孔径透射率调制对外差探测的影响

信号光与本地光的夹角是影响探测器输出外差信号强度的主要因素。当夹角过大时,甚至不能检测到外差信号。通过分析提出,外差信号的振幅实际上是接收孔径透射率函数的傅里叶变换,以此为依据提出一种降低失配角对外差信号影响的方法,即在接收孔径处放置透射率分布满足一定函数形式的透过型元件,使其傅里叶频谱满足预定的要求,这种情况下两光束夹角增大时,探测器输出的外差信号强度能得到增强,从而降低了对探测系统瞄准精度的要求。     

基于激光外差技术的高分辨率整层大气透过率测量

激光外差技术是一种高灵敏度的光谱探测技术,利用该技术研制的装置易于集成化小型化,可以进行地基或星载的地球大气或天文观测。基于激光外差光谱测量技术,结合自研的太阳跟踪仪建立了一套高分辨率整层大气透过率测量系统,系统分辨率约为0.006 cm-1。该系统利用太阳光和红外激光在非线性探测器中进行光学混频,通过对获取的混频信号进行电子学滤波和平方率探测,获得了高光谱分辨率的外差信号。采用Langley-plot定标法对测量系统进行定标,获取了仪器标定常数和对应的大气总光学厚度,实现了中红外波段整层大气透过率的实时测量。同时,将实测整层大气透过率与MODTRAN5.0软件仿真计算的结果进行对比分析,两者的一致性较好。分析表明该测量系统具有很高的分辨率并且性能稳定可靠,在大气科学、天文观测和激光大气传输等研究领域具有广阔的应用前景。     

相位激光测距与外差干涉相结合的绝对距离测量研究

 为了克服一般绝对距离测量方法量程和精度不能同时满足的问题,提出一种相位激光测距与外差干涉相结合的绝对距离测量方案。该方案使用相位激光测距技术进行粗测,双纵模He-Ne激光器外差干涉测长技术进行精测,保证两者结合的单值性。建立测量系统,对方案的可行性进行了实验验证,并对影响系统稳定性的因素进行了分析。与双频激光干涉仪的比对结果表明：测量标准差优于1mm,可以满足一些大尺寸的测量精度要求。     

激光外差光谱仪的水汽柱浓度反演研究

水汽是地球大气的重要组成部分,也是平衡地气系统辐射收支的一个重要因素,对天气和气候变化有着重要的影响。常用的水汽柱浓度测量设备,如无线电探空仪、激光雷达、微波辐射计、太阳光度计、DOAS仪器以及傅里叶变换红外光谱仪等,难以兼顾高分辨率以及便携机动等应用需求。为此,基于一种高灵敏度、高分辨率光谱探测技术,围绕水汽柱浓度的探测开展了相关研究,取得的主要成果有：(1) 基于激光外差光谱技术,利用窄线宽带间级联激光器作为本振光源,与太阳跟踪仪结合,建立了一套高分辨率激光外差太阳光谱测量装置,光谱分辨率达到了0.002 cm-1。(2) 采用Langley-plot方法对高分辨率激光外差太阳光谱测量装置进行了现场定标,并于云南紫金山天文台观测站开展了外场测量,获得了2 831~2 833 cm-1波段太阳光谱的直接测量数据。对实测的太阳光谱进行归一化处理后,获得了高分辨率的整层大气透过率谱。(3) 利用逐线积分辐射传输模式（line by line radiative transfer model,LBLRTM）计算了整层大气透过率谱,并与实测的透过率谱进行了非线性最小二乘拟合,实现了水汽柱浓度的反演。同时利用微波辐射计进行了水汽柱浓度的观测,将反演结果与实测结果进行了对比分析,两者的一致性相对较好,最小相对偏差为16.59%,最大相对偏差为21.69%。(4) 反演结果与实测结果的偏差主要由反演算法误差和装置测量误差所导致。反演算法误差包括辐射传输模式的计算误差、实际大气温度的测量误差、甲烷浓度不确定性引入的误差、HDO丰度与自然丰度的偏差,装置测量误差包括装置定标误差、波长标定误差、系统噪声影响、背景信号以及直流信号的微弱起伏引起的误差。(5) 文中选取的2 831~2 833 cm-1波段同时包含了水汽和甲烷的吸收,在反演水汽柱浓度的同时,同步进行了甲烷柱浓度的反演。以甲烷初始柱浓度作为参考值,发现反演后的甲烷柱浓度相对初始柱浓度的数值平均增加了14.41%。高分辨率激光外差太阳光谱测量装置结合反演算法是一种有效的整层大气透过率以及水汽、甲烷柱浓度探测的综合设备,在多组分气体浓度探测方面具有广泛的应用前景。     

