Display method with compensation of the spatial frequency response of a liquid crystal spatial light modulator for holographic femtosecond laser processing

Liquid crystal spatial light modulators, which are widely used as display devices for computer-generated holograms, have modulation characteristics that depend on spatial frequency. We describe a method for displaying a computer-generated hologram on a liquid crystal spatial light modulator with compensation of its spatial frequency response. Using this method, we demonstrate a binary phase grating with smaller dependence on the spatial frequency. We also demonstrate application of the display method to holographic femtosecond laser processing.     

Super-resolved or field of view enlarged imaging based upon spatial depolarization of light

In this paper we present a new approach allowing the surpassing of the diffraction based limitation for the achievable resolution provided by imaging systems. It is based on an encoding-decoding process of various spatial pixels or regions in the field of view of the imaged object by orthogonal and differently time varying polarization states.The reconstruction of the original spatial information is obtained by applying a decoding process in a way similar to the encoding one. Although all the spatial information is summed and mixed together by the system, the decoding provides super-resolved imaging since in every spatial position the undesired spatial information having time varying polarization dependence, that is uncorrelated to the decoding sequence applied on that specific spatial position, is averaged to zero and, on the other hand, the information which corresponds to that specific spatial region is being reinforced.The proposed approach can be used not only for super-resolved imaging but also for imaging module that maintains the same spatial resolution while providing enlarged field of view.     

Sensing characteristics of electrostatic inductive sensor for flow parameters measurement of pneumatically conveyed particles

The spatial sensitivity, spatial filtering effect, temporal frequency response characteristics and bandwidth are important parameters influencing the accuracy and response speed of a ring-shaped electrostatic inductive sensor. In this paper, the charge induced on the ring-shaped sensor with different geometric sizes from a single particle having a unity charge was modeled mathematically. And from the numerical solution obtained using the finite element analysis software ANSYS, the spatial sensitivity of the sensor was derived. The effect of the geometric size of the sensor on the spatial sensitivity was also investigated, and its spatial filtering fundamental theory and spatial filtering effect were also analyzed quantitatively. The temporal frequency response characteristics of the sensor were also derived. The experimental results on a gravity-fed conveyor were presented. The theoretical and experimental results obtained demonstrate that the ring-shaped sensor acts as a low-pass filter in the spatial frequency domain and its spatial frequency characteristics are closely related to the radial position of the charged particle and the axial length of the electrode. The measurement system, including the probe and signal conditioning circuit, acts as a band-pass filter, and the radial position, the axial length of the electrode, particle velocity and particle size have important effects on the temporal frequency characteristics of the measurement system.     

The effect of a layer of varying density on spatial correlation of sea-bottom backscattering signal

The research is about the effect of a layer of varying density of sea-bottom sediments on spatial correlation of sea-bottom backscattering.The relationship between scattering cross section and spatial correlation is that backscattering cross section decreases quickly and the spatial correlation becomes stronger as the incident angle increases.Therefore,the densitydepth profile is introduced into sea-bottom high-frequency backscattering echo model,which is used to simulate sea-bottom backscattering and calculate the function of spatial correlation.The influence of the density gradient on spatial correlation of sea-bottom backscattering is investigated by analyzing the relations between vertical gradient of density and the scattering cross section.As can be seen from the simulation results,the impact of the density gradient on the spatial correlation is found more significant.While the density gradient increases,the scattering cross-section and the radius of the spatial correlation broaden,the spatial correlation becomes stronger.At the same time,the scattering cross-section decreases more quickly as the incident angle increases.     

