Cascade lasing with spherical microparticles

Lasing characteristics of dye-doped spherical solid microparticles produced by photopolymerization in aerosols are investigated. It is well known that dielectric spherical microparticles are optical resonators with very high quality. The resonant internal field is not completely confined to the interior of the particle. An evanescent wave extends a couple of micrometers into the surrounding area. This evanescent field decays exponentially. We demonstrate that cascade lasing can be excited by coupling of two spherical microresonators through this evanescent field.     

Evanescent wave impedance and scattering conversion into radiation

For a radiative wave, the strength of the electric and magnetic fields is related by the intrinsic material impedance. For an evanescent wave, the component in the plane of incidence becomes increasingly dominant as the spatial frequency of the wave increases. Depending on the polarization, the evanescent wave will be either dominantly electric or magnetic. When an evanescent wave scatters from a subwavelength cylinder and is partially converted into radiation, the strength of the conversion will depend on the properties of the cylinder and the polarization of the wave. By matching the material properties of the cylinder to the dominant field of the evanescent wave, the conversion to radiation can be greatly enhanced.     

Simple and high efficient optical trapping using a cylindrical lens and a single plane wave of incidence

We suggest a simple and high efficient method for trapping particles in the evanescent field. In this method, a single plane wave is normally incident on the cylindrical surface of a cylindrical lens and then incident on the plane surface of the lens at an angle larger than the critical angle. Multiple reflections of light within the cylindrical lens create two evanescent waves with different directions in the transmitted field. Interference of two evanescent waves comes into being a standing wave which can stably trap particles close to the top of the cylindrical lens. Based on the Rayleigh approximation, we obtain analytical expressions of optical force acting on a Rayleigh particle placed in the vicinity of the lens. We find that the trap stiffness and trap depth is dependent on the radius of the cylindrical lens, wavelength and polarization of light, and incident angle at the lens–liquid interface.     

Spectroscopic measurements of the evanescent wave polarization state

We applied optogalvanic spectroscopy to observe Zeeman effect in the evanescent wave in Ar gas with the help of a single-mode diode laser. The use of an homogenous external magnetic field enabled us to observe different π and σ Zeeman split lines contribution. We studied two orthogonal directions of external magnetic field and two orthogonal polarizations of the incident wave with respect to the plane of incidence. The analysis of relative line strengths leads to the determination of the polarization state of the evanescent wave.     

Energy-momentum quanta in Fresnel's evanescent wave II

Four generalisations of results appearing in a previous paper, referred to as I, are here produced. (1) Formulas for the field strengths of the evanescent wave generated inside a vacuum sandwiched between two identical refracting media propagating symmetrical incident plane waves; the classical exponential damping factor being then replaced by hyperbolic cosines or sines (according to the field components), an extremely close approximation to a plane tachyon wave is thus obtained; (2) Compact formulas for the case where the evanescent wave is generated by a superposition of plane incident waves with propagation vectors k parallel to a common incidence plane; (3) Compact formulas for the other typical case where the dispersion on k is parallel to the reflecting plane; (4) Formulas for refraction and total reflection of a photon with a non-zero rest mass.We take the opportunity of this paper to review briefly various articles that had escaped us, where a transverse energy flux inside Fresnel's evanescent wave was discussed, and also some recent papers dealing with quantisation of the evanescent wave or related topics.     

负折射率材料对隐失波的幅度增益

分析了隐失波透过负折射率材料制成的透镜时,可以实现相位的调整,从而实现波的聚焦的原理;另外利用叠加原理(干涉法)及场量匹配法分析了负折射率材料如何实现对隐失波的振幅的放大,得到负折射率材料对隐失波有幅度增益,行波和隐失波都能聚焦成像的结论;并利用传输线理论提出隐失波透过负折射率材料平板时可等效地形成一个LC振荡电路,从而实现对隐失波的幅度增益.     

光子扫描隧道显微镜球形样品二维近场强度分析

采用时域有限差分方法计算全内反射和光子扫描隧道显微镜系统。光子扫描隧道显微镜的基本工作原理是隐失波的产生和探测，当入射光在两种介质的分界面上发生全内反射，并在界面处产生非辐射的电磁波——隐失波时，采取对两界面入射光进行分别设置的方法即“三波法”设置入射激励元。分别计算一个球和两个球形样品的近场分布，并计算散射小球为探针，一个球为样品的扫描图像。结果表明：采用二维时域有限差分方法计算能较直观地显示样品表面的近场分布。表明时域有限差分方法在光子扫描隧道显微镜理论研究中具有很大潜力。     

Nanoscopic photodeposited structures analyzed by an evanescent optical method

The evanescent field propagating in waveguides was used to evaluate the profile and growth rate of laser photodeposited a-Se. A pulsed KrF excimer laser was used for deposition. The differential-evanescent light leaking image, was used to analyze the nanostructures in the deposited zones. The relation between the emerging light intensity of the evanescent wave and the optical light intensity propagating in the waveguide was connected to an effective range of the evanescent wave leaking power into the deposited material. The technique provides the nanometric profiles of the ultra-thin photodeposited structures.     

