Parameter optimization of pulse compression in ultrasound imaging systems with coded excitation

A linear array imaging system with coded excitation is considered, where the proposed excitation/compression scheme maximizes the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and minimizes sidelobes at the output of the compression filter. A pulse with linear frequency modulation (LFM) is used for coded excitation. The excitation/compression scheme is based on the fast digital mismatched filtering. The parameter optimization of the excitation/compression scheme includes (i) choice of an optimal filtering function for the mismatched filtering; (ii) choice of an optimal window function for tapering of the chirp amplitude; (iii) optimization of a chirp-to-transducer bandwidth ratio; (iv) choice of an appropriate n-bit quantizer. The simulation results show that the excitation/compression scheme can be implemented as a Dolph–Chebyshev filter including amplitude tapering of the chirp with a Lanczos window. An example of such an optimized system is given where the chirp bandwidth is chosen to be 2.5 times the transducer bandwidth and equals 6 MHz: The sidelobes are suppressed to −80 dB, for a central frequency of 4 MHz, and to −94 dB, for a central frequency of 8 MHz. The corresponding improvement of the SNR is 18 and 21 dB, respectively, when compared to a conventional short pulse imaging system. Simulation of B-mode images demonstrates the advantage of coded excitation systems of detecting regions with low contrast.     

Few cycle pulse compressor based on hollow-core fiber waveguide results in pulse tails

The hollow-core fiber structure influence of few-cycle pulse compressor on pulse contrast is investigated experimentally. It is found that a periodic structure of pulses at the tail of the main pulse extended hundreds of picoseconds away. It can be due to the fiber structure and could be eliminated by modifying the structure.     

Interaction between parabolic pulses in a dispersion-decreasing fiber

The properties of the self-similar parabolic pulses interaction in a dispersion-decreasing optical fiber with normal group-velocity dispersion are firstly investigated in our paper. We find that two parabolic pulses separated by a time-delay create oscillation with a sinusoidal fit at the beginning of their overlap, and then further evolve into a train of asymptotic dark solitons. Additionally, outside the overlap regime, the evolution is equal to a single pulse’ propagating behavior. The chirp after interaction in the parabolic pulses still allows for efficient and high-quality pulse compression.     

超声换能器对线性调频信号脉冲压缩性能的影响分析

该文研究了不同编码带宽下超声换能器对编码信号脉冲压缩后信噪比与轴向分辨率的影响关系。将脉冲压缩后的时域峰值转化为频域积分的形式,得到考虑换能器影响的脉冲压缩信噪比公式。以线性调频信号为例,仿真与实验结果表明,编码激励相对于方波激励的信噪比增益随编码带宽的减小而增大,因为受换能器带宽限制,编码激励的轴向分辨率随编码带宽的增大先减小后趋于稳定。该研究为编码激励方法更有效地应用于超声检测的背景中提供了参考。     

Pulse compression in dispersion-decreasing-like fibers

Pulse compression characteristics in dispersion-decreasing-like fibers (DDLF) are firstly investigated by employing the second-harmonic generation frequency-resolved optical gating (SHG-FROG) technique, are compared with the numerical results that are obtained using the split-step Fourier method. It is found that the experimental data are consistent with the numerical results. The results show that the pulse compression method is effective. The pulse can be effectively compressed and its spectrum can be broadened in the DDLF. That the pulse compression effect is enhanced with the increase of the input power is in correspondence with the spectrum broadening.     

Coded tissue harmonic imaging with nonlinear chirp signals

Coded tissue harmonic imaging with pulse inversion (CTHI-PI) based on a linear chirp signal can improve the signal-to-noise ratio with minimizing the peak range sidelobe level (PRSL), which is the main advantage over CTHI with bandpass filtering (CTHI-BF). However, the CTHI-PI technique could suffer from motion artifacts due to decreasing frame rate caused by two firings of opposite phase signals for each scanline. In this paper, a new CTHI method based on a nonlinear chirp signal (CTHI-NC) is presented, which can improve the separation of fundamental and harmonic components without sacrificing frame rate. The nonlinear chirp signal is designed to minimize the PRSL value by optimizing its frequency sweep rate and time duration. The performance of the CTHI-NC method was evaluated by measuring the PRSL and mainlobe width after compression. From the in vitro experiments, the CTHI-NC provided the PRSL of −40.6 dB and the mainlobe width of 2.1 μs for the transmit quadratic nonlinear chirp signal with the center frequency of 2.1 MHz, the fractional bandwidth at −6 dB of 0.6 and the time duration of 15 μs. These results indicate that the proposed method could be used for improving frame rates in CTHI while providing comparable image quality to CTHI-PI.     

