低功率近红外光的偏振方向对光致折射率变化影响的实验研究

研究了利用低功率近红外光辐照In:Fe:LiNbO3晶体时写入光束的偏振方向对光致折射率变化(Δn)的影响.分别采用正常偏振(o光)和非常偏振(e光)的近红外细激光束,在In:Fe:LiNbO3晶体中进行了光折变实验.研究表明,两种偏振方向引起晶体的Δn实测曲线相似,但变化规律恰好相反,o光引起的折射率变化量约是e光的3倍左右.近红外光写入下两种偏振光束引起晶体的Δn分布规律都不同于可见光,尤其是e光辐照区域中心晶体的折射率升高.因此,通过选择不同偏振方向的近红外光可以在光折变晶体中制作不同折射率分布的非线性光学器件.     

InAs晶体二维自旋磁极化子自陷能的磁温效应

 在同时考虑磁场和高温高压的情况下,应用么正变换和线性组合算符法,研究了电子自旋对弱耦合二维磁极化子自陷能的影响。对InAs半导体所作的数值计算结果表明,不同方向的电子自旋使弱耦合二维磁极化子的自陷能分裂为二。分裂的程度随磁场的加强而加剧。随着磁场或温度的增加,磁极化子的自陷能减小而电子自旋能量与磁极化子自陷能之比增大。当磁场足够强或温度足够高时,电子自旋能量与磁极化子自陷能之比是很大的。     

Experimental investigation of the thermo-optical nonlinearity of solutions of synthesized rare-earth complexes

The large nonlinearities of the solutions of a new type of rare-earth complexes R_E(TTA)₄:HP, synthesized by ourselves, are experimentally demonstrated. The critical powers for the self-trapping of a laser beam in the solutions were measured. The dependence of the self-trapping critical powers on the absorptivity of the solutions and the type of solute complexes was found. The analysis for the experimental results shows that the effects of self-focusing and self-trapping of light in the solutions are not due to the change of molecular local density but the thermo-optical nonlinearities of the dissolved molecules themselves.     

Effect of anionic ordering on the electronic and optical properties of BaTaO_2N:TB-mBJ density functional calculation

This report presents a first-principles investigation of the structural, electronic, and optical properties of perovskite oxynitrides BaTaO_2 N by means of density functional theory(DFT) calculations using the full-potential linearized augmented plane wave(FP-LAPW) method. Three possible structures(P4mm, I4/mmm, and Pmma) are considered according to the TaO_4N_2 octahedral configurations. The calculated structural parameters are found to be in good agreement with the previous theoretical and experimental results. Moreover, the electronic band structure dispersion, total, and partial densities of electron states are investigated to explain the origin of bandgaps and the contribution of each orbital's species in the valence and the conduction bands. The calculated minimum bandgaps of the P4 mm, I4/mmm, and Pmma structures are 1.83 e V, 1.59 e V, and 1.49 e V, respectively. Furthermore, the optical properties represented by the dielectric functions calculated for BaTaO_2 N show that the I4/mmm phase absorbs the light at a large window in both the visible and UV regions,whereas the other two structures(P4mm and Pmma) are more active in the UV region. Our investigations provide important information for the potential application of this material.     

Guiding-center walking soliton

The concept of the guiding-center walking soliton is introduced for examination of self-trapping of light in quadratic nonlinear media in materials with large Poynting vector walk-off. It is shown that robust guiding-center solitons exist in properly constructed tandem structures. The goal is to form quadratic solitons with reduced light intensities.     

单轴晶体的光程差和Lyot型滤光器的视场

 建立了以光线入射方向和晶体光轴方向为基准的入射坐标系，利用波法线反曲面方程和电磁场在晶体折射界面处切向分量连续性的边界条件，得到了晶体中波法线方向、射线方向、波法线折射率和射线折射率的表达式。从非常光的射线方向和射线折射率出发，得到了在任意的晶体光轴方向和入射角条件下，光通过单轴晶体后寻常光、非常光的光程差表达式。对Lyot型滤光单元的透射率和视场进行了计算分析后发现，滤光单元的透射率随光线入射角的变化呈现一定的周期性，视场随光轴倾角的增大而减小。得出了透射率和视场随光轴倾角(光轴与晶体表面的夹角)和光线入射角(光线在晶体表面的入射角)的变化规律。讨论了通过改变晶体倾角实现滤光器调谐和补偿晶体厚度加工误差等技术问题。     

Self-trapping of a wannier exciton in the optical phonon field

Stability for self-trapping of a Wannier exciton in the polarization field of optical phonons is studied by means of variational calculations based on the adiabatic approximation. The phase diagram of free and self-trapped states is presented for 1s, 2s and 2p excitons. It is shown that optical phonons can be responsible for self-trapping of 2s (2p) exciton as a trigger of self-trapping.     

