GEM气体探测器的增益特性

研制一种双层结构的GEM气体探测器用于X射线成像和带电粒子径迹测量.使用铜靶X射线管产生的高能量X射线对其气体放大倍数,电荷传输效率,增益稳定性进行测试.实验结果显示:在入射X射线通量为10⁵Hz/mm²时,双层GEM探测器的有效增益达到10⁴以上,并且具有长时间稳定性.     

三级GEM气体探测器性能的实验研究

GEM探测器是一种新型微型气体探测器(Micro-Pattern Gas Detector), 在粒子物理实验及低能X射线成像系统中有着较大的应用前景. 文章研制了一种适用于低能X射线成像和带电粒子径迹测量的三级GEM气体探测器. 使用放射源⁵⁵Fe对其气体放大特性、电荷传输效率及能量分辨本领等性能进行了实验研究, 重点研究了传输区电场对气体有效增益和能量分辨本领的影响. 实验结果表明, 三级GEM探测器的暗电流和噪声较小, 有效增益能够达到10⁵以上并稳定地工作, 对5.9keV的X射线能量分辨率可达24%, 传输区电场强度大于3000V/(cm.atm)时, 能量分辨率基本稳定在30%左右.     

高功率微波介质击穿中X射线和紫外线的初步诊断

 研制了一套宽光谱探测系统,该系统包括紫外成像探测器和X射线成像探测器两个工作单元。利用该系统对高功率微波（HPM）源运行及聚四氟乙烯介质窗受微波场作用而发生击穿时实验环境中的紫外线和X射线进行了初步诊断。结果表明：HPM源运行参数为重复频率100 Hz,运行时间5 s,介质窗未发生击穿时,微波源二极管区产生的X射线剂量为9.28×10²～1.64×10³ Gy,介质窗发生击穿时,环境中X射线剂量为5.38×10²～1.09×10³ Gy;随着微波脉冲重复频率和运行时间的增加,产生的X射线剂量明显增加。此外,利用该系统证实了实验环境中紫外线的存在。     

三级GEM的性能及多路成像的实验研究

报道研制的三级气体电子倍增器(Triple-GEM)的性能及多路成像的研究结果. 实验测得三级GEM对⁵⁵Fe 5.9keV X射线全能光电峰的最佳能量分辨率为20.2%; 有效增益≥10⁴. 利用96路8mm×8mm的pad及电子数字系统成功实现多路成像.     

空间硬X射线编码孔成像望远镜样机的研制及初步实验结果

介绍了研制的一台空间硬X射线编码孔成像望远镜样机, 使用的位置灵敏探测器为CdZnTe半导体阵列探测器, 面积50mm×50mm, 位置分辨1.6mm. 码板材料为钨铁镍合金, 厚度0.7mm, 码元素尺寸3.2mm×3.2mm. 介绍了码板的编码技术、光学设计和图像重建方法. 实验室测定了样机的性能, 探测器对59.54keV(²⁴¹Am)的能量分辨率为11.6%. 成像实验对单个伽玛射线源的定位 精度为0.12°, 双源角分辨好于0.42°.     

与BaF2耦合的低气压多步雪崩室

研究了以纯TMAE饱和蒸汽为工作气体的紫外光敏低气压多步雪崩室的性能.在几种温度下测量了两个不同结构的丝室的气体放大倍数.在40°C时得到丝室的增益为4×10⁵,时间分辨4.1ns.和BaF₂晶体耦合,成功地观测了¹³⁷Cs γ射线(0.661MeV)的信号.     

HXMT卫星地面样机成像实验

硬X射线调制望远镜(HXMT)致力于实现硬X射线能段的高灵敏度巡天.HXMT地面样机已在中国科学院高能物理研究所粒子天体物理重点实验室建成.它包括18个栅条准直的NaI(Tl)/CsI(Na)复合晶体探测器,总有效探测面积为5000cm². 探测器工作在20—250keV,视场范围5.7°×5.7°通过近距离放射源成像实验和直接解调成像方法的使用,地面样机能够达到2'点源定位精度和5'角分辨率(FWHM).     

高空核爆炸下大气的X射线电离及演化过程数值模拟

利用数值模拟程序模拟了不同高度核爆炸下大气的X射线电离及演化过程.结果表明: X射线电离产生的电子数密度在射线到达后约100 ns时刻达到峰值, 峰值数密度随着到裸核区距离的增加而减小;电子具有较长的寿命, 电子寿命随着到裸核区距离的增加而增大; X射线电离空气产生正离子O⁺, O₂⁺, N₂⁺,爆高为120 km情况下 O⁺的峰值数密度与O₂⁺的相近,能维持约1 s. X射线对空气的电离影响范围在数十千米以内,在距裸核区较近的区域, 爆高为80 km时产生的电子峰值数密度比爆高为120 km时的电子峰值数密度高, 在距裸核区较远的区域则相反.     

