冷原子穿越激光束的量子隧穿时间

原子通过激光冷却技术能够被制备在低温状态，这时冷原子云会展现出量子力学的波动性.研究了一束冷原子入射到一个蓝失谐的激光束上所表现出的量子力学隧穿效应.蓝失谐的激光束相对于冷原子而言等效于一个量子力学势垒.根据二能级模型，在理论上分析了具有内部结构的原子矢量物质波穿过激光束的量子力学反射与透射，特别是对原子穿越激光束所需的时间——量子隧穿时间进行了详细的研究.量子力学波动性使得冷原子穿越一个激光束时明显地展现出与经典粒子(热原子)不同的结果. 关键词： 冷原子 原子光学 量子隧穿     

对抛式冷原子陀螺仪中原子运动轨迹的控制

冷原子具有很小的速度,很窄的速度分布以及良好的相干特性,利用冷原子物质波干涉特性可实现原子干涉仪,具有萨格奈克效应的原子干涉仪即原子陀螺仪,可精密测量转动速率. 冷原子轨迹的精确控制对提高冷原子陀螺仪的测量精度有着重要的意义,文章报道了利用直接数字频率综合器,实现对双向对抛冷原子运动轨迹的精确控制. 关键词： 冷原子 原子陀螺仪 直接数字频率综合器     

Bose--Einstein condensation on an atom chip

This paper reports an experiment of creating Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) on an atom chip. The chip-based Z-wire current with a homogeneous bias magnetic field creates a tight magnetic trap, which allows for a fast production of BEC. After a 4.17-s forced radio frequency evaporative cooling, a condensate with about 3000 atoms appears. The transition temperature is about 300~nK. This compact system is quite robust, allowing for versatile extensions and further studying of BEC.     

Ultra-compact polarization beam splitter based on photonic crystal waveguides

The authors design an ultra-compact all-PC-integrated polarization beam splitter which is only composed of three waveguides: one input waveguide and two output waveguides. The input waveguide can support both TM and TE modes, but one of the two output waveguides can only support TM modes while the other can only support TE modes. So an incident beam will be separated into two different polarization beams which emerge from different output waveguides. By the simulation of finite-difference time-domain method, we know that the polarization beam splitter really works the way as we predict.     

Polarizing beam splitter based on a double-layer subwavelength grating

A Si–ZnS double-layer subwavelength grating is theoretically used as a high-efficient polarizing beam splitter. To design this structure, the rigorous coupled-wave analysis (RCWA) is applied to study the reflectivity and transmissivity for the TE and TM polarization, respectively. Simulation results show that both the zero-order reflection for TE polarization and the zero-order transmission for TM polarization can exceed 90% in a wide tunable working incident angle range from 48° to 72°. Moreover, the proposed polarizing beam splitter has a working wavelength that is in the range of 1500–1600 nm.     

薄膜层数对偏振分束棱镜性能的影响

采用电子枪蒸镀离子源辅助技术,讨论了薄膜层数对偏振分束棱镜性能的影响.结果表明:随着薄膜层数的增加,p偏振光的透射率逐渐增大,s偏振光的透射率逐渐减小,p偏振光和s偏振光透射率的比值逐渐增大.     

近红外消偏振分光膜设计近红外消偏振分光膜设计

大角度倾斜入射时,光学薄膜表现出强烈的偏振效应。入射光S分量和P分量的反射率和透射率曲线,以及反射或透射引起的两个分量的相位变化都不再相同,彼此有一定的偏振分离。通过对产生偏振效应内在原因的分析,采用一个在近红外波段对于45倾斜入射光的S分量和P分量等效导纳非常接近的膜系结构,结合单纯形法优化算法,设计得到一个1 500～1 600 nm范围内反射率都是50％的近红外消偏振分光膜。结果显示,在45入射时,S分量和P分量的反射率曲线偏振分离小,反射和透射引起的相位变化也控制在很小范围。     