源嵌入正折射率传输线介质板内的倏逝波和成像特性

 提出了点源嵌入正折射率介质板进行亚波长成像的新方法,分析了位于负折射率媒质里的正折射率介质板内外的电压倏逝波和电压传播波分布。正和负折射率媒质分别由2维未加载传输线和2维加载电感、电容传输线网络组成。微波电路和数值仿真结果都显示由于板内增大的倏逝场,在正折射率介质板的两个界面附近出现了很大的电压幅度,该结果证实了该正折射率介质板透镜能够恢复电压倏逝波,从而提高像的分辨率。     

Near-field optical imaging using force detection with new tip-electrode geometry

We propose a new tip-electrode geometry to detect an (optical) evanescent field using noncontact atomic force microscopy. Using a semi-transparent metal electrode on the prism surface, the force sensitivity due to evanescent field in new tip-electrode geometry was enhanced by a factor of about 1000, comparing with that in old tip-electrode geometry where electrode was located behind the prism. Furthermore, this tip-electrode geometry avoids the electrostatic field caused by the residual charges and contact-electrified charges near the prism surface, which affects the force sensitivity due to evanescent field. We demonstrated the high resolution imaging of the evanescent field on the Au film with 15-nm (λ/33) lateral resolution.     

Superresolution via enhanced evanescent tunneling

We here propose the concept of enhanced evanescent tunneling (EET). Our analysis indicates that by means of a suitable control field, the transmission of evanescent waves across a forbidden gap can be enhanced by several orders of magnitude-well beyond the ordinary frustrated total internal reflection case. We show how such a phenomenon can be used to probe both the amplitude and phase of the evanescent portion of the angular spectrum, thereby allowing target superresolution. In principle EET can be manifested in other areas of physics where wave tunneling is involved.     

Microresonator array for high-resolution spectroscopy

We investigated the properties of an array of spherical microresonators used as a miniaturized high-resolution spectroscopic device. Sixteen spherical microspheres made from polymethyl methacrylate were placed on a microscope slide serving as an optical wave guide. Light of a tunable narrowband laser source was coupled into this slide so that an evanescent wave was excited on the topside of the slide, where the resonators were placed. This evanescent field generated a particular intensity pattern in the array that depended sensitively on the wavelength. After calibration, that pattern was recorded by a CCD camera and used to identify the wavelength with a resolution of R ~ lambda/Deltalambda = 7 x 10(4).     

Near-field photoluminescence of Si-doped GaAs

We have measured surface photoluminescence properties of Si-doped bulk GaAs using a near-field scanning optical microscope. An apertured fiber probe tip is used as an emitter of excitation laser as well as a collector of luminescence from GaAs. Due to the Fabry-Perot etalon effect, the excitation laser is reflected or transmitted with an oscillation period of λ._He-Ne/2 as the gap between the tip and the GaAs surface varies. The luminescence from GaAs also varies with an oscillation period of λ_GaAs/2 due to the same etalon effect. Therefore, the intensity of luminescence light collected by the probe tip shows a beating between two oscillations of different periods. When the probe approaches the GaAs surface, the collected luminescence intensity increases due to tunneling of evanescent wave. On the other hand, when we collect the luminescence using a lens, the intensity also increases due to similar coupling of evanescent wave into propagating wave in spite of a shadowing effect of the wide metal coating.     

近场光镊技术研究新进展

光镊技术,又称光学捕获技术,它是利用光的辐射压力来捕获和操纵包括电介质颗粒、生物细胞及生物大分子在内的微小粒子的。近场光镊技术利用近场光学倏逝场随距离急剧衰减的特征,可显著地降低捕获粒子的尺寸,实现纳米捕获。追踪了近场光镊技术的最新进展,包括全内反射相干倏逝场、近场光学镀膜光纤探针尖、激光照明金属探针尖和聚焦倏逝场用于近场光学捕获,并对其进行了比较,分析了它们存在的主要问题和未来发展方向。     

Linearly polarised three-colour lasing emission from an evanescent wave pumped and gain coupled fibre laser

