铷原子气体自旋噪声谱的测量与改进

利用自主设计并制作的基于现场可编程门阵列的实时傅里叶变换采集卡(FFTsDAC),采用线偏振光检测碱金属铷原子气样品中的自旋随机涨落(即自旋噪声谱).详细讨论了背景噪声以及自旋噪声随探测光光强的变化关系,证实了自旋噪声来自于系统中自旋的随机涨落.对比了两种FFTsDAC(8 bit采样的FFTsDACl和12 bit采样的FFTsDAC2)的测量性能,分析了影响实验信噪比的因素.FFTsDAC2具有更高的测量效率和采样深度以及更长的单次采样时间,因而具有更高的信噪比和更好的频率分辨率,与数值模拟的结果一致.     

(Ga,Mn)As中电流诱导自旋极化的磁光Kerr测量

在GaAs吸收带边附近, 利用磁光Kerr效应测量了(Ga,Mn)As和p-GaAs样品的电流诱导Kerr旋转谱和反射谱, 两者都呈现出Lorentz曲线形状. 电流诱导Kerr旋转角和反射率随着电流的增大而增大, Kerr角与电流的大小成正比关系, 反射率与电流的平方成正比关系. (Ga,Mn)As的Kerr旋转角比p-GaAs的大了一个数量级, 这说明Mn原子的掺杂使得电流诱导的自旋极化增强. 另外, 还测量了温度和入射光偏振方向对电流诱导Kerr旋转谱和反射谱的影响. 发现随着温度的升高, Kerr谱和反射谱均向长波方向移动, 这与GaAs带边随温度的变化是一致的.     

Asymmetric coherent rainbows induced by liquid convection

Coherent rainbows can be formed by focusing white-light laser into liquids. They are bilaterally symmetric interference rings with various shapes. Such interference rings arise from the temperature distribution of the liquid induced by laser heating, i.e., thermal lens effect, which changes the refractive index locally and thus the optical path difference. The up-down asymmetry of the interference rings is caused by convection in the liquid. With the increase of the viscosity, the interference rings change their shape from oval to circular shape. After a shutter is opened and the laser shines into the liquid, the interference rings are circular at the beginning. As time goes on, they gradually turn into an oval shape. Let the liquid go a free-fall at the beginning, the interference rings remain circular. All the three experiments have confirmed that the asymmetric interference rings are due to convection in the liquid associated with thermal lens effect. We also numerically simulate the two-dimensional heat conduction with and without convection, whose results agree well with our experimental observations.     

相干彩虹的形成机制

用一束白光激光聚焦照射液体(水、丙酮、无水乙醇、汽水等)或固体(冰、有色玻璃、塑料、彩色蜡等),出现了多级的彩色干涉环,即相干彩虹.高强度白光局部地加热了液体(固体),改变了它的密度(以及折射性质),从而导致光程差的出现,不同波长的光都发生干渉,形成了彩色的干涉环.有色玻璃在反射模式下也出现了相干彩虹,此时的干涉完全来自于玻璃表面轮廓的变化,并且无参数拟合的结果定量地符合观测到的干涉图案.     

Determining the sign of g factor via time-resolved Kerr rotation spectroscopy with a rotatable magnetic field

Time-resolved Kerr rotation spectroscopy is used to determine the sign of the g factor of carriers in a semiconductor material,with the help of a rotatable magnetic field in the plane of the sample.The spin precession signal of carriers at a fixed time delay is measured as a function of the orientation of the magnetic field with a fixed strength B.The signal has a sine-like form and its phase determines the sign of the g factor of carriers.As a natural extension of previous methods to measure the (time-resolved) photoluminescence or time-resolved Kerr rotation signal as a function of the magnetic field strength with a fixed orientation,such a method gives the correct sign of the g factor of electrons in GaAs.Furthermore,the sign of carriers in a (Ga,Mn)As magnetic semiconductor is also found to be negative.     

清水出彩虹

利用白光脉冲光纤激光器发出的高强度、高定向性的白光,聚焦地照射水,可以产生定向的、多级的彩色干涉环,这就是"相干彩虹".脉冲激光加热在水里产生了大小相仿的气泡,每个气泡成为散射源.强光导致了空间自相位调制效应,从而产生了相干彩虹.已经在多种液体中观测到了这种现象.     

Spin noise spectroscopy of rubidium atomic gas under resonant and non-resonant conditions

The spin fluctuation in rubidium atom gas is studied via all-optical spin noise spectroscopy(SNS).Experimental results show that the integrated SNS signal and its full width at half maximum(FWHM) strongly depend on the frequency detuning of the probe light under resonant and non-resonant conditions.The total integrated SNS signal can be well fitted with a single squared Faraday rotation spectrum and the FWHM dependence may be related to the absorption profile of the sample.