用于质子和伽马射线探测的金刚石薄膜探测器的辐照性能

 研制出CVD金刚石薄膜探测器,在国家串列加速器和⁶⁰Co稳态辐射源上分别完成了该探测器对9 MeV质子束流和1.25 MeV γ射线的辐照性能研究。结果表明:该探测器在9 MeV质子照射累积强度达到10¹³ cm^-2时,探测器信号电荷收集效率减小量低于3.5%,辐照前后探测器暗电流没有明显变化。计算得到9 MeV质子对该探测器的损伤系数为1.3×10^-16 μm^-1·cm²。由于γ射线与金刚石作用产生的电子起到了填补缺陷的作用,探测器信号电荷收集效率随γ射线照射剂量的增加略有增加,在γ射线累积照射量达到10.32 C/kg时,其增幅小于0.7%。说明金刚石薄膜探测器具有较高耐辐照强度,适用于高强度辐射测量领域。     

纳米Ag颗粒表面等离子激元对上转换材料光致发光性能影响的研究

本文采用共烧结工艺将纳米Ag颗粒引入Yb³⁺, Er³⁺共掺的NaYF₄上转换材料中, 利用X射线衍射及扫描电子显微镜技术对制备的NaYF₄材料进行结构特性和表面形貌的表征, 通过吸收谱及荧光光谱测试技术对NaYF₄材料光吸收及光发射特性进行表征. 通过对纳米Ag颗粒引入量的优化, 获得了Yb³⁺, Er³⁺共掺的NaYF₄上转换材料荧光发射峰的增强, 300—800 nm全光谱范围内增益达28%, 在544 nm处获得最大增益55%, 具有显著的荧光增强效果. 同时分析了不同数量纳米Ag颗粒的引入对NaYF₄材料吸收谱及光致发光特性影响, 指出了表面等离子激元的光猝灭及共振吸收增强作用机理.     

Guided-Wave Two-Dimensional Acousto-Optic Scanner Using Proton-Exchanged Lithium Niobate Waveguide

Two-dimensional scanning of a 0.6328 mum guided-light beam has been realized using noncolinear acousto-optic (AO) coplanar Bragg diffraction together with colinear AO guided-mode to substrate radiation-mode conversion in a Z-cut Xpropagation LiNbO3 proton-exchanged (PE) waveguide. The two surface acoustic (SAW) waves utilized are at the center frequencies of 500 and 200 MHz, propagating in the Y and X axes, respectively. Two-dimensional scanning of approximately 720 resolvable light beam spots, namely, 18 40 (horizontal vertical) scanning, has been demonstrated using a light beam of 1.0 mm aperture. The total number of resolvable beam spots can be greatly increased from 720 by simply utilizing SAW transducers of larger bandwidth and a light beam of greater aperture. It should also be possible to significantly increase the diffraction efficiency from 3 % by optimizing the parameters of the PE waveguide and the SAWs.     

Hybrid Wavelength and Code Division Multiple Access in Optical Networks

A review of schemes for multiple access in fiber optic networks shows that a hybrid of wavelength and code division multiple access (WCDMA) combines the best features of both. In particular, the hybrid scheme retains the large information carrying capacity of wavelength division multiple access (WDMA) and flexibility of code division multiple access (CDMA). In this paper WDMA, optical CDMA (OCDMA), and WCDMA networks are discussed. In OCDMA networks, concept of incoherent and coherent coding including inverse decoding and matched filter is introduced. The delay performance of both WDMA and WCDMA networks, under the simple suboptimum access protocols based on cyclic search, is computed. It has been shown quantitatively that tuning delay significantly affects the delay performance of both WDMA and WCDMA networks. Futhermore, delay performance of WCDMA networks is always better than the WDMA networks for the same tuning delay, load, and number of users.     