A novel Whispering--Gallery--Mode (WGM) fibre laser, emitting linearly polarised three-colour light, is demonstrated by pumping and gain coupling with evanescent waves. The pump light is longitudinally coupled into a bare optical fibre immersed in a dye solution of lower refractive index. The dye molecules around the bare fibre are excited by the evanescent waves of pump light when they propagate along the fibre in a total internal reflection. When the pump beam within the fibre is a meridian beam, the WGM lasing emission from the fibre laser is a linearly polarised transverse electric wave, while it is a mixed wave of the linearly polarised transverse electric and magnetic waves if the pump beam is a skew beam within the fibre. Because the excited molecules are located within the evanescent field of WGM, a good spatial overlap between the dye gain and the evanescent field leads to a high pumping efficiency and a longer gain distance along the fibre. Once the bare fibre is inserted into three glass capillaries filled with Rhodamine 6G, 610 and 640 dye solutions, respectively, WGM laser oscillations at the wavelengths of 567--575, 605--614 and 656--666~nm occur simultaneously, and a linearly polarised three-colour lasing emission is achieved in a single optical fibre.     

Near-field amplitude and phase measurements using heterodyne optical feedback on solid-state lasers

Heterodyne optical feedback on a solid-state laser is experimentally investigated as an efficient tool to characterize coherently near-field evanescent waves. A well-known topography of evanescent field is obtained via a total internal reflection of the light beam emitted by a class B Yb:Er glass laser. A subwavelength size optical fiber tip is scanned to locally probe the resulting evanescent wave in the near field. After a frequency shifting using a pair of acousto-optic modulators, the collected light is optically reinjected to excite the relaxation oscillations of the laser. The resulting dynamical response simultaneously allows very sensitive measurements of the amplitude and the phase of the evanescent wave. Extension of these preliminary results to near-field optical microscopy is suggested and discussed.     

A near perfect Pendry lens: Projecting properties of a thin metal layer

We consider the field of an evanescent wave in a space with a thin metal layer (? < 0). The wavenumber of the evanescent wave appreciably exceeds the wavenumber k ₀ = 2π/λ₀ of a uniform plane wave in spatial regions adjacent to the metal. In accordance with the Pendry result (2000), the field behind the metal layer is amplified as compared to the field in the absence of the layer. Pendry predicted this effect for a metal whose dielectric permittivity is ? = ?1, whereas we show that the effect can also be observed for ? = ?15 and for arbitrarily thick adjacent regions. This extends the range of possible applications of the effect. We find that the losses in the metal only weakly affect the image quality behind the metal layer.     

Resolution of objects within subwavelength range by using the near field of a dipole

We analyze the far-field resolution of apertures that are illuminated by a point dipole located at subwavelength distances. It is well known that radiation emitted by a localized source can be considered a combination of traveling and evanescent waves, when represented by the angular spectrum method. The evanescent wave part of the source can be converted to propagating waves by diffraction at the aperture; thereby it contributes to the far-field detection. Therefore one can expect an increase in the resolution of objects. We present explicit calculations showing that the resolution at the far zone is improved by decreasing the source-aperture distance. We also utilize the resolution enhancement by the near field of a dipole to resolve two closely located apertures. The results show that without the near field (evanescent field) the apertures are not resolved, whereas with the near field of the dipole the far zone intensity distribution shows improved resolution. This method eliminates the requirements of near-field techniques such as controlling and scanning closely located tip detectors.     

Energy transport in a metamaterial subwavelength open-cavity resonator

We present a theoretical and experimental investigation into the energy transport in a conjugate matched bilayer consisting of ε-negative (ENG) and μ-negative (MNG) slabs. It is proved that the conjugated matched ENG/MNG bilayer is a subwavelength open-cavity resonator, in which the resonance frequency is determined by the complete tunneling condition, and the Q factor increases exponentially with the slab thickness. It is revealed that the wave is not evanescent inside the bilayer, but it is a hybrid of a traveling wave and a reactive standing wave. It is also manifested during the transient wave propagation that the reactive field energy stored inside the bilayer is provided by the incident wave.     

一种减小尺寸的声彩虹捕获效应结构*

该文提出了一种减小尺寸的彩虹捕获效应结构,在铁板上刻上深度相同的空气凹槽阵列并加入周期性缝板单元,通过调节缝宽得到不同的等效折射率。该文对1000 Hz～2000 Hz的声波进行仿真实验,仿真结果表明不同频率的声波被局域在不同的位置,即实现了彩虹捕获效应。由于局域处声波群速度很小,局域处声场能量得到很大的提升。相对于传统的深度渐变的空气凹槽结构,我们的结构尺寸更小,可调性更强,更容易实现对低频声波的捕获效应。该结构具有能量加强和声波空间分离的效应,相信在声吸收、声波识别等领域有着潜在的应用前景。