Spatial light modulation characteristics of reverse saturable absorber

Construction of a spatial light modulator (SLM) using reverse saturable absorber molecules is suggested. The SLM characteristics are derived using a recently proposed steady-state kinetic analysis. Results are presented for the rhodamine 6G dye molecules.     

Multi-channel diffuse light source design

Based on Lambert reflect law, the principal of a novel multi-channel diffuse light source is given. Physical model based on Mont Carlo method simulates the diffuse reflection of light. New-designed mathematical model by coordinate system transforming achieves the tracking of single simulative photon. Simulation of four-channels diffuse light source shows that these light channels are with same optical quality. The four-channels diffuse light source has been applied on reliability testing system, and it assured the comparability of testing result, and saved cost and time greatly.     

针对LED扩展光源照明的自由曲面透镜设计

针对LED扩展光源,采用双向反馈网格法设计了自由曲面透镜.划分光源和目标面的能量网格,通过对每一条迭代曲线建立反馈系数,对网格点进行修正并建立新的映射关系,设计了两个目标面中心无光照度的自由曲面透镜.将设计的自由曲面透镜用蒙特卡罗方法对不同尺寸的LED扩展光源进行了模拟仿真.结果表明,对于尺寸在4mm×4mm以下的LE...     

Energy loss of light ions in polypropylene absorber foils

The energy loss of Li, C and O ions in polypropylene absorber foils has been measured using 15 UD Pelletron Accelerator facility at Inter University Accelerator Centre (IUAC), New Delhi, India. The actual experiment has been performed in low flux chamber attached to the General Purpose Scattering Chamber (GPSC). These experimental energy loss values have been compared with the computed values based on various empirical/semi-empirical formulations. Some interesting trends have been observed.      

The effect of determined chaos on light collection in optical systems

In terms of the dynamic approach, the collection of light in optical systems and the influence of determined chaos on the photometry and fluctuations of regular and chaotic collection are considered. The photometric relationships generalizing the formula of the integrating sphere as applied to chaotic collection are obtained. A universal law for noise in the regular light collection is predicted and found to be in good agreement with the available experimental data. The relationships studied can find use in the elaboration of a new-design detectors, light guides, light-emitting diodes, etc., for the enhancement of their efficiency and the reduction of noise.     

Broadband visible light absorber based on ultrathin semiconductor nanostructures

It is desirable to have electromagnetic wave absorbers with ultrathin structural thickness and broader spectral absorption bandwidth with numerous applications in optoelectronics. In this paper, we theoretically propose and numerically demonstrate a novel ultrathin nanostructure absorber composed of semiconductor nanoring array and a uniform gold substrate. The results show that the absorption covers the entire visible light region, achieving an average absorption rate more than 90% in a wavelength range from 300 nm to 740 nm and a nearly perfect absorption from 450 nm to 500 nm, and the polarization insensitivity performance is particularly great. The absorption performance is mainly caused by the electrical resonance and magnetic resonance of semiconductor nanoring array as well as the field coupling effects. Our designed broadband visible light absorber has wide application prospects in the fields of thermal photovoltaics and photodetectors.     

The influence of the scattering anisotropy parameter on diffuse reflection of light

We discuss the impact of the scattering anisotropy parameter on the path length distribution of multiply scattered light. A quantitative treatment based on the radiative transfer equation is compared to an extended photon diffusion formalism. We compare both models with diffusing-wave spectroscopy measurements using randomly polarized light.     

Effective collection of Brillouin scattered light in liquids

Devices for the collection of Brillouin scattered light in liquids are discussed. Optical systems have hitherto employed conical mirrors; their angular acceptance functions are presented. Novel devices proposed and discussed are the cylinder lens and the “scattering tube” (a cylindrical mirror). Results of applications are reported. This work was supported by the “Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft”.     

New collection systems for multi LED light engines

Light emitting diodes (LEDs) have numerous advantages as light sources in projectors. LEDs are more compact, exhibit a larger color gamut, have a longer lifetime, and need a lower supply voltage. However, there is still one important disadvantage: the optical power per unit of étendue (luminance) of an LED is significantly low. As a result of the étendue limitations of LEDs, the projected flux on the screen will not be high. Despite this shortcoming, LED’s are still of great interest for low power applications because of their other superior properties. Thus we collect the available light flux optimally and combine multiple high luminance LEDs within the system. In this study we discuss three collection systems designed to collect the LED flux with high optical efficiency while retaining small device size. The best collection efficiency attained with our collection systems is 96%. The fabrication tolerance and cost of our collection systems are also analyzed.     

