Anisotropy of the velocity space of electromagnetic radiation in a moving medium

Anisotropy arising in moving media is considered. In these media, the phase velocity of light nonlinearly depends on the velocity vector field of the medium due to anisotropic binding forces between lattice atoms. Observations of the optical anisotropy of light in a rotating optically transparent medium are discussed. Laser radiation with wavelength ?? = 0.632991 ± 1 × 10^?7 ??m propagating in an interferometer was passed through a rotating optical disk D = 62 mm in diameter. The projection of the beam??s path length in the medium onto the flat surface of the disk is l = 41 mm; the refractive index of the glass and its thickness are, respectively, n = 1.71250 for ?? = 632.8 nm and 10 mm; and the angle of incidence of the beam on the flat surface of the disk is ?₀ = 60°. The optical disk is rotated in two directions, and its rotation frequency may reach 250 Hz. Experimental data confirm the linear dependence of the fringe shift on the velocity of the medium up to 29.6 m/s. The measurement accuracy is sufficient to detect angular variations ??? = 3 × 10^?5 in the position of fringes at a fixed rotation velocity of the optical disk.     

Interference enhancement of resonant magneto-optical effects

The influence of spectral interference of different nature on resonant Faraday rotation is studied using as examples the effect of electromagnetically induced transparency in pure discrete atomic transitions and the transparency windows of autoionization resonances of gaseous media. A common numerical criterion for a substantial effect of spectral interference and coherence of atomic transitions on magneto-optical phenomena is established. A direct relationship between the polarization ellipse rotation angle of cw monochromatic light and reduction of the light pulse group velocity resulting from a strong frequency dispersion of the resonant refractive index is found. The known experimental data on ultraslow light pulses indicate the possibility of interference enhancement of the Faraday effect by a factor of 10⁶?10⁷.     

Noninversive partial velocity amplification of radiation by ions due to their rotation in a magnetic field

It is shown that upon the application of an external magnetic field, a gas of ionized particles may experience noninversive partial velocity amplification of radiation by ions due to their Larmor rotation. In this case, virtually all ions may be in the ground state. It may happen that approximately half the number of ions in the medium amplify the incident radiation. The integrated absorption coefficient remains positive due to the enhancement of absorption of radiation by the other half of ions. Noninversive amplification of radiation takes place when the condition ω_c?Γ²/kv _T is satisfied ωw_c is the cyclotron frequency of ions in the magnetic field; Γ is the homogeneous half-width of the absorption line for ions, and kv _T is the Doppler width). In the case of interaction of atomic ions with radiation in the optical range, this corresponds to magnetic fields B?600 G (for the ion mass M～10 amu). Noninversive partial velocity amplification of radiation is a “latent” effect in the sense that it disappears upon averaging over all velocity directions of ions. This effect is associated with the emergence of phase incursion of the induced dipole moment oscillations for ions moving in circular cyclotron orbits, which depends on the ion velocity.     

Experimental measurements and modelling of the structure of the radial electric field in RFX

The experimental determination of the radial electric fieldE _r and the associatedE ×B drift velocity at the edge of RFX is presented and possible mechanisms responsible for its generation are discussed.E _r measurements by means of an array of Langmuir probes and those deduced from Doppler spectroscopy of impurity lines agree fairly well. In particular the rotation velocity of the plasma edge has been determined from the Doppler shift of a C III emission line. The observation of other ions characterised by different radial positions, such as B IV and C V, has allowed an estimate of the velocity shear. Typical values of plasma rotation at the edge are around 10 km/s while the velocity shear is of the order of (10⁵−10⁶)s⁻¹ in the spontaneous layer, a few cm thick, usually observed in standard discharges. Plasma rotation has been artificially modified by both positive and negative edge biasing and the associated increase or decrease of the fluid velocity is well in agreement with the radial electric field change. The modification ofE _r during edge biasing and Pulsed Poloidal Current Drive (PPCD) are also reported and interpreted within a momentum balance model. Analytical and self-consistent Monte Carlo models at the plasma edge suggest that impurities have a relevant role in the generation of the radial electric field, due to their relatively large Larmor radius. Presented at the Workshop on Role of Electric Fields in Plasma Confinement and Exhaust, Budapest, 18–19 June 2000.     

