Spectroscopy between 5 and 6 μm with a tunable spin-flip Raman source

We describe the application of a tunable, infrared, spin-flip Raman source to the measurement of the absorption spectra of gases in the spectral region 5–6 μm. Continuous tuning was obtained by using a low finesse Raman crystal cavity to eliminate mode pulling and hopping effects. The effects of atmospheric absorption, and pulse-to-pulse and magnetic field dependent intensity variations were cancelled by using a double beam arrangement. As an illustration of the operation of such a Raman spectrometer we obtain the P and Q branch absorption spectra of nitric oxide at various gas pressures in the spectral region 1890-1835 cm^-1. Studies at low gas pressure and with the tunable source operating close to the threshold for stimulated emission show a resolution of ≈ 0.08 cm^-1, determined by the linewidth of the Raman scattered radiation. This linewidth is shown to be in agreement with a mechanism of stimulated superradiant narrowing of the spontaneously scattered lineshape.     

Absorption resonances in A-type three-level system in cesium vapor cell with buffer gas

We report experimentally the transformation from the electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) resonance to a dispersion-like signal and eventually to a nearly symmetric absorption resonance as coupling detuning increases in A-type three-level system in the cesium vapor cell with buffer gas at room temperature. The observed absorption resonance occupies some remarkable properties of the strong amplitude and the narrow linewidth in comparison with the case without buffer gas. The relation between linewidth of the enhanced absorption resonance and buffer gas pressure is studied. With pressure increasing, linewidth of the absorption resonance becomes narrow. The sub-natural linewidth is observed in Doppler-broadened cesium vapor cell in our experiment. The experimental results are in qualitative agreement with the numerical simulations.     

激发光线宽对原子光致漂移速率的影响

在光致漂移效应的研究中,激发光线宽会改变原子激发的速度选择性,进而影响漂移速率的大小.本文以原子光致漂移速率方程理论为基础,利用强碰撞模型描述原子与缓冲气体的碰撞作用,运用数值方法对速率方程进行求解计算,研究了激发光线宽对原子漂移速率的影响.研究结果表明,其他条件相同时,随着线宽的增大,漂移速率的值呈现先增大后减小的趋势.存在一个最佳的激发光线宽,使得原子的漂移速率达到最大值.最佳线宽与激发光功率密度、温度和缓冲气体压强有关.为了获得最佳的光致漂移效果,激发光应工作在最佳线宽条件下.当激发光线宽在最佳线宽附近波动时,设置激发光线宽略大于最佳线宽可减少线宽波动对漂移速率的影响,对获得较大漂移速率更为有利.     

激光器特性在痕量气体检测中的影响

研究了激光器扫描步长和线宽两种特性对可调谐半导体激光吸收光谱检测系统的影响,理论上推导出激光与气体吸收谱线的作用原理,分析出扫描信号(锯齿波)的台阶间隔和高度影响激光器中心波长的扫描原理.设定了仿真参数,仿真出锯齿波台阶数与最大扫描误差关系曲线,得出扫描信号的一个周期内具有4000个台阶时,半高全宽(FWHM)大于0.01 cm-1,误差小于1‰;仿真出激光器线宽与最大幅值、线宽误差关系曲线,给出线宽误差最大为1%,0.5%时激光器线宽对应的最小FWHM.在温度系数n取0.9,大气展宽系数γair取0.005的条件下,给出温度T,压强P与FWHM关系图,推出了适用的压强与温度范围.为指导选取激光器与气体吸收谱线、提高系统检测限提供了相关理论依据.     

HL-2A装置中性束离子源引出系统束流分析

在中性束离子源引出过程中,详细分析了引出束流的产生,这有利于得到更准确的引出功率和引出电极表面的热功率沉积情况。根据HL-2A装置中性束离子源引出电极的电连接方式和束流引出的物理过程,对离子源束流引出过程进行了分析,给出抑制极电流产生的主要来源。通过分析放电气压扫描实验中的结果发现:随着放电气压的增加,不同弧放电电流情况下抑制极电流均逐渐增加,且抑制极电流与引出电流的比值近似线性增加。针对引出离子束流经过引出电极的过程建立了物理模型。计算了抑制极电流与引出电流的比值与放电气压的依赖关系,计算结果与实验结果一致,验证了引出束流分析结果的合理性。     

