激光聚变内爆流体不稳定性基础问题研究进展

激光聚变有望一劳永逸地解决人类的能源问题,因而受到国际社会的普遍重视,一直是国际研究的前沿热点。目前实现激光惯性约束聚变所面临的最大科学障碍（属于内禀困难）是对内爆过程中高能量密度流体力学不稳定性引起的非线性流动的有效控制,对其研究涵盖高能量密度物理、等离子体物理、流体力学、计算科学、强冲击物理和高压原子物理等多个学科,同时还要具备大规模多物理多尺度多介质流动的数值模拟能力和高功率大型激光装置等研究条件。作为新兴研究课题,高能量密度非线性流动问题充满了各种新奇的现象亟待探索。此外,流体力学不稳定性及其引起的湍流混合,还是天体物理现象（如星系碰撞与合并、恒星演化、原始恒星的形成以及超新星爆炸）中的重要过程,涉及天体物理的一些核心研究内容。本文首先综述了高能量密度非线性流动研究的现状和进展,梳理了其中的挑战和机遇。然后介绍了传统中心点火激光聚变内爆过程发生的主要流体力学不稳定性,在大量分解和综合物理研究基础上,凝练出了目前制约美国国家点火装置（NIF）内爆性能的主要流体不稳定性问题。接下来,总结了国外激光聚变流体不稳定性实验物理的研究概况。最后,展示了内爆物理团队近些年在激光聚变内爆流体不稳定性基础性问题方面的主要研究进展。该团队一直从事激光聚变内爆非线性流动研究与控制,以及聚变靶物理研究与设计,注重理论探索和实验研究相结合,近年来在内爆重要流体力学不稳定性问题的解析理论、数值模拟和激光装置实验设计与数据分析等方面取得了一系列重要成果,有力地推动了该研究方向在国内的发展。     

浅谈近场光学

简要地介绍了近场光学的历史及现状，讨论了近场光学显微镜的构造、工作原理、工作方式及实际应用，并支近场光学的一些理论问题作了简明扼要的介绍，指出理论和实验上需要进一步发展的地方以及可能的途径。     

基于近场动力学微分算子的含裂纹正交各向异性板热传导分析方法

采用近场动力学微分算子(Peridynamic Differential Operator, PDDO)理论建立正交各向异性板热传导的非局部模型。通过构造近场动力学函数,将边界条件和热传导方程由局部微分形式转化为非局部积分形式,引入Lagrange乘子,采用变分分析对含裂纹正交各向异性板温度及裂纹尖端的热通量分布进行求解。通过对比算例,验证了该模型具有较好的收敛性和有效性。分析了正交各向因子、材料铺设角、裂纹倾角及间距对裂纹尖端热通量的影响。结果表明,基于PDDO建立的含裂纹正交各向异性板热传导模型,考虑了热传导问题中的非局部性,能有效提高计算精度,预测含裂纹板中裂纹尖端出现的奇异性。     

Unidirectional emissions from dielectric photonic circuits decorated with plasmonic phased antenna arrays

Thanks to resonant characteristics of metallic nanoparticles, optical waves scattered from plasmonic nanoantennae can be well tailored in both amplitude and phase. We numerically demonstrate that, by varying the lengths and the lateral positions of gold nanorods in vicinity of a silicon waveguide, unidirectional emissions with typical forward-backward contrast ratio of 15 dB and directivity of 12 dB can be acquired in a plasmonic phased antenna array with sub-wavelength device length. The properties, i.e., the emission directionality and the size compactness, can be employed to control the far-field radiation pattern from a dielectric photonic circuit. Moreover, by altering the orientations of the dielectric waveguides decorated with plasmonic phased antenna arrays, we propose wireless light transportations in a layered photonic infrastructure, which may have applications in high-density photonic integrations.     

Elementary analysis of interferometers for wave-particle duality test and the prospect of going beyond the complementarity principle

A distinct method to show a quantum object behaving both as wave and as particle is proposed and described in some detail. We make a systematic analysis using the elementary methodology of quantum mechanics upon Young＇s two-slit interferometer and the Mach-Zehnder two-arm interferometer with the focus placed on how to measure the interference pattern （wave nature） and the which-way information （particle nature） of quantum objects. We design several schemes to simultaneously acquire the which-way information for an individual quantum object and the high-contrast interference pattern for an ensemble of these quantum objects by placing two sets of measurement instruments that are well separated in space and whose perturbation of each other is negligibly small within the interferometer at the same time. Yet, improper arrangement and cooperation of these two sets of measurement instruments in the interferometer would lead to failure of simultaneous observation of wave and particle behaviors. The internal freedoms of quantum objects could be harnessed to probe both the which-way information and the interference pattern for the center-of-mass motion. That quantum objects can behave beyond the wave-particle duality and the complementarity principle would stimulate new conceptual examination and exploration of quantum theory at a deeper level.     