全光纤双通道大气温室气体激光外差光谱探测技术研究

激光外差光谱技术是近年迅速发展的一种高光谱分辨率遥感探测技术,其装置具有体积小、光谱分辨率高等特点,适用于大气温室气体浓度的探测。各种观测实验已证明其是一种切实、有效的探测手段,在地球大气探测领域具有很大的应用前景和潜力。在现有激光外差光谱仪器的基础之上,提出了一种新型的仪器结构。采用光纤光开关对直射的太阳光进行调制与分束,实现利用单个光纤光开关进行两个波段激光外差信号的同时探测。为全光纤激光外差光谱仪的下一步系统集成和多波段激光外差光谱仪的构建提供了新方法。从激光外差探测的原理出发,分析了激光外差光谱探测技术的优势和关键参数,并结合自行研制的高精度太阳跟踪仪,搭建了一套近红外双通道全光纤式激光外差辐射计的原理样机。详细地阐述了激光外差辐射计原理样机中各功能模块的作用和参数,着重描述了光纤光开关在其中的作用原理和功能,详细地讨论了激光外差光谱仪的波长扫描模式和波长标定方法。在此基础上,讨论了激光外差辐射计的相关参数设置依据和仪器函数的测量方法,并给出了激光外差装置的仪器函数以及相应的光谱分辨率(0.004 4 cm-1)。利用搭建的激光外差光谱仪在合肥地区(31.9°N, 117.166°E)进行了实际的大气探测,同时在波段(6 056.2~6 058.1 cm-1)和(6 035.6~6 036.5 cm-1)分别获取了CH₄和CO₂分子的激光外差吸收信号,并对吸收信号进行了波长标定和归一化,得到了CH₄分子和CO₂分子的整层大气透过率谱,测量光谱信号的信噪比分别为197和209,同时也对分子吸收信号的光谱特征进行了分析。本文的测量实践表明光纤光开关可以用于激光外差光谱系统的结构优化,实现多通道多波段的激光外差光谱同时测量,拓展激光外差光谱仪在大气探测领域的应用。     

Infra-red heterodyne laser radar for remote sensing of air pollutants by range-resolved differential absorption

An infra-red heterodyne laser radar scheme incorporating range-resolved differential absorption using elastically backscattered, pulsed signal from distributed particles in the atmosphere is proposed and analysed. The basic requirements of the system arrangement and operating parameters involved in this scheme are discussed in detail. This method is shown to offer a remote and spatially-resolved measurement of various molecuar pollutants dispersed in the air for ranges up to several km and detection sensitivities to less than 0.1 ppm with laser pulses of 100 W average power. This power is 10³ to 10⁶ times smaller than that required with the conventional direct detection technique in the infra-red. The measuring accuracy and its limiting processes inherent to the infra-red range-resolved differential absorption method are also analysed.     

Quantum nonlocality in weak-thermal-light interferometry

In astronomy, interferometry of light collected by separate telescopes is often performed by physically bringing the optical paths together in the form of Young's double-slit experiment. Optical loss severely limits the efficiency of this so-called direct detection method, motivating the fundamental question of whether one can achieve a comparable performance using separate optical measurements at the two telescopes before combining the measurement results. Using quantum mechanics and estimation theory, here I show that any such spatially local measurement scheme, such as heterodyne detection, is fundamentally inferior to coherently nonlocal measurements, such as direct detection, for estimating the mutual coherence of bipartite thermal light when the average photon flux is low. This surprising result reveals an overlooked signature of quantum nonlocality in a classic optics experiment.     

频差偏差对全视场外差测量精度的影响

根据全视场外差测量的相关理论,推导了频差偏差与仪器测量精度的相互关系.分析了频差大小、频差偏差、采集初始时间、初始相位、采样频率和采样周期数等相关参数对测量精度的影响.研究结果可以作为全视场外差测量设备设计、参数选取的理论依据;并给出了通过合理选择采样时间和采样帧数提高测量精度的一种方法.     