Observation of bright spatial photorefractive solitons in a planar strontium barium niobate waveguide

We have obtained stationary bright spatial solitons in a planar photorefractive strontium barium niobate waveguide for visible light ranging from 514.5 to 780 nm. Even for larger wavelengths (lambda=1047 nm) strong self-focusing of the beam was observed; however, input power had to be some orders of magnitude higher than for visible light for self-focusing to occur. Furthermore, we found transient self-trapping of red light (lambda=632.8 nm) that corresponds to the formation of bright quasi-steady-state solitons.     

晶体转动时非常光的轨迹

本文就光入射到单轴晶体的情况,求得了非常光线方向的普遍公式,并按冰洲石的相应数据画出了三视图,使得晶体转动时,非常光的轨迹明显可见。所得结果为测定晶片光学常数的新方法提供了可能性。     

Conditions for self trapping of positively charged particles in metals

As a result of recent suggestions that light positively charged particles (e.g. positrons) may be self trapped in metals we have made estimates of the strength of the particle-lattice coupling (or deformation potential) necessary for this phenomenon to occur. In our approach lattice theory is employed from the outset and it is not necessary to introduce a wavenumber cut-off. We find that most metals have a positron-lattice coupling strength somewhat below that necessary for self-trapping.     

双势阱玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚体系的自俘获现象及其周期调制效应

研究了双势阱玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚体系(BEC)的自俘获现象(self-trapping). 在平均场近似下通过相平面(phase space)分析的方法研究了两种自俘获的机理：1)势阱中的粒子数在平衡位置附近振动，而相对相位随时间单调变化(running-phase); 2) 势阱中的粒子数和相对相位都在平衡点附近振动. 研究了周期调制场对自俘获现象的影响，发现发生自俘获现象的相变参数能够被周期场非常有效的调制，从而在弱相互作用BEC体系中也可以观察到自俘获现象. 还研究了多体量子涨落对自俘获现象的影响，讨论了在现有的实验条件下对凝聚体自俘获现象进行观察和周期调制. 关键词： 玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚 自俘获 双势阱 周期调制     

双势阱中玻色-费米混合气体的周期调制效应

在周期调制场下, 通过对双势阱中费米子数目及相互作用参数的调节, 研究了该系统中玻色子的自俘获现象. 研究发现, 系统中费米子数目及相互作用参数都会影响玻色子的自俘获现象, 并且随着 相互作用及粒子数目的变化, 玻色子的自俘获发生临界现象. 关键词： 玻色-费米混合气体 周期调制 自俘获     

半导体光折变介质中光束传输的自囚禁及周期调制

推导了光束在半导体光折变介质的光子晶格中演化的二能级形式, 给出了光束在其中传播时二能级方程的经典正则形式. 解析计算出了经典正则方程的不动点并对其稳定性作了分析, 计算出了拓扑结构变化的临界值. 根据二能级方程的经典正则形式做出了空间相图, 进一步分析了半导体光折变介质中光束传输的自囚禁现象, 发现有两种形式的自囚禁: 1)能级中的布居数差和相对相位都在平衡点附近振动; 2)能级中的布居数差在平衡点附近振动, 而相对相位单调变化. 分别从高频、低频、中频三个方面研究了外加周期调制对自囚禁的影响, 发现在高频调制中发生自囚禁现象的相变参数能够被周期场非常有效的调制, 使得光束在半导体光折变介质中传输时, 在非线性效应影响较小时也能够发生自囚禁. 关键词： 半导体光折变介质 自囚禁 二能级形式 周期调制     

Tunneling and Self-Trapping of Superfluid Fermi Gases in BCS-BEC Crossover

We investigate tunneling and self-trapping of superfluid Fermi gases under a two-mode ansatz in different regimes of the crossover from Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer (BCS) superfluid to Bose-Einstein condensates (BEC). Starting from a generalized equation of state, we derive the coupled equations of relative atom-pair number and relative phase about superfluid Fermi gases in a double-well system and then classify the different oscillation behaviors by the
tunneling strength and interactions between atoms. Tunneling and self-trapping behaviors are considered in the whole BCS-BEC crossover in the case of a symmetric double-well potential. We show that the nonlinear interaction between atoms makes the self-trapping more easily realized in BCS regime than in the BEC regime and stability analysis is also given.     