Fabrication of optical disk mastering using electron beam and embossing process

For the requirement of higher storage capacity of an optical disk, it is a good choice to shorten pit length and linewidth. However, the conventional laser beam mastering is difficult to fabricate smaller pit length and linewidth because of the optical diffraction limit. In order to solve this problem, optical disk mastering using electron beam lithography is presented. The process parameters of the electron beam mastering such as beam current, constant linear stage velocity, developing time, and focus distance are discussed in this research. In the experiments, it was found that the focus distance is an important parameter to fabricate nano-linewidth. The experimental results reveal that the 10 μm variance in focus distance causes about 12% variation in linewidth. The photoresist with nano-pattern defined by eletron beam was transferred into metal Ni–Co (Nickel–Cobalt) mold by electroplating process. The Ni–Co mold with hardness larger than Vicker Hardness (Hv) 650 was developed. Then, with the Ni–Co mold, LIGA (German: Lithographie GaVanoformung Abformung) process was applied to replicate high-density optical disk. The Ni–Co mold is served as a master for hot embossing process to transfer the nano-pattern onto PMMA sheet. Since the feature size is in nano-meter range, the study presents an innovative demolding mechanism to demold the master from the PMMA sheet without damaging the nano-meter structure. A spiral nano-groove with 112 nm in linewidth and 80 nm in depth has been successfully fabricated about 50 Gbytes storage capacity.     

三种半导体阵列光谱组束结构的输出特性

基于光谱光束组合技术,利用光栅的衍射和外腔的反馈,并通过加入光束整形系统,将标准的半导体激光阵列的发光单元锁定在窄线宽的不同波长上,以近似平行光束沿组合方向输出,以实现半导体激光阵列输出光束质量的改善和线宽的压窄。实验中采用发光单元宽度100μm,周期500μm,由19个单元构成的标准阵列,分别对快、慢轴准直后光谱组束、光束整形后光谱组束和线宽压窄外腔组束进行了实验验证,实现了组合光束与单个发光单元近似的光束质量,同时得到了较窄的线宽输出,并对实验结果进行了分析。     

Narrowing of sub-Doppler saturated-absorption resonances in multilayer gas cells

We have studied theoretically nontrivial specific features of sub-Doppler resonances of saturated absorption in a multilayer gas cell with a rarefied gas medium, which is a compact analog of a large number of plane-parallel atomic beams. Spatially separated saturating and probing monochromatic laser beams that co- and counterpropagate (at the same frequency) in this cell have been considered. In this situation, the action of the light radiation of the saturating beam on the probing beam is determined by optically pumped atoms that fly between the beams under conditions that the longitudinal components of their velocities experience selection due to a specific geometry of the multilayer cell. Such a selection leads to a narrowing of the sub-Doppler resonance in the absorption of the probing beam and decreases the difference between the structures of this resonance for the cases of co- and counterpropagation of the saturating radiation. We have found that, in the considered multilayer cell, the effective width of the sub-Doppler resonance can be smaller (by a factor of about 1.5) than the extremely narrow characteristic width of the well-known Lamb dip in spectroscopy of saturated absorption in the standard gas cell. Results of this study can be used in atomic spectroscopy of ultrahigh resolution and for the laser-frequency stabilization.     

不同惰性气氛及压强对碳纳米管电子自旋共振谱的影响

用直流碳弧法在He气氛和Ar气氛（压强为10—80 kPa）下制备碳纳米管,在770℃下将阴极深积物氧化至原重量的1％,得到纯的碳纳米管,测量不同气氛及压强下制备的碳纳米管的室温电子自旋共振（ESR)谱,讨论了不同惰性气氛及压强对所制备碳纳米管的直径分布及ESR谱线型、g因子、线宽和相对自旋浓度的影响. 关键词：     

Exciton linewidth due to scattering from free carriers in semiconducting quantum well structures

The contribution to the exciton linewidth in semiconducting quantum well structures due to the scattering of excitons by free carriers is calculated. It is found that this contribution becomes very important in limiting the exciton linewidth when a high density of free carriers is present or at low temperatures where the scattering of the excitons by optical and acoustic phonons is reduced. This contribution to the linewidth in quantum well structures is found to increase with the free carrier concentration and to extremely broaden and exciton peak at high carrier concentrations. At lower carrier concentrations, where the carriers behave as a nondegenerate gas of particles, the contribution to the exciton linewidth due to scattering by free carriers increases with temperature.     

