Submicron External Electro-optic Measuring System Based on an Electro-optic Solid Immersion Lens

In this paper, all electro-optic solid immersion lens (EOSIL) is introduced, which is made of GaAs. A reflecting external electro-optic measuring system based on the EOSIL is built. With a hemispherical GaAs EOSIL used as the external probe, 0.7 µm spot size is obtained when the wavelength of the probing beam from a laser diode is 1.3 µm and a microscope objective with 0.3 numerical aperture is used. The principle of the measuring system is analyzed by Jones matrix. By using the system, the electrical signals propagating on a microstrip transmission line are successfully measured. The voltage sensitivity about 5 mV/ is measured when 10 kHz sinusoidal electric signal is applied on the microstrip line.     

Experimental Research on Focusing Property of Radially Polarized Beam Based on Solid Immersion Lens

Realization of a near-field optical virtual probe based on an evanescent Bessel beam is strongly dependent on a radially polarized beam; this makes it essential to study the focusing property of the beam. In this paper, two experimental setups based on a fiber device and a liquid crystal device, respectively, are built to generate a radially polarized beam. This beam and an annular radially polarized beam are focused by means of a high numerical aperture objective and a solid immersion lens (SIL). Near-field distribution of the focus spot, the evanescent Bessel field, is experimentally measured with a scanning near-field optical microscope (SNOM). The full width at half maximum (FWHM) of the central peak of the evanescent Bessel field is about 200 nm in the close vicinity of the bottom surface of SIL. This has potential for use as a near-field optical virtual probe.     

用角谱方法分析固体浸没透镜的近场光场

固体浸没透镜在超高度近场光存储和超分辨率显微观测中具有独特的作用，本文利用角谱理论并计及光波的矢量特性，分析了固体浸没透镜的近场矢量光场特性，给出了它的光场图样，并着重讨论了线偏光入射条件下，出射光场的偏振状态。     

半球形固体浸没透镜显微系统的透射光场研究

应用高数值孔径系统的矢量衍射理论研究了半球形固体浸没透镜(SIL)球面表面的反射对SIL系统透射场的影响.研究结果表明,半球形SIL球面表面的反射对SIL显微系统的透射光强产生很大的影响.然而,这种反射不改变半球形SIL显微系统的分辨率.SIL球面介质界面材料的折射率失配越大,透射光强减小越多.在SIL的球面表面涂上减反膜或者在物镜和SIL之间填充折射率较大（但比SIL的折射率小）的介质可以提高系统的透射光强.     

相位恢复算法在量子关联衍射成像中的应用研究

随着研究工作的逐步深入,目前已经利用经典热光源实现了关联衍射成像,使得该技术有望在X射线以及中子衍射成像等方面得到广泛应用。在实验利用非相干光得到物体无透镜傅里叶变换频谱的基础上,采用误差消除与输入输出恢复算法,并结合过采样理论,实现了实验所用物体透射率函数的恢复。分别得到了纯振幅物体的振幅分布函数与纯相位物体的相位分布函数。此外,还讨论了实验所得傅里叶变换频谱的噪声等因素对图像恢复结果的影响。     

红外热成像鱼眼镜头设计中若干特殊问题的处理

提出鱼眼镜头光阑球差的级数表达式及其基于有限差分的近似计算方法,解决了通常的光阑倒追方法面临的难题;讨论孔径光阑与入瞳的特殊"共轭"关系,分析了光阑彗差和像差渐晕;运用Aitkin插值技术填补"溢出"光线在像面上的落点,以保证像质函数定义的一致性,维持自动优化持续进展,从而克服频繁的光线"溢出"造成的严重困难;提出充分利用像差渐晕改善像面照度均匀性的方法;论述标定轴外光束边界的逐次渐近过程和运用入瞳距离变量实现孔径光阑位置全域优化的技术.     

量子模型分析激光驻波原子透镜的像差

采用量子模型对近共振激光驻波原子透镜会聚Cr原子束、形成纳米量级光栅结构的物理过程进行数值模拟。为提高原子透镜的成像质量,对各种像差,如衍射像差、球差、色差、及原子束发散角、原子磁支能级、原子同位素等因素引起的像差进行了理论分析。模拟结果表明,相比粒子光学模型,量子模型能更加精确地描述原子会聚结果,且能解释原子在驻波光场中的衍射现象。在各种像差中,原子束发散角是最主要的因素,其影响大于衍射像差、球差、色差。原子的磁支能级、同位素等因素对像差影响很小,可以忽略不计。激光冷却准直原子束的方法可以减小束发散角引起的像差,压缩原子速度Vz分布范围的方法可以减小色差。     

Investigation of Near-Field Imaging Characteristics of Radial Polarization for Application to Optical Data Storage

Radially polarized incident light can generate a more confined longitudinal electric field on a focal plane in near-field (NF) optics than focusing circularly polarized light. Using this phenomenon, it is feasible to reduce beam spot size on storage media to increase the areal density of optical data storage. A radially polarized beam generates a beam spot which is 20% more confined on the 1st surface of medium than that of circularly polarized light. However, the peak intensity of total electric field sharply decreases and its transverse component is much more dominant inside the media stack. This confirms that radially polarized optics can be a candidate not for an NF recording system but for an NF read-only memory (ROM) system. Potentially, the results could be useful to understand the effect of radial and circular polarizations inside and outside medium for various applications of NF optics.     

10 nm Spatial Resolution Fluorescence Imaging of Single Molecules by Near-Field Scanning Optical Microscopy Using a Tiny Aperture Probe

We demonstrate high-resolution fluorescence imaging of single molecules using near-field scanning optical microscopy (NSOM) with a tiny aperture probe for two different wavelengths in visible range in the illumination mode of operation. The spatial resolutions obtained at both excitation wavelengths were almost the same and the highest resolution realized was about 10 nm. To discuss the achievable resolution in aperture NSOM, we also employed a computer simulation by the finite-difference time-domain method for various aperture sizes and wavelengths. The resolution of 10 nm is predicted to be contributed by the single peak of localized near-field light around the rim of the aperture.     

Facile One‐Pot Conversion of Petroleum Asphaltene to High Quality Green Fluorescent Graphene Quantum Dots and Their Application in Cell Imaging

Benefiting from the natural nano‐size graphene‐structure in natural asphaltene material, a facile one‐pot route, mild chemical oxidation of low‐value petroleum asphaltene followed by routine ammonium neutralization, is presented to produce high quality graphene quantum dots (GQDs). The asphaltene‐derived GQDs possess a variety of oxygen‐containing and nitrogen‐containing functional groups such as carboxyl, hydroxyl, amine, and nitro groups. They present such excellent fluorescence properties as stable ability to retain strong green fluorescence within a relative broad excitation range in a bio‐suitable pH range of 4–7, high photoluminescence quantum yield of 18% and good fluorescent stability against photobleaching. And they are much smaller and thinner than most reported GQDs, displaying good biocompatibility with low cytotoxicity, effective cellular uptake, and excellent fluorescent probe performance for cancer cell imaging.