Transformation of electromagnetic radiation by rapidly moving inhomogeneities of a transparent medium

A theory of reflection and transmission of electromagnetic radiation by inhomogeneities of the parameters of a static transparent medium moving at the velocity of light is developed. Expressions are obtained for the Doppler frequency shift of radiation; it turns out that, under the condition of pronounced frequency dispersion, the frequency of incident radiation corresponds to two frequencies of reflected radiation (complementary waves). It is found that, as the velocity of an inhomogeneity tends to the phase velocity of radiation in the medium, the reflection and transmission coefficients of radiation by the inhomogeneity indefinitely increase. It is shown that the electromagnetic radiation frequency may increase severalfold, with a transformation coefficient of about unity, due to the Doppler shift by the inhomogeneities of a nonlinear medium that are induced by pulses (solitons) of intense counterpropagating radiation.     

Analysis on effect of low dielectric permittivity on indium-doped tin oxide based optically transparent terahertz patch antenna

Indium-doped tin oxide based optically transparent rectangular patch antennas are designed to resonate at 750 GHz; one on the glass substrate and the other on the polyimide substrate. Characteristics of both the transparent antennas such as impedance bandwidth, radiation efficiency, directivity and gain are analyzed and compared. Polyimide substrate has a lower dielectric permittivity than the glass substrate. The effect of low dielectric permittivity substrate on the radiation characteristics of the terahertz transparent patch antenna is analyzed. The transparent antenna on polyimide substrate is shown to have gain greater than 3.97dB in 714–795 GHz. The proposed transparent antennas are designed and simulated by using finite element method based electromagnetic solver, Ansys–HFSS.     

Adaptive photodetector based on nonsteady-state photo-EMF for the detection of elastic deformations and stresses

Detection of phase-modulated signals generated by mechanical oscillations of a transparent object (plane-parallel glass plate) is considered. The signal is measured with the aid of interferometric system that employs nonsteady-state photo-EMF in adaptive photodetector based on the β-Ga₂O₃ crystal. A mechanical system consisting of a glass plate and a piezoelectric transducer exhibits resonance at a frequency of about 100 kHz. The amplitude of phase modulation has a bell-shaped distribution over the plate surface in the frequency interval under study. The parameters of the adaptive photodetector are determined for a radiation wavelength of λ = 532 nm.     

High-frequency Bragg gratings in a photothermorefractive glass

Holographic UV mirrors were recorded in a volume of photothermorefractive glass. This photosensitive silicate glass doped with silver, cerium, and fluorine is transparent in the near-UV, visible, and near-IR spectral regions, and its induced refractive-index change reaches 10(-3). UV radiation of a He-Cd laser at 325 nm was used for Bragg grating recording with a spatial frequency of ~9200 mm(-1). The absolute diffraction efficiency of the recorded mirror reached 12.6% at 325 nm and did not deteriorate under the long-time effects of optical irradiation and heating up 400 degrees C.     

Analysis and design of optically transparent antenna on photonic band gap structures

An optically transparent microstrip patch antenna is designed on photonic bandgap structures and its radiation characteristics are computed and analyzed in the visible spectrum region. The proposed antenna consists of indium tin oxide, a transparent conducting material used both as a radiating patch and a ground plane separated by the 5 μm thin glass substrate. The introduction of periodic cylindrical air cavity structures in the glass substrate leads to the formation of photonic band gap. The patch thickness is carefully selected based on the analysis of the optical transmission coefficient with respect to patch thickness. The effective dielectric constant of the photonic band gap loaded glass substrate is computed using the effective medium approach. The refractive index of the proposed antenna is presented and discussed. The radiation efficiency of the antenna is shown to improve significantly due to insertion of proposed photonic band gap structures. The proposed design has yielded a bandwidth of 2–2.3 THz for a return loss (S₁₁) of less than −15dB and achieved a peak gain of 4.97dB at 2.27 THz.     

