The effects of geometrical parameters on carrier states and optical transitions in a quantum ring

Using a numerical method via the electron effective mass theory, a model of a quantum ring (QR) with a shape very close to the real one and taken from an experimental work, we investigate the electron states in a semi-conductor QR, studying the influence of the ring’s geometrical parameters on the electron spectrum and on the optical transitions. Our hetero structure evolves from a single quantum dot (QD) to a QR. We find that the one-electron ground state presents an absolute minimum when studied as a function of the ring radius. The reliability of the calculations is checked with experimental data.     

InAs量子环中类氢杂质能级

在有效质量近似下,利用微扰法研究了InAs量子环内类氢杂质基态及低激发态的能级分布。受限势采用抛物形势,在二维平面极坐标下,用薛定谔方程的精确解析解进行计算。数值计算结果显示,电子能级敏感地依赖于量子环半径,能级存在极小值,这是由于限制势采用抛物势的结果。如果减小环的半径,可以增加能级间距。第一激发态类氢杂质能级的简并没有消除,n≥2时简并的能级发生分裂并且间距随半径的增大而增大。电子能级间距还敏感地依赖于角频率并随角频率的增大而增大。第一激发态的简并没有消除,第二激发态的简并被部分地消除。在计算InAs量子环中类氢杂质的基态和低激发态的能级时,角频率改变的影响也是很深刻的。文章结果对研究量子环的光跃迁及光谱结构有重要指导意义。     

Exact wave functions of two-electron quantum rings

We demonstrate that the Schr?dinger equation for two electrons on a ring, which is the usual paradigm to model quantum rings, is solvable in closed form for particular values of the radius. We show that both polynomial and irrational solutions can be found for any value of the angular momentum and that the singlet and triplet manifolds, which are degenerate, have distinct geometric phases. We also study the nodal structure associated with these two-electron states.     

Neutral and positively charged excitons in quantum ring

We study theoretically quantized states of the neutral and positively charged exciton complexes confined within a circular narrow ring in the presence of the magnetic field applied along the symmetry axis. We show that in the structural adiabatic limit, when the width of the pattern of the particles pathways within the ring is much smaller than its radius, the wave equations for both complexes are separable and their exact solutions can be found in a form of the Fourier series of one and two variables, respectively. We present results of calculation of the lower energies of complexes as functions of the ring's radius and the magnetic field strength for different values of the electron-to-hole mass ratio. We found that in the molecular adiabatic limit, when this ratio tends to zero and the model describes the corresponding donor complexes, the physical interpretation of the quantum-size effect and the oscillations of energy levels in threading magnetic field revealed for the excitons spectra becomes more transparent.     

Study on the method of controlling chaos in an Er-doped fiber dual-ring laser via external optical injection and shifting optical feedback light

Controlling chaos in an erbium-doped fiber dual-ring laser is studied by injecting an external light and shifting the phase of an optical feedback light. First, the parameters of the externally injected optical signal are adjusted to bring the chaotic laser into a single-period state and a multiperiod state, respectively. In addition, the single-mode locking in a single ring of the laser as well as the dual-mode locking in dual ring of the laser are found. Secondly, the method of optical feedback is used to stabilize chaos by controlling the parameters of the optical devices in an external optical path. We show that the optical negative feedback can stabilize the chaotic laser into a single-period state, while the optical positive feedback can stabilize the chaotic laser into another single-period state and a period-doubling state. Lastly, various dynamical states are produced in the laser by shifting the phase of the optical feedback light.     

Resonance splitting in gyrotropic ring resonators

We present the theoretical concept of an optical isolator based on resonance splitting in a silicon ring resonator covered with a magneto-optical polymer cladding. For this task, a perturbation method is derived for the modes in the cylindrical coordinate system. A polymer magneto-optical cladding causing a 0.01 amplitude of the off-diagonal element of the dielectric tensor is assumed. It is shown that the derived resonance splitting of the clockwise and counterclockwise modes increases for smaller ring radii. For the ring with a radius of approximately 1.5μm, a 29GHz splitting is demonstrated. An integrated optical isolator with a 10μm geometrical footprint is proposed based on a critically coupled ring resonator.     

Electronic properties of a quantum ring perturbed with a quantum well in the presence of perpendicular magnetic flux

Here, we study the effects of the number of sites, quantum ring radius and potential well depth on the energy levels, persistent current, magnetic susceptibility and density of states (DOS) of a quantum ring with a quantum well within its circumstance in a magnetic flux perpendicular to its plane. We show that, for small radius quantum ring systems, there are periodic local gaps along the magnetic flux axis in the DOS plots and along the axis ‘energy’. For large radius quantum ring systems, a uniform gap along the energy axis exists and along the phi axis nothing changes. In quantum rings with a quantum well in their circumstance, by using the large confining potential, we can create uniform gaps in the Energy–phi plane. The energy eigenvalues, persistent current and magnetic susceptibility decrease by increasing the confining potential. A quantum ring even with a very small confining potential in its circumstance can sensibly decrease the persistent current and magnetic susceptibility, although it may do not change the energy eigenvalues and DOS maximum considerably. Thus, by using the abovementioned parameters, we are able to tune the DOS, persistent current, magnetic susceptibility and energy levels, desirably.     

