based on the atmospheric radiative transfer model in order to select the key parameter affecting the polarization observation. The accuracy requirement of atmospheric parameters is derived through the polarized reflectance retrieval method. Experiment results show that retrieval accuracy of polarized reflectance of typical ground objects can be up to 90%. The atmospheric parameters measurement accuracy requirement when the retrieval accuracy is more than 75% is derived.     

Nonlinear magneto-optical Bragg gratings

In magneto-optical gratings the magnetic dipolar coupling superimposed on the electric dipolar one introduces nonreciprocity and spectral discrimination between circular polarization states, measured by a Zeeman-like splitting of the photonic Bragg resonances. In a nonlinear regime the degree of nonreciprocity is modified by the photoinduced interplay of these splittings and their Stark-like shifts. We predict novel magneto-optical modulation schemes for switching between orthogonal circular polarization states of transmission or reflection operated by means of an intense linearly polarized optical pulse train.     

PMMA材料在线偏振和圆偏振光下的超连续光谱特性分析

飞秒激光在透明材料加工过程中会出现超连续光谱现象。在阐述超连续光谱产生的原理的基础上,为了分析PMMA材料在不同偏振光下产生的超连续光谱的阈值,设计了线偏光和圆偏光及不同能量加工PMMA材料的实验方案。利用光谱仪对产生的超连续光谱信号进行采集及处理,分析出不同能量下的线偏振(TE和TM)和圆偏振两种偏振态的超连续光谱的变化规律,并对比了相同能量下线偏振和圆偏振的超连续光谱的区别。实验中采用脉宽160 fs、中心波长为775 nm的飞秒激光,实验结果表明,同一偏振下能量越大,光谱谱宽越宽;通过对比不同能量下的光谱特性,观测出产生超连续光谱的阈值, 线偏振光的阈值为0.46 μJ,圆偏振光的阈值为0.586 μJ;对比相同能量下的线偏振和圆偏振光,线偏振的谱宽比圆偏振的宽。     

Circular dichroism in laser-assisted short-pulse photoionization

A remarkable effect of circular dichroism, i.e., a difference in photoelectron spectra produced by right and left circularly polarized light in two-color multiphoton ionization of atoms, is predicted for the case when the atom is ionized by an extreme ultraviolet or x-ray femtosecond pulse in the field of a strong infrared laser pulse, both pulses being circularly polarized. We show that the sidebands formed in the spectra exhibit different circular dichroism often of different signs both in angle-resolved and angle-integrated experimental conditions. The effect can be used for detecting and measuring circular polarization of x rays in a spectral range where other methods are not effective.     

X-ray communication based simultaneous communication and ranging

To improve the link efficiency and decrease the payloads in space explorations, a novel simultaneous communication and ranging method based on x-ray communication(XCOM) is proposed in this paper. A delicate signal symbol structure is utilized to achieve simultaneous data transmission and range measurement. With the designed symbol structure, the ranging information is imbedded into the communication signal and transmitted with it simultaneously. The range measurement is realized by the two-way transmission of the range information. To illustrate the proposed method, firstly, the principle of the method is introduced and the signal processing procedure is presented. Then, the performance of the proposed method is analyzed theoretically in various aspects, including the acquisition probability, the bit error rate, the ranging jitter,etc. Besides, numerical experiments are conducted to verify the proposed method and evaluate the system performance.The simulation results show that the proposed method is feasible and that the system performance is influenced by the parameters concerning the signal symbol structure. Compared with the previous methods, the proposed method improves the link efficiency and is beneficial for system miniaturization and integration, which could provide a potential option for future deep space explorations.     

Steady state response of optical feedback in orthogonally polarized microchip Nd:YAG laser based on optical feedback rate equation

We present a rate equation model to explain and simulate the steady state response of optical feedback in orthogonally polarized microchip Nd:YAG lasers, which is observed in our experiment: When the external-cavity length is tuned, the two orthogonal polarization states perform an opposite-phase power modulation. With the increase of feedback light intensity, the power modulation of each orthogonal polarization state will present an amplitude increase, and finally become a polarization-state hopping; when the frequency difference of the two orthogonal polarization states is tuned, the power modulation amplitude performs a periodic variation. The theoretical analysis and numerical simulation are in good agreement with the experimental results.     

Reconstruction of the probability density function by means of the degree of polarization for one-photon mixed states

In this paper the authors discuss an alternative way for reconstructing one-photon mixed states of a partially polarized optical field. The task is to represent the probability density distribution describing these kind of states with the Stokes parameters which also characterize the effective state of polarization. These parameters can be measured by means of the degree of polarization with an experimental setup containing a rotating linear polarizer and a circular polarizer. A thought experiment is presented which assumes that the measurement is undertaken on an analyzed beam coupled with a reference beam containing photons polarized in a well-known way. The method discussed in the paper is an alternative for the most commonly used quantum tomography approach.     