Optical pulse compression using the temporal Radon-Wigner transform

The temporal Radon-Wigner transform (RWT), which is the squared modulus of the fractional Fourier transform (FRT) for a varying fractional order p, is here employed as a tool for pulse compression applications. To synthesize the compressed pulse, a selected FRT irradiance is optically produced employing a photonic device that combines phase modulation and dispersive transmission. For analysis purposes, the complete numerical generation of the RWT with 0 < p < 1 is proposed to select the value of p required for pulse compression. To this end, the amplitude and phase of the signal to be processed should be known. In order to obtain this information we use a method based on the recording of two different FRT irradiances of the pulse. The amplitude and phase errors of the recovered signal, which are inherent to the recording process, are discussed in connection with the RWT production. Numerical simulations were performed to illustrate the implementation of the proposed method. The technique is applied to compress signals commonly found in fiber optic transmission systems, such as chirped gaussian pulses, pulses distorted by second and third-order dispersion and nonlinear self-modulated pulses.     

大气压脉冲调制射频氩气放电等离子体特性的数值研究

基于等离子体流体理论,建立了大气压脉冲调制射频氩气放电的一维流体模型。通过数值模拟的方 法研究了放电参数(放电电极间距、射频频率)对氩等离子体特性的影响。研究结果表明：当电压固定时,随着电 极间距的增加,等离子体区逐渐增大,最大电子密度也增加,在 0.20cm 达到最大值后略有降低;放电电流密度 与输入功率密度随着电极间距的增加而增加;鞘层区电子温度随着电极间距的增加而降低;在脉冲开启前期,等 离子体区电子温度随着电极间距的增加而增加,但当脉冲开启后期,电极间距对等离子体区电子温度影响较小。 不同射频频率下最大电子密度随电极间隙的增加而减小,也具有一个最优值。      

紫外微微秒光脉冲的产生

在这个实验中用倍频的Nd:YAG——玻璃激光系统做为泵浦源,将该光束聚焦于二甲亚砜喇曼盒中,结果产生630nm后向斯托克斯光。这个光脉冲再经过BBO晶体倍频为315nm的紫外光。     

光导开关中深能级杂质对输出脉冲影响的研究

本文从理论上分析了光导开关中深能级杂质对其输出特性的影响,研究结果表明,光导开关中的深能级杂质有利于输出电脉冲的压缩.     

X波段脉冲压缩装置的数值模拟及优化设计

 利用有限元方法,通过调节X波段脉冲压缩装置的腔体长度、输入膜片宽度、输出耦合口位置等参量,研究了这些参量对谐振频率和品质因数的影响关系。研究表明：通过微调腔体长度并优化结构参数,可以将该装置的工作频率限制在规定的范围内;输入膜片缝隙由宽变窄的过程中,驻波比由大变小,达到临界耦合后,驻波比又由小变大,且谐振频率略有升高;品质因数与H-T分支的T形输出口的微波泄露密切相关,而该输出口泄露的大小随短路面到H-T分支中线的距离周期性变化。模拟得到的膜片距输出口中线长度为1 133.75 mm,分支中线到短路面的长度为95.25 mm,输入膜片宽9 mm,本征频率为9.387 2 GHz,输入耦合系数为1.15,品质因数为8 000。根据数值模拟结果,优化设计了一套脉冲压缩装置,实测得到的工作频率为9.388 4 GHz,输入耦合系数为1.03,品质因数为5 500。由于该装置输出口微波泄露较大,因此实测的品质因数比模拟的要小一些,这一点可以通过改进终端滑动短路面的调节方式来改善。     

基于高非线性微结构光纤环镜的脉冲压缩与基座抑制

提出了利用一种高非线性微结构光纤构成非线性光纤环镜（NOLM）进行脉冲压缩和基座抑制的方案.所提出的微结构光纤具有高非线性系数和大反常色散.理论研究了基于这种微结构光纤的NOLM对脉冲的压缩效应,并分析了压缩的机制.数值结果表明,这种NOLM采用较短的光纤长度就能有效地压缩脉冲并明显抑制了基座.对于给定的输入脉冲,存在一个最优的环路长度,可以获得高质量的压缩脉冲.通过适当选择耦合比和环路长度,则可以完全消除脉冲的基座.     

