Excitation of nonradiative surface plasma waves in silver by the method of frustrated total reflection

A new method of exciting nonradiative surface plasma waves (SPW) on smooth surfaces, causing also a new phenomena in total reflexion, is described. Since the phase velocity of the SPW at a metal-vacuum surface is smaller than the velocity of light in vacuum, these waves cannot be excited by light striking the surface, provided that this is perfectly smooth. However, if a prism is brought near to the metal vacuum-interface, the SPW can be excited optically by the evanescent wave present in total reflection. The excitation is seen as a strong decrease in reflection for the transverse magnetic light and for a special angle of incidence. The method allows of an accurate evaluation of the dispersion of these waves. The experimental results on a silver-vacuum surface are compared with the theory of metal optics and are found to agree within the errors of the optical constants.     

表面等离子体激光Q开关原理研究

提出了表面等离子体波调Q方法,阐述了它调Q的原理,对表面等离子体波Q开关的特性进行了理论和原理性实验研究。     

Transmission enhancement through a metallic slit assisted by low scattering loss corrugations

A method to obtain large transmission of light through a nano-metallic slit bordered by nano trenches is demonstrated theoretically. The model is based on the composite diffraction of evanescent waves (CDEW) theory and utilizes a single trench design to effectively convert free-space light into surface plasma waves (SPW). The effectiveness is confirmed by the finite difference time domain (FDTD) method. The SPW loss due to scattering by the trench is also analyzed. It is found that when the width of the trench is slightly larger than λ_spp/2, the SPW becomes localized and resonates at the bottom edges performing as a dipole-like radiation source. At this time, the propagating SPW suffers from high scattering loss. Trenches can be used to enhance the transmission of a nano-scaled slit while simultaneously preserving high conversion efficiency and low scattering loss. A nano-scaled slit bordered by 10 pairs of trenches can be enhanced by a factor as high as 16. It is determined that a device designed to have a large clear aperture of 15 μm would have an advantage in terms of alignment.     

Surface plasma waves over bismuth-vacuum interface

A surface plasma wave (SPW) over bismuth-vacuum interface has a signature of mass anisotropy of free electrons. For SPW propagation along the trigonal axis there is no birefringence. The frequency cutoff of SPW lies in the far infrared region and can be accessed using free electron laser. The damping rate of waves at low temperatures is low. The surface plasma wave may be excited by an electron beam of current ∼100 mA propagating parallel to the interface in its close proximity.     

Spectral properties of electroacoustic waves in a ferroelectric with a moving periodic domain structure

The propagation of shear waves in a tetragonal ferroelectric with a moving superlattice of 180° domain walls (DW) is considered in a quasistatic approximation. It is found that the spectrum of shear waves consists of alternating allowed and forbidden bands in both cases of static and moving superlattices. It is shown that, due to the Doppler shift in the wave eigenfrequencies, the motion of the DW superlattice causes the degenerate roots of the dispersion equation to split and the splitting increases with the vibration mode number. The acoustic nonreciprocity induced by the moving DW superlattice in the ferroelectric is discussed.     

Attenuated total reflection method for measurements of optical properties of metallic films bordering anisotropic dielectrics

Thin-film assemblies of magnesium fluoride/aluminium/BK7-glass (MgF₂/Al/BK7) and rutile/aluminium/BK7-glass (TiO₂/Al/BK7) are experimentally studied, both by a direct coupling of evanescent waves and by a coupling of guided waves into surface plasmon waves (SPWs). Anisotropic effects of the prism coupler as well as the MgF₂ and the TiO₂ films on the phase-matching condition are examined theoretically and experimentally. The dielectric function of the Al films is recovered from SPW experiments with an uncertainty <10%.     

Generation and gyroscopic quasi-relativistic dynamics of antiferromagnetic vortices in domain walls of yttrium orthoferrite

An unusual nonlinear relation between the velocity of an antiferromagnetic (AFM) vortex along a domain wall (DW) on the DW velocity is detected. This relation has a maximum whose position depends on the topological charge of the vortex. As the DW velocity increases from the value corresponding to the maximum to its limiting value, the AFM-vortex velocity decreases and tends to zero. The total AFM-vortex velocity increases nonlinearly with the DW velocity and levels off at 20 km/s, which is equal to the velocity of spin waves in the linear section of their dispersion law. The experimental data are approximated satisfactorily. The dynamics of AFM vortices in DWs of yttrium orthoferrite, just as the dynamics of the DWs, is quasi-relativistic and gyroscopic.     

