Polarization Characteristics of the He–Ne Laser Radiation Reflected from Rhododendron Leaves Subjected to Acid Treatment

Results of laboratory simulation experiments on the influence of H₂SO₄ solutions on the optical characteristics of the radiation reflected from Rhododendron smirnovii leaves illuminated at an angle of 55° by He–Ne laser radiation ( = 0.63 m) linearly polarized in the plane of incidence are presented. The coefficients of correlation between the optical characteristics of the reflected radiation, the concentration of the acid, and the pigment composition of the leaves have been calculated. It is shown that the influence of acidic stresses on the polarization characteristics of the radiation reflected from a leaf manifests itself indirectly as changes in the concentration of chlorophyll a and chlorophyll b and changes in their ratio in the leaf when observation is performed at angles of 50–60°.     

Spectral Properties of Bacteriochlorophyll c in Organisms and in Model Systems

Polarized absorption and fluorescence spectra of bacteriochlorophyll c and green photosynthetic bacterium Prostheecochloris aestuarii cells and cell fragments embedded in stretched polymer film were measured. In pigment samples the artificial oligomers of bacteriochlorophyll c (with absorption about 750 nm) and other forms of this pigment and bacteriopheophytin (with absorption at 670 nm) were present. In bacteria samples, embedded in polymer, oligomers were in high degree disaggregated and as a result the absorption about 670 nm was observed. Previously for similar sets of samples the decay of fluorescence excited only at one wavelength was analyzed on three exponential components, but exact lifetime values of these components for various samples were different. The aim of present paper was to check if these differences occur because of various contributions to decay from three well defined forms or if they were related to the existence of several pigment forms with slightly different lifetimes. The global analysis of data obtained for various excitation and observation wavelengths of fluorescence were done. From this analysis it follows that the second situation occurs. For a model system containing artificial oligomers the largest component of decay has a ⁴ of about 0.183 ns or 0.136 ns depending on observation wavelength. For the bacteria sample, in which the emission at 680 nm is the superposition from various pigments, global analysis done for various excitation wavelengths shows also that the values differ depending on the regions of fluorescence observation. From polarized spectra, it follows that in the model system the pigments absorbing at 670 nm are randomly distributed whereas oligomers are highly oriented. In bacteria fragments absorbing at 670 nm pigment molecules can be divided into two groups: one oriented along the axis of film stretching and the second practically randomly distributed. In living organisms, under some conditions, small amount of 670 nm pigments can be present and can work as excitation energy traps or as antenna transferring the excitation. Present results show that the role of various pools of 670 nm absorbing pigments can be different because of their differing orientation.     

Projective manifolds with small pluridegrees

Let be a very ample line bundle on a connected complex projective manifold of dimension . Except for a short list of degenerate pairs , and there exists a morphism expressing as the blowup of a projective manifold at a finite set , with nef and big for the ample line bundle . The projective geometry of is largely controlled by the pluridegrees for , of . For example, , where is the genus of a curve section of , and is equal to the self-intersection of the canonical divisor of the minimal model of a surface section of . In this article, a detailed analysis is made of the pluridegrees of . The restrictions found are used to give a new lower bound for the dimension of the space of sections of . The inequalities for the pluridegrees, that are presented in this article, will be used in a sequel to study the sheet number of the morphism associated to .

     

基于多层膜偏振元件的同步辐射光束线偏振特性测量研究

利用自行研制的同步辐射软X射线多层膜综合偏振测量装置, 对北京同步辐射装置(BSRF)的3W1B软X射线光束线的偏振特性进行了系统的研究. 给出了多层膜偏振元件起偏前后的测量结果, 测量能量为206eV时, 经反射镜、光栅等光束线光学元件后输出的线偏振度(起偏前)为0.585, 经多层膜偏振元件起偏后输出光的 线偏振度达到0.995.     

群体粒子场圆偏入射光侧向散射的角分布实验研究(英文)

对圆偏振光入射到群体粒子场时侧向散射光随角度分布的特性进行了实验研究,散射介质为直径0.065μm和1.24μm的粒子与过滤的蒸馏水所构成的不同浓度的悬浮液。实验结果表明,粒子侧向散射光的各种成分在探测平面内相对散射角度始终呈现对称分布的规律,而随着粒子尺寸、浓度、探测深度的变化,散射光强也相应出现变化,但变化不明显。     

Accuracy of Gaussian Approach for the Performance Evaluation of Direct-Detection Receiver with Partially Polarized Noise

We investigate the accuracy of a Gaussian approach (GA) developed to estimate the performance of a direct-detection optical receiver with arbitrary optical and electrical filtering and in the presence of partially polarized noise due to polarization-dependent loss (PDL). The accuracy is assessed by comparison of the performance estimates obtained from the GA with the estimates obtained from a rigorous method (RM) based on the calculation of the moment-generating function of the current at the optical receiver output.

