Virtual source for a Laguerre-Gauss beam

A virtual source that generates a cylindrically symmetric Laguerre-Gauss wave of radial mode number n is introduced. An expression is derived for this Laguerre-Gauss wave that in the appropriate limit yields the corresponding Laguerre-Gauss beam. From the spectral representation of the Laguerre-Gauss wave, the first three orders of nonparaxial corrections for the paraxial Laguerre-Gauss beam are determined. On the beam axis, the number of orders of nonvanishing nonparaxial corrections is found to be equal to n .     

Beams of electromagnetic radiation carrying angular momentum: The Riemann-Silberstein vector and the classical-quantum correspondence

All beams of electromagnetic radiation are made of photons. Therefore, it is important to find a precise relationship between the classical properties of the beam and the quantum characteristics of the photons that make a particular beam. It is shown that this relationship is best expressed in terms of the Riemann-Silberstein vector - a complex combination of the electric and magnetic field vectors - that plays the role of the photon wave function. The Whittaker representation of this vector in terms of a single complex function satisfying the wave equation greatly simplifies the analysis. Bessel beams, exact Laguerre-Gauss beams, and other related beams of electromagnetic radiation can be described in a unified fashion. The appropriate photon quantum numbers for these beams are identified. Special emphasis is put on the angular momentum of a single photon and its connection with the angular momentum of the beam.     

线偏振拉盖尔-高斯光束的远场发散特性

利用稳相法和矢量结构理论, 导出了线偏振拉盖尔-高斯光束的矢量结构项TE项和TM项在远场的解析表达式. 进而利用TE项和TM项的远场能流分布, 给出了TE项和TM项的功率占总功率比例的度量式,同时还给出了线偏振拉盖尔-高斯光束、TE项和TM项三者远场发散角的解析式以及三者远场发散角间的关系式. 所得到的公式不仅适用于傍轴情形,而且还适用于非傍轴情形. 通过数值计算, 分析了TE项和TM项在远场的功率占总功率的比例与参数f和模数间的依赖关系;还分析了拉盖尔-高斯光束、TE项和TM项的远场发散角随参数f、模数和线偏振角的变化关系.这一研究从矢量结构本性揭示了线偏振拉盖尔-高斯光束的远场发散特性, 丰富了对其传输特性的认识.     

螺旋轴棱锥的光束传输特性

 分析了螺旋轴棱锥的结构和光传输特性,基于衍射积分理论研究了发散球面波和拉盖尔-高斯光束经螺旋轴棱锥后的传输过程。研究表明,发散球面波经过螺旋轴棱锥后产生贝塞尔光束,其阶数与拓扑电荷数相同,但中心光斑（空心光斑）半径随传输距离的增加而变大;拉盖尔-高斯光束入射后同样产生贝塞尔光束,但其阶数变为拉盖尔-高斯光束和螺旋轴棱锥的拓扑电荷数之和,出射光束的拓扑电荷数与阶数相等。     

Circular beams

A very general beam solution of the paraxial wave equation in circular cylindrical coordinates is presented. We call such a field a circular beam (CiB). The complex amplitude of the CiB is described by either the Whittaker functions or the confluent hypergeometric functions and is characterized by three parameters that are complex in the most general situation. The propagation through complex ABCD optical systems and the conditions for square integrability are studied in detail. Special cases of the CiB are the standard, elegant, and generalized Laguerre-Gauss beams; Bessel-Gauss beams; hypergeometric beams; hypergeometric-Gaussian beams; fractional-order elegant Laguerre-Gauss beams; quadratic Bessel-Gauss beams; and optical vortex beams.     

Joint moments of the wave beam amplitude and inverse power in an absorbing random medium with lens properties

This paper presents a derivation of a system of closed equations for joint moments of the amplitude and inverse power of a wave beam propagating in a regularly inhomogeneous dissipative random medium. The radiation transfer in the medium is characterized by non-conservation of the total radiation energy flux and by the existence of power fluctuations. The statistics of the wave beam power fluctuations have been studied. Information on the power statistical characteristics is applied to close the system of equations for joint moments. For task parameters which are not very strict (an effective radius of the wave beam should be considerably less than the outer scale of the turbulence) a system of independent equations for arbitrary joint moments has been obtained. The equations for the first two lower joint moments of the beam intensity and inverse power have been solved analytically. With the solutions obtained the effective wave beam parameters were calculated, i.e. the beam mean displacement, effective broadening and tremble variance (the beam wandering variance) for the propagation of radiation in the refractive channel of an absorbing turbulent medium. Radically new characteristics of the behaviour of the effective parameters in random absorbing and transparent media have been revealed.     