Analysis of structural and electronic properties of Pr(2)NiO(4) through first-principles calculations

The structural and electronic properties of bulk Pr(2)NiO(4+δ) (δ?=?0 and 0.031) were analyzed using first-principles calculations based on the density functional theory (DFT) for application to electrode materials in solid-oxide fuel cells (SOFCs). Two structures of Pr(2)NiO(4) were analyzed: one in space group I4/mmm associated with the high temperature tetragonal (HTT) structure, and the other in Bmab with the low temperature orthorhombic (LTO) structure. The main difference between the two structures is the pronounced tilting of the nickelate octahedra found in the Bmab structure. Here, we will show that the difference in the electronic properties between the two structures, i.e.?half-metallic for the I4/mmm structure and metallic for the Bmab structure, is attributed to the tilting of the nickelate octahedra. Furthermore, we found that the presence of interstitial O atoms at the Pr(2)O(2) bilayers is responsible for the tilting of the octahedra and thus is a dominant factor in the transition from the I4/mmm structure to the Bmab structure. These results would be of great significance to materials design related to the enhancement of O diffusivity in this material.     

Holographic recording in LiNbO3 using various polarized lights

Holographic recordings in a LiNbO₃ crystal using ordinary and extraordinary light in transmission-type geometry were performed. The system parameters of storage capacity (M/#), sensitivity, and signal-to-noise ratio were measured. Although extraordinary light will induce stronger fanning light (nonlinear enhanced scattered light) in LiNbO₃, our experimental results indicate that the system using extraordinary light is superior to that using ordinary light. Our demonstrations and results can help to optimize the holographic recording in some applications of volume holographic optical element (VHOE), such as wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) filters in optical communication.     

Formation of fundamental solitons in the two-dimensional nonlinear Schrödinger equation with a lattice potential

We consider self-trapping of 2D solitons in the model based on theGross-Pitaevskii/nonlinear Schrödinger equation with the self-attractivecubic nonlinearity and a periodic potential of the optical-lattice (OL)type. It is known that this model may suppress the collapse, giving rise toa family of stable fundamental solitons. Here, we report essential dynamical featuresof self-trapping of the fundamental solitons from input configurations oftwo types, with vorticity 0 or 1. We identify regions in the respectiveparameter spaces corresponding to the formation of the soliton, collapse,and decay. A noteworthy result is the self-trapping of stable fundamentalsolitons in cases when the input norm essentially exceeds the collapsethreshold. We also compare predictions of the dynamical variationalapproximation with direct numerical simulations.     

二维声学极化子的基态能量和有效质量

自陷电子对了解光电材料的光学性质非常重要.近些年来,形变晶格中电子自陷的问题受到研究人员的广泛关注.电子既与声学模耦合,也与光学模相互作用,但电子由自由态向自陷态的转变缘于近程的电子-声学声子耦合.研究表明:声学极化子在大多数半导体以及Ⅲ-Ⅴ族化合物,甚至碱卤化物中都不可能自陷.另一方面,电子-声子耦合在束缚结构,如二维、一维系统中,会有所增强.换言之,电子在低维结构中更容易自陷.Farias等人指出:声学极化子在二维系统中自陷的临界电子-声子耦合常数为定值,不随声子截止波矢的变化而改变.这种结论在物理上不尽合理.通过计算二维系统中的声学极化子基态能量和有效质量,讨论了二维声学极化子自陷问题.研究发现,二维声学极化子自陷转变的临界耦合常数随声子截止波矢的增加朝电子-声子耦合较弱的方向变化.这一特征与前人关于体和表面极化子研究获得的结论定性一致.所得二维声学极化子基态能量的表达式与Farias等人一致,但自陷的结果与Farias等人的结果在定性和定量上均有不同,我们认为Farias等人关于二维声学极化子自陷转变点的确定方式有不妥之处.通过改进自陷转变点的确定方式,得到了在物理上更合理的结果.     

Electrically controlled switching of light beams in the plane of liquid crystal layer

A simple experimental method and a set-up to control light beams in the plane of liquid crystal (LC) cell is developed. The main idea of the method is the reflection and the refraction of light beams propagating in a plane of LC layer from the boundary, which separates the regions of a liquid crystal cell with different director orientations and refractive indices. This boundary can be produced by electric field applied to the LC layer with a planar homogeneous orientation. The disclination lines that separate the extremely sharp changes of LC orientation can be also used for this purpose. The possibility of discrete deflection of light beam from the initial direction is shown. A computer simulation confirmed that the proposed experimental geometry was most suitable to control intensity of extraordinary rays propagating in the plane of liquid crystal layer.