Superconducting phase qubits with shadow-evaporated Josephson junctions

We develop a fabrication process for the superconducting phase qubits in which Josephson junctions for both the qubit and superconducting quantum interference device(SQUID) detector are prepared by shadow evaporation with a suspended bridge. Al junctions with areas as small as 0.05 μm~2 are fabricated for the qubit, in which the number of the decoherencecausing two-level systems(TLS) residing in the tunnel barrier and proportional to the junction area are greatly reduced. The measured energy spectrum shows no avoided crossing arising from coherent TLS in the experimentally reachable flux bias range of the phase qubit, which demonstrates the energy relaxation time T_1 and dephasing time T_φ on the order of 100 ns and 50 ns, respectively. We discuss several possible origins of decoherence from incoherent or weakly-coupled coherent TLS and further improvements of the qubit performance.     

Experimental studies of extraordinary light transmission through periodic arrays of subwavelength square and rectangular holes in metal films

We fabricate a series of periodic arrays of subwavelength square and rectangular air holes on gold films, and measure the transmission spectra of these metallic nanostructures. By changing some geometrical and physical parameters, such as array period, air hole size and shape, and the incident light polarization, we verify that both global surface plasmon resonance and localized waveguide mode resonance are influential on enhancing the transmission of light through nanostructured metal films. These two resonances induce different behaviours of transmission peak shift. The transmission through the rectangular air-hole structures exhibits an obvious polarization effect dependent on the morphology. Numerical simulations are also made by a plane-wave transfer-matrix method and in good consistency with the experimental results.     

新型β-取代阳离子卟啉光敏剂合成及其与DNA相互作用

在5,10,15,20-四苯基卟啉及其金属配合物的β位引入阳离子型修饰基团溴化吡啶鎓盐, 得到β-[2-(6-吡啶溴化盐)己氧基]萘基-5,10,15,20-四苯基卟啉及其Cu(II), Ni(II), Zn(II)配合物. 通过IR, UV, ¹H NMR, MS以及元素分析对新化合物进行了结构表征. 作为光动力治疗光敏剂与pBR322质粒DNA的相互作用研究表明, 它们对DNA具有良好的光敏切割效果和结合能力, 通过与小牛胸腺DNA相互作用初步研究了它们与DNA的作用模式.     

Systematic study on visible light collimation by nanostructured slits in the metal surface

We present a systematic experimental investigation on visible light collimation by a nanostructured slit flanked with a pair of periodic array of grooves in gold thin film. A wide variety of aspects are considered, such as the polarization state, the transport path of incident light, the groove--groove spacing, the groove width and depth. Our results clearly show that the relationship between the collimation wavelength and the periodicity of the slit-groove structure accords well with the surface plasmon dispersion model proposed by previous researchers. Furthermore, the surface plasmon wave phase retardation effect induced by the surface structure is also verified via the measurement for samples with different groove widths and depths. These results indicate that the detailed geometry of the groove structure has obvious impacts on the collimation effect and the angular distribution of the diffraction light in the subwavelength plasmonic system.     

电光聚合物在全光技术实现THz波产生与检测中的研究进展

研究和开发基于超短波和低能量激光系统的高振幅、宽频带的太赫兹系统一直是太赫兹应用领域的一个热点。与传统电光晶体材料相比,以电光聚合物薄膜作为太赫兹波产生和检测的最大的优势在于： 一方面电光聚合物不具有晶格结构相应的不存在声子的吸收和太赫兹折射率的散射问题,避免光谱间隙的产生;另一方面电光聚合物薄膜与已用于宽频太赫兹系统中的超薄电光晶体材料相比,更易于加工和处理。另外,可以自行设计得到低相位失配和高电光系数的电光聚合物材料,得到高效率和宽频带的太赫兹辐射源。可以预见,电光聚合物在这一领域的应用必将有宽阔的发展空间和学术研究意义。介绍电光聚合物的电光效应及二阶非线性生色团合成等相关理论问题基础上,综述了近二十多年来,电光聚合物在基于全光技术实现太赫兹波产生与检测系统中的研究进展,主要包括: 掺钛蓝宝石飞秒激光激发下,共聚型和主客体型电光聚合物实现太赫兹波产生与检测;光纤飞秒激光激发下,主客体型电光聚合物实现太赫兹波的产生与检测。