All optical arbitrary waveform generation by optical frequency comb based on cascading intensity modulation

We propose and experimentally demonstrate an all optical arbitrary waveform generation by optical frequency comb (OFC) based on cascading intensity modulation. By selecting spectral lines of interest from OFC through optical filters, 10 GHz, 20 GHz, and 60 GHz sinusoidal signals with low phase noise and more complex waveforms, including ultra-short pulse, half-wave cosine, and single frequency modulated MMW signals, are generated easily.     

Investigation of three-pulse photon echo in thick crystal using finite-difference time-domain method

This paper investigates the phenomenon of three-pulse photon echo in thick rare-earth ions doped crystal whose thickness is far larger than 0.002 cm which is adopted in previous works.The influence of thickness on the three-pulse photon echo's amplitude and efficiency is analyzed with the Maxwell-Bloch equations solved by finite-difference timedomain method.We demonstrate that the amplitude of three-pulse echo will increase with the increasing of thickness and the optimum thickness to generate three-pulse photon echo is 0.3 cm for Tm~(3+):YAG when the attenuation of the input pulse is taken into account.Meanwhile,we find the expression 0.09 exp(α'L),which is previously employed to describe the relationship between echo's efficiency and thickness,should be modified as 1.3 · 0.09 exp(2.4 ·α'L) with the propagation of echo considered.     

Nutation electron spin echo ofE-centers in quartz

Attenuation of the signals of the nutation echo of E’-centers in crystalline and glass quartz was experimentally investigated at room temperature. The nutation echo in EPR was excited in the single-photon regime and formed by two Zeeman-field pulses with duration t₁ and t₂ (t₁<t₂) and time interval between them τ. The echo signal was recorded during the second pulse at t≈2t₁+τ. It was established that this signal attenuation, measured as t₁ increased, follows an, exponential law, its rate Γ is much less than 1/T₂ (T₂ is the transverse relaxation time), and it linearly increases with an increase in the amplitude of the exciting SHF field B₁. The parameters of the dependence of Γ on B₁ correlate with the parameters of the analogous dependence revealed previously for attenuation of nutation of E’-centers in quartz in the two-photon regime at T=4.2 K. At the same time, the value of Γ measured with different values of τ is independent of B₁ and is equal to 1/T₁, where T₁ is the longitudinal relaxation time. A. N. Sevchenko Scientific Research Institute of Applied Physical Problems, 7, Kurchatov St., Minsk, 220064, Belarus. Translated from Zhurnal Prikladnoi Spektroskopii, Vol. 65, No. 3, pp. 405–411, May–June, 1998.     

压缩感知理论在光学成像中的应用

压缩感知以信号的稀疏性或可压缩性为条件,以远低于耐奎斯特采样频率对信号数据进行采样和编码。简要概括了压缩感知的基本理论,它采用非自适应线性投影来保持信号的原始结构, 能通过数值最优化问题精确或高概率地重构原始信号。详细介绍了其在光学成像系统中的应用,主要包括单像素相机、超薄成像、编码孔径成像、多路技术智能成像、多光谱成像和CMOS成像等成像系统。最后对该理论的应用前景进行了阐述。     

Analytical efficiency of the molecular rotational quantum echo

The sensitivity of the delay time of the molecular rotational quantum echo to change in the rotational constants of molecules was investigated with a model of the rotational quantum echo considered as an optically induced quantum synchronization of the Fourier rotational modes of an asymmetric molecular top. The J-echo and the K-echo were investigated for the A- and C-configurations of rotation of a top molecule. The contour maps of the dependence of the sensitivity of the delay time of these types of echo to changes in the rotational constants on the parameters of the molecular tops have been obtained for all the rotational constants. They show that the delay time of the rotational quantum echo is greatly dependent on the configuration of rotation of the top molecule and on the rotational constants. It is shown that the optical probing of the rotational quantum echo can also be performed by the optical rotation of the investigated molecule, and in this case the rotational force is dependent on the intramolecular orientation of the magnetic dipole moment. It was determined that a high sensitivity of the delay time of the echo to changes in the rotational constants can be responsible for the broadening of the echo pulse and even for its disappearance. Institute of Molecular and Atomic Physics, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, 70 F. Skorina Ave., Minsk, 220072, Belarus; e-mail: lssm@imaph.bas-net.by. Translated from Zhurnal Prikladnoi Spektroskopii, Vol. 66, No. 6, pp. 758–764, November–December, 1999.     