各向同性光场对原子束的分步减速

通过理论分析计算了积分球中各向同性光场对原子产生的辐射压力,提出了一种新的激光对原子束的减速方案:将原子炉产生的热铷原子束通过五个直径为10 cm的积分球,积分球内部各向同性光场的失谐量从Δ=-70Γ依次减小到Δ=-10Γ,从而可以对原子束进行减速和冷却。通过对减速过程的数值计算结果发现,该方案可以把速度小于331 m/s的原子束减速和冷却到小于1 m/s,接近多普勒极限。     

Incident-angle dependence of the longitudinal optic mode and the Doppler effect in silica glass

The infrared reflection spectra of silica glass were monitored at different incident angles of the wave. The density of states (DOS) and frequency ω_LO of the longitudinal optic (LO) mode were found to be the functions of the incident angle. The DOS of the LO mode increases with increasing incident angle as a whole. However, two regions can be divided in which one is below ∼30° and the other is above 30°. The frequency ω_LO of the LO mode increases linearly with incident angle. The earlier proposed relationship between the shifted frequency produced by the Doppler effect and the source frequency of the main transverse optic (TO) mode was investigated by studying the infrared spectra of the annealed glass capillaries. The shifted frequency was found to be linearly proportional to the source frequency of the TO mode, as depicted by the Doppler effect.     

Optical microstrip patch antennas design and analysis

This paper has presented transparent conductor oxide materials (TCOMs) based microstrip patch antennas with glass substrate and copper ground plane, which have been deeply analyzed in the visible spectrum region in comparison with the practical patch antenna model of indium tin oxide patch with glass substrate and different TCOMs based ground plane. As well as the study have investigated the effect of transparent oxide materials on patch antenna design instead of perfect conductor materials such as copper that has low cost and weight. The tradeoff between optical transparency and electrical conductivity will be evaluated for a range of visible regions. Microstrip transmission line feed method is used to predict the skin effects on a patch antenna and their impact on antenna efficiency, resonance frequency and optical transmission are also described. This study have discussed assessment of these tradeoffs and effect of TCOMs parameters on antenna design.     

Radiation reflection from inhomogeneities moving in a medium with a plasma dispersion law

The dependence of the complex frequency of radiation reflected from an inhomogeneity moving in a medium on the frequency of the incident radiation is found for inhomogeneous wave regimes. Explicit expressions for the plasma dispersion law of the medium are presented. The complex Doppler effect, where one (real) frequency of the incident radiation corresponds to two complex frequencies of the reflected radiation, is demonstrated.     

High-power laser-driven source of ultra-short X-ray and gamma-ray pulses

A novel ultra-bright high-intensity source of X-ray and gamma radiation is suggested. It is based on the double Doppler effect, where a relativistic flying mirror reflects a counter-propagating electromagnetic radiation causing its frequency multiplication and intensification, and on the inverse double Doppler effect, where the mirror acquires energy from an ultra-intense co-propagating electromagnetic wave. The role of the flying mirror is played by a high-density thin plasma slab accelerating in the radiation pressure dominant regime. Frequencies of high harmonics generated at the flying mirror by a relativistically strong counter-propagating radiation udergo multiplication with the same factor as the fundamental frequency of the reflected radiation, approximately equal to the quadruple of the square of the mirror Lorentz factor.     

Permittivity and permeability of pentagon configuration molecules with different symmetry breaking and their applications

In nature, some molecules have broken conjugate symmetry configurations, which might result in a special optical phenomenon called negative refraction. Under such circumstances, both permittivity and permeability are negative simultaneously. When light at certain frequency is transmitted through a transparent medium (e.g., slide glass) in which a psychoactive drug with negative indexes has been deposited, the refracted light is detected at different locations in the transparent medium. This is because the refracted light travels in a direction opposite to the expected path when it passes through material with a negative index. Using this method, it is possible to distinguish synthetic cannabinoids from other abusive psychoactive drugs in the UV-vis region. In this study, we use a tight-binding model to calculate the permittivity and permeability of pentagonal configurations with different broken symmetries. Furthermore, a qualitative analysis of the negative refraction with respect to heptagonal models is discussed.     