室温条件下掺铒光纤中光脉冲群速可控特性的研究

利用相干布居振荡技术在介质吸收光谱上产生烧孔，孔宽大约为基态粒子数恢复时间的倒数. 由增益理论分析得到不同抽运光功率对介质吸收状态的影响. 在介质的吸收区域，振荡导致光脉冲经历饱和吸收，脉冲传输延迟；在介质的增益区域，振荡又导致光脉冲经历增益饱和，脉冲传输超前. 应用此技术在掺铒光纤中实现了光速人为可控. 在掺铒光纤晶体中观测到了最慢为2.857×10³m/s的光速减慢传输，相应感生群折射率为10.5×10⁴. 根据布居振荡效应及增益理论，由速率方程出发，得到了 关键词： 光谱烧孔 相干布居振荡 饱和吸收 慢光     

Electromagnetically-induced transparency,slow light,and negative group velocities in a room temperature vapor of 4He1

⁴He¹ at room temperature is a particularly interesting system as velocity changing collisions (VCCs) are necessary to observe ultra-narrow (less than 10 kHz) EIT windows for purely electronic spins in the presence of Doppler broadening. Such narrow resonances are known to be linked to a dramatic reduction of the group velocity of a probe pulse, although the medium is transparent. The evolution of the delay is recorded with respect to the coupling beam intensity and to small Raman detunings. We also demonstrate that it is possible to use optically detuned resonances (Fano-like profiles) to see a transition from slow light to negative group velocity. All these measurements are found to be in good agreement with a simple model based on an effective homogeneous linewidth. To cite this article: F. Goldfarb et al., C. R. Physique 10 (2009).     

Effect of the Global Rotation of the Universe on the Formation of Galaxies

The effect of the global rotation of the universe on the formation of galaxies is investigated. It is found that the global rotation provides a natural origin for the rotation of galaxies, and the morphology of the objects formed from gravitational instability in a rotating and expanding universe depends on the amplitude of the density fluctuation, different values of the amplitude of the fluctuation lead to the formation of elliptical galaxies, spiral galaxies, and walls. The global rotation gives a natural explanation of the empirical relation between the angular momentum and mass of galaxies: J M^5/3. The present angular velocity of the universe is estimated at 10^-13rad yr^-1.     

Dispersive Properties of tunnelling—induced transparency in an asymmetric double quantum well

We have investigated the dispersive properties of tunnelling-induced transparency in asymmetric double quantum well structures where two excited states are coupled by resonant tunnelling through a thin barrier in a three-level system of electronic subbands. The intersubband transitions exhibit high dispersion at zero absorption, which leads to the slow light velocity in this medium as compared with that in vacuum (c=3×10⁸). The group velocity in a specific GaAs/AlGaAs sample is calculated to be v_g=c/4.30. This structure can be used to compensate for the dispersion and energy loss in fibre optical communications.     

Effect of a variable magnetic field on the instability of a stratified rotating fluid layer in porous medium

The instability of a stratified rotating fluid layer through porous medium in the presence of an inhomogeneous magnetic field is investigated. For exponentially varying density and magnetic field variations, an eigenvalue solution has been obtained. The dispersion relation is obtained and discussed for both the stable and unstable stratifications separately. It is found, for non-porous medium, that for the stable mode of disturbance, the system is always stable, and for the unstable mode of disturbance, it is stabilized only under a certain condition for the Alfvèn velocity, rotation and the stratification parameter. In the latter case, both rotation and magnetic field are found to have a stabilizing effect on the growth rate. In the presence of porous medium, it is found, for real growth rate n, that the inhomogeneous magnetic field has always a stabilizing effect on the considered system. It is found also, for complex growth rate n, that the system is stable for the stable stratification case, while it is stable or unstable for the unstable case under a certain wavenumbers range depending on the Alfvèn velocity and the stratification parameter. The presence of the magnetic field is found to stabilize a certain wavenumbers band, whereas the system was unstable for all wavenumbers in the absence of the magnetic field. Also, the presence of porous medium is found to hide the stabilizing effect played by rotation on the considered system for non-porous medium, i.e., rotation does not have any significant effect on the stability criterion in this case.     