Numerical simulation of four-wave mixing efficiency and its induced relative intensity noise

Four-wave mixing,as well as its induced intensity noise,is harmful to wavelength division multiplexing systems.The efficiency and the relative intensity noise of four-wave mixing are numerically simulated for the two-wave and the three-wave fiber transmissions.It is found that the efficiency decreases with the increase of both the frequency spacing and the fiber length,which can be explained using the quasi-phase-matching condition.Furthermore,the relative intensity noise decreases with the increase of frequency spacing,while it increases with the increase of fiber length,which is due to the considerable power loss of the pump light.This investigation presents a good reference for the practical application of wavelength division multiplexing systems.     

Determination of nonlinear optical properties using the Voigt function: Stochastic considerations

In this work, the absorptive and dispersive profiles of a molecular system have been calculated through a methodology based on the averaging of the coherence obtained by the resolution of the optical stochastic Bloch equations. To this aim, a generalized Lorentzian approximation to the Voigt function has been used as a probability distribution, which allows a more generalized analysis of the interactions between the solvent and the molecule. This has been modeled with the parameters of the standard organic dye Green Malaquite, which exhibits a nonlinear behavior under the interaction with a high intensity electric field.     

高强度三倍频近场测量实验与模拟计算的误差分析

测量了高强度三倍频实验的1ω 光和3ω 光的近场光束质量,将测量和模拟计算所得到3ω 光近场光束质量作了对比,重点对模拟计算得到的3ω 光近场光束质量所存在的误差进行了探讨,分析了现有的模拟计算程序中还未考虑到的影响3ω 光光束质量的主要因素,建议在以后的模拟计算程序中再进行优化设计,并讨论了改善3ω 光光束质量应采取的必要措施。     

核壳结构CdSe/ZnS量子点量子阱中1se1sh 激子光跃迁的受激光子回波研究

在建模和理论分析的基础上, 对三脉冲飞秒激光作用下核壳结构CdSe/ZnS量子点量子阱中1s_e1s_h激子光跃迁引起的受激光子回波效应进行了深入研究.运用有效质量近似方法求解了载流子的静态薛定谔方程,得到能量本征值和对应波函数.基于光学Bloch方程,分析了受激光子回波的参量相关性.结果显示受激光子回波信号可以通过量子点量子阱结构和尺寸的改变进行有效调节.同时,在量子尺寸限制理论的基础上讨论了结构和尺寸的变化对受激光子回波信号的具体影响.     

强会聚入射时，BBO晶体倍频效率和束腰半径的关系

研究了强会聚绿光高斯光束入射到BBO晶体中的紫外倍频过程,建立了相应的倍频理论模型. 模型综合考虑了高斯光束的发散,BBO晶体的倍频接受角以及紫外光的走离效应等因素的影响. 理论计算了倍频效率和倍频光的远场分布,并通过实验验证了理论分析结果. 关键词： BBO晶体紫外倍频 高斯光束 倍频接受角 远场光斑     

稠密共振介质中近偶极-偶极相互作用的局域场效应

 为研究存在由近偶极-偶极相互作用诱导的局域场效应时超短强激光脉冲与稠密共振介质相互作用的特性,采用光与物质相互作用的半经典理论,建立了稠密二能级体系中考虑原子间近偶极-偶极相互作用的修正光学Bloch方程,并用四阶Runge-Kutta法数值求解了该方程。研究结果表明:局域场效应对稠密二能级体系中Bloch矢量的瞬态相干过程和稳态性质都具有强烈的调制作用。并由此提出了调控稳态粒子数布居的两种方案。     