光脉冲在密度随时间,空间变化的等离子体中的传播

本文定量地研究了光脉冲在密度随时间上升的等离子体中的频率上移,以及在密度随空间上升的等离子体中的脉宽压缩。通过求解波动方程,得到了描述光脉冲的时空演变特征的解析表达式,并在此基础上就脉冲形状、峰值位置、传播速度、脉冲宽度及光子数守恒等问题进行了讨论。     

伪随机编码超宽带短脉冲的探测能力研究

 为进行弱信号检测,研究在脉冲雷达中获得大信号时间宽度与信号带宽积的方法,利用伪随机编码方法调制超宽带短脉冲,可以在保持子脉冲信号带宽的情况下,以低功率发射长脉冲串类噪声信号,而提高信号的能量,提高探测距离。通过仿真实验得出,利用伪随机编码技术可以使超宽带信号具有更强的探测能力,可以在回波信号功率水平远远小于噪声水平（如信噪比5%）的情况下实现对探测目标的高保真成像。     

利用ND-DDF放大器获得更佳线性啁啾抛物线脉冲

基于在正常色散渐减光纤（ND-DDF）或者正常色散光纤放大器，获得线性啁啾抛物线脉冲，提出并分析了利用ND-DDF放大器获得线性啁啾抛物线脉冲的优化方案．数值研究结果表明：与用ND-DDF或者正常色散光纤放大器获得线性啁啾抛物线脉冲的方案相比，利用ND-DDF放大器获得的抛物线脉冲的线性啁啾更为明显；研究还发现，增益影响着线性啁啾的大小和质量．计算表明，利用ND-DDF放大器产生的抛物线脉冲经啁啾补偿后可获得更大的压缩因子和更高的峰值功率．     

声光调Q衍射效率对脉宽压缩的影响研究

通过对衍射效率和反转粒子数密度的关系,反转粒子数密度和脉冲宽度的关系的分析,得出当通过提高泵浦速率来压缩脉宽时,衍射效率必须与泵浦速率和重复频率相匹配.并提出了匹配条件,从匹配条件出发又得到了衍射效率与泵浦速率和重复频率的匹配关系式.关系式中的衍射效率即为能够有效地压缩脉宽的最小衍射效率.实验结果与理论分析符合较好.     

被动谐波锁模掺Yb3+光纤环形激光器

 利用光纤的非线性偏振旋转效应产生可饱和吸收体的锁模机制，从掺Yb³⁺光纤环形激光器中得到稳定高阶谐波锁模光脉冲。理论分析了工作于正色散区的掺Yb³⁺光纤环形激光器的特性。实验中观测到了掺Yb³⁺光纤环形激光器3种不同演化方式产生高阶锁模光脉冲。4阶谐波锁模脉冲（107.2 MHz重复频率）经过1 m长高掺杂Yb³⁺光纤放大器放大后产生了平均功率100 mW，脉宽22.8 ps的脉冲，最后经过光栅压缩得到了平均输出功率20 mW，脉宽307 fs，脉冲中心波长1 051.2 nm，带宽13.76 nm的激光。     

利用受激布里渊散射获得皮秒激光脉冲

 采用两级布里渊结构压缩8ns的Nd：YAG激光,研究了基频光和倍频光的受激布里渊散射（SBS）压缩过程。实验中采用四氯化碳作为SBS介质,经第一级双池SBS压缩后,获得了1.5ns左右的Stokes 脉冲;第二级采用单池SBS压缩,分别使用基频光和倍频光作为泵浦光,获得了最短为60ps 的Stokes脉冲。实验证明,在一定条件下,利用SBS压缩脉宽可以获得比介质的声子寿命更短的脉冲。