Velocity distortions of spectral lines with combined doppler and collision broadening

We present the results of theoretical studies of velocity distortions produced by directed motion in a conical source flow on lines with combined Doppler and collision broadening. At 300 K, we find that the velocity effect for an axial velocity of 1×10^-5c becomes negligibly small as the line-shape parameter a is increased from 0 to 10.     

A high sensitivity optical gyroscope based on slow light in coupled-resonator-induced transparency

We designed ring-in-ring planar resonator which is coupled with a straight waveguide to yield coupled-resonator-induced transparency (CRIT). The model shows an obvious effect which has a direct analogy with the phenomenon of the electromagnetically induced transparency in quantum systems. Based on this structure, a high sensitive optical gyroscope for measuring absolute rotation is proposed and analyzed. Its sensitivity scales directly with the group index whose can be reached to ¹⁰²-¹⁰⁴ orders of magnitude by using proper parameters.     

Rotation and twist regular modes for trapped ghosts

A parameter-independent notion of stationary slow motion is formulated then applied to the case of stationary rotation of massless trapped ghosts. The excitations correspond to a rotation mode with angular momentum J ≠ 0 and twist modes. It is found that the rotation mode, which has no parity, causes excess in the angular velocity of dragged distant coordinate frames in one sheet of the wormhole while in the other sheet the angular velocity of the ghosts is that of rotating stars: 2J/r ³. As to the twist modes, which all have parity, they cause excess in the angular velocity of one of the throat’s poles with respect to the other.     

超高速摄影用高强度铝合金转镜动态特性的研究

转镜型超高速摄影机的信息容量取决于转镜的材料和横截面形状.本文首次对超高速摄影用高强度铝合金转镜从理论和实验两个方面进行了系统研究.研究表明:高强度铝合金是超高速分幅摄影机转镜的理想材料;当铝转镜截面形状为正三角形、镜面尺寸为(17×32.5)mm²时,转速已达(50×10⁴)rpm,镜面尺寸为(33×24)mm²时,转速已达(40×10⁴)rpm.     

Structure and control of Coulomb crystals in a Penning trap

We apply rotating electric fields to ion plasmas in a Penning trap to obtain phase-locked rotation about the magnetic field axis. These plasmas, containing up to 10^{6 9}Be⁺ ions, are laser-cooled to millikelvin temperatures so that they freeze into solids. Single body-centered cubic (bcc) crystals have been observed by Bragg scattering in nearly spherical plasmas with ≳ 2 × 10⁵ ions. The detection of the Bragg patterns is synchronized with the plasma rotation, so individual peaks are observed. With phase-locked rotation, the crystal lattice and its orientation can be stable for longer than 30 min or ∼10⁸ rotations. This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

A CCD based detector for quick detection of pressure induced phase transitions

Abstract

A high sensitivity CCD based two dimensional angle dispersive X-ray are a detector has been developed for quick detection of pressure induced phase transitions for a laboratory X-ray source such as a rotating anode generator. The performance of this detector was tested by successfully carrying out powder X-ray diffraction measurements on element Pd, intermetallics AuIn², AuGa² and low Z scatterer adamantane (C₁₀H_l6) at ambient conditions. Its utility for quick detection of phase transitions at high pressures with diamond anvil cell (DAC) is demonstrated by reproducing the known pressure induced structural phase transitions in RbI and KI. The importance of this detector system in search of unknown phase transitions has been established by observing new structural phase transitions in In_0.25Sn_0.75 and AuGa₂. Various softwares have also been developed such as interactive location of centre of diffraction rings, radial integration and image enhancement to analyze data from this detector.     