Absorptive and dispersive optical profiles in fluctuating environments: A stochastic model

In this study, we determined the absorptive and dispersive optical profiles of a molecular system coupled with a thermal bath. Solvent effects were explicitly considered by modelling the non-radiative interaction with the solute as a random variable. The optical stochastical Bloch equations (OSBE) were solved using a time-ordered cumulant expansion with white noise as a correlation function. We found a solution for the Fourier component of coherence at the third order of perturbation for the nonlinear Four-wave mixing signal and produced analytical expressions for the optical responses of the system. Finally, we examined the behaviour of these properties with respect to the noise parameter, frequency detuning of the dynamic perturbation, and relaxation times.     

泵浦光波形和脉宽对飞秒激光对比度的影响

采用宽带数值模型,应用四阶龙格-库塔数值算法对三波耦合方程进行数值分析,研究了泵浦光的波形和脉宽在提高光参量啁啾脉冲放大系统输出飞秒激光对比度的作用。结果表明：在泵浦光脉宽较小的条件下,采用平滑的泵浦光波形更有利于提高飞秒激光对比度;在泵浦光脉宽较宽时,飞秒激光对比度得到很好地提高,而对泵浦光波形不敏感;但继续提高泵浦光脉宽并不能进一步改善飞秒激光对比度,而系统的转换效率却显著降低。     

Radiation forces on a three-level atom in the high-order Bessel beams

The general expressions of the average dissipative and dipole forces acting on a A-configuration three-level atom in an arbitrary light field are derived by means of the optical Bloch equations based on the atomic density matrix elements, and the general properties of the average dissipative and dipole forces on a three-level atom in the linearly-polarized high-order Bessel beams （HBBs） are analysed. We find a resonant property （with two resonant peaks） of the dissipative force and a non-resonant property （with two pairs of non-resonant peaks） of the dipole force on the three-level atom, which are completely different from those on the two-level atom. Meanwhile we find a saturation effect of the average dissipative force in the HBB, which comes from the saturation of the upper-level population. Our study shows that the general expressions of the average dissipative and dipole forces on the three-level atom will be simplified to those of the two-level atom under the approximation of large detuning. Finally, we study the axial and azimuthal Doppler cooling of atoms in ID optical molasses composed of two counter-propagating HBBs and discuss the azimuthal influence of the HBB on the Doppler cooling limit. We also find that the Doppler limit of atoms in the molasses HBB is slightly below the conventional Doppler limit of hГ/（2kB） due to the orbital angular momentum lh of the HBB.     

Improving the efficiency of certain optically pumped lasers

It is shown that for certain optically excited symmetric top molecules which lase in the far-infrared that it is possible to increase their lasing efficiency through resonant pumping of the higher k quantum number transitions which have increased statistical weights due to increased molecular symmetry.     

高斯回波模型在超声回波模拟中的应用及其迭代算法的讨论

本文将超声回波模拟成被高斯白噪声污染的高斯回波，并建立关于一系列估计参数的非线性模型，如回波的频带宽度，到达时间，中心频率，相位及回波幅度。这些参数对于超声无损检测中材料检测、目标探测、目标分类、及速率测量等密切相关。运用高斯-牛顿算法进行迭代计算，该算法能以较少的迭代次数计算出较为精确的参数向量，但该算法对到达时间T的初值设置较为敏感。     

二倍频晶体温升分布对输出光场分布的影响

利用分步快速傅里叶变换和四阶龙格-库塔法,对具有一定温升分布的倍频晶体的二次谐波转换过程进行了研究。综合考虑了谐波转换过程中的离散、衍射、二阶、三阶非线性等效应,着重讨论了倍频晶体吸收光能后,晶体内温升分布对晶体内o光和e光的折射率分布的影响,定量分析了温度分布引起的相位失配量、输出光场分布、二次谐波转换效率随倍频晶体温度分布变化的规律。结果表明:在高功率倍频系统中,倍频晶体温升分布引起基频光、倍频光的相位失配,相位失配导致输出光场光强分布的变化以及谐波转换效率的降低。     