Spatial and temporal bilateral filter for infrared small target enhancement

This paper presents a spatial and temporal bilateral filter (BF) to detect target trajectories, by extracting spatial target information using a spatial BF and temporal target information using a temporal BF. Background prediction when it is covered by targets is the key to small target detection. In order to apply the BF to a small target detection field for this purpose, this paper presents a novel spatial and temporal BF with an adaptive standard deviation to predict spatial background and temporal background profiles, based on analysis of the blocks surrounding a spatial and temporal filter window. In order to discriminate between the edge or object regions with a flat background and the target region spatially and temporally, spatial and temporal variances of the blocks surrounding the filter window are calculated in a spatial infrared (IR) image and temporal profile. The spatial and temporal variances adjust standard deviations of the spatial and temporal BF. Through this procedure, spatial background and temporal background profiles are predicted, and then small targets can be detected by subtracting the predicted spatial background (and temporal background profile) from the original IR image (and original temporal profile) and multiplying spatial and temporal target information. To compare existing target detection methods and the proposed method, signal-to-clutter ratio gain (SCRG) and background suppression factor (BSF) are employed for spatial performance comparison and receiver operating characteristics (ROC) is used for detection-performance comparison of the target trajectory. Experimental results show that the proposed method has a superior target detection rate and a lower false-alarm rate.     

诱导空间非相干束匀滑技术的近区特性及改善技术

诱导空间非相干技术是面向激光驱动惯性约束核聚变的一种具有自身独特优势的束匀滑方法.然而直接使用诱导空间非相干方法将引起强烈的近区强度空间调制,这将威胁装置的运行安全,并严重限制装置的最大输出能力.这也是该方法应用于聚变级高功率激光装置的主要技术障碍之一.本文介绍了一种通过双透镜滤波系统对诱导空间非相干束匀滑技术导致的近区空间强度调制进行匀滑的技术.利用该技术可以在保留诱导空间非相干束匀滑方法的先天优势(更好的远区匀滑特性)的前提下,获得均匀、稳定的近区强度分布,从而避免高功率激光系统在使用诱导空间非相干束匀滑技术时,因为近区强度不均匀、不稳定导致的器件损伤及输出能力受限.在理论建模和数值分析的基础上,以近区调制度、软化因子和透过率为主要评价指标,对比分析了方形、圆形、高斯型等3种滤波孔在不同尺寸下的近区输出效果,最终给出了一种典型的优化结果:16×16诱导空间非相干分割数、0.8倍衍射极限宽度、方形小孔.此时近区强度分布均匀,同时保证了较好的远区匀滑效果和高的能量利用率.在此基础上,针对装置的实际应用情况,进一步分析了准直误差对近区强度分布的影响,结果表明准直误差小于0.1倍衍射极限便不会影响输出的近区质量.对诱导空间非相干束匀滑方法所得焦斑的模拟分析表明,滤波系统的加入能进一步改善焦斑的低频不均匀性.     

Effect of spatial patterns on population size

We investigate the role of the spatial pattern and temporal dynamics on the population properties of a diffusive Gause–Lotka–Volterra system. The average total population size is insensitive to the temporal dynamics, whereas a significant decrease of the population size can be found as the spatial diffusion effect is increased, implying that the spatial pattern plays an important role. At large diffusion coefficients, a saturation of the spatial pattern variation is observed, which can be understood by a spatial scaling analysis of the system. The existence of multiple attractors can also indicate that spatial patterns play a more important role than temporal dynamics in dominating the population size.     

光栅式成像光谱仪空间均匀性测试研究

空间均匀性是成像光谱仪辐射定标的核心参数之一。通过对国内外均匀性测试方法研究,提出采用空间分布法对光栅式成像光谱仪的空间均匀性进行测试研究。该方法能准确给出各个位置点信号响应的详细分布,对于提高并改善光栅式成像光谱仪的图谱质量具有重要的意义。空间分布法建立在高稳定性、高均匀性标准光源的基础上,由计算机软件对测试结果进行图谱分离,提取同波长下空间响应信号获得光栅式成像光谱仪的空间均匀性。最后分析了空间均匀性测量不确定度的影响因素,并分析了空间均匀性对绝对辐射定标和光谱精度的影响。     

