A novel fiber optic ring-down interferometer for sensing

A ring-down interferometer (RDI) based on a modified Mach–Zehnder structure by incorporating a pair of mirrors with very high reflectivity into each of its two arms, respectively is proposed in this paper. Launching a coherent light pulse into the interferometer, in each arm, pulse ring-down occurs between its two mirrors and outputs a chain of pulses. The two chains of pulses from the two arms combine and interfere pulse by pulse at the detector and the difference of the light phase between the two arms will be enlarged linearly in proportion to the times of ring-down.     

Measurement of the structure coefficient of refractive index fluctuations in a turbulent premixed butane-air flame by means of a laser-based interferometer technique

With a view to measuring the structure coefficient of refractive index fluctuations in a turbulent premixed butane-air flame, a thin laser beam is sent into the flame perpendicular to the flow direction. The laser beam generally undergoes fluctuations of direction, phase, and amplitude. Only the random deflections of the laser beam may be taken into account. After having traversed the flame, the perturbed laser beam enters into an interferometric system. Materials and experimental procedure are described. In the unperturbed interference pattern, the zones only sensitive to fluctuations of the angle-of-arrival of the laser beam are detected. From the random displacements of the central bright fringe, the structure coefficient of refractive index fluctuations in the flame is measured. To prove that the method of measurement is satisfactory, the result obtained is applied for computing the power spectral density of the angle-of-arrival of the laser beam from the formula of correlations of the laser beam deflection angles which we have demonstrated in previous works. This computed power spectral density is compared to that measured from the effective position of the detector. A good agreement is observed between the two results.     

氢化物发生辅助溶液阴极辉光放电光谱技术检测水体中痕量汞和锡

溶液阴极辉光放电技术作为一种新型的光谱检测技术,被广泛应用于环境污染物的分析和检测等方面。虽然该技术具有结构简单以及成本低等优势,但是在重金属检测方面,其灵敏度还有待提高。针对上述问题,搭建了氢化物发生-溶液阴极辉光放电光谱测量系统,实现了对水体中痕量汞(Hg)和锡(Sn)的简单高效检测。为了得到更优的检测效果,实验选取270.64和253.65 nm作为Sn和Hg的特征分析谱线,并将激发源的参数配置为极间距3.5 mm、放电电流60 mA和电解液流速2.12 mL·min-1。同时,实验对影响氢化物反应的相关实验条件进行了研究,得到Sn和Hg的最佳硼氢化钠浓度为2%和1.5%,载气流速为141.50和183.95 mL·min-1,样品溶液pH值为1.0。随后为了进一步分析水体中共存离子对该系统检测性能的影响,实验评估了Pb2+,Ca2+,Zn2+,Cr3+,Cd2+,Na+,K+,Mn2+,Mg2+,Fe3+和Cu2+对氢化物发生-溶液阴极辉光放电技术检测Sn和Hg的干扰情况,结果表明仅Cu2+对两种元素的检测干扰较大,Pb2+对Hg的检测存在一定干扰,其他共存金属离子未表现出明显的干扰情况。基于上述实验条件的优化,在最佳实验参数下利用外标法建立Sn和Hg的定标模型,并计算得到Sn和Hg的检出限分别为6.85和1.05 μg·L-1,溶液信号强度的相对标准偏差均小于3%(n=10)。最后,实验中分别采集了三种不同水质的实际水样,应用所提出的方法对Sn和Hg进行加标回收率研究,用标准加入法测得其加标回收率均在97.77%～103.08%之间。上述结果表明氢化物发生-溶液阴极辉光放电技术在Sn和Hg的检测方面表现出了良好的分析性能,且该方法具有体积小、成本低、抗干扰能力强等优势,有望为水体中重金属的元素检测提供一种更加简便高效的方法。     

Millimeter-Wave Lange Coupler Design and Its Application in the Monolithic Image Rejection Mixer Design

This paper reports on the design of a Ka-band monolithic Lange coupler and its application in the monolithic fourth-harmonic image rejection mixer. Detailed design and analysis using Ansoft-HFSS simulator have been carried out. The simulated results of the Lange Coupler show the insert loss is better than −3.64 dB; the amplitude balance is less than 0.55 dB and the phase balance is less than 0.65° from the 90° phase difference over the 30 to 40 GHz frequency range. The Lange Coupler is employed in a monolithic image rejection mixer that is fabricated by a commercial 0.18-μm pseudomorphic high electron-mobility transistor (pHEMT) process. The chip size is 1.4 mm × 1.9 mm. The image rejection ratio (IMR) is from 15 to 34 dB in the RF frequency range of 30 to 40 GHz.     