生物组织多光谱偏振特性研究

生物组织内部结构复杂且具有较强的散射特性,而光作为生物组织检测的重要信息载体,其自身特性包括颜色、幅值、偏振等都对信息获取有较大的影响.结合偏振成像,对生物组织多光谱偏振特性展开了研究,依据不同微粒尺寸的分布建立了均匀单层生物组织模型,结合瑞利和米氏散射理论模拟了基于单个微粒的两种散射事件.瑞利散射具有较好的前向后向散...     

弹光调制型成像光谱偏振仪中的高精度偏振信息探测研究

提出了一种基于三弹光调制器的差频偏振调制方法, 并结合声光可调谐滤波技术构成了新型弹光调制型成像光谱偏振探测仪(photo-elastic modulator-based imaging spectro-polarimeter, PEM-ISP). 介绍了PEM-ISP及三弹光差频偏振调制方法的基本工作原理, 并从PEM-ISP的探测原理出发, 通过分析和计算PEM-ISP的Mueller矩阵, 推导出了相应的偏振测量公式; 通过仿真及实验验证了三弹光差频偏振调制方法的可行性和准确性; 最后分析了探测积分步长、采样间隔的选取对偏振测量的影响, 对入射视场角、相位延迟幅值等因素所带来的测量误差进行了初步分析. 结果表明, 1%的相位延迟量误差带来的线偏振度DoLP误差 <0.6%. 本研究为新型PEM-ISP的遥感探测以及Stokes参量的反演的进一步工程化实现提供了必要的理论依据. 关键词： 偏振调制 三弹光调制器 差频 成像光谱偏振仪     

Optical orientation of nuclei in nitrogen alloys GaAsN at room temperature

The intensity and giant circular polarization of edge luminescence in a longitudinal magnetic field have been measured in nitrogen alloys GaAsN under circularly polarized pumping. It has been found that these dependences are shifted with respect to zero field by a value B _eff. The magnitude of the internal field B _eff increases with the pumping intensity and reaches saturation (≈250 G) at large excitation densities. The saturation of the B _eff field with growth of pumping indicates that this is a field of nuclei, polarized dynamically due to hyperfine interaction with optically oriented deep paramagnetic centers, rather than a field of exchange interaction created on the center by spin-polarized photo-excited conduction electrons. The short time of nuclear polarization by electrons (<15 μs), measured under modulation of circular polarization of the exciting light with high frequency, points to a small number of nuclei undergoing hyperfine interaction with an electron localized at a center.     

Spin Hall effect of light in metallic reflection

We report the first measurement of the spin Hall effect of light (SHEL) on an air-metal interface. The SHEL is a polarization-dependent out-of-plane shift on the reflected beam. For the case of metallic reflection with a linearly polarized incident light, both the spatial and angular variants of the shift are observed and are maximum for -45°/45° polarization, but zero for pure s and p polarization. For an incoming beam with circular polarization states however, only the spatial out-of-plane shift is present.     

二次偏振调制测距系统中调制频率与测距精度的关系

本文在基于二次偏振调制激光测距系统的基础上, 对调制频率与激光测距系统精度的关系做了深入的理论推导和实验验证. 最终得出结论: 相位法激光测距系统的测量精度会随着调制频率的增大而提高, 且精度的提高程度正比于调制频率的不确定度Δf与测程范围内半波长数N值的比值. 并通过选取合适的调制频率来提高系统的测距精度, 提高后的测距精度可达10^-7.     

Geometric Phase Based Circular Array for Multimode Vortex Beam Generation

A geometric phase model for electromagnetic radiating elements is proposed. By rotation of the radiating element, a frequency‐independent geometric phase occurs for circularly polarized components of radiation field along every direction in far field. In addition, the geometric phase is equal to the rotation angle for a circularly polarized source, which enables phase modulation ranging from 0 to 2π. In contrast, the Pancharatnam–Berry phase for circular polarization conversion components brought by optical element rotation is twice the rotation angle and is applicable only for the scattering waves propagating along the rotation axis. As a proof of principle, an antenna array is designed and fabricated in microwave regime to verify the phase modulation approach. Both the calculated and measured results verify that three different orbital angular momentum modes are generated simultaneously at 8.5 GHz and 11.5 GHz.     

