Three-port electrical and optical model for LiTaO3 electro-optic probe with CPW test structure

A three-port electrical and optical model of LiTaO₃ probes with a high-bandwidth coplanar waveguide (CPW) test structure is developed in this paper. The three-port model is constructed by combining the full wave field simulation and the neural network techniques. The three-port model has the same accuracy as the full wave modeling, but its characteristics are directly obtained from the neural network weighting parameters rather than the complicated full wave simulation. With this model, both invasiveness and waveform distortion in the external E-O sampling can be de-embedded.     

Multidimensional gravitational waves. I. Purely radiative spacetimes

The concept of gravitational radiation in multidimensional Einstein gravity is studied. Due to technical difficulties the Petrov classification of the conformal tensor and the peeling off theorem cannot be generalized to spaces of dimensiond > 4. A multidimensionalpp wave is defined by analogy with that ford = 4. If the definition is supplemented by the Lichnerowicz condition for purely radiative spacetimes, the admitted solutions of the dimensionally reduced gravity theory describe a scalar (dilaton) and a gravitationalpp wave moving in the external spacetime in the same direction. The existence of the extra dimensions can be traced back by measuring the frequence of thepp wave in the external space. The condition is equally restrictive in a more general case of the internal space being a flat anisotropic manifold (i.e. an abelian group space).     

Plasmadiagnostik mit Emittierenden Sonden Durch Ausnutzung der Örtlichen Störung des Ionisationsgleichgewichts

The emissive probe is used generally to determine exclusively the plasma potential. The emissive probes have distinct advantages over collecting probes, because several conditions which restrict the spectrum of application fall away. In this paper the methods for the determination of plasma potentials are discussed and completed by new techniques using the local perturbation of the ionization balance. On the other hand it is shown that further plasma data can be obtained exploiting the plasma response on the emitted electrons accelerated by the probe bias voltage. In this way the total ionization rate, the portion of direct ionization, the concentration of metastable atoms and the life time of metastables are determined for selected conditions.

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Presented at the Colloquium on Plasma Physics Topics Common to the Laboratory and the Space Plasma Research, September 21–25, 1987, Skalský Dvr, Czechoslovakia.     

用时阈有限差分方法研究光纤微探针近场分布特性

采用三维时间域有限差分（FDTD）方法研究了扫描近场光学显微镜中光纤微探针的近场分布特性,研究结果表明,锥形裸光纤探针的近场光中,以从探针锥变区侧面泄露的光即传播场为主,当在探针的侧面镀上一层金属膜对于从侧面泄露的光具有较好屏蔽效果,因而比裸光纤探针具有更好的空间束缚能力,无论是裸光纤探针还是金属膜探针,入射偏振光从针尖出射手发生了退极化现象,近场分布中产生与入射光偏振方向垂直的其它两个电场分量,而且金属膜探针的退极化分量对近场分布的影响比裸探针显著得多,如果在近场成像中接收退极化分量而不是总场则可以提高近场成像的对比度,还详细地分析了微探针的近场分布特征与退极化之间的关系。     

A method of cyclic canonical variables for calculation of electrostatic plasma waves

A method is derived, in which cyclic canonical variables (the generalized momenta of which are constants of the unperturbed motion) are used, for the calculation of the oscillations of a collisionless plasma in external fields. The plasma and the fields are assumed to be generally inhomogeneous. In the approximation of an electrostatic plane wave propagating in the plasma, a general dispersion equation for a weakly inhomogeneous plasma is then derived. The advantage of this method is in its great simplicity in contrast with the usual approach, where thex, v-representation is used. Moreover, all resuits are given in a simple, symmetric form. The application of this method is especially convenient for plasmas confined by external fields to a finite volume.     

A Full-Height Waveguide to Thin-Film Microstrip Transition with Exceptional RF Bandwidth and Coupling Efficiency

We describe a waveguide to thin-film microstrip transition for high-performance submillimetre wave and teraherz applications. The proposed constant-radius probe couples thin-film microstrip line, to full-height rectangular waveguide with better than 99% efficiency (VSWR 1.20) and 45% fractional bandwidth. Extensive HFSS simulations, backed by scale-model measurements, are presented in the paper. By selecting the substrate material and probe radius, any real impedance between 15-60 can be achieved. The radial probe gives significantly improved performance over other designs discussed in the literature. Although our primary application is submillimetre wave superconducting mixers, we show that membrane techniques should allow broad-band waveguide components to be constructed for the THz frequency range.     