We show that the GA has a good accuracy when considering the variation of the optical filter bandwidth, extinction ratio, degree of polarization of the noise (DOP), and angle between signal and noise polarizations. However, it fails to predict the receiver sensitivity within 2 dB of the RM when DOP is greater than 0.7 and signal and noise polarizations are orthogonal in the Jones space.

Nevertheless, it is shown that the GA provides receiver sensitivity estimates with good accuracy in most cases of long-haul optical communication systems influenced by PDL, where the typical average DOP is below 0.15. Due to its simplicity, shorter computation time, and good accuracy, the GA is a good tool to assess the performance of such optical systems.     

Pseudo spin-valves with Al or Nb as spacer layer: GMR and search for spin switch behaviour

The magnetoresistance of several Ferromagnet/Normal metal/Ferromagnet spin-valve type structures has been investigated using Al as normal spacer layer. A magnetoresistance ratio up to 4.1% at room temperature and 5.7% at 0.3 K is found for the sandwich with both Co layers, while slightly lower signals are found for the structures involving CoFe and NiFe layers. The magnetoresistance dependence for Co/Al/Co, Co/Al/CoFe and Co/Al/NiFe on the spacer layer thickness exhibits the familiar non monotonic behaviour with second peak slightly larger than the one reported for Cu based pseudo spin valves. At cryogenic temperatures, preliminary results on the onset of spin switch effects in Co/Al/Co and the full spin switch effect in Co/Nb/Co are also reported here.     

Electronic structure of paramagnetic In<Subscript>1-x</Subscript>Mn<Subscript>x</Subscript> As nanowires

The electronic structure, spin splitting energies, and g factors of paramagnetic In_1-xMn_xAs nanowires under magnetic and electric fields are investigated theoretically including the sp-d exchange interaction between the carriers and the magnetic ion. We find that the effective g factor changes dramatically with the magnetic field. The spin splitting due to the sp-d exchange interaction counteracts the Zeeman spin splitting. The effective g factor can be tuned to zero by the external magnetic field. There is also spin splitting under an electric field due to the Rashba spin-orbit coupling which is a relativistic effect. The spin-degenerated bands split at nonzero k_z (k_z is the wave vector in the wire direction), and the spin-splitting bands cross at k_z = 0, whose k_z-positive part and negative part are symmetrical. A proper magnetic field makes the k_z-positive part and negative part of the bands asymmetrical, and the bands cross at nonzero k_z. In the absence of magnetic field, the electron Rashba coefficient increases almost linearly with the electric field, while the hole Rashba coefficient increases at first and then decreases as the electric field increases. The hole Rashba coefficient can be tuned to zero by the electric field.     

Investigation of Near-Field Imaging Characteristics of Radial Polarization for Application to Optical Data Storage

Radially polarized incident light can generate a more confined longitudinal electric field on a focal plane in near-field (NF) optics than focusing circularly polarized light. Using this phenomenon, it is feasible to reduce beam spot size on storage media to increase the areal density of optical data storage. A radially polarized beam generates a beam spot which is 20% more confined on the 1st surface of medium than that of circularly polarized light. However, the peak intensity of total electric field sharply decreases and its transverse component is much more dominant inside the media stack. This confirms that radially polarized optics can be a candidate not for an NF recording system but for an NF read-only memory (ROM) system. Potentially, the results could be useful to understand the effect of radial and circular polarizations inside and outside medium for various applications of NF optics.     

Mean-free path effects in magnetoresistance of ferromagnetic nanocontacts

We investigated the mean-free path effects on the magnetoresistance of ferromagnetic nanocontacts. For most combinations of parameters the magnetoresistance monotonously decreases with increasing the contact cross-section. However, for a certain choice of parameters the calculations show non-monotonous behavior of the magnetoresistance in the region in which the diameter of the contact becomes comparable with the mean-free path of electrons. We attribute this effect to different conduction regimes in the vicinity of the nanocontact: ballistic for electrons of one spin projection, and simultaneously diffusive for the other. Furthermore, at certain combinations of spin asymmetries of the bulk mean-free paths in a heterocontact, the magnetoresistance can be almost constant, or may even grow as the contact diameter increases. Thus, our calculations suggest a way to search for combinations of material parameters, for which high magnetoresistances can be achieved not only at the nanometric size of the contact, but also at much larger cross-sections of nanocontacts which can be easier for fabriaction with current technologies. The trial calculations of the magnetoresistance with material parameters close to those for the Mumetal-Ni heterocontacts agree satisfactorily with the available experimental data.