基于光谱响应函数的遥感图像融合对比研究

遥感图像融合是一个十分重要的问题,目前已出现了很多融合方法.一些现有方法可以从高空间分辨率全色数据中提取细节特征,并注入到低空间分辨牢多光谱数据中,同时尽可能保持多光谱数据的光谱特性.现有方法一般都不能利用遥感成像系统的物理信息,因此可能导致融合结果发生严重的光谱扭曲.该文采用适当的遥感图像融合模型对图像融合问题进行分解,将融合问题归结为空间细节调制参数构建与空间细节信息提取两个子问题,在对传感器光谱响应函数(SRF)的分析基础上,构建合理的空间细节调制参数.依据对现有方法的分类,文章将三种基于SRF的空间细节调制参数构建方法,与高斯高通滤波提取的空间细节信息结合,产生三种基于SRF的遥感图像融合方法.这些方法在Ikonos数据上进行了试验和分析,并与GS和HPM方法进行对比.     

内含光栏的光栅对展宽器式脉冲整形器的输出光束特性

在忽略空间衍射效应的情况下,研究了内含狭缝光栏的光栅对展宽器式脉冲整形器的输出光束的时间特性；通过与光束的空间传输特性类比解析了光栏宽度变化引起的脉宽变化以及脉冲轮廓出现时间衍射调制现象；讨论了空间衍射效应可忽略的条件；提出用光栏软边可消除这种调制。     

遥感影像信息量与空间分辨率的关系研究

目前,关于影像信息量的研究大多是注重信息量的计算模型,很少涉及空间分辨率与信息量之间的定量关系。为了对不同空间分辨率的遥感影像进行定量化评定,以信息论和模糊数学为理论基础,信息熵为测度,通过计算不同空间分辨率水平的全色影像和多光谱影像的信息量,对信息量与空间分辨率的关系进行直接量化模拟。结果表明,影像信息量随着空间分辨率的降低呈指数降低,空间分辨率在原影像基础上每增加一倍,影像信息量相应增加3~5倍。     

The Effect of Exposure Duration on Stereopsis and Its Dependency on Spatial Frequency

To investigate the effect of exposure duration on stereopsis and its spatial frequency dependency, we measured disparity threshold for the depth discrimination varying stimulus exposure duration between 0.05 and 2 s for three spatial frequencies (0.23, 0.94 and 3.75 c/deg). The results showed that disparity threshold decreased with increase in exposure duration up to a certain duration, beyond which it was approximately constant (the duration is called critical duration). The critical duration was about 150 ms for gratings with low and middle spatial frequencies (0.23 and 0.94 c/deg) while the duration was about 750 ms for gratings with high spatial frequency (3.75 c/deg). This suggests that temporal integration property varies dependently on stimulus spatial frequency. We also attempted to relate the spatial frequency dependency of the temporal integration property to the differences in temporal frequency tuning to different spatial frequency stimuli.     

Robustness of spatial networks and networks of networks

Many complex networks have recently been recognized to involve significant interdependence between different systems. Motivation comes primarily from infrastructures like power grids and communications networks, but also includes areas such as the human brain and finance. Interdependence implies that when components in one system fail, they lead to failures in the same system or other systems. This can then lead to additional failures finally resulting in a long cascade that can cripple the entire system. Furthermore, many of these networks, in particular infrastructure networks, are embedded in space and thus have unique spatial properties that significantly decrease their resilience to failures. Here we present a review of novel results on interdependent spatial networks and how cascading processes are affected by spatial embedding. We include various aspects of spatial embedding such as cases where dependencies are spatially restricted and localized attacks on nodes contained in some spatial region of the network. In general, we find that spatial networks are more vulnerable when they are interdependent and that they are more likely to undergo abrupt failure transitions than interdependent non-embedded networks. We also present results on recovery in spatial networks, the nature of cascades due to overload failures in these networks, and some examples of percolation features found in real-world traffic networks. Finally, we conclude with an outlook on future possible research directions in this area.     