Terahertz surface plasmon excitation over a bismuth thin film by an electron beam

The excitation of terahertz surface plasma wave (SPW) over bismuth thin film-glass structure by a parallel propagating electron beam is studied. The SPW phase velocity is sensitive to the thickness of bismuth film and it is driven via the Cerenkov resonance. The growth rate for terahertz radiation generation by an electron beam is obtained under small signal approximation.     

Optimum fiber tapers for increasing the power in the blue edge of a supercontinuum-group-acceleration matching

We demonstrate how the gradient of the tapering in a tapered fiber can significantly affect the trapping and blueshift of dispersive waves (DWs) by a soliton. By modeling the propagation of a fundamental 10?fs soliton through tapered fibers with varying gradients, it is shown that the soliton traps and blueshifts an increased fraction of the energy in its DW when the gradient is decreased. This is quantified by the group-acceleration mismatch between the soliton and DW at the entrance of the taper. These findings have direct implications for the achievable power in the blue edge of a supercontinuum generated in a tapered fiber and explain observations of a lack of power in the blue edge.     

Novel type of amplitude spiral wave in a two-layer system

Interaction of spiral waves in a two-layer system described by a model of coupled complex Ginzburg-Landau equations with negative-feedback couplings ε(1) and ε(2) is studied. Synchronization of two spiral waves can be broadly found if ε(1)+ε(2) is sufficiently large. Prior to the synchronization, under the condition of strongly asymmetric coupling (∣ε(1)-ε(2)∣?0), a novel type of spiral wave, amplitude spiral wave, exists in the driven system. The pattern of amplitude spiral wave shows the spiral in the amplitude and without a singularity point (tip), compared to usual spiral waves known for phase with amplitude uniform far away from tips and rotating around tips.     

Trapping and injecting single domain walls in magnetic wire by local fields

A single domain wall (DW) moves at linearly increasing velocity under an increasing homogeneous drive magnetic field. Present experiments show that the DW is braked and finally trapped at a given position when an additional antiparallel local magnetic field is applied. That position and its velocity are further controlled by suitable tuning of the local field. In turn, the parallel local field of small amplitude does not significantly affect the effective wall speed at long distance, although it generates tail-to-tail and head-to-head pairs of walls moving along opposite directions when that field is strong enough.     

A general solution for two-dimensional volume holograms

We inv estigate the problem in which a volume hologram is produced by two waves of arbitrary amplitude and phase distribution (the only restriction being that they must obey the rules of geometrical optics), and the developed hologram is illuminated by one of the waves having the same phase distribution but not necessarily the same amplitude distribution. Coupled partial differential equations are derived and solved in the form of an infinite series valid for both transmission and reflection holograms. For transmission holograms a simple approximate solution is given for the amplitude of the reconstructed wave in the immediate vicinity of the input surface.     

Excitation of surface plasma waves over corrugated slow-wave structure

A microwave propagating along vacuum—dielectric—plasma interface excites surface plasma wave (SPW). A periodic slow-wave structure placed over dielectric slows down the SPW. The phase velocity of slow SPW is sensitive to height, periodicity, number of periods, thickness and the separation between dielectric and slow-wave structure. These slow SPW can couple the microwave energy to the plasma and can sustain the discharge. The efficiency of the power coupling is few per cent and is sensitive to separation between dielectric and slow-wave structure.     

Directed motion of domain walls in biaxial ferromagnets under the influence of periodic external magnetic fields

Directed motion of domain walls (DWs) in a classical biaxial ferromagnet placed under the influence of periodic unbiased external magnetic fields is investigated. Using the symmetry approach developed in this article the necessary conditions for the directed DW motion are found. This motion turns out to be possible if the magnetic field is applied along the easiest axis. The symmetry approach prohibits the directed DW motion if the magnetic field is applied along any of the hard axes. With the help of the soliton perturbation theory and numerical simulations, the average DW velocity as a function of different system parameters such as damping constant, amplitude, and frequency of the external field, is computed.     

Nonlinear waves in a chain of plane-parallel domain walls in ferromagnets

Taking into account the nonlinear interaction between plain domain walls (DWs) in a chain of DWs, one-and two-parameter solitons are obtained. These solitons are solitary shear waves propagating along the DW chain.     