Donor-bound electron states in a two-dimensional quantum ring under uniform magnetic field

The electron states in a two-dimensional GaAs/AlGaAs quantum ring are theoretically studied in effective mass approximation. On-centre donor impurity and uniform magnetic field perpendicular to the ring plane are taken into account. The energy spectrum with different angular momentum changes dramatically with the geometry of the ring. The donor impurity reduces the energies with an almost fixed value; however, the magnetic field alters energies in a more complex way. For example, energy levels under magnetic field will cross each other when increasing the inner radius and outer radius of the ring, leading to the fact that the arrangement of energy levels is distinct in certain geometry of the ring. Moreover, energy levels with negative angular momentum exhibit the non-monotonous dependence on the increasing magnetic field.     

Variable-radius focused optical vortex with suppressed sidelobes

We propose a design for a phase mask for generating an optical vortex with suppressed sidelobes in the focal plane where the radius of the intensity ring is variable. A radial modulation added to conventional phase mask exp(iltheta) projects the light diffracted from different annular zones into a single intensity ring in the focal plane.     

半导体激光器混沌法拉第效应控制方法

提出了外腔延时反馈半导体激光器法拉第效应控制下的新激光系统, 构造出两种类型结构光路, 建立了法拉第效应控制下的延时负反馈、延时正反馈激光动力学物理模型, 研究了激光混沌控制与反控制等. 利用法拉第效应原理及磁致旋光性和系统特点, 调节控制光路中的光旋转角度和光延时间可实现双参数控制激光器, 控制激光到双周期、三周期及多周期, 使激光产生拍动等现象, 反控制激光周期到混沌等. 发现了以磁致旋光角分布的激光混沌控制与反控制区域. 并研究了激光混沌控制与周期控制的动态情况, 演示讨论了激光态的转化演变过程等.     

Design and Performance Analysis of High Speed Optical Binary Code Converter using Micro-Ring Resonator

The present paper describes various attractive logical code conversions using optical micro-ring resonator. We have proposed an all-optical switching activity using silicon waveguide based micro-ring resonator under low-power operation through two-photon absorption effect. The different properties of the optical switch are analyzed through numerical simulation. We have also proposed and described all-optical binary-to-octal, binary-coded-decimal-to-excess-3 and binary-to-Gray-code converter circuits by this proposed architecture. Numerical simulation results for code conversion verifying the proposed methods are given in this paper. We identify a combination of feasible ring radius and detuning through numerical simulation that allows analyzing the system performance of the scheme.     

含有凹口的金属纳米环形共振器的本征模式分裂

提出了一种含有凹口金属纳米环形共振器结构,采用时域有限差分方法模拟了表面等离子体在这种结构中的传播特性.详细研究了凹口的长度、位置以及环的半径对透射性质的影响,发现当凹口的长度满足一定条件,并且处于某些特定位置的时候,与没有凹口的环形共振器相比,本征透射模式会发生分裂.随着环半径的增加,透射模式会向长波长方向移动,但不会对模式的分裂造成影响.     

Electrostatic Surface Trap for Cold Polar Molecules with a Charged Circular Wire

We propose a novel scheme to trap cold polar molecules on the surface of an insulating substrate （i.e. a chip） by using an inhomogeneous electrostatic field, which is generated by the combination of a circular charged wire （a ring electrode） and a grounded metal plate. The spatial distributions of the electrostatic field from the above charged wire layout and its Stark potentials for CO molecules are calculated. Our study shows that when the voltage applied to the wire is U = 15 kV, a ring radius is R = 5 mm, the thickness of the insulating substrate is b = 5 mm, and a wire radius is r = 1mm, the maximum efficient trapping potential （i.e., as equivalent temperature） for CO molecules is greater than 141.7mK, which is high enough to trap cold polar molecules with a temperature of 50 mK in the low-field-seeking states.     

Neutral and charged excitons in a quantum tube

The optical transition energies of neutral and charged excitons in a quantum tube are calculated as a function of the Aharonov-Bohm magnetic flux Φ. The oscillation amplitude of the ground state energy of the electron-hole relative motion is shown to be larger in a quantum tube than a quantum ring with strong confinement in the axis direction. We find a double maxima structure in the optical transition energy for a quantum tube with radius R = 0.5 in units of the effective Bohr radius because of the difference in the Φ dependencies between the single electron energy and the relative-motion energy of a charged exciton state.     