快速、高精度可见光-近红外透射光谱测量技术研究

基于传统分光光度测量方法的构架,提出了一种快速、高精度测量可见光-近红外透射光谱的新方法,在该方法的测量过程中,光栅单色器的出射波长保持匀速的连续变化,同时参考光探测器和测试光探测器保持连续的光强采集。初步实验研究表明,新方法可把测量耗时降低到传统分光光度法所需时间的50%以下,测量得到的透射光谱与传统分光光度法的相对误差为0.070%,三次重复性测量的统计误差为0.042%。与现有常见可见光-近红外透射光谱的测量方法(分光光度法、CCD光谱仪法、傅里叶变换光谱仪法)相比,新方法同时具有以下优点：(1)有望显著提高可见光-近红外透射光谱的测量速度,从而应用于透射光谱的动态测量环境中;(2)具有较高的测量精度(0.1%～0.3%);(3)在测量过程中,系统的机械部件始终保持匀速的运动状态,测试系统因而具有较高的机械稳定性。     

Detection Schemes for Optical-Coherence-Domain Imaging of Biological Tissues

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is a novel imaging modality based on low-coherence interferometry. This paper summarizes some of our latest work on the development of OCT where we have taken two approaches. In the first approach we have developed a phase-drift-suppression method for stable heterodyne detection in the presence of phase fluctuations. In the second approach we have concentrated on the development of two-dimensional heterodyne detection techniques for real-time imaging. A novel detection scheme has been proposed, which enables parallel heterodyne detection with a commercially available imager such as a charge-coupled-device camera. Meanwhile, a non-scanning OCT system configuration based on off-axis interferometry is being studied. Using a newly developed angular-dispersion imaging scheme, we show that the axial reflectance profile in OCT measurement can be detected instantaneously with a sensor array.     

Measurement of small displacement based on surface plasmon resonance heterodyne interferometry

This paper proposes an optical method for measuring small displacements using the surface plasmon resonance (SPR) heterodyne interferometry. A heterodyne light beam reflected by a mirror passes through a hemisphere glass and then enters into a surface plasmon resonance apparatus at the resonant angle. A small displacement of the mirror will introduce a phase-difference variation between p- and s-polarizations of the light emerging from the SPR apparatus. The phase-difference variation can be precisely measured with the heterodyne interferometric technique, and the associated displacement can be estimated. The feasibility of this method was verified by experiment, and the displacement measurement resolution of about 1.4 nm over a traveling range of 6 μm was achieved. Our method of measurement has the merits of both common-path interferometry and heterodyne interferometry.     

Investigation of glass panels thickness profile by all-fiber digital heterodyne interferometry

All-fiber digital heterodyne interferometry is a laser metrology technique employing pseudo-random codes phase modulated onto an optical carrier signal. In this heterodyne interferometer system, the optical signal includes signal reflected and transmitted from the sample, respectively. Compared with the conventional heterodyne interferometry, this enhanced optical system has much higher measurement sensitivity, and can distinguish the signal which reflected from the front and the rear surface of the sample. Analysis and simulation for the digital heterodyne interferometry are presented. It takes approximately 4 s to scan the whole surface with the diameter of 300 mm. The thickness profile of the sample is obtained in the experiment. The discussion about the experiment is given finally.     

Polarization Mixing Error Reduction in a Two-Beam Interferometer

A simple method to reduce the polarization mixing in a two-beam interferometer is proposed. A small separation angle Wollaston prism and an optical wedge were added to the conventional heterodyne setup. It was experimentally demonstrated that the polarization mixing error was reduced below 52.4 mrad by this method.     

Heterodyne interferometer for displacement measurement with amplitude quadrature and noise suppression

The high precision displacement measurement in nanoscale is crucial to many applications. We present a heterodyne interferometry with differential phase to amplitude conversion scheme for displacement measurement in nanoscale. In this approach, the differential phase introduced by the displacement is converted into the amplitudes of heterodyne signals in quadrature. Meanwhile, the heterodyne signals in phase quadrature are also achieved so that the displacement can be determined from the amplitude ratio of the quadrature signals, and the direction of displacement can be determined from the phase quadrature. Since the differential phase to quadrature amplitude conversion is achieved through the optical addition and subtraction by polarization tuning, which are based on differential detection concept. Thus the proposed method benefits from the features of differential detection with common phase noise and correlated amplitude noise rejection and that of quadrature detection with real time and wide dynamic range of phase measurement. To demonstrate the capability of proposed method in differential phase measurement, we measure the displacement drove by a commercially available PZT pusher and found close agreement between the experiment and the theory. The experimental evidence of noise suppression is also found with spectral measurements, which demonstrates the resolution of displacement measurement at 60 pm and minimum detectable differential phase of 5.6 × 10⁻⁶ rad/ over 50 kHz.     