Characterizing polarization properties of radially polarized beams

In the present work two methods of characterizing polarization properties of well-known radially polarized beams are discussed in both theoretical aspect and experimental aspect. A rotating linear polarizer used behind the beam is known to be used to qualitatively characterize the polarization properties of a radially polarized beam. In this paper for the first time we give the mathematic model of this characterization process. The proposed model helps to analyze the known experimental results. On the other hand two global parameters have been previously proved to be used to characterize the linear or circular polarization content of the radially polarized beams. In this paper for the first time we propose the theoretical model of determining the two parameters in experiments. Some experimental results on characterizing the polarization properties of the real radially polarized beam produced by using different approaches are shown.     

Polarization analyzers operating in a wide spectral range

Different versions of practical realization of customary optical systems for full measurement of the polarization state of quasi-monochromatic partially polarized light are considered. They can be used to overcome measurement difficulties associated with the finite width of the spectral range being studied. The effect of changes in characteristics of optical and polarization elements over a spectral range on the character of polarization measurements is analyzed. Methods for elimination of chromatism or taking into account its effect on measurements are suggested. Relations for taking into account the effect of chromatism of a phase plate with constant thickness on measurement results are given. Operation of a classical four-channel scheme for studing quasi-monochromatic partially polarized light in the visible and near-IR regions is considered. For this system, expressions are derived which make possible determination of Stokes parameters taking into account the effect of a finite spectral range. A system using phase modulation of radiation by an electrooptical cell and measurement of the maximum and minimum intensities of the modulated signal is considered. Measurements are carried out by using a two-channel system. Expressions are derived which make possible determination of Stokes parameters for the system under consideration in the visible and near-IR spectral regions. A system for measuring the polarization state of radiation in the visible and near-IR regions and based on modulation of radiation by an electrooptical phase cell is described. Measurements are carried out for the fundamental modulation frequency and its harmonics using a two-channel scheme. Relations for determining Stokes parameters of the system are presented.     

空间振幅调制光谱偏振测量技术研究

空间振幅调制光谱偏振测量技术通过由光楔、偏振片组成的调制模块,将目标的偏振信息调制到与光谱维垂直的空间维,单次测量即可同时获取目标的偏振信息和光谱信息。首先阐述空间振幅调制光谱偏振测量技术的基本原理,然后利用空间调制光谱偏振仿真软件进行理论仿真,并且给出了具体的实验研究方案,通过对比理论模拟图像和实验图像,验证实验的可靠性。以Q=0,U=1,V=0和Q=1,U=0,V=0作为入射偏振光进行实验,在波长范围500～600 nm采样10组数据,利用最小二乘法对实验输出的偏振光进行偏振解调。结果表明：解调后入射光的线偏振度与参考入射光的误差值分别小于2.5%和4%,偏振角误差值小于1.8%和2%,验证了实验和算法的可行性,并对两组复合光楔中心误差对偏振测量的影响作了简要分析,结果表明中心误差对偏振分量Q和V的测量影响较大。     

快速空间测角系统中偏振像差的分析与研究

快速空间测角系统需要在一定的平移范围内均能实现测量功能,这就要求光束在接收单元具有一定的覆盖面积.受器件尺寸所限,选择对入射光束进行扩束,然而非正入射光经过系统会产生偏振态变化,存在偏振像差,引起测量误差.本文通过采用偏振光线追迹的方法,结合电磁场的边界条件,对快速空间测角系统中一定方位及入射角范围内的光束通过偏振棱镜后出射光束的偏振态变化与分布进行了理论研究及仿真分析;并通过搭建实验平台,利用平移接收单元来模拟不同的入射方位及角度变化.根据实验值与仿真结果的对比分析,得出在方位角为0o时,测量误差较小,在方位角为90o时,测量误差最大,且随平移距离(即入射角)的增大,测角误差增大.验证了偏振像差的存在对系统测角带来的影响及理论分析的正确性,并提出了改进措施.所得研o究结果对优化系统结构并进一步提高系统性能具有一定的指导意义.     

高消光比多偏振态光源系统设计

在现代工程测量中,由于工程的各项技术指标要求越来越高,相应地对光源也提出了更高的要求。依据晶体双折射和晶体相位延迟对光偏振态的影响以及光的折射角与光振动方向有关的原理,设计了高消光比多偏振态光源系统,并设计测试方案对该系统实现的偏振态和消光比进行了验证。该光源系统通过计算机精密控制电机旋转设计的转盘结构很方便快捷地实现了S偏振态、P偏振态和圆偏振光的输出,并且系统中设计了平移和旋转装置自动控制偏振棱镜,获得了高消光比的偏振光,出射光消光比小于等于510-6。