Controlling the parameters of short-wavelength radiation pulses using the interference of transitions to a continuum

Specific features of the propagation of light pulses with frequency lying in the range of autoionization resonances of the medium are analyzed. It is shown that the interference nature of the autoionization spectra makes it possible to combine a strong frequency dispersion of the refractive index with small absorption when the radiation frequency approaches the spectral range of the "transparency window" of an isolated resonance or of a series of overlapped autoionization resonances. This allows one to control the time delay of the pulses and their group velocity. Depending on the parameters of the medium, the pulse group velocity may be maximally reduced by a factor of 10⁴–10⁵.     

Granular flows in a rotating drum: the scaling law between velocity and thickness of the flow

The flow of dry granular material in a half-filled rotating drum is studied. The thickness of the flowing zone is measured for several rotation speeds, drum sizes and beads sizes (size ratio between drum and beads ranging from 47 to 7400). Varying the rotation speed, a scaling law linking mean velocity vs. thickness of the flow, v∼h^m, is deduced for each couple (beads, drum). The obtained exponent m is not always equal to 1, the value previously reported for a drum in litterature, but varies with the geometry of the system. For small size ratios, exponents higher than 1 are obtained due to a saturation of the flowing zone thickness. The exponent of the power law decreases with the size ratio, leading to exponents lower than 1 for high size ratios. These exponents imply that the velocity gradient of a dry granular flow in a rotating drum is not constant. More fundamentally, these results show that the flow of a granular material in a rotating drum is very sensible to the geometry, and that the deduction of the “rheology” of a granular medium flowing in such a geometry is not obvious.     

Self-mixing instrument for simultaneous distance and speed measurement

A novel instrument based on Self-mixing interferometry is proposed to simultaneously measure absolute distance and velocity. The measurement method is designed for working directly on each kind of surface, in industrial environment, overcoming also problems due to speckle pattern effect. The laser pump current is modulated at quite high frequency (40 kHz) and the estimation of the induced fringes frequency allows an almost instantaneous measurement (measurement time equal to 25 µs). A real time digital elaboration processes the measurement data and discards unreliable measurements. The simultaneous measurement reaches a relative standard deviation of about 4·10⁻⁴ in absolute distance, and 5·10⁻³ in velocity measurement. Three different laser sources are tested and compared. The instrument shows good performances also in harsh environment, for example measuring the movement of an opaque iron tube rotating under a running water flow.     

Structural Transitions in Elemental Tin at Ultra High Pressures up to 230 GPa

The quantum heat generation, interaction force, and friction torque for two rotating spherical nanoparticles with the radius R are calculated. In contrast to a static case where an upper bound in the radiative heat transfer between two particles exists, the quantum heat generation for two rotating particles diverges at distances between particles d < d ₀ = R(3/ε″(ω₀))^1/3 (where ε″(ω₀) is the imaginary part of the dielectric function for the material of a particle at the resonance frequency ω₀), when the rotation frequency coincides with poles in the excitation generation rate at Ω = 2ω₀. These poles are due to the anomalous Doppler effect and the mutual polarization of particles and exist even in the presence of dissipation in particles. The anomalous heat generation is associated with the conversion of mechanical rotation energy into heat mediated by quantum friction. Similar singularities also exist for the interaction force and friction torque. The results can be of significant importance for biomedical applications.     

Rotation effect on near-wall turbulence statistics and flow structures

Turbulent flow in an axially rotating pipe, involving complicated physical mecha- nism of turbulence, is a typical problem for the study of rotating turbulent flow. The pipe rotation induces two effects on the flow. One is the stabilizing effect due to the centrifu- gal and Coriolis forces, which accounts for the relaminarization of the turbulence[1—3] and the reduction of the friction coefficient at the pipe wall. The behavior is also related to the wall streaks inclining to the azimuthal di…