Solid-state single photon sources: light collection strategies

We examine the problem of efficiently collecting the photons produced by solid-state single photon sources. The extent of the problem is first established with the aid of simple physical concepts. Several approaches to improving the collection efficiency are then examined and are broadly categorized into two types. First are those based on cavity quantum dynamics, in which the pathways by which the source may emit a photon are restricted, thus channeling emission into one desired mode. Second are those where we try to reshape the free space modes into a target mode in an optimal way, by means of refraction, without fundamentally altering the way in which the source emits. Respectively, we examine a variety of microcavities and solid immersion lenses. Whilst we find that the micropillar microcavities offer the highest collection efficiency (∼70%), choosing this approach may not always be appropriate due to other constraints. Details of the different approaches, their merits and drawbacks are discussed in detail. Received 19 July 2001 and Received in final form 5 October 2001     

Cooling of rubidium atoms in pulsed diffuse laser light

This paper reports an experiment on laser cooling of 87 Rb atoms in pulsed diffuse light,which is the key step towards a compact cold atom clock.It deduces an empirical formula to simulate the pulse cooling process based on the loading of cold atoms in cooling time and the loss in the dead time,which is in agreement with the experimental data.The formula gives a reference to select the parameters for the cold atom clock.     

Free-space propagation of diffuse light: theory and experiments

In this Letter we present a simple and novel theoretical approach for modeling the intensity distribution from an arbitrarily shaped turbid volume in a noncontact geometry by considering diffuse light propagation in free space. This theory is validated with experiments for a diffusive volume of known geometry in a noncontact situation, both with and without the presence of an embedded absorber. The implications of this new formulation in the context of optical tomography in turbid media are discussed.     

Loading of cold ~(87)Rb atom with diffuse light in an integrating sphere

<正>Cold ~(87)Rb atom's loading in an integrating sphere with diffuse light is analyzed theoretically and experimentally. The experimental results show that diffuse light cooling has the greatest efficiency to cool the most atoms when the red detuning between the frequencies of cooling light and atom transition is about 3.3r(Γis the natural linewidth,6.065 MHz).Theoretical analysis using rate equation and numerical calculations on the cold atom number and loading time agree with the experimental results.This integrating sphere cooling would be a novel method for cooling atoms and lead to a new and robust cold atom source for atomic clock.     

A saturable absorber, coherent population oscillations, and slow light

The paper presents a critical analysis of publications on one of the methods of creating so-called slow light (light with an anomalously low group velocity) arising due to a high steepness of the refractive index dispersion curve. The method employs, for this purpose, the effect of coherent population oscillations accompanied by burning of a narrow spectral hole in the homogeneously broadened absorption spectrum. The interpretation of the experimental data in the studies under consideration is based on the analysis of the response of a nonlinear medium to a low-frequency intensity modulation of the propagating light beam. We show that all the observations of these papers can be easily interpreted in the framework of the simplest model of a saturable absorber and have nothing to do with the hole burning effect or group velocity reduction.     

Wideband perfect light absorber at midwave infrared using multiplexed metal structures

We experimentally demonstrate a wideband near-perfect light absorber in the midwave IR region using a multiplexed plasmonic metal structure. The wideband near-perfect light absorber is made of two different size gold metal squares multiplexed on a thin dielectric spacing layer on top of a thick metal layer in each unit cell. We also fabricate regular nonmultiplexed structure perfect light absorbers. The multiplexed structure IR absorber absorbs more than 98% of the incident light over a much wider spectral band than regular nonmultiplexed structure perfect light absorbers in the midwave IR region.     

The limitation of the proposed collection efficiency for fiber probes on the visible and near-infrared diffuse spectroscopy

A fiber is usually used as a probe in visible and near-infrared diffuse spectra measurement. However, the use of different fiber probes in the same measurement may cause data mismatch problems. Our group has researched the influence of the parameters of fiber probe, including the aperture angle, on the diffuse spectrum by a modified Monte Carlo model. To eliminate the influence of the aperture angle, we proposed a fitted equation of correction coefficient to correct its difference in practical range. However, we did not discuss the limitation of this method. In this work, we explored the collection efficiency in different optical environment with Monte Carlo simulation method, and find the suitable conditions—weak absorbing and strong scattering media, for the proposed collection efficiency. Furthermore, we tried to explain the stability of the collection efficiency in this condition. This work gives suitable conditions for the collection efficiency. The use of collection efficiency can help reduce the influence of different measurement systems and is also helpful to the model translation.