农产品品质光谱成像的空间预测规律

由于受到化学检测手段限制,无法获取光谱图像中的农产品品质在各像素位置处的参考值,因此无法直接验证基于光谱图像得到的农产品品质空间预测结果。为探索基于光谱图像的农产品空间品质检测规律,本文采用计算机生成已知空间品质样本,并分别以固定曝光和变曝光方式采集不同灰度等级标准板的光谱图像。定量分析采集系统误差,借助样本区域光谱与区域指标之间的全波段偏最小二乘（ALL-PLS）和遗传特征波长偏最小二乘（GA-PLS）预测函数,研究出区域指标预测准确时样本空间品质指标的预测精度规律,建立光谱成像空间预测准确度模型。实验结果表明：变曝光方式下的数据采集可以提高光谱图像信噪比,在波段两侧极限处尤为明显;应用区域品质数据预测空间品质分布,空间预测误差主要受光谱图像采集噪声影响：即使区域预测准确,空间预测可能已完全失真。通过衡量数据采集系统误差,可以间接评价农产品品质空间预测的准确度。只有在数据采集系统误差在允许范围内时,光谱成像技术才可准确预测农产品品质的空间分布。     

Micromegas中子探测器位置分辨特性的Monte-Carlo研究(英文)

利用GEANT4和Garfield气体探测器模拟程序模拟了Micromegas中子探测器位置特性。 在漂移极上加一层聚乙烯薄膜作为转换材料, 通过反冲质子法测量中子的位置。 提出了一套通过设定探测器上层结构的方案来得到探测器的位置分辨特性。 通过对模拟结果的分析与比较, 得到一种易于测定探测器位置分辨特性的方法。 该工作不仅可以优化气体探测器结构设计, 缩短实验周期, 而且还能极大程度地节约经费。 In the present work, the spatial resolution of Micromegas as a neutron detector was simulated with GEANT4 and Garfield program. The polyethylene foil was used as neutron converter. A new method based on structural setting on the top layer of the detector was adopted to obtain spatial resolution. According to our simulation, it turned out to be a better spatial resolution, and this method was easily realized in experiment.     

Measurement network for urban noise assessment: Comparison of mobile measurements and spatial interpolation approaches

This paper investigates the relevance of different interpolation techniques to improve the spatial resolution of urban noise maps, in complement to measurements achieved at fixed stations. Interpolation techniques based on mobile measurements are compared to usual spatial interpolations techniques, namely Inverse Distance Weighting and Kriging. The analyses rely on a measurement campaign, which consisted of nearly 8 h of geo-referenced mobile noise measurements performed at random moments of the day, conducted simultaneously with continuous measurements collected at five fixed stations located on the inner city of Gent, Belgium.Firstly, a procedure is proposed to build a noise map with a high spatial resolution (one point every 5 m). The procedure relies on both mobile and fixed measurements: the mobile measurements are used to capture spatial variations on the network, and the measurements at fixed stations are used to capture the temporal variations. The map produced is then used as reference to compare the interpolation techniques based on a significantly more sparse measurement set.The spatial interpolation techniques tested fail in predicting accurately the noise level variations within streets. The explanation given is that they do not offer a sufficient covering of the network, and assume spatial variations which are not coherent with traffic dynamics or street configurations. Inversely, mobile measurements cover the entire network. As a result, they allow a more accurate prediction of noise levels even if very short samples are used, provided that the procedure used to estimate noise levels includes a spatial aggregation, which aims at smoothing the high spatial variations inevitable with short samples. Moreover, mobile measurements can advantageously be used to optimize, through a Genetic Algorithm, the locations where to install fixed stations, promising an efficient noise monitoring at reduced operational costs.     