一种激光平行分束器的设计

为满足波面剪切干涉和双细光束干涉曲反射表面非接触精密测量、台阶高度测量以及其他平行分光需要,利用双折射晶体特性,研究并设计了一种单一平板激光平行分束器。当一束激光入射到双折射晶体时,它的2个相互正交的的偏振分量将有不同的折射特性,因此特定晶轴方向和厚度的晶体平行平板可以实现入射光束的平行分束。描述了双折射晶体平行平板的分束原理,推导了分束距离与光轴方向、晶体厚度、入射角的关系,分析了分束距离随主要设计参数的变化规律。采用设计的晶体激光分束器进行了实验测试,验证了分析与实测结果的一致性。     

Dynamic splitting and merging of an atom cloud on an atom chip

Chip-based atom interferometers bring together the advantages of atom chips and Bose--Einstein condensates. Their central prerequisite is that a condensate can be coherently split into two halves with a determined relative phase. This paper demonstrates the dynamical splitting and merging of an atom cloud with two U-wires on an atom chip. Symmetrical and asymmetrical splittings are realized by applying a bias field with dif\/ferent directions and magnitudes. The trajectories of the splitting are consistent with theoretical calculations. The atom chip is a good candidate for constructing an atom interferometer.     

量子密钥分发实验中偏振分束器的研究

量子密钥分发是量子信息论中发展最快、最接近实用化的领域,偏振分束器是量子密钥分发系统中重要的组成部分,对分束器的经典分析和量子分析得出了完全一致的结果.     

Design of a compact polarization beam splitter based on a deformed photonic crystal directional coupler

In this paper a compact polarization beam splitter based on a deformed photonic crystal directional coupler is designed and simulated. The transverse-electric （TE） guided mode and transverse-magnetic （TM） guided mode are split due to different guiding mechanisms. The effect of the shape deformation of the air holes on the coupler is studied. It discovered that the coupling strength of the coupled waveguldes is strongly enhanced by introducing elliptical airholes, which reduce the device length to less than 18.Sttm. A finite-difference tlme-domain simulation is performed to evaluate the performance of the device, and the extinction ratios for both TE and TM polarized light are higher than 20 dB.     

Parametric resonance and cooling on an atom chip

This paper observes the parametric excitation on atom chip by measuring the trap loss when applying a parametric modulation. By modulating the current in chip wires, it modulates not only the trap frequency but also the trap position. It shows that the strongest resonance occurs when the modulation frequency equals to the trap frequency. The resonance amplitude increases exponentially with modulation depth. Because the Z-trap is an anharmonic trap, there exists energy selective excitation which would cause parametric cooling. We confirm this effect by observing the temperature of atom cloud dropping.     

基于自准直效应的光子晶体异质结偏振分束器

基于光子晶体的自准直效应和禁带特性,提出了一种具有非正交异质结结构的光子晶体偏振分束器.无需引入缺陷或波导,可使光波在该结构中准直无发散地传输并实现分束功能,对制造工艺的要求大大降低.利用Rsoft软件,结合平面波展开法和二维时域有限差分法,对提出的偏振分束器进行了仿真研究.结果表明,该偏振分束器在一个较大的频率范围f=0.275—0.285(a/λ)内可实现横电(TE)和横磁(TM)模的大角度偏振分离,TE和TM模的透过率均在88%以上,偏振消光比分别大于26.57 dB和17.50 dB.该结构可应用到太赫兹波段的传输系统中,a=26μm,尺寸大小为572μm×546μm,在91—95μm波长范围内可实现TE和TM模的分离.利用该结构可设计用于光通信系统(n=3.48)的偏振分束器,a=426.25 nm,结构仅为9.38μm×8.95μm.本方案结构简单,易于集成,有望在集成光路的发展中发挥重要作用.     

