2013年诺贝尔物理学奖

什么是质量及其起源？为什么希格斯粒于的发现对此次诺贝尔奖工作那么重要？此次诺贝尔工作所涉及的亚原子粒子质量起源的物理机制又是什么意思？     

Novel method for simultaneous measurement of film thickness and mass fraction of urea–water solution

Quantitative knowledge of the film thickness and mass fraction of the urea-water solution is very crucial in many practical applications. Film thickness or mass fraction can only be determined individually by conventional measurement techniques. We develop a novel measurement method to measure the film thickness and mass fraction of ure~water solution simultaneously. The absorption coefficients of urea-water solution （5 50 wt%） are measured, a pair of optimized wavelengths is then chosen to achieve high measurement sensitivity. Cross validation is also performed and uncertainties of the technique are smaller than 0.68% for thickness measurements and 1.86% for mass fractions.     

Toward one nanometer X-ray focusing: a complex refractive lens design

We report a design for one nanometer X-ray focusing by a complex refractive lens, which is capable of focusing 20 keV X-rays down to a lateral size of 0.92 nm （full-width at half-maximum （FWHM）） and an axial size of 98 nm （FWHM） with intensity gain of 49050. This complex refractive lens is comprised of a series of kinoform lenses, whose aperture is gradually matched to the converging trace of the X-ray beam so as to increase the numerical aperture （NA）. The theoretical principle of the proposed complex refractive lens is presented. The NAs of these lenses are calculated. The numerical simulation results demonstrate that the proposed design can focus the X-ray beam into sub-nanometer while remaining high gain.     

Design of CASSEGRAIN telescope baffles with honeycomb entrance

The stray radiation suppression in Cassegrain family optical system is presented. The design method for ultra-short outer baffle with honeycomb structure is proposed. Meanwhile the constraint formulas for designing the geometries of primary baffle and secondary baffle are deduced when basing the characteristic and taking vignette into account. According to the ray trace simulated data, the point source transmit- tance values of the baffle are less than 10-^10 when incident angles are larger than the rejection angle. The honeycomb-look front baffle guarantees a comparable performance of stray light suppression with traditional tube baffle, while reducing the size greatly.     

Low-power-pumped high-efficiency frequency doubling at 397.5 nm in a ring cavity

We report low pump power high-efficiency frequency doubling of a fundamental laser beam at 795 nm, corresponding to the rubidium D1 line, to generate UV light at 397.5 nm using a periodically poled KTi OPO4（PPKTP） crystal in a ring cavity. We obtain maximum stable output power of 49 m W for mode-matching pump power of 110 m W, corresponding to 45% raw efficiency（56% net efficiency when considering the output coupling mirror’s 80% transmission）. This is the highest efficiency obtained at this wavelength in PPKTP with such low pump power. We obtain 80% beam coupling efficiency to single-mode fiber, demonstrating high beam quality.     

基于反向旋转位相板的共形光学系统设计

在共形光学系统中,椭球形整流罩打破了球形整流罩的旋转对称性,引入了随目标视场变化而变化的动态像差。共形光学设计的主要任务就是消除或者减小椭球形整流罩引入的动态像差,使共形光学系统的成像质量满足使用要求。设计了基于反向旋转位相板的共形光学系统,利用一对反向旋转位相板的反向旋转对目标视场进行动态扫描,利用固定校正器、衍射元件和泽尼克位相板校正了椭球形整流罩引入的动态像差。成像系统采用二次成像的透射式结构,实现了冷光阑效率100%。结果表明:该方法不仅有别于传统扫描方式,而且有效地消除了大长径比的共形光学系统的动态像差。     

Narrowband optical parametric amplifier for efficient conversion of high-energy pulse with high beam quality

In a two-stage optical parametric amplifier based on KTiOAO4 crystals, we apply beam-overlapping technique to nanosecond signal pulse amplification, which results in high conversion efficiency and good beam quality. A signal pulse energy of 66 mJ at 1.572 μm wavelength is generated with 220 mJ of pump pulse input. A maximum gain of 66 and a maximum pump depletion of as high as 44% are determined. The spectral linewidth of the amplified signal pulse is around 50 MHz, and the beam quality factor of M 2 is less than 2.3.     

Supercontinuum generation in a standard single-mode fiber by a Q-switched Tm,Ho:YVO4 laser

Broadband mid-infrared(IR) supercontinuum laser is generated in standard single-mode fiber-28 directly pumped by a 2054 nm nanosecond Q-switched Tm,Ho:YVO4 laser. The average output powers of 0.53 W in the ~1.95–2.5 μm spectral band and 0.65 W in the ~1.97–2.45 μm spectral band are achieved at pulse rate frequencies of 7 and 10 kHz, and the corresponding optic-to-optic conversion efficiencies are 34.6% and 42.4% by considering the coupling efficiency. The output spectra have extremely high flatness in the range 2060–2400 and 2060–2360 nm with negligible intensity variation(2%), respectively. The output pulse shape is not split, and pulse width is reduced from 29 to ~15.4 ns. The beam quality factor M2 is 1.06, measured using traveling knife-edge method, and the laser beam spot is also monitored by an IR vidicon camera.     

Virtual topology design scheme with energy efficiency for IP over elastic optical networks

The rapid growth of the Internet raises the importance of resource planning of Internet protocol（IP） over elastic optical networks（EONs）, which is a challenging task due to more complex and obscure physical constraints of it. Compared with network cost, the power consumption may eventually become the barrier to the expansion of the Internet. We present an energy-efficient virtual topology design（VTD） scheme for IP over EON. We explicitly explain and analyze the mixed integer linear programming model and the heuristic algorithm for this scheme. Numerical results show that the proposed VTD scheme can significantly save power consumption.     

Design and optimization of with low weakly-coupled few-mode fiber nonlinearity

By investigating the influence of the difference of refractive index between core and cladding （nco - ncl）, normalized frequency （V） and core radius （α） on both the intramodal and intermodal nonlinear coefficients （NCs） respectively, we design a novel weakly-coupled four-mode fiber with low nonlinearity. In general, under the premise of ensuring the low NCs between two non-degenerate modes, this design can reduce the intermodal NCs （〈 0.5 W-l·km^-1） between two degenerate modes and optimizes the parameters of differential group delays （DGDs） and chromatic dispersion. The optimized few mode fiber （FMF） is eligible for transmission and mode de-multiplexing in the receiver.