Optically trapping Rayleigh particles by using focused partially coherent multi-rotating elliptical Gaussian beams

By investigating the cross-spectral density of partially coherent multi-rotating elliptical Gaussian beams(REGBs) that propagate through a focusing optical system, we obtain the radiation force on a Rayleigh particle.The radiation force distribution is studied under different beam indexes, coherence widths, and elliptical ratios of the partially coherent multi REGBs. The transverse and the longitudinal trapping ranges can increase at the focal plane by increasing the beam index or decreasing the coherence width. The range of the trapped particle radii increases as the elliptical ratio increases. Furthermore, we analyze the trapping stability.     

Characterization of an oriented metastable atom source based on a magnetic hexapole

The M_J-state selection of the metastable rare-gas (Rg*) was achieved by a magnetic hexapole that is composed of permanent magnets. The performance of the magnetic hexapole was examined by characterizing the velocity distribution and the spatial profile of the state selected Rg* beam. The characterization was carried out using position resolved time-of-flight analysis and its trajectory simulation. The magnetic hexapole enhanced the beam intensity at least one order of magnitude owing to the focusing effect. In addition, the magnetic hexapole was found to act as a good velocity selector.     

静电六极装置电场分布的数值计算方法及在N2O分子转动态选择、取向中的应用

阐述求解极性分子转动态选择及取向静电六极装置中势能分布、电场分布的数值计算方法.为了获得电场分布公式,需通过数值迭代求解势能满足的Laplace方程,获取数值分布点,通过数值分布点,由待定系数的多级展开势能解析表达式进行最小二乘拟合获得势能分布公式,由势能对空间向量的微分获得电场分布.分子在六极电场中的运行轨迹采用经典Newton方程描述,并通过四阶龙格-库塔方法(Four Order Runge-Kutta Method)实现数值求解,其中能量处理采用量子力学方法.应用此方法给出静电六极装置的电场分布公式,运用获得的电场分布公式计算和讨论电场对极性分子N₂O的静电六极转动态选择、取向所带来的影响.     

High-order harmonic generation in a tightly focused laser beam

The force due to the transverse magnetic field of a laser beam drives an electron in the direction of laser propagation, thereby impeding the recollision mechanism for high-order harmonic generation. The longitudinal electric field component of a tightly focused Gaussian beam can sufficiently counteract the magnetic force to enhance the harmonic yield substantially. For tight focusing and a laser intensity of 10(18) W/cm2, it can raise the harmonic yield by several orders of magnitude.     

A particle-in-cell mode beam dynamics simulation of medium energy beam transport for the SSC-Linac

A new linear accelerator system, called the SSC-Linac injector, is being designed at HIRFL (the heavy ion research facility of Lanzhou). As part of the SSC-Linac, the medium energy beam transport (MEBT) consists of seven magnetic quadrupoles, a re-buncher and a diagnose box. The total length of this segment is about 1.75 m. The beam dynamics simulation in MEBT has been studied using the TRACK 3D particle-in-cell code, and the simulation result shows that the beam accelerated from the radio frequency quadrupole (RFQ) matches well with the acceptance of the following drift tube linac (DTL) in both the transverse and longitudinal phase spaces, and that most of the particles can be captured by the final sector focusing cyclotron for further acceleration. The longitudinal emittance of the RFQ and the longitudinal acceptance of the DTL was calculated in detail, and a multi-particle beam dynamics simulation from the ion source to the end of the DTL was done to verify the original design.     

Electrostatic surface guiding for cold polar molecules: experimental demonstration

We demonstrate an electrostatic surface guiding for cold polar molecules over a long distance of 44.5 cm, 0.85 mm above a dielectric substrate, and measure the transverse distribution of the guided supersonic D2O/CH3Br beam and its longitudinal velocity one. Also, we study the dependence of the relative guiding efficiency and the transverse temperature of the guided molecular beam on the guiding voltage, and show that the absolute guiding efficiencies from the Monte Carlo simulation and theoretical calculation multiplied by 3 are about equal to the measured relative one.     