1 053，527，351 nm倍频分离膜的制备与性能研究

用电子束蒸发及光电极值监控技术在石英基底上沉积了三倍频分离膜,将部分样品置空气中于250 ℃温度下进行3 h热退火处理。然后用Lambda900分光光度计测量了样品的光谱性能;用表面热透镜技术测量了样品的弱吸收值;用调Q脉冲激光装置测试了样品分别在355 nm和1 064 nm的抗激光损伤阈值。实验结果发现,样品的实验光谱性能良好,退火前后其光谱性能几乎没有发生温漂,说明薄膜的温度稳定性好;同时弱吸收平均值从退火前的1.07×10-4下降到退火后的6.2×10-5,从而使对基频的抗激光损伤阈值提高,从14.6 J/cm2上升到18.8 J/cm2,但是三倍频阈值在退火后有显著降低,从7.5 J/cm2下降到2.5 J/cm2。     

1 053，527，351 nm倍频分离膜的制备与性能研究

 用电子束蒸发及光电极值监控技术在石英基底上沉积了三倍频分离膜，将部分样品置空气中于250 ℃温度下进行3 h热退火处理。然后用Lambda900分光光度计测量了样品的光谱性能；用表面热透镜技术测量了样品的弱吸收值；用调Q脉冲激光装置测试了样品分别在355 nm和1 064 nm的抗激光损伤阈值。实验结果发现，样品的实验光谱性能良好，退火前后其光谱性能几乎没有发生温漂，说明薄膜的温度稳定性好；同时弱吸收平均值从退火前的1.07×10^-4下降到退火后的6.2×10^-5，从而使对基频的抗激光损伤阈值提高，从14.6 J/cm²上升到18.8 J/cm²，但是三倍频阈值在退火后有显著降低，从7.5 J/cm²下降到2.5 J/cm²。     

新型高效偏振光分束器的设计

研究及分析了光波在分束结构中的传播行为和特性,发现当增大波导邻近两侧空气孔半径时,能形成完全光子禁带范围内某一频率光波单一偏振态的传播,基于此原理提出了一种全新结构的偏振光分束器,计算与模拟结构表明,该结构可以实现TE模与TM模高效大角度分离. 器件尺寸不超过17.6 μm×9.8 μm,在集成光回路中无疑有着很大的应用潜力. 关键词： 光子晶体 偏振光分束器 时域有限差分法 平面波展开法     

光子晶体自准直光束偏振分束器

结合能带图和等频图分析,基于光子晶体自准直效应和光子带隙,设计了一种紧凑、高效的偏振分束器.时域有限差分法(FDTD)模拟表明,该设计可以在一个较大的频率范围f=0.268—0.278(c/a) 内实现TE模和TM模的高效(85%)、大角度(90°)分离.在光通讯波长λ=1.55 μm,该设计尺寸仅为9 μm×9 μm.这些特性使其在光通讯领域中具有重要的应用前景. 关键词： 光子晶体 偏振分束器 自准直     

用于交叉碰撞实验的金属毛细管式中性原子源

基于金属材料的加热蒸发机制,在钽舟的基础上设计了一套结构简易的中性原子源。该原子源的源仓和加热体均采用金属毛细管形式,保证了原子源具有耗能小、加热温度高的特点;提供的中性原子流具有发散度小、密度大、稳定性好的优点。采用加热蒸发铥样品的方法对其性能做了详细的检验,结果它在低耗能的情况下,温度能够顺利升高到2 600 K;可以连续8 h提供强度为8.5×1016/s的中性Tm原子流,且束流的稳定性好于±5％。充分证实了该套原子源应用于电子、离子和光子与中性原子流交叉碰撞实验的可靠性。     

Production and guidance of pulsed atomic beams on chip

We demonstrated two experimental methods of producing and guiding pulsed atomic beams on chip. One is to trap atoms first in a U-type magneto-optical trap on the chip, then transfer them to the magnetic guide field and push them simultaneously by a continuous force from the power imbalance of the magneto-optical trap laser beams hence the pulsed cold atom beams are produced and move along the magnetic guide to the destination. The other is to trap atoms directly by a H-type magneto-optical trap, then push them to make them move along the magnetic guide field, thus high rate cold atom beams can be produced and guided on the chip.