一种微波倍频方案在小型化铷钟的应用

为了进一步实现铷原子钟的小型化,介绍了一种小型化铷钟微波倍频电路的设计及初步实现情况. 该倍频电路利用数字锁相环将晶体振荡器输出的10 MHz参考信号直接倍频至6 834.68XX MHz,并对该信号进行2FSK调制. 受调制的微波信号经过功率调整后馈入物理系统微波腔中,激励铷原子基态超精细能级跃迁. 这种微波调频倍频电路方案具有体积小,调试简单的特点. 将该电路用于小型化铷钟,初步测试结果表明,其短期频率稳定度可以达到1.8×10^-11τ^-1/2的水平.     

小型化铷原子钟高精度频率调节电路设计

在GPS驯服铷钟等相关应用领域中，小型化铷原子钟的频率调节精度是一项重要性能指标．该性能一般由铷钟整机系统中倍频综合器的数字锁相环（PLL）分辨率决定．目前作者所在的课题组研制了一款小型化高性能铷原子钟，具有良好的稳定度指标，但其频率调节无法满足高精度的需求．针对这一问题，本文对原小型化铷原子钟的倍频综合电路进行了分析研究和改进设计，基于一款高精度直接数字频率合成器（DDS）芯片设计了一种小数倍频综合电路，在保证小型化铷原子钟仍具有高稳定度指标的同时，实现了其高精度频率调节的功能．     

新型小铷钟微波腔谐振特性的研究

采用模匹配法对一种陶瓷介质填充的圆柱谐振腔TE₀₁₁、TE₁₁₁模的谐振特性进行了理论分析和软件仿真. 计算了该种谐振腔的谐振频率,并与其他理论方法得到的仿真结果进行了比较,验证了理论方法的正确性. 在此基础上,分析了陶瓷介质尺寸对谐振频率的影响. 与目前铷钟广泛使用的微波腔相比,该种谐振腔腔体的体积在很大程度上得到减小,这对于铷原子钟小型化的实现具有重要的作用.     

一种铷原子频标频率综合器新方案的设计与实现

数字化和小型化是铷原子频标（RAFS）发展的重要方向．在传统铷原子频标电路中,6 840 MHz微波信号与频率综合器产生的5.312 5 MHz信号进行混频,得到用于激励铷原子跃迁的6 834.687 5 MHz微波探寻信号．早期铷频标的频率综合器大量使用了分立的模拟器件,数字化程度低、参数优化工作繁杂、电路体积较大．目前常用直接数字频率合成器（DDS）方案直接产生5.312 5 MHz信号,但这种数字电路方案通常需要对10 MHz信号进行倍频,它存在频谱纯度较低、相位噪声高等缺点．本文介绍一种产生5.312 5 MHz信号的频率综合器解决方案,这种设计方案在应用DDS器件时无需使用10 MHz倍频电路,它具有频谱纯度较高、相位噪声低、输出频率和相位可调等优点．     

脉冲光抽运铷原子钟的Ramsey信号特性研究

基于以小型化磁控管微波腔实现的脉冲光抽运铷原子钟,研究了自由演化时间对Ramsey信号特性的影响,讨论了横向弛豫时间对钟信号对比度的影响.该原子钟的自由演化时间为3ms时,Ramsey信号中心条纹的对比度为52%,散弹噪声极限优于1.7×10-14(τ=1s).利用Ramsey信号的对比度和吸收泡内的光密度,计算得到了原子钟内铷吸收泡的纵向和横向弛豫时间分别为1.95ms和2.45ms.本文研究为进一步提高脉冲光抽运铷原子钟的性能提供了重要依据.     

一种用于高精度小型化铷频标的开槽管微波腔

针对小型化高精度铷原子频标应用需求,设计了体积为11 m L的小型化开槽管微波腔.实验测量了微波腔内微波场的方向因子,结果为0.83.利用该微波腔设计了小型化铷频标物理系统,形成了铷频标桌面系统.测试了系统的短期频率频率稳定度,结果优于2×10~(-12)/τ~(1/2),远高于一般商用小型化铷原子频标.     

一种非连续微波探询信号的实现

铷原子频标（RAFS）的微波探询信号可用于激励铷原子产生基态能级之间的跃迁,从而实现共振探测.目前常用的微波产生方案都存在电路结构复杂、功耗大、不便于集成的缺点.本文提出了一种利用锁相环（PLL）技术产生非连续微波探询信号的设计方案,这种方案以10 MHz信号作为参考频率,在单片机的合理配置下可直接得到（6 834.687 5 MHz±f_M）信号（f_M表示最大频偏）.该方案具有电路结构简单、功耗低、数字化程度高等优点,利用该方案实现的整机稳定度优于1.5E-11/√τ（1 s≤τ≤100 s）,性能指标均可满足小型商业铷原子钟要求.     

小型化10 MHz恒温晶体振荡器设计

设计了用于高精度铷原子频标的一种小型化恒温压控晶体振荡器.振荡电路采用了稳定性好的并联型皮尔斯电路方案,采用2级?型LC级联滤波器抑制谐杂波,利用互补对称式金属-氧化物-半导体(CMOS)反相器实施隔离.振荡和放大电路选用了低噪声晶体管.晶体的温度控制在频率-温度曲线拐点处.实现了体积为4 mL晶振样件.晶振的短期频率稳定度为1.8?10-12/s,相噪对铷频标频率稳定度的贡献仅为3.2?10-13-1/2.     

铷原子频标数字温控电路的设计

为了实现铷原子频标数字化、小型化、低功耗的需求,采用单片机、模数转换器设计出一种基于PID控制算法的铷频标数字温控系统,介绍了PID控制算法的基本原理和参数的工程整定法. 实验结果表明：该数字温控系统与传统模拟温控系统相比,控温精度相当,功耗与体积均有所减小. 该数字温控电路可满足小型化铷原子频标工作的需求.      

一体化VCO混频器组件的研制

介绍一体化VCO混频器组件的研制,在有限的体积中集成低噪声放大器、混频器、VCO等几个功能模块,实现射频到中频便捷变换。VCO电路采用反馈型介质稳频场效应管振荡器,通过介质和变容管,实现机械及电压调谐功能,混频器采用一级低噪声放大器和单片混频器来满足低损耗和低驻波的变频要求。该组件在X波段,实现噪声小于2.3dB、驻波小于1.19,隔离度大于50dB,自频调带宽大于±50MHz,机械调谐范围大于±93MHz,本振频率温度系数小于0.22MHz/℃的指标。     

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.