A combined finite element and modal decomposition method to study the interaction of Lamb modes with micro-defects

This paper presents a combined finite element and modal decomposition method to study the interaction of Lamb waves with damaged area. The finite element mesh is used to describe the region around the defects. On the contrary to other hybrid models already developed, the interaction between Lamb waves and defects is computed in the temporal domain. Then, the modal decomposition method permits to determine the wave reflected and transmitted by the damaged area. Modal analysis allows also identifying the mode conversions induced by the defects. These numerical results agree with previous finite element results concerning the interaction of Lamb modes with a notch. Experiments, carried out with gauged defects on an aluminum plate, are also compared to numerical predictions to validate the simulation. Compared to classical techniques of simulation, this new method allows us to investigate the interaction of Lamb modes generated at high frequency-thickness product with micro-defects as corrosion pitting.     

Enhancing electrooptic modulators using modulation instability

As electronic operating frequencies increase toward the terahertz regime, new electrooptic modulators capable of low‐voltage high‐frequency operation must be developed to provide the necessary optical interconnects. This Letter presents a new concept that exploits modulation instability to compensate for the intrinsically weak electrooptic effect, χ⁽²⁾. Simulations demonstrate more than 50 times enhancement of electrooptic effect at millimeter wave frequencies leading to a substantial reduction in the required modulation voltage.

     

Elementary physical approach to Mach's principle and its observational basis

It is shown that Mach's principle and the general principle of relativity are logical consequences of a materialistic postulate and that general relativity implies the validity of Mach's principle for a static (or quasistatic) homogeneous and isotropic universe, spatially self-enclosed. The finite velocity of propagation of gravitational field does not imply a retardation of inertial forces due to the distant masses and therefore does not exclude the validity of Mach's principle. Similarly, the experimentally verified isotropy of inertia is compatible with this principle. The recent observational evidence of very high isotropy of the actual universe proves that the anti-Machian Gödel world model must be rejected as a nonphysical one. This suggests the possibility of a renaissance of Einstein's first cosmological model by considering-in the spirit of an older idea of Herbert Dingle-a superlargescale quasistatic universe consisting of an unknown number of statistically oscillating regions similar to our own, momentarily expanding, metagalaxy.     

Production of high quality shocks for equation of state experiments

In this paper we describe the quality requirements that a shock wave must fulfil to make equation of state (EOS) measurements possible: planarity, no-preheating and stationarity of the shock. Experimental measurements have been performed at the Max Planck Institut für Quantenoptik (Garching). We also present simple analytical models that allow to verify shock stationarity and absence of preheating. Received 17 June 2002 Published online 21 January 2003 RID="a" ID="a"e-mail: batani@mib.infn.it RID="b" ID="b"Present address: Pro-beam, Behrinsta?e 6, 85152 Planegg b. München, Germany. RID="c" ID="c"UMR 7605     

Magnetostriction domain structure in a periodic system of magnetoelastic and elastic nonmagnetic layers

The spectrum of magnetoelastic waves in a periodic structure of alternating ferromagnetic and nonmagnetic layers was studied. In the case of ferromagnetic layers with easy magnetization axes parallel to the layer surfaces, an orientational phase transition induced by an external tangential magnetic field H_e was considered. The formation of an inhomogeneous phase with a spatially modulated order parameter, which is caused by the magnetization being coupled through magnetostriction to lattice strains near the interfaces separating the magnetoelastic from elastic media, is predicted. It is shown that at a certain critical field in excess of the orientational phase transition field in the system without magnetostriction, a magnetoelastic wave propagating in a direction parallel to the in-plane magnetization vector M becomes unstable at finite values of the wave vector and condenses into a magnetostriction domain structure. A phase diagram in the (L, T, H_e) coordinates is constructed, and the regions of existence of thermodynamically equilibrium collinear, canted, and domain phases are established (L and T are the thicknesses of the ferromagnetic and nonmagnetic layers, respectively).     

