ALIS: An efficient method to compute high spectral resolution polarized solar radiances using the Monte Carlo approach

An efficient method to compute accurate polarized solar radiance spectra using the (3D) Monte Carlo model MYSTIC has been developed. Such high resolution spectra are measured by various satellite instruments for remote sensing of atmospheric trace gases. ALIS (Absorption Lines Importance Sampling) allows the calculation of spectra by tracing photons at only one wavelength. In order to take into account the spectral dependence of the absorption coefficient a spectral absorption weight is calculated for each photon path. At each scattering event the local estimate method is combined with an importance sampling method to take into account the spectral dependence of the scattering coefficient. Since each wavelength grid point is computed based on the same set of random photon paths, the statistical error is almost same for all wavelengths and hence the simulated spectrum is not noisy. The statistical error mainly results in a small relative deviation which is independent of wavelength and can be neglected for those remote sensing applications, where differential absorption features are of interest.Two example applications are presented: The simulation of shortwave-infrared polarized spectra as measured by GOSAT from which CO₂ is retrieved, and the simulation of the differential optical thickness in the visible spectral range which is derived from SCIAMACHY measurements to retrieve NO₂. The computational speed of ALIS (for 1D or 3D atmospheres) is of the order of or even faster than that of one-dimensional discrete ordinate methods, in particular when polarization is considered.     

Measurement for Scattering Media by Synthesis of Optical Coherence Function with Super-Structure Grating Distributed Bragg Reflector Laser Diode

The application of the technique of synthesis of optical coherence function for detection in scattering media is investigated. By modulating the optical frequency, the technique synthesizes the coherence function into a delta-function-like peak at an arbitrary location, and thus can select interferometrically the information at that location. The location is adjustable by the modulation parameter or additional phase modulation. A multi-section super-structure grating distributed Bragg reflector laser diode (SSG-DBR-LD) of THz-order tunable range is employed to enhance the spatial resolution for suppressing the multiple scattering from locations other than that detected. In a preliminary experimental demonstration, a reflectometry of 550 μm spatial resolution was achieved and was used to detect scattering media.     

结合计算层析与光学相干层析测量折射率分布

通过将计算层析技术与光学相干层析技术相结合,测量散射介质非均匀折射率分布。该方法测量散射样品折射率分布时,通过光学相干层析技术测量散射样品折射率分布在多个方向上的投影,采用计算层析技术实现对样品折射率分布的层析重建,克服了传统折射率光学测量方法如单纯的基于光学相干层析原理的焦点追迹法和光程匹配法,不能测量散射介质非均匀折射率分布的缺点。采用该方法在实验中对梯度折射率棒的径向相对折射率分布进行层析重建,取得了较好的实验结果。     

激光相干层析成像的光散射模拟计算

利用低相干光作为光源的光学相干层析技术是一种新型成像技术。本文利用蒙特－卡罗（Ｍｏｎｔｅ－Ｃａｒｌｏ）模拟计算方法研究了该技术在不同的散射条件下,相干调制信号随散射系数的变化关系,得出了单次散射和多次散射的差别以及它对成像质量的影响,并进一步讨论了利用单次散射和多次散射信号,提高光学相干层析术图像清晰度和信号强度的方法。还研究了光束半径大小对成像分辨率的影响及变化过程,得出了对实验有指导意义的结果     

光学单池中受激布里渊散射的双光束共轴放大

介绍了一种在单池中实现受激布里渊散射双光束共轴放大的方法,能够在单一光学池中同时实现受激布里渊散射的产生和放大.相比于传统的双池放大技术,这种方法具有结构简单、信号损失小的优点.对于激光雷达等无法采用双池放大的实际应用领域,单池放大技术更是一种必要的方法. 关键词： 受激布里渊散射 放大 光学单池     

分立式与分布式光纤传感关键技术研究进展

光纤传感技术已广泛应用于航空航天、石油化工、电子电力、土木工程、生物医药等领域,其技术形式主要体现为分立式和分布式.分立式光纤传感技术利用光纤敏感器件作为传感器来感知被测参量的变化,光纤作为光信号的传输通道连接光纤传感器及后端的解调装置;分布式光纤传感系统基于光纤瑞利散射、拉曼散射或布里渊散射等光学效应,利用光纤本身作为传感器,可对沿途的光信号进行大范围、长距离传感.本文介绍了分立式与分布式光纤传感中主要关键技术的研究进展,并对未来的研究和发展方向进行了探讨.     