Boundary problems for polariton propagation in thin layers and quantum wells

Summary We show how to compute the optical functions (reflection and transmission) of a semiconductor thin slab, in the vicinity of nearly degenerate exciton states. Additional boundary conditions are not required in the coherentwave-function approach and multiple-polariton effects are included since Maxwell equations are satisfied. When the slab thickness is comparable to the exciton Bohr radius, centre of mass quantization results. When the slab thickness is smaller than the Bohr radius, we obtain, quantum well polaritons. Numerical examples appropriate to GaAs are given.     

Laser array beam propagation through liver tissue

Laser array beam propagating through mouse liver tissue is investigated. The turbulence power spectrum of the liver tissue is employed in the extended Huygens–Fresnel method to obtain an optical intensity profile and beam broadening at the observation point in biological liver tissue. Variations of the beam profile and the beam broadening are simulated based on the number of beamlets, source size, wavelength and the ring radius of the array. A biological tissue, illuminated by the laser array beam, exhibits different beam profiles and beam spot radius variations when the number of beamlets, source size, wavelength and the ring radius of the laser array beam are varied. Examining these variations observed in the propagated optical beam and comparing them with the test cases, abnormalities such as cancer and tumor in a biological liver tissue can be diagnosed.     

全光纤量子通信系统中的高速偏振控制方案

偏振控制在光通信中是至关重要的技术, 关系着通信系统的稳定性和误码率. 本文提出一种基于双向Sagnac环工作方式的全光纤高速偏振控制方案, 通过调节环中一个光纤电光相位调制器的相位差而精确控制光场偏振方向, 并且实现了单个端口输出各种偏振态, 无需后续耦合操作. 相位控制精度为10^-3 rad, 最大消光比可达30 dB, 工作速率可达2 GHz. 由于本方案的精度、调制速度和稳定性都很高, 并采用了器件简单、成本低廉的全光纤光路, 易于集成, 在量子保密通信等光通信领域中有很好的应用前景. 关键词： 光纤偏振控制器 Sagnac环 量子通信     

First-order Raman scattering in a free-standing GaN nanowire with ring geometry

We have investigated one phonon resonant Raman scattering in GaN nanowires (NWs) with ring geometry. We consider the Fröhlich electron–phonon interaction in the framework of the dielectric continuum approach. The selection rules are studied. For the GaN NWs with small radius, results reveal that the main contribution to the differential cross-section (DCS) stems from the surface optical (SO) phonons especially from the high-frequency of SO phonons, with a minor contribution from the longitudinal optical (LO) phonons. Meanwhile, dispersions of the two branches of the SO phonon modes are obvious when the wire is thin. Moreover, compared to GaAs NWs, the GaN NWs make more contribution to the DCS in the small quantum size.     

Optical bistability in a single-bus InGaAs micro-ring resonator array

In this paper, we investigate the optical bistability induced by optical nonlinearity in a compact parallel array of micro-ring resonators with radius of 5 μm. Due to the nature of perfect light confinement in this structure, resonance and accumulation process in a ring resonator and optical nonlinear effects, are observable even at small optical power (a few milliwatts). Different optical applications such as all-optical switching, optical memory devices, logic gates and modulators are possible, due to optical bistability in a ring resonator. Using alternative semiconductor compounds, instead of silicon that have weak nonlinear optical properties, we improve the performance of ring-resonator based devices. Here we use a polymer cladding layer with negative thermo-optic coefficient. Using this structure we can eliminate the temperature created nonlinearity which is a very slow process. Therefore, the switching speed increases from a few MHz to several tens of GHz. By plotting the transfer function of the resonator, a hysteresis loop is observed in a few milliwatts. Although, using a ring resonator array the bandwidth reduces, however, the width of the hysteresis loop and resolution between both steady state increases.     

光学玻璃弹性模量的自动化测量方法

针对现有光学玻璃弹性模量测量周期长、测量过程复杂等问题,提出了一种利用计算机图像处理技术快速测量小样品光学平板玻璃弹性模量的方法。基于接触力学理论和牛顿环干涉原理推导出测量光学玻璃弹性模量的解析式,利用图像处理技术的优势,通过摄像头拍摄牛顿环干涉图像,设计MFC监控与单张图片拍摄界面程序,自动测量牛顿环干涉图像中心黑斑半径,最后根据光学玻璃弹性模量与牛顿环干涉图像中心黑斑半径及牛顿环中心应力之间的关联关系,实现小样品光学玻璃弹性模量的快速测量。实验结果表明:在应力31.17 N～55.11 N范围内,光学玻璃弹性模量的测量相对误差不超过±8.8%;在应力55.11 N～71.07 N范围内,测量相对误差不超过±16%。