Using low intensity ultrasound to improve the efficiency of biological phosphorus removal

Low intensity ultrasound can produce various effects on biological materials, such as stimulating enzyme activity, cell growth, biosynthesis, etc., which may improve the efficiency of enhanced biological phosphorus removal (EBPR). We adopt total phosphorus (TP) and dehydrogenase activity (DHA) as indicators to confirm the feasibility of applying low intensity ultrasound in EBPR. Single-factor experiments and orthogonal test were conducted in batch anaerobic/oxic (A/O) process simulation to study the influence of ultrasonic intensity and exposure time in the EBPR process. The results showed that the optimal ultrasonic parameters were 0.2 W/cm² and 10 min under which condition the TP concentration in the effluent was 35–50% lower than that of the control (without ultrasonic irradiation). Changes of sludge activities after ultrasonic irradiation were examined. The improvement of sludge activity by ultrasound took 4 h after irradiation to reach the peak level, when an increase above 50% of DHA has been achieved by ultrasonic irradiation, and the enhancing effects induced by ultrasound disappeared in 16 h after irradiation. A tentative mechanism of biological phosphorus removal enhancement stimulated by ultrasound was discussed based on these phenomena.     

优化重聚脉冲提高梯度场核磁共振信号强度

缩短射频脉冲宽度, 有助于解决脉冲电力消耗大、样品吸收率高、信噪比低等极端条件核磁共振探测的关键问题. 本文首先分析射频脉冲角度对核磁共振自旋回波信号强度的影响机理, 基于Bloch方程推导了回波信号幅度与扳转角、重聚角的关系. 在特制核磁共振分析仪上采用变脉冲角度技术, 分别在均匀磁场和梯度磁场条件下实现对扳转角和重聚角与回波信号强度关系的数值模拟和实验测量. 结果表明, 梯度场中, 扳转角为90°、重聚角为140°的射频脉冲组合获得最大首波信号强度, 比180°脉冲对应的回波幅值提高13%, 能耗降低至78%. 选用该重聚角(140°) 优化设计饱和恢复脉冲序列探测流体的纵向弛豫时间T₁特性, 准确获得 T₁分布.该结果对于低电力供应、且对信噪比有较高要求的核磁共振测量, 如随钻核磁共振测井和在线核磁共振快速检测等, 具有重要意义. 关键词： 核磁共振 信号强度 重聚脉冲角度 Bloch方程     

Differences in muscle thickness and echo intensity between stroke survivors and age- and sex-matched healthy older adults

Objective: The stroke survivors exhibit change in muscle quantity and quality compared to healthy older adults. This study aimed to compare the muscle thickness (MT) and echo intensity (EI) values of individual muscles between stroke survivors and age- and sex-matched healthy older adults. Methods : In total, 27 stroke survivors and 34 healthy older adults participated in this study. The MT and EI values of the following muscles were assessed from transverse ultrasound images: rectus abdominis (RA), external oblique, internal oblique, transversus abdominis, rectus femoris, vastus intermedius (VI), vastus lateralis (VL), vastus medialis (VM), tibialis anterior (TA), gastrocnemius (Gas), and soleus (Sol). The MT and EI values of these muscles were compared between stroke survivors and healthy older adults. Results : The MT values of the VL, VM, and RA on the non-paretic sides were significantly higher and those of the TA, Gas, and Sol on the paretic sides were significantly lower in the stroke survivors than in the healthy older adults (P < 0.05). The EI values of the VI, VL, VM, TA on the paretic sides and those of the Gas on both the paretic and non-paretic sides were significantly higher in the stroke survivors than in the healthy older adults (P < 0.05). Conclusion : Stroke survivors seem to develop muscle hypertrophy of the non-paretic thigh muscles owing to a compensatory strategy. In addition, the lower-leg muscles on the paretic side of stroke survivors tend to show both quantitative and qualitative muscle changes.