微波电光调制的布里渊散射分布式光纤传感技术

在分析布里渊散射分布式光纤传感器检测原理的基础上,针对布里渊散射光信号比较微弱且和瑞利散射光之间存在频移的特点,采用微波电光调制产生频率可调的参考光,和后向布里渊散射光进行相干检测,得到放大的布里渊散射光信号,再用高速模拟数字转换和存储叠加进行时序信号处理,最后得到分布式传感信号。给出了各部分实验过程和结果,得出与理论分析一致的布里渊散射光频谱和光强随温度升高而产生变化。实现了25km的分布式温度传感,初步实验结果证明了方案的可行性。     

飞秒互相关时间选通技术用于光学层析成像的实验研究

利用飞秒互相关二次谐波信号时间选通技术。实现了对埋藏在高度散射介质中物体的透射成像和反射以析成像。互相关选通门有效地选出携带物体信息的弹道光子和蛇行光子，排除了给成像带来背景噪声的温射光子，分别获得了散射介质中物体的二次谐波一维和二维图像。     

长距离光纤布里渊散射研究

研究了25 km长距离光纤中布里渊散射的功率分布,提出了求解长距离光纤中布里渊散射的耦合强度方程的数值计算方法,与忽略光纤损耗的解析解进行比较,并从实验上加以研究.在此基础上,分析了25 km长距离光纤中布里渊散射过程,得到泵浦波和斯托克斯波沿光纤的功率分布图.     

Photonic nanojet‐mediated SERS technique for enhancing the Raman scattering of a few molecules

We report a two‐step enhancement of Raman scattering signal (η) of a few dye molecules. In the first step, high‐quality surface‐enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) substrates have been used. The SERS substrates were fabricated by direct current sputtering of Au followed by thermal annealing. The role of thermal annealing of the SERS substrates and numerical aperture of Raman microscopic objective lens on the enhancement has been studied for optimizing the enhancement in the SERS technique. In the second step, the value of η obtained with conventional SERS technique has been improved significantly with the help of photonic nanojet (PNJ) of an optical microsphere (PNJ‐mediated SERS technique). The signal to noise ratio and reproducibility of the experimental results have been found to be very high. Based on our theoretical simulations on PNJ, a few suitable parameters have been proposed for obtaining better enhancement using this technique. To the best of our belief, this report will enable the SERS community to improve η value with ease. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Determination of the Asymmetry Parameter and Scattering Coefficient of Turbid Media from Spatially Resolved Reflectance Measurements

We present a technique for determining the asymmetry parameter and scattering coefficient of turbid media from spatially resolved reflectance measurements. This technique will contribute to the development of medical applications in which it is necessary to predict the distribution and propagation of light in tissue. Based on Monte Carlo simulations, we derived correlations which relate the reduced scattering coefficient and the asymmetry parameter to the relative reflectance curve. Initial estimates of the optical properties are obtained from these correlations. Final values are obtained by adjusting the optical parameters and repeating the Monte Carlo simulations until the simulated reflectance pattern matches the measured reflectance pattern. Preliminary experimental results indicate that this technique can be used to determine the asymmetry parameter to within 10% and the reduced scattering coefficient to within 5%.     

罗丹明B荧光增强苯受激拉曼散射研究

将液芯光纤技术与荧光增强受激拉曼散射技术相结合,能够大大增强受激拉曼散射光谱强度,降低受激拉曼散射阈值。通过对罗丹明B苯溶液在液芯光纤中的受激拉曼散射进行研究,结果表明:荧光染料Rhodamine B可以降低苯溶液的各阶受激拉曼散射阈值近一个数量级;在一定浓度范围内(10-6mol/L~10-8mol/L)各阶Stokes阈值随浓度降低而降低,并在理论上给出了解释。并且理论推导了在荧光种子作用下的四阶耦合波方程。液芯光纤中的受激拉曼光谱技术在对实现宽带受激辐射激光器、种子激光,以及生物大分子结构研究、生物分子的非生物过程研究等领域等有光明应用前景。     

基于微波电光调制的布里渊光时域分析传感器

针对布里渊光时域分析分布式传感原理和受激布里渊散射的特点,应用微波电光调制分布反馈式半导体激光器产生频移可调的探测光,和传感光纤中相反方向传输的脉冲激励光进行受激布里渊散射作用,当探测光和激励光的频率差在布里渊频移附近时,频移探测光和激励光产生受激布里渊散射,通过改变探测光的频移值,检测探测光功率信号,可得到沿光纤各处的布里渊频移,再利用布里渊频移和应变（或温度）的关系,计算得到沿光纤分布的传感量。设计了基于微波电光调制的布里渊光时域分析传感器实验系统,实现了25km的分布式温度传感,达到5m的空间分辨力和3℃的温度分辨力。     