Stability borders and classification of density perturbation propagations in deDonder-gauge on a cosmological background

We investigate the propagation and the stability borders of density and metric perturbations on a cosmological background in linear perturbation theory in deDonder-gauge. We obtain the algebraic equations for the generally time-dependent stability borders by setting the typical time for perturbation contrasts infinite in the set of differential equations, while all other typical times stay finite. In dD-gauge there are in general three stability borders whereas in synchronous gauge there is only one. In the limiting cases of radiation perturbations and dustlike perturbations we obtain in deDonder-gauge no stability border resp. only one stability border (the ordinary Jeans limit). The first case is in contrast to the synchronous gauge and means that radiation perturbations cannot become unstable. During the recombination there could be three stability borders. We classify the propagation solutions and the systems of differential equations governing them by comparing the characteristic times in the original general system of differential equations, in deDonder-gauge and synchronous gauge. The greatest differences for the propagation of density contrasts arise from the presence of a gravitational wave time scale in deDonder-gauge. This becomes significant if the density perturbations are relativistic with respect to the velocity of sound. Gravitational retardation effects are the origin of the 6-dimensionality of the solution space for density contrasts. This reflects the necessity and physical meaning of gauge solutions.     

Fluorescence Spectroscopic Studies on Phase Heterogeneity in Lipid Bilayer Membranes

There is a growing interest in functional membrane heterogeneity on the mesoscopic (several tens to hundreds of molecular dimensions) scale. However, the physical-chemical basis for this sort of heterogeneity in membranes is not entirely clear. Unambiguous methods to demonstrate that the cell plasma membrane and other cellular membranes are in fact heterogeneous on the mesoscopic level are also not generally available. Fluorescence techniques do, however, provide excellent tools for this purpose. In particular, the emerging techniques of scanning near-field optical microscopy and single-molecule fluorescence microscopy hold a great deal of promise for the near-future. All these methods require the use of fluorescent probes (lipids and/or proteins) and a clear definition of how these probes partition between domains of coexisting membrane phases. The development of the concept of membrane heterogeneity over the years since the first proposal of the fluid mosaic model is reviewed briefly. The use of lipid-binding proteins in experimental protocols for the labeling of membranes with fluorescent lipid amphiphiles as monomers in aqueous solutions at concentrations well above their critical aggregation concentrations is discussed. The methods of fluorescence spectroscopy available to the cell biologist for determining probe partition coefficients for partitioning between coexisting membrane phases are reviewed in some detail, as is the relevant theoretical and experimental work reported in the literature.     

Widely tunable electrooptic pulse-pattern generation and its application to on-wafer large-signal characterization of ultra high-speed electronic devices

A pulse-rate-tunable, electrooptic pulse-pattern generator and a wideband high-efficiency optical-to-electrical (OE) conversion stimulus probe have been developed. Sinusoidal electrooptic amplitude/phase modulation and chirp compensation were used to provide picosecond pulsation, and the relationship between pulse-rate tunability and the extinction ratio has been studied analytically and experimentally. Return-to-zero (RZ) pylse patterns of 10–72 Gb s^–1 have been generated by using LiNbO₃ amplitude/phase modulators with a bandwidth of 18 GHz, a single dispersion shifted fibre, and a time-division multiplexer. A 1.55 m waveguide p-i-n photodiode yielded high responsivity (0.75 A W^–1) and a saturation peak voltage of 200 mV at the probe tip. The measured effective 3 dB bandwidth exceeds 50 GHz, which is currently limited by the frequency dispersion of the coplaner waveguide (CPW) used in the probe. Use of this generator and probe, in combination with electrooptic sampling, for on-wafer characterization of a broadband distributed amplifier revealed the amplifier's saturation characteristics and waveform distortion under actual operating conditions with a 64 Gb s^–1, 120 mV per probe, RZ pulse-pattern input.     

Evolution of Crack Tip Constraint in a Mode II Elastic-Plastic Crack Problem

Numerous studies have shown that crack tip constraint has an important effect on the level of conservatism when crack extension is investigated in elastic-plastic fracture mechanics. Constraint effect has been explored extensively in the past but mainly for pure mode I problems. Very few researchers have dealt with the effects of crack tip constraint on mode II or mixed mode I/II fracture in metallic materials. In this paper, the evolution of mode II constraint parameter Q in terms of applied external load is determined numerically for a test specimen under pure mode II loading. The finite element method is utilized to model the specimen and to study the range of validity of mode II constraint parameter determined from a Q—T diagram. The parameter Q calculated from the finite element simulation (or from the full field solution) is compared with the values of Q determined from the Q—T diagram. For low levels of load, the results of full field solution are shown to be consistent well with the results obtained from the Q—T diagram. However, when the external load increases significantly, the results of Q—T diagram are no longer accurate and mode II constraint parameter Q should be calculated directly from finite element results.     