Improvement of confocal microscope performance by shaped annular beam and heterodyne confocal techniques

In order to further improve the performance of a confocal microscope (CM) used for measurement of surface profiles and 3D microstructures, a shaped annular beam heterodyne confocal measurement method based on annular pupil filter technique and reflection confocal microscopy, is proposed to expand the measurement range and to improve the defocused property of CM. The approach proposed uses a confocal dual-receiving light path arrangement and a heterodyne subtraction of two signals received from detectors with axial offset to enable CM to be used for bipolar absolute measurement and to improve the defocused property of CM, and it uses the annular pupil filter technique to produce a binary optical shaped annular beam, which expands the measurement range by expanding the full-width at half-maximum of intensity curve received from two detectors in a heterodyne confocal microscopy system. Theoretical analyses and experimental results indicate that a shaped annular beam heterodyne microscope has a measurement range expanded from 4 to 14 μm, achieved an axial resolution of 2 nm and improved the defocused property, when ε=0.5 and NA=0.65. It can be therefore concluded that the shaped annular beam heterodyne confocal measuring method proposed is a new approach to ultraprecision measurement of surface profiles and 3D microstructures.     

Linewidth measurement of Littrow structure semiconductor laser with improved methods

In this Letter, the frequency noise spectrum is analyzed in the experiment of the laser linewidth measurement. The power spectrum of three most widely used laser linewidth measurement methods, i.e., the heterodyne measurement, the self-homodyne measurement and the self-heterodyne measurement, are restudied both theoretically and experimentally. A scheme adopting an avalanche photodetector (APD) in the delayed self-heterodyne (DSHT) method is proposed, and an indirect determined result is given.     

Phase-shifting interferometry with feedback control using heterodyne phase detection

A phase-shifting interferometer with feedback control using heterodyne phase detection was developed. A composite heterodyne phase detection method for obtaining feedback signals was proposed. Interference fringe stabilization and accurate pi/2 phase shifts under micrometer-order vibrations were successfully demonstrated using a digital high-speed lock-in amplifier.     

调Q激光光折变自适应光外差探测技术研究

基于光折变晶体中自泵浦与互泵浦相位共轭共存效应,利用新型光折变自适应光外差探测系统进行了调Q脉冲激光的光折变自适应光外差探测技术研究.结果表明,该系统可以用来实现单纵模调Q脉冲激光的自适应光外差探测,并可以通过提高本振光强度有效地提高外差探测灵敏度.进一步的实验和理论分析表明,对于一般的调Q脉冲激光,由于其各个纵模频谱分量之间不相关,难于实现光外差探测.     

Self-calibrated global rainbow refractometry:a dual-wavelength approach

Calibration of the relationship between the scattering angle and the CCD pixel is a key part of achieving accurate measurements of rainbow refractometry.A novel self-calibrated global rainbow refractometry system based on illumination by two lasers of different wavelengths is proposed.The angular calibration and refractive index measurement of two wavelengths can be completed simultaneously without extra measurement devices.The numerical and experimental results show the feasibility and high precision of the self-calibration method,which enables the rainbow refractometry to be implemented in a more powerful and convenient way.The self-calibrated rainbow system is successfully applied to measure the refractive indices of ethanol-water solutions with volume concentrations of 10% to 60%.     

Spectral heterodyne tomography

A novel method of optical coherent tomography—spectral heterodyne tomography—is proposed. Spectral heterodyne tomography is based on parallel heterodyne detection of a multitude of frequencies of the light backscattered by an object under study. The result of this detection is a spectral distribution of the amplitude and phase of the scattered radiation. Subsequent numerical processing allows one to find the distribution of scattering centers over the depth corresponding to the point of entrance of the incident light. The proposed method is potentially characterized by a higher efficiency as compared with the most successful approach to optical coherence tomography, based on heterodyne scanning interferometry.