Effect ofγ-radiation on the spectral luminescence characteristics of impure cadmium tungstate crystals

Results of a study of the effect of γ-radiation on the spectral luminescence properties of cadmium tungstate crystals doped with silver, bismuth, and molybdenum cations are presented. Spectral characteristics of the nondnnnoped crystals are briefly described. Absorption and photo and X-ray luminescence spectra of the crystals taken before and after exposure to γ-radiation (5.5·10⁴ Gy) are compared. It is found that the spectral characteristics of the crystals doped with silver, bismuth, and molybdenum cations do not change markedly after the exposure. The relation between the type of impurity-induced defects, individual characteristics of the impurity cations, and the character of the effect of γ-radiation on the spectral luminescence properties of impure crystals is analyzed (preliminarily). Translated from Zhurnal Prikladnoi Spektroskopii, Vol. 64, No. 1, pp. 55–60, January–February, 1997.     

Femtosecond Transform-Limited Pulse Generation by Compensating for the Linear Chirp of SPM Spectra in Dispersion Shifted Fibers

A simple technique of pulse compression, based on the linear chirp compensation of self-phase modulation (SPM) spectra in dispersion shifted fibers, is demonstrated. The optimization procedure is carried out, for a short span of a single-mode fiber, using a parabolic law, which describes the behavior of the squared output pulse width versus the pump peak power in the case of Gaussian pulses. The experimental results give a minimum pulse duration of 233 fs, which is in good agreement with the model. Shorter and coherent pulses, down to 90 fs, have been obtained by inserting an interference filter at the optical output.     

Sorting of bending magnets for the SSRF booster

The Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility(SSRF)booster ring,a full energy injector for the storage ring,is deigned to accelerate the electron beam energy from 150MeV to 3.5GeV that demands high extraction efficiency at the extraction energy with low beam loss rate when electrons are ramping.Closed orbit distortion(COD)caused by bending magnet field uniformity errors which affects the machine performance harmfully could be effectively reduced by bending magnet location sorting.Considering the affections of random errors in measurement,both ideal sorting and realistic sorting are studied based on measured bending magnet field uniformity errors and one reasonable combination of bending magnets which can reduce the horizontal COD by a factor of 5is given as the final installation sequence of the booster bending magnets in this paper.     

Measurement of nonlinear coefficient of optical fiber based on small chirped soliton transmission

We measure the waveform and phase curves of short optical pulses before and after transmission over different lengths of fibers by use of the pulse analyzer with the frequency-resolved optical gating (FROG),and numerically simulate pulse evolution under the experimental conditions.The nonlinear coefficient of the fiber is given by comparing the experimental results with the numerical ones.Difference between the experiment and numerical simulation is analyzed.     

Resonance scattering of canonical elastic shells in absorbing fluid medium

Resonance scattering of elastic spherical shell and cylindrical shell while the surrounding fluid medium has absorption is studied. The normal mode solution derived using exact elastic theory and the separation of variables is still applicable. However, the scattering form function has to be modified for the absorbing medium, otherwise the unreasonable result would be obtained. The backscattering form function in the absorbing medium is redefined, and the form function of elastic spherical and cylindrical shell with vacuum or solid matter filled is calculated in various absorption conditions. The results show that the absorption of surrounding fluid leads to notable attenuation of the coincidence resonances in the mid-frequency, but it has a little influence on the low-frequency resonance scattering induced by the filler inside the shell.     

Single-beam self-referenced phase-sensitive surface plasmon resonance sensor with high detection resolution

A versatile and low-cost single-beam self-referenced phase-sensitive surface plasmon resonance(SPR)sensing system with ultra-high resolution performance is presented.The system exhibits a root-mean-square phase fluctuation of ±0.0028.over a period of 45 min.i.e.a resolution of±5.2×10-9 refractive index units.The enhanced performance has been achieved through the incorporation of three design elements:a true single-beam configuration enabling complete self-referencing so that only the phase change associated with SPR gets detected,a differential measurement scheme to eliminate spurious signals not related to the sensor response,and the elimination of retardation drifts by incorporating temperature stabilization in the liquid crystal phase modulato .Our design should bring the detection sensitivity of non-labeling SPR biosensing closer to that achievable by conventional fluorescence-based techniques.     

Influences of SiO2 protective layers and annealing on the laser-induced damage threshold of Ta2O5 films

Ta2O5 films are prepared on BK7 substrates with conventional electron beam evaporation deposition.The effects of SiO2 protective layers and annealing on the laser-induced damage threshold (LIDT) of the films are investigated.The results show that SiO2 protective layers exert little influence on the electric field intensity(EFI)distribution,microstructure and microdefect density but increase the absorption slightly.Annealing iS effective on decreasing the microdefect density and the absorption of the films.Both SiO2 protective layers and annealing are beneficial to the damage resistance of the films and the latter is more effective to improve the LIDT.Moreover,the maximal LIDT of Ta2O5 films is achieved by the combination of SiO2 protective layers and annealing.