Dynamics of fully nonlinear drift wave-zonal flow turbulence system in plasmas

We present numerical simulations of fully nonlinear drift wave-zonal flow (DW-ZF) turbulence systems in a nonuniform magnetoplasma. In our model, the drift wave (DW) dynamics is pseudo-three-dimensional (pseudo-3D) and accounts for self-interactions among finite amplitude DWs and their coupling to the two-dimensional (2D) large amplitude zonal flows (ZFs). The dynamics of the 2D ZFs in the presence of the Reynolds stress of the pseudo-3D DWs is governed by the driven Euler equation. Numerical simulations of the fully nonlinear coupled DW-ZF equations reveal that short scale DW turbulence leads to nonlinear saturated dipolar vortices, whereas the ZF sets in spontaneously and is dominated by a monopolar vortex structure. The ZFs are found to suppress the cross-field turbulent particle transport. The present results provide a better model for understanding the coexistence of short and large scale coherent structures, as well as associated subdued cross-field particle transport in magnetically confined fusion plasmas.     

Death,dynamics and disorder: Terminating reentry in excitable media by dynamically-induced inhomogeneities

Formation of feedback loops of excitation waves (reentrant circuit) around non-conducting ventricular scar tissue is a common cause of cardiac arrhythmias, such as ventricular tachycardia, often leading to death. This is typically treated by rapid stimulation from an implantable device (ICD). However, the mechanisms of reentry termination success and, more importantly, failure, are poorly understood. To study such mechanisms, we simulated pacing termination of reentry in a model of cardiac tissue having significant restitution and dispersion properties. Our results show that rapid pacing dynamically generates conduction inhomogeneities in the reentrant circuit, leading to successful pacing termination of tachycardia. The study suggests that more effective pacing algorithms can be designed by taking into account the role of such dynamical inhomogeneities.     

Infrasonic waves caused by the earthquake on 12 July 1993 in Japan

I.IntroductionTheinfrasonicwavesradiatedbytheseismicwaves1knownasseismicinfrasound,canspreadoutandcanbereceivedbytheinfrasoundmonitoringsystemwhichhavebeendevelopedandarebeingperfecteddaybydayI1-1o].Theseismicwavspropagateinal1directionswithintheearthbodyandradiateseveraltypesofinfrasonicwaves.Oneofthemcalledthelocalinfrasonicwaveisradiatedbyearthsurfaceattheveryinfrasoundstationwhereseismicwavesarepassingthrough;thesecondtypecalledepicentralinfrasonicwavesareradiatedbythestrongmotionoftheear…     

A strip extracting algorithm for phase noise measurement and coherent beam combining of fiber amplifiers

We present a strip extracting algorithm (SEA) for detecting and locking the phase noise of fiber amplifiers. Based on the algorithm, the phase noise of a 10 W Yb fiber amplifier is obtained and locked with an active segment mirror (ASM) and a high-speed CCD camera. Experimental results indicate that within the first 3 seconds after turn-on transients occur the amplitude of phase noise exceeds 20 waves, whereas in thermal steady-state operation it amounts to only several waves for the same time span. After phase locking, the Peak-to-Valley (PV) value of phase noise is close to ～1/10λ (λ=1064 nm), and the control bandwidth of the system is ～25 Hz.     

光纤表面等离子体波传感器的温度特性的研究

本文从粒子振动的角度讨论了光纤表面等离子体波传感器对于温度的敏感特性。对于金属 /介质的表面等离子体波传感器 ,在界面处产生的等离子体振动实质是大量电子的集体振荡。在某一特定的波长的P光激励下 ,电子吸收了光子的能量而改变了原来的运动方式 ,当激励的光信号与电子群的固有振荡频率一致时 ,大量的电子振动变为一种谐振。由于界面处的电子密度与温度是密切相关的 ,不同的温度时密度不同———温度越高 ,电子的密度越大 ,而电子群的集体振荡又与电子的密度密切相关。所以温度的变化将对等离子体的共振频率产生非常重要的影响。利用了这一效应来补偿环境介质的温度变化 ,可以克服环境温度对测试所带来的影响。此外 ,本文也讨论了采用光纤SPW传感器可以进行多参数的测量。