Application of warm Langmuir probe in the plasma measurements inside plasma-chemical reactor

In this report possibilities of application of warm Langmuir probe in the chemically active plasma are described. We present the results of some probe characteristic measurements obtained by means of cold and warm tungsten and platinum probe. Various types of interaction of the probe with plasma are discussed. All experiments have been performed in low-pressure glow DC discharge in argon contaminated with oil vapours. The measurements with both probes are compared with respect to their suitability for application in active low-pressure plasma.The author wishes to thank Prof. Dr. M. ícha, DrSc. for his valuable comments. This work has been done within the framework of the Association for Research and Applications in Plasma Chemical Processes and has been supported by the FDR 0495 grant of the Grant Agency of the Ministry of Education, Youth and Physical Training of the Czech Republic and by the GA R 0659 grant of Grant Agency of the Czech Republic.     

An electrostatic model of the cutoff probe

Although a circuit model of the previously developed cutoff probe for plasma diagnostics elucidates the basic physics and contributes to the development of the cutoff probe, a theoretical validation of the circuit model has yet to be accomplished. For theoretical validation, this paper proposes a one-dimensional electrostatic model, or 1dESM, of the cutoff probe, which is based on electrostatic field analysis in a finite two-wire approximation. The transmission spectrum S₂₁ calculated by the 1dESM shows a good agreement with that from a three-dimensional full electromagnetic wave simulation for various electron densities and pressures. Based on the 1dESM, the formation mechanism of the S₂₁ of the cutoff probe was analyzed. Theoretical validation of the circuit model was then achieved by comparing the circuit model with the 1dESM. This paper is believed to contribute to a better understanding of the cutoff probe and to the development of cutoff probe models.     

Optoelectronic techniques for ultrafast device network analysis to 700 GHz

Recent advances in state-of-the-art optoelectronic techniques are presented for small-signal electronic device network analysis. The impetus for optoelectronic approaches is given by the severely inadequate bandwidth coverage of existing measurement techniques. Based on a comparison of the trade-offs offered by various optoelectronic techniques, external electrooptic sampling was chosen. Then, the three basic building blocks of an electrooptic characterization system are discussed, which cover the areas of wide-band signal measurement, generation and transmission. The building blocks are subsequently integrated into a complete electrooptic network analyser system capable of active device characterization over a 100 GHz bandwidth. These capabilities are demonstrated on a heterojunction field-effect transistor with a directly-measured maximum frequency of oscillation of 94 GHz. Then, the performance of the electrooptic network analyser is optimized by minimizing transmission line losses, and by improving signal generation and measurement geometries. The resulting system exhibits an unprecedented single-measurement bandwidth of 700 GHz on passive structures. The system performance is verified by comparing measured results with simple models of the measured passive structures.     

The Ising square lattice in aL×M geometry: A model for the effect of surface steps on phase transitions in adsorbed monolayers

Critical phenomena in adsorbed monolayers on surfaces are influenced by limited substrate homogeneity, such as surface steps. We consider the resulting finite-size and boundary effects in the framework of a lattice gas system with nearest neighbor attraction in aL×M geometry, with two free boundaries of lengthML, and periodic boundary conditions in the other direction (along the direction of the steps). This geometry thus models a terrace of the stepped surface, and adatoms adsorbed on neighboring terraces are assumed to be non-interacting. Also the effect of boundary fields is considered (describing the effects of missing neighbors and changed binding energy to the substrate near the boundary). Extensive Monte Carlo calculations on this model performed on a multi-transputer system are presented and analyzed in terms of phenomenological finite size scaling concepts. The fact that two scaling variables occur (/L,L/M, with being the correlation length in the bulk) is demonstrated explicitly. In the absence of boundary fields, the system forML orders nearT _c in a domain state, with domain walls running across the terrace, while at some temperature belowT _c a transition to a monodomain state occurs. This domain state slightly belowT _c is suppressed, however, by rather weak boundary fields. These results are interpreted in terms of exact theoretical predictions.