Joint moments of the wave beam amplitude and inverse power in an absorbing random medium with lens properties

Abstract

This paper presents a derivation of a system of closed equations for joint moments of the amplitude and inverse power of a wave beam propagating in a regularly inhomogeneous dissipative random medium. The radiation transfer in the medium is characterized by non-conservation of the total radiation energy flux and by the existence of power fluctuations. The statistics of the wave beam power fluctuations have been studied. Information on the power statistical characteristics is applied to close the system of equations for joint moments. For task parameters which are not very strict (an effective radius of the wave beam should be considerably less than the outer scale of the turbulence) a system of independent equations for arbitrary joint moments has been obtained. The equations for the first two lower joint moments of the beam intensity and inverse power have been solved analytically. With the solutions obtained the effective wave beam parameters were calculated, i.e. the beam mean displacement, effective broadening and tremble variance (the beam wandering variance) for the propagation of radiation in the refractive channel of an absorbing turbulent medium. Radically new characteristics of the behaviour of the effective parameters in random absorbing and transparent media have been revealed.     

Description of a radially polarized Laguerre-Gauss beam beyond the paraxial approximation

Fifth-order corrected expressions for the fields of a radially polarized Laguerre-Gauss (R-TEM(n1)) laser beams are derived based on perturbative Lax series expansion. When the order of Laguerre polynomial is equal to zero, the corresponding beam reduces to the lowest-order radially polarized beam (R-TEM(01)). Simulation results show that the accuracy of the fifth-order correction for R-TEM(n1) depends not only on the diffraction angle of the beam as R-TEM(01) does, but also on the order of the beam.     

非局域非线性介质中的拉盖尔-高斯涡旋呼吸子和涡旋光孤子

在圆柱坐标系下,利用分离变量的方法求得了非局域克尔介质中拉盖尔-高斯光束传输的精确解析解。当输入功率等于临界功率时,光束演变为拉盖尔-高斯涡旋光孤子,是一种旋转的多环光孤子;当输入功率接近于临界功率时,光束在传输过程中形成拉盖尔-高斯涡旋呼吸子。结果表明,低阶的拉盖尔-高斯孤子呈现中空多峰亮环分布。     

Spatial dependence of the frequency spectrum of a rotating optical beam

A rotating optical beam displaced relative to the rotational axis becomes polychromatic due to the rotational Doppler effect. The case where the initial beam has the form of a superposition of two Laguerre-Gauss modes and carries an elementary image in the form of an asymmetric intensity distribution is considered. The spatial distribution of the monochromatic components in the beam cross section is determined.     

电子在激光驻波场中运动产生的太赫兹及X射线辐射研究

采用单电子模型和经典辐射理论分别对低能和高能电子在线偏振激光驻波场中的运动和辐射过程进行了研究. 结果表明: 垂直于激光电场方向入射的低速电子在激光驻波场中随着光强的增大, 逐渐从一维近周期运动演变为二维折叠运动, 并产生强的微米量级波长的太赫兹辐射; 高能电子垂直或者平行于激光电场方向入射到激光驻波场中, 都会产生波长在几个纳米的高频辐射; 低能电子与激光驻波场作用中, 激光强度影响着电子的运动形式、辐射频率以及辐射强度; 高能电子入射时, 激光强度影响了电子高频辐射的强度, 电子初始能量影响着辐射的频率; 电子能量越高, 产生的辐射频率越大. 研究表明可以由激光加速电子的方式得到不同能量的电子束, 并利用电子束在激光驻波场的辐射使之成为太赫兹和X射线波段的小型辐射源. 研究结果可以为实验研究和利用激光驻波场中的电子辐射提供依据.     

Whispering-gallery-mode resonances: a new way to accelerate charged particles

Looking for future high energy accelerators we point at a very strong interaction between relativistic electrons and powerful electromagnetic fields existing in the vicinity of a dielectric cylinder in conditions of resonantly excited whispering gallery modes (WGM). A particular example of the WGM resonance, corresponding to angular index n=22, shows that the accelerating fields are almost 100 times stronger than these in the incident wave. That yields an acceleration rate of about 5 GeV/m with the incident microwave radiation beam of the wavelength lambda=1 cm and a moderately high intensity of P=1 MW/cm2.     