基于Fibonacci序列准周期结构的小角度低通空间滤波器

利用常规材料构造了Fibonacci序列准周期结构,运用传输矩阵法研究了该结构的空间传输特性,并基于该结构优良的空间传输特性设计了小角度低通空间滤波器.数值模拟结果表明,该小角度空间滤波器的角域带宽可通过改变序列的结构类型和序列数来调谐,其调谐规律为:随着Fibonacci序列F(m,1)中m值的增加,对应空间滤波器的角域带宽减小;随着序列数的增大,对应角域带宽也减小.在调谐的基础上,还可通过改变构成准周期结构的介质折射率参量来精确调节其角域带宽.相比于基于超材料的小角度空间滤波器而言,基于Fibonacci序列的小角度空间滤波器制备更简单,且有望应用于新一代的高功率激光系统中.     

光纤陀螺受辐照影响机理分析

构成光纤陀螺敏感器件的保偏光纤环在辐射环境中损耗会增加,陀螺的精度随之降低,从而限制了光纤陀螺在空间中的应用。采用60Co作为辐射源模拟空间辐射环境,对光纤陀螺及其光电器件进行了大量的试验,并对光纤陀螺及其光电器件受空间辐射影响的机理进行了研究,得出光纤陀螺光电器件中保偏光纤环受辐射影响最严重,从而重点分析了光纤陀螺敏感器件保偏光纤环的辐射影响机理,从原理上探讨了保偏光纤环在辐射条件下损耗的增加对光纤陀螺的影响,为光纤陀螺抗辐射加固技术提供了理论基础。     

可调空间分辨USEDCARS技术研究

相干反斯托克斯拉曼散射（CARS）技术是一种非常重要的燃烧诊断技术,该技术具有非常强的抗干扰能力和非常高的测量精度。但空间分辨力不足会使CARS技术产生很强的空间平均效应,引起成CARS光谱畸变,进而造成CARS光谱分析困难,无法通过CARS光谱反演燃烧场参数。针对非稳腔空间增强探测CARS（USEDCARS）技术存在的空间分辨不足以及空间分辨力不易改变的特点,分析了影响USEDCARS技术测量空间分辨力的各种因素,采用一组轴棱锥对USEDCARS系统中的泵浦激光进行环状光束整形,并通过调节轴棱锥之间的距离获得了不同直径的环状光束,在此基础上,建立了空间分辨可调USEDCARS诊断系统。开展了空间分辨力分析实验,获得了CARS信号强度随空间位置的分布数据,以CARS信号总强度95%包含的空间区域代表CARS的纵向空间分辨力,以此计算得到了CARS系统空间分辨力为1.7～6.5 mm连续可调。其中,高分辨力情况,达到了现有BOXCARS技术的空间分辨力。利用所建立的空间分辨可调USEDCARS诊断系统测量了酒精/空气预混火焰温度参数,获得了不同空间分辨条件下的CARS光谱。空间分辨力为1.7 mm时,获得了高质量CARS光谱,通过光谱拟合给出了所测火焰的温度信息。分辨力分别为4.9和6.5 mm时获得了较强的CARS信号,但存在光谱畸变。结果显示,空间分辨力对CARS信号的强度和空间平均效应有很大地影响,提高测量的空间分辨力可以有效消除空间平均效应,获得准确的CARS光谱,增强光谱拟合精度,同时空间分辨可调的特性使该系统能够更好地适应不同实验条件下的诊断工作。     

Ultra-fast saturable absorber through spatial self-trapping and filtering in Ti:PPLN film waveguides

Numerical and experimental investigations on ultra-fast all-optical saturable absorber on picosecond optical pulses at 1547 nm using spatial self-trapped propagation in a quadratic nonlinear film waveguide combined with spatial filtering are reported. The influences of phase-mismatch, pulse intensity and spatial filtering on the temporal reshaping mechanism are discussed to derive the optimum parameters. PACS 42.65.Ky, 42.65.Re, 42.65.Wi