Nanophotonics and nanometrology with planar X-ray waveguide-resonator

The mechanism of X-ray waveguide-resonance propagation or the radiation superstream model, which can become the ground of X-ray nanophotonics, is discussed briefly. Some attention is devoted to features consideration of the simplest devices characterized by the waveguide-resonance transportation of X-ray beams. The experimental data showing the user possibilities of a simplest waveguide-resonators application for diffractometry are presented. We discuss the main reasons to improve the metrological characteristics for total reflection X-ray fluorescence (TXRF) analytical method in case when the target exciting beam is formed by a waveguide-resonator. Some problems appearing during the waveguide-resonator application are formulated.     

All-optical frequency multiplication/recovery based on a semiconductor optical amplifier ring cavity

A novel scheme for all-optical frequency multiplication/recovery based on a semiconductor optical amplifier ring cavity is proposed and investigated numerically. The results show, for a 2.5 GHz driving pulse train, it can be generated 5-25 GHz repetition rate pulse trains with low clock amplitude jitter, polarization independence and high peak power. Furthermore, the extraction of the clock signal from a pseudorandom bit sequence signal can be realized based on the proposed scheme.     

Measurement of diameter of metal cylinders using a sinusoidally vibrating interference pattern

A method for measuring external diameters of metal cylinders is proposed in which a sinusoidally vibrating interference pattern (SVIP) of 100-μm period is used as an exact scale. Lights from the end-points of a metal cylinder are extracted with a spatial filtering in an imaging system to form a cross-sectional image of the metal cylinder. On the image a sinusoidally phase-modulated signal owing to the SVIP is detected with a CCD image sensor to measure the phases of the SVIP at the two end-points of the cylinder. The coordinates of the two end-points are obtained from the phases at the two end-points, the phase distribution of the SVIP, and the coordinates of the pixels of the CCD image sensor. Metal cylinder diameters of 7.99, 8.00, and 9.00 mm are measured along their length directions with an error less than 1 μm.     

Orientation of Cs 6p 2P3/2 atomic photofragments in a magnetic field: interference in the photodissociation of diatomic molecules

In a magnetic field, Cs₂ molecules were excited from the ground X¹Σ⁺_g(v_X=0,J_X=55) level to the D ¹Σ⁺_u(v=46,J=54) level by dissociation laser light linearly polarized parallel to the field, for which the magnetic sublevels were degenerated and thus all the transitions between them were simultaneously stimulated. Probe laser light excited the dissociated Cs 6p²P_3/2 atomic fragments to 6p²D_3/2 level and the resultant 6p²P_1/2 - 6d²D_3/2 emission was detected as the function of the wavelength of the probe light. The populations of the 6p²P_3/2,mj magnetic sublevels were determined from the relative strengths of the 6p²P_3/2,mj - 6d²D_3/2,m'j transitions induced by the probe light. Non-zero orientation O₀ was found in the ensemble of dissociated Cs 6p²P_3/2 atomic fragments. The orientation O₀ increased as the magnetic field strength increased. It was demonstrated both experimentally and theoretically that the orientation O₀ was induced through the interference in the excitation and dissociation paths in the presence of an external magnetic field, even when all degenerated transitions between the magnetic sublevels of the molecules are simultaneously excited by the light linearly polarized parallel to the field.     

单光子量子密钥分发系统中干涉稳定性分析

为了研究位相编码量子密钥分发系统中的干涉稳定性, 运用解析和数值计算方法详细研究了光纤双折射、温度变化、非对称性以及耦合器分光比对量子密钥分发系统干涉条纹可见度的影响, 结果表明光纤双折射、温度变化和非对称性都将影响系统的干涉可见度, 调整接收端的调制位相能消除温度变化的影响, 并减小非对称性对系统的影响, 但不能改善光纤双折射对系统干涉的影响. 另外, 耦合器分光比影响系统的效率.     

压差式矢量水听器方位估计中的干扰抵消

矢量水听器由于能获取声场中标量（声压）和矢量（振速）信息，因此单个的矢量水听器就可实现目标方位估计。单个矢量水听器是利用信号的声压和质点振速之间相关性进行信号方位估计，但是当存在干扰，并且干扰和信号之间相关时，如果对运用能量流进行方位估计的方法不加改进，则会出现很大的误差，甚至出现错误的估计。本文提出一种存在已知噪声干扰情况下的干扰抵消方法，并针对该方法进行了仿真试验，最后运用湖试数据进行了验证。结果表明，该方法能有效地减弱相千千柑对信号的影响，实现对信号的方位估计。