The monochromatization of a beam of charged particles by Cherenkov interaction

The possibility of monochromatization of a real beam of charged particles (possessing energy spread and angle divergence) as a result of Cherenkov interaction with laser radiation in a medium is shown. The refraction index of the medium, the Cherenkov angle and the intensity of the wave, necessary for this effect are determined by the initial parameters of the beam. For the real parameters of the beam of charged particles and the laser radiation the degree of monochromatization reaches several orders. A method of raising the monochromaticy of the charged particles of a beam is suggested.     

On the focusing limit of high-power femtosecond laser pulse propagation in air

Focused propagation of high-power femtosecond laser radiation in air is considered. Based on numerical solution of the nonlinear Schr?dinger equation for complex envelope of light wave electric field, evolution of the beam effective radius is studied. The dependence of the effective (rms) size of a focal spot and the maximally achievable intensity of laser radiation at focal waist on the initial pulse power is established. It is shown that focal spot of tightly focused intensive ultrashort laser radiation can change its size during the pulse passage through the beam waist. This is the consequence of pulse intensity clamping in region of beam focusing caused by gas photoionization and plasma producing. This may prevent laser intensity from its further growth in the focal region and arrest the transversal compression of the beam in the linear focus as a whole.     

Partially coherent vortex beams propagation in a turbulent atmosphere

Based on the Rytov approximation and the cross-spectral density approximation for the mutual coherence function of the partially coherent field, the propagation properties of the partially coherent beams with optical vortices in turbulent atmosphere are discussed. The average intensity and the mutual coherence function of the partially coherent vortex beams propagation in weak turbulent atmosphere are obtained.It is shown that the vortex structure of the average cross-spectral density of partially coherent beams has the same helicoidally shape as that of the phase of the fully coherent Laguerre-Gauss beams in free space and the relative intensity of the beam is degraded by optical vortex.     

Studies of classical radiation emission from plasma wave undulators

The authors examine the characteristics of the classical radiation emitted by a relativistic electron beam that propagates perpendicularly through a large amplitude relativistic plasma wave. Such a study is useful for evaluating the feasibility of using relativistic plasma waves as extremely short wavelength undulators for generating short wavelength radiation. The electron trajectories in a plasma wave undulator are obtained using perturbation techniques and are then compared to numerical simulation results. The frequency spectrum and angular distribution of the spontaneous radiation emitted by a single electron and the stimulated radiation gain are obtained analytically, and are then compared to 3-D numerical simulations. The characteristics of the plasma wave undulator are compared to the AC free-electron laser (FEL) undulator and the conventional FEL     

Focusing of an X-ray spherical wave by a uniaxially bent crystal: Johann scheme and logarithmic spiral

Focusing of a spherical wave in the well-known Johann scheme is considered theoretically. An analytical formula for the size of the crystal bent surface reflecting radiation in the Johann scheme is derived. The intensity distribution near the focus is found. The spherical aberration of the diffracted beam is analyzed. Back scattering is shown to minimize the aberration. Spectral characteristics of an Johann spectrometer are discussed. The focusing of a spherical wave by a crystal bent into a logarithmic spiral is considered. It is shown that the Johann scheme is a specific case of a logarithmic spiral.     

Determination of the threshold intensity of a laser beam for exciting stimulated Mandelstam-Brillouin scattering in the atmosphere

Stimulated Mandelstam-Brillouin scattering at small angles is considered in the case of a powerful laser beam propagating in the static mode in an unbounded medium. In contrast to the pulse mode, a hypersonic wave can be formed not only in the backward direction, but also in the forward direction at small angles. In this work, the latter case is considered as having the smallest value of the threshold intensity. It is shown that finite dimensions of the beam significantly change the excitation conditions for a scattered radiation owing to the mismatch of the wave triplet due to diffraction effects. Determination of the threshold intensity is shown to be possible using the well-known expressions for a plane wave only if the Fresnel number of the beam on the path the length of which is equal to the distance of the optical wave decay due to absorption in the medium is much larger than unity. Moreover, a large number of decay distances of the hypersonic wave must fall on the beam radius. When these conditions are not satisfied, the threshold intensity increases as compared to the plane wave.     

晶体X射线劳厄衍射分束特性研究

本文基于X射线衍射动力学分析了劳厄晶体的分束特性,模拟了晶体吸收和入射光角发散对于透射光和衍射光摇摆曲线的影响,定量给出晶体衍射面内角调节范围和晶体加工厚度对于劳厄衍射分束比的调制.在实验中,采用分析晶体和分束晶体的消色散配置限制入射光角发散的影响,实现300μm厚Si(220)晶体面内角调节劳厄衍射分束的精确测量,并得到300μm, 400μm和500μm厚度Si晶体分束比的调节范围,实现了透射光和衍射光强度的定量调制.