Resolution beyond natural linewidth via flourescence in modulated beams

A new method is proposed for obtaining spectral resolution beyond the natural linewidth using excitation by a laser beam whose intensity is weakly modulated in time at a low frequency ν. Th modulated fluorescence at 2ν, is shown to posses subnatural linewidth. The resolution of two lines lying within the natural linewidth of each other is explicitly considered.     

高频高效率混合型潘尼管的理论分析

对混合型潘尼管作了等离子体动力学分析和非线性粒子模拟。动力学的分析结果指出，混合型潘尼管是基于潘尼管工作机理的一种混合器件。非线性模拟验证了这一结论，并指出混合型潘尼管具有二个优点:高效率和高频率。     

皮秒级BBO晶体光参量发生放大器中线宽的分析与计算

采用全量子理论，建立了皮秒级光参量发生放大器中自发参量辐射产生参量光线宽的数学方程，并对影响参量光线宽的各种物理机制进行计算机模拟、分析和比较。其结果是：在远离简并点时，所产生的参量光线宽很小，而在简并点附近，参量光线宽急剧增大；且泵浦光的发散角和在偏轴方向的泵浦光对参量光线宽的影响较大。这些结果对压缩光参量激光器的线宽具有重要的意义。     

Linewidth of electromagnetically induced transparency under motional averaging in coated vapor cell

The linewidth of electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) in a coated Rb vapor cell was studied under a magnetic field gradient. The nonlinear broadening of the EIT linewidth with the magnetic field gradient was observed. It was found that the motional averaging of the field gradient was more pronounced at higher laser intensities and larger beam sizes. In the same regime, there was a small linewidth decrease with the increasing magnetic field gradient. We have established a Monte-Carlo model, which gave results in good qualitative agreement with our experiment. Physics pictures for the above phenomena were also suggested. These results provide an understanding of the EIT linewidth behavior under the motional averaging, and should be useful for applications in quantum optics and metrology based on coated vapor cells.     

Texture formation in polycrystalline diamond vapour growth under the influence of a pulsed supersonic beam

Polycrystalline diamond film deposition is studied under the influence of a pulsed supersonic beam. The beam is formed by a high-pressure value which is used as gas inlet in an otherwise conventional hot-filament reactor. The growth rate of the films as well as the typical size of the microcrystallites are independent of the stagnation pressure behind the nozzle of the valve as long as the background pressure and the gas flow through the chamber are kept constant. In contrast, a drastic change in texture formation is found.     

The use of a diffraction grating as a beam expander in a dye laser cavity

The use of a diffraction grating as a dispersive one-dimensional beam expander with variable expansion ratio is described. The idea is applied to intracavity beam expansion in a dye laser cavity containing two gratings in a tandem configuration. By varying the beam expansion ratio up to 60 the laser linewidth may be reduced continously down to 0.1 cm^-1. Linewidth calculations based on single pass estimates are presented and found to agree with experimental results.     

Linewidth of electromagnetically induced transparency under motional averaging in a coated vapor cell

The linewidth of electromagnetically induced transparency(EIT) in a coated Rb vapor cell was studied under a magnetic field gradient.The nonlinear broadening of the EIT linewidth with the magnetic field gradient was observed.It was found that the motional averaging of the field gradient was more pronounced at higher laser intensities and larger beam sizes.In the same regime,there was a small linewidth decrease with the increasing magnetic field gradient.We have established a Monte-Carlo model,which gave results in good qualitative agreement with our experiment.Physics pictures for the above phenomena were also suggested.These results provide an understanding of the EIT linewidth behavior under motional averaging,and should be useful for applications in quantum optics and metrology based on coated vapor cells.     

光参量振荡器线宽研究

对０．５３２μｍ波长光泵浦的ＢＢＯ光参量振荡器产生线宽的机制进行了详细分析和计算，结果与实验基本一致，实验结果表明泵浦光发散角是产生线宽的主要因素。文中的分析方法可推广至其它单轴晶体光参量振荡器线宽的分析。     

Formation of narrow-focused electron beams generated by a source with a plasma cathode in the forevacuum pressure range

Results are presented from experimental studies of the formation of focused electron beams produced by extracting electrons from the plasma of a steady-state discharge with a hollow cathode in the forevacuum pressure range. Based on the measurements of the energy spectrum and diameter of the electron beam, as well as of the emission parameters of the plasma produced in the course of beam-gas interaction, a conclusion is drawn about the excitation of a beam-plasma discharge that deteriorates the beam focusing conditions. The threshold beam current density for the excitation of a beam-plasma discharge is found to increase with accelerating voltage and gas pressure.