W波段扩展互作用器件均匀磁聚焦电子光学系统

扩展互作用器件,采用三个线圈和一个磁极实现均匀磁场分布。根据理论计算采用有限元法磁学(FEMM)仿真软件对所求磁场进行了建模分析,依据FEMM计算的磁场结合静电电子枪,采用CST仿真软件对高电流密度、高压缩比的电子注在均匀聚焦磁场的作用下传输进行优化。经过计算得出,在工作电压为17 kV、阴极发射电流密度小于10 A/cm2的条件下,由皮尔斯电子枪发射的电子注在均匀磁场的聚焦作用下传输良好,通过率为100%,得到了导流系数为0.175μP的电子枪,在均匀磁场区形成了高电流密度、高压缩比的电子注,平均电流密度达到343.17 A/cm2,压缩比为32,电子注横纵速度比为7.2%。     

四注行波管周期永磁聚焦系统的优化设计

根据电子注参数、布里渊磁场公式及周期聚焦系统轴向磁通密度峰值经验公式,计算出永磁聚焦系统轴向峰值磁通密度,利用Ansoft Maxwell 3D软件建立了四注行波管周期永磁聚焦系统仿真模型,对模型结构尺寸进行了参数化分析,研究了周期永磁聚焦系统结构尺寸对聚焦系统通道内磁通密度的影响,确定了磁聚焦系统结构最佳尺寸配合,优化设计出了四注行波管周期永磁聚焦系统。其电子注通道中心轴线上轴向磁通密度峰值B_z=309 mT,横向磁通密度B_t=2.86 mT,B_t/B_z=0.92%。     

激光冷却在原子束六极磁透镜技术中的应用

分析了由六极磁场构成了原子束磁透镜的原理及像差。在比较了热原子束和单色冷原子束的会聚效果后得出结论：影响它成像的主要因素是色差。应用激光冷却技术能使这一影响减小,从而使磁透镜在原子光学领域得到更广泛的应用。     

Stimulated Brillouin scattering of elliptical laser beam in collisionless plasma

This paper presents an investigation of self-focusing of elliptical laser beam in collisionless plasma and its effect on stimulated Brillouin scattering. The pump beam interacts with a pre-excited ion-acoustic wave leading to Brillouin back-scattered process. The transverse intensity gradient of a pump beam generates a ponderomotive force, which modifies the background plasma density profile in a direction transverse to pump beam axis. This modification in density effects the incident laser beam, ion-acoustic wave and back-scattered beam. Non-linear differential equations for the beam width parameters of pump laser beam, ion-acoustic wave and back-scattered beam are set up and solved numerically. It is observed from the analysis that the focusing of waves enhances the SBS back-reflectivity.     

Multiple filamentation of non-uniformly focused ultrashort laser pulses

We propose the impingement of non-uniform wavefront curvature as a simple way to improve the longitudinal homogeneity of the plasma density along filaments generated by ultrashort laser pulses. We characterize multiple filamentation of a multiterawatt beam with different wavefront curvatures applied to specific regions in the transverse beam profile. In adequate conditions, the filamenting region is more homogeneously ionized, in the longitudinal direction, than in the case of uniform focusing. Moreover, the ionization maximum is located between the middle and the two thirds of the filaments in all investigated chirps and focus configurations.     

Optimization of focusing of linearly polarized light

We show that, by adding a π-phase shift to one-half of a linearly polarized beam, the roles of the transversal and longitudinal field components of the focused beam are interchanged, resulting in better focusing of the longitudinal component in the direction perpendicular to the phase jump line. For this component the scheme produces a spot with FWHM >15% smaller than a spot generated with either linearly or radially polarized light for any NA. The scheme has a similar advantage when applied to circularly polarized light, and it holds for both a plane wave and a realistic case of a Gaussian incident beam. This technique may find applications when using recording media responsive to the longitudinal field only, particularly in read/write for optical storage where the resolution in one transverse dimension is most important.     

Ultrarelativistic-positron-beam transport through meter-scale plasmas

We report on the first study of the dynamic transverse forces imparted to an ultrarelativistic positron beam by a long plasma in the underdense regime. Focusing of the 28.5 GeV beam is observed from time-resolved beam profiles after the 1.4 m plasma. The strength of the imparted force varies along the approximately 12 ps full length of the bunch as well as with plasma density. Computer simulations substantiate the longitudinal aberration seen in the data and reveal mechanisms for emittance degradation.     