The parametric Doppler effect in a medium with Lorentz dispersion

The frequency conversion under the parametric Doppler effect, which occurs when weak probe radiation reflects off from a refractive index inhomogeneity induced in a nonlinear medium by intense pumping, has been analyzed. Under these conditions, the frequency dispersion of the medium is assumed to correspond to the single Lorentz oscillator model. It is shown that the presence of resonance and a spectral range forbidden for propagation may lead to a complex Doppler effect, where the incident radiation is single-frequency but the reflected radiation consists of two or three monochromatic waves, one of which has a phaseconjugated wavefront.     

Curved Ferroelectric Liquid Crystal Matrix Displays Driven by Field-Sequential-Color and Active-Matrix Techniques

This paper describes a curved field-sequential-color matrix display using fast-response ferroelectric liquid crystal. Black matrix and transparent electrode patterns were formed on a thin plastic substrate by a transfer method from a glass substrate. While a composite film of liquid crystal and micro-polymers of walls and fibers was formed between the flexible substrates by printing, laminating and curing processes of a solution of monomers and liquid crystal, the mechanical stability was enhanced by use of multi-functional monomers to form large display panels. The image pixels of the matrix panel were driven by an active matrix scheme using an external switch transistor array at a frequency of 180 Hz for intermittent three-primary-color backlight illumination. The flexible A4-paper-sized color display with 24 × 16 pixels and 60 Hz field frequency was demonstrated by illuminating it with sequential three-primary-color lights from light-emitting diodes of the backlight. Our display system is useful in various information displays because of its freedom of setting and location.     

Study of the Filamentation Phenomenon of Femtosecond Laser Radiation

The filamentation phenomenon during propagation of femtosecond laser radiation in transparent solid media is experimentally studied. An experimental scheme for measuring the filament parameters using spherical and cylindrical optics is developed and assembled. The sample is structured in the filamentation mode, which makes it possible to obtain a specified distribution of laser radiation intensity.     

Tunable X-ray laser from high energy accelerator

Future high energy accelerators are suggested as a source of tunable laser radiation in the X-ray region of the spectrum. The radiation would result from lasing on the Doppler shifted 2p-1s transition in beams of one-electron atoms.     

Tryptophan and Proteins Can Be Entrapped in UV Transmitting Glass

It is demonstrated that tryptophan and proteins (parvalbumin and alcohol dehydrogenase) can be entrapped in silica glass. The silica glass is transparent in the UV spectral region, allowing for spectroscopic studies of immobilized proteins. The fluorescence spectra and phosphorescence spectra and lifetime of entrapped proteins resemble those observed for the molecules in aqueous solution.     

Frequency doubled diode laser in alternative extended cavity

We report on an alternative extended cavity scheme used with a 180 mW quantum well GaAlAs diode laser, operating near 850 nm. A dispersing prism and a thin glass plate are employed to enforce stable single-mode operation in the strong feedback regime, with no need for laser AR coatings. Compared to other configurations where a grating is used, the lower loss in the extended cavity allows higher fundamental power available for second harmonic generation. For example, by frequency doubling using potassium niobate in a power enhancement cavity, enough power can be generated from a single diode laser to decelerate and trap calcium atoms with radiation at 423 nm.     

获取超短波长电磁辐射的新途径

在系统研究运动电子对迎面而来的圆偏振激光脉冲的汤姆逊散射的基础上，讨论了获取超短波长电磁辐射的两种新方案。其一是利用超强圆偏振激光在具有特定速度的电子的非线性散射所伴随的谐波频率上称，其二是利用激光在相对论电子反向散射所伴随的多普勒频移。     

Electrodynamics in a linearly accelarated system

The frequency of electromagnetic radiation measured by a linearly accelerated observer is discussed from both classical and quantum points of view. It is shown that the Doppler principle is valid only in the eikonal limit. An alternative measure of frequency is considered and its limitations are critically examined.