基于散射模型设计外遮光罩

通过对粗糙表面散射情况的分析发现,普通金属材料的表面散射能量主要集中在10°散射角内。针对这种现象,提出了基于该散射特性的光学系统外遮光罩设计方法,该遮光罩的杂散光抑制角比基于反射理论计算的大5°,具有良好的散射杂散光的抑制作用。最后以Ritchey-Chirtien(R-C)光学系统为例,为其设计了合适的遮光罩,并在TracePro软件中对比性地建模、分析。结果证明了该模型的正确性,且该遮光罩对抑制杂散光起到了很好的效果,点源透射比(PST)相对较低。     

复杂目标光学散射截面数值仿真方法

研究复杂目标的几何建模、光学面元消隐和目标表面的光学散射特性.针对任意构型的目标,提出采用均匀光照明仿真图像进行光学散射截面（OCS）数值计算方法.通过自适应Z缓存方法,实现目标光学消隐面的计算,将这部分消隐面面积从目标OCS的数值积分中去除.研究近似镜面材料的空间模板褶皱表面的光学散射数值模拟方法,以及基于激光主动探测系统实验测量数据的目标OCS实验分析方法.根据某缩比例空间目标相对探测系统不同方位、俯仰角情况的OCS实验结果,校正OCS数值仿真参数.仿真结果与实验结果的图像比较和OCS曲线趋势大略一致,考虑到表面褶皱的随机性、姿态的测量误差和仿真模型有限的校准能力等因素,本文提出的数值仿真方法能够在一定程度上描述目标的OCS值.     

Temporal evolution of optical path difference of a supersonic turbulent boundary layer

The density distribution of a supersonic turbulent boundary layer is measured with the nanoparticle-based planar laser scattering technique, and the temporal evolution of its optical path difference (OPD) in a short time interval is characterized by proper orthogonal decomposition (POD). Based on the advantage of POD in capturing the energy of a signal, a temporal evolution model is suggested for the POD coefficients of OPD. In this model, the first few coefficients vary linearly with time, and the others are modeled by Gaussian statistics. As an application, this method is used to compute the short-exposure optical transfer function.     

Optical Computed Tomography Based on Extraction of Quasi-Straight forward Propagating Photons Using Sum-Frequency Generation Technique

Aiming at the realization of optical computed tomography (optical CT), a compact system comprised of two cw-lasers and a detector was proposed for the extraction of quasi-straightforward propagating photons from scattered light transmitting through a scattering medium. The extraction ability of the system based on the sum-frequency generation technique was investigated using a standard scattering medium of Intralipid-10% aqueous solution and was found to be 78 dB in dynamic range. The optical CT image of absorbers placed in the scattering medium was successfully obtained with high contrast using the proposed system.     

Quantitative Measurement of Planar Droplet Sauter Mean Diameter in Sprays using Planar Droplet Sizing

The purpose of this investigation is to assess and improve the accuracy of Sauter Mean Diameter measurements in dense sprays using a Planar Droplet Sizing (PDS) technique, based on the intensity ratio of scattered and fluorescence light. A novel data processing method of the PDS technique is suggested, which was derived from a theoretical light scattering investigation, and reduced possible sizing errors larger than 30% to below 10%. The novel approach for droplet sizing was applied to measure in a spray generated by a pressure swirl atomiser in a liquid‐fuelled burner operated with water at isothermal conditions, in order to avoid the effect of liquid evaporation on the accuracy of PDS technique. The Sauter Mean diameter results from the PDS technique were compared to Phase Doppler Anemometer (PDA) sizing measurements. Good agreement was obtained between the two techniques in dense regions of the spray. Discrepancies remained in dilute spray regions due to systematic statistical uncertainties of the PDS technique and the dynamic range of the intensity of the CCD cameras, which did not allow detection of large single droplets in the dilute spray region.     

Influence of Phase Drift on Optical Coherence Tomography Using a CCD Camera-Based Heterodyne Detection Technique

The performance of a two-dimensional heterodyne detection technique in optical coherence tomography (OCT) was studied. This technique, which is based on the frequency synchronous detection method, enables the use of an imager such as a charge coupled device (CCD) camera as a heterodyne sensor array, so that horizontal cross-sectional image can be acquired in real time without lateral scanning. OCT measurements of scattering media including a biological object were demonstrated. To evaluate the influence of phase fluctuations on the present technique, we measured and analyzed the statistical relative-standard-deviation of heterodyne signal intensity as a function of the random phase shifts between two consecutive CCD frames. Practical limitations in the signal stability and possible solutions are discussed.