Halo formation and emittance growth of positron beams in plasmas

An ultrarelativistic 28.5 GeV, 700-microm-long positron bunch is focused near the entrance of a 1.4-m-long plasma with a density n(e) between approximately equal to 10(13) and approximately equal to 5 x 10(14) cm(-3). Partial neutralization of the bunch space charge by the mobile plasma electrons results in a reduction in transverse size by a factor of approximately equal to 3 in the high emittance plane of the beam approximately equal to 1 m downstream from the plasma exit. As n(e) increases, the formation of a beam halo containing approximately 40% of the total charge is observed, indicating that the plasma focusing force is nonlinear. Numerical simulations confirm these observations. The bunch with an incoming transverse size ratio of approximately 3 and emittance ratio of approximately 5 suffers emittance growth and exits the plasma with approximately equal sizes and emittances.     

Laser Mode-Dependent Size of Plasma Zones Induced by Femtosecond Laser Pulses in Fused Silica

We carry out the numerical simulations of femtosecond laser propagation with TEMoo mode, TEM10 mode and a beam combining both the modes in fused silica. It is found that the transverse size of plasma zones induced by laser pulses with the TEM10 mode is smaller than that induced by the TEM00 mode, while the longitudinal size is almost the same, and the saturated plasma density is higher. The transverse size, the longitudinal size and the ratio of the longitudinal to transverse size, for the beam combining both the modes, all could be reduced at the same time in comparison with the TEM00 mode under the same focusing conditions.     

聚焦透镜的像散对光阱力的影响

根据里查德-沃耳夫矢量积分公式,研究了径向偏振光通过具有像散的大数值孔径物镜后在焦点附近的光阱力。着重研究像散对轴向和横向光阱力的影响。研究结果表明,像散的存在导致了光阱力的势垒减弱,光阱中心的偏移,甚至是改变了有效捕捉区域,这将严重影响了光镊的轴向和横向对粒子的捕捉。通过对改变数值孔径的大小和孔径与光腰的比值,以及对不同大小的粒子捕捉效果的对比,可以改变像散对粒子捕捉影响的程度,从而改善像散对光阱力的影响,这对于光镊等精密仪器的操作是十分必要的。     

Investigation of Near-Field Imaging Characteristics of Radial Polarization for Application to Optical Data Storage

Radially polarized incident light can generate a more confined longitudinal electric field on a focal plane in near-field (NF) optics than focusing circularly polarized light. Using this phenomenon, it is feasible to reduce beam spot size on storage media to increase the areal density of optical data storage. A radially polarized beam generates a beam spot which is 20% more confined on the 1st surface of medium than that of circularly polarized light. However, the peak intensity of total electric field sharply decreases and its transverse component is much more dominant inside the media stack. This confirms that radially polarized optics can be a candidate not for an NF recording system but for an NF read-only memory (ROM) system. Potentially, the results could be useful to understand the effect of radial and circular polarizations inside and outside medium for various applications of NF optics.     

Bessel beams: Effects of polarization

An approximation to a Bessel beam produced by tightly focusing linearly polarized light is known to produce a smaller central lobe than focusing plane polarized light. This is because the plane polarized wave gives a broad central lobe caused mainly by a parasitic longitudinal field component. It is known that this problem can be overcome by focusing radially polarized light. Here we demonstrate that other polarization distributions based on a linear combination of transverse electric (TE1) and transverse magnetic (TM1) fields can give a beam even narrower than for the radially polarized case. Special cases of this combination are identified, corresponding to the smallest width (TE1), and the maximum peak intensity compared with the side lobes (electric dipole polarization). Axially-symmetric forms can be generated by illumination with elliptically polarized light. A particular case is azimuthal polarization with a phase singularity, which is equivalent to TE1. For a semi-angular aperture of 60°, the TE1 case gives a central lobe width 9% narrower than for radially polarized illumination, while for plane polarized illumination it is 12% wider than the radially polarized case.     

锶热原子束二维准直的动力学过程的蒙特卡罗模拟及实验研究

在考虑随机因素的情况下, 应用蒙特卡罗方法在理论上详细研究了锶原子束二维激光准直的动力学过程. 综合考虑原子横向发散角、初始原子位置、纵向速度分布、同位素等因素, 获得了激光二维准直后的原子横向空间分布的模拟结果以及随准直光失谐、光功率等参量因素的变化. 通过与实验数据比较, 理论值和实验值很好相符, 显示蒙特卡罗方法可以精确地描述锶原子束二维准直的动力学过程. 为原子束激光二维准直的精确控制, 高精度原子钟系统的优化, 提供了一种理论分析方法. 关键词： 二维准直 蒙特卡罗方法 横向空间分布