拉直的单个DNA分子的全内反射荧光实时成像研究

全内反射荧光(TIRF)成像技术利用穿透深度仅200 nm左右的隐失波来激发诱导荧光,探测灵敏度和图像信噪比大大提高,成为单分子研究的有力工具。分子梳技术利用DNA末端与固体表面的结合力和周围流体流动产生的侧向力将DNA分子拉伸并平铺在表面上。结合这两种技术,对分子梳拉直的单个DNA分子进行了清晰的实时荧光成像,发现TIRF成像条件下DNA分子与荧光探针YOYO-1组成的复合体可自然避免发生光敏断裂现象;实时监测了单个DNA-YOYO-1复合体的光漂白过程,通过对激发光照射时间与探测器曝光时间进行同步控制,可大幅降低光漂白程度,为拉直的单个DNA分子的长时间实时观察和成像研究优化了实验条件,为实时、可视化地研究其与蛋白质相互作用的动力学过程奠定了基础。     

Poly-3BCMU 薄膜光漂白过程的理论模型

本文报道了使用两种不同漂白光源时,Poly-3BCMU薄膜的光漂白过程,并建立了描述漂白过程的理论模型.最后讨论了采用光漂白方法制备导波微光学元件的可能性.     

Poly－3BCMU薄膜光漂白的实验研究

报道了Ｐｏｌｙ－３ＢＣＭＵ薄膜光漂白过程的实验研究结果。测量了薄膜光漂白前后的可见及紫外光谱的变化，表明在光漂白过程中聚合物的长链被逐渐打断。实验表明，被漂白的聚合物薄膜可以被某些有机溶剂溶解，导致所谓的显影过程。实验研究了氧对光漂白过程的影响，并发现在Ｐｏｌｙ－３ＢＣＭＵ薄膜表面涂复光刻胶薄层可阻止氧分子向薄膜内的扩散，从而大大减缓光漂白过程。本文同时对光漂白在制备光波导元件中的应用进行了研究。     

聚合物材料PMMA/DR1光漂白过程中折射率的变化

用双光束扫描法研究了在488nm的Ar^ 激光照射下，聚合物材料RMMA／DR1的光漂白过程，为精确测量光漂白模型中的参数提供了一种简单实验方法。这对于今后用光漂白的方法制备光波导器件具有重要意义。     

Poly—3BCMU薄膜光漂白的实验研究

报道了Ｐｏｌｙ－３ＢＣＭＵ薄膜光漂白过程的实验研究结果。测量了薄膜漂白前后的可见及紫外光谱的变化，表明在光漂白过程中聚合物的长链被逐断打断。实验表明，被漂白的聚合物薄膜可以被某些有机溶剂溶解，导致所谓的显影响过程。     

厦门湾有色溶解有机物光漂白的三维荧光光谱研究

利用荧光激发-发射矩阵光谱(excitation-emission matrix spectroscopy,EEMs)研究了厦门湾九龙江河口中、低盐度区表层水样中有色溶解有机物在秋季天然太阳辐照下的光化学漂白。结果表明,光漂白未引起水样中类腐殖质(C, A, M)和类蛋白质(T,B)荧光峰位置的移动。5个峰的荧光强度均随辐照时间的增加而减少,其中低盐度水样的降低幅度更大,并以指示陆源河流输入的特征荧光峰C的光漂白程度最大。根据漂白速率可将各荧光团区分出易漂白和难漂白两类组分。光漂白导致T、C峰及A、C峰之间的荧光强度比值增加,说明光漂白可引起海水中溶解有机物性质的明显改变,并且也是近海类蛋白质荧光相对类腐殖质荧光占优势的一个重要控制因素。研究结果对于探究陆源有机物在近海的转化及去除过程以及海洋光学有一定的参考价值。     

DHL细胞中5-ALA代谢PpIX的双光子荧光光谱

双光子激发生物组织荧光,激发光仅作用于焦点区域,对生物样品的光漂白性和光毒性都很小,因而双光子荧光显微技术已成为细胞生物学研究的一种新技术。文章采用波长为820 nm飞秒激光激发孵育有5-ALA的DHL细胞,在激光扫描显微镜的Lambda模式中获得单个DHL细胞的双光子荧光光谱,并测量DHL细胞内积聚的卟啉九(PpIX)特征荧光值。获得了浓度分别为2, 4和10 mmol·L-1的5-ALA溶液中,细胞代谢的PpIX含量随孵育时间的变化情况。DHL细胞内积聚的PpIX处于动态变化过程,并呈现出两阶段性的特点：细胞内积聚的PpIX含量随着孵育时间增长而增加,在3 h附近达到最大值,随后随着孵育时间增长反而下降。结果表明,基于激光扫描显微的双光子荧光光谱可成为DHL细胞等白血病细胞摄取5-ALA并生成PpIX的动力学研究的有效方法。     

新型含偶氮侧链聚合物中光致各向异性及偏振全息记录

研究了偶氮侧链聚合物中光致各向异性和偏振全息, 确认在这种聚合物中分析光致各向异性动力学过程时, 必须考虑光漂白效应的影响, 测量表明该聚合物具有大的光致双折射（Δｎ ＝７．８×１０－ ３）, 并在其中记录了高衍射效率（η＝ １９．３％ ）的偏振全息图     

聚合物PMMA/DR1啁啾光栅耦合器的研究

从理论上分析出在一定条件下啁啾光栅输出耦合器具有较好的聚焦衍射光束的作用.实验上采用光漂白方法,利用两束激光在PMMA/DR1平面波导上所形成的干涉条纹来制备啁啾光栅,研究了这种啁啾光栅耦合器衍射光的聚焦效应,观测结果与理论分析基本相符.     

生物相容性量子点的表征及其在细胞标记中的应用

利用无机低温水相合成法制备表面包覆L-半胱氨酸的CdTe/ZnTe核壳型量子点,测量不同溶液以及激发功率激光作用下该量子点的光谱特性。结果表明,该量子点吸收谱和荧光光谱峰值位置不随pH值变化,而荧光光强随pH值升高呈近似线性上升趋势;不同缓冲液对该量子点荧光光强无影响,但随孵育时间延长,荧光强度略有下降;在强激光照射下QDs会被快速光漂白,选择适当的激光功率(<100 μW),可降低漂白速率,实现长时间稳定测量。因此,该量子点具有较好的生物稳定性和光稳定性,将其与血铁蛋白相连形成靶向共轭纳米粒,可成功用于HeLa细胞标记。细胞内量子点光漂白实验表明,细胞微环境会影响量子点的光稳定性,加速量子点的光漂白。     

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.     

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.     

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.     

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].     

Guided-Wave Two-Dimensional Acousto-Optic Scanner Using Proton-Exchanged Lithium Niobate Waveguide

Two-dimensional scanning of a 0.6328 mum guided-light beam has been realized using noncolinear acousto-optic (AO) coplanar Bragg diffraction together with colinear AO guided-mode to substrate radiation-mode conversion in a Z-cut Xpropagation LiNbO3 proton-exchanged (PE) waveguide. The two surface acoustic (SAW) waves utilized are at the center frequencies of 500 and 200 MHz, propagating in the Y and X axes, respectively. Two-dimensional scanning of approximately 720 resolvable light beam spots, namely, 18 40 (horizontal vertical) scanning, has been demonstrated using a light beam of 1.0 mm aperture. The total number of resolvable beam spots can be greatly increased from 720 by simply utilizing SAW transducers of larger bandwidth and a light beam of greater aperture. It should also be possible to significantly increase the diffraction efficiency from 3 % by optimizing the parameters of the PE waveguide and the SAWs.     

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.