利用Mathematica实现多缝衍射立体化教学

利用Mathematica强大的运算及绘图能力,对多缝远场衍射过程中涉及的干涉和衍射现象进行模拟,进而得到多缝衍射的强度分布,形象说明多缝衍射特征及多缝衍射过程中干涉和衍射的关系。     

用菲涅耳理论研究衍射光路可逆性

 用菲涅耳衍射理论研究了光栅及双光栅成像系统衍射光路的可逆性。首先用菲涅耳衍射理论分析单片光栅衍射光的复振幅分布,根据其复振幅分布的相位关系研究其可逆性;再根据单片光栅衍射光路所具有的结论来分析双光栅衍射成像效应的衍射光路可逆性,得到了光栅衍射光路及双光栅成像系统光路具有部分可逆性;应用衍射光路的部分可逆性诠释了双光栅成像效应的本质及光栅的汇合光谱特性是色散光谱特性的逆效应,并根据衍射光路具有部分可逆性的特性实现了图像处理。     

光学波段量子点阵衍射光栅的衍射特性

 概述了量子点阵衍射光栅的原理及制作方法,并设计标定实验,研究了不同角度及不同波长入射情况下量子点阵光栅的衍射特性。研究结果表明：量子点阵光栅不存在高级衍射,只保留了±1级和0级衍射,具有理想的单级衍射模式。光学波段量子点阵衍射光栅的成功研制为研制紫外、X光波段具有单级衍射特征的光栅提供了契机。     

平行单色光狭缝衍射的区域划分

利用基尔霍夫衍射公式通过数值计算绘制出理想狭缝在不同区域的衍射光强分布,并与菲涅耳衍射公式及夫朗禾费衍射公式的计算的结果比较,对基尔霍夫衍射公式、菲涅尔衍射公式和夫朗禾费衍射公式的适用范围做了详细的讨论.     

超短脉冲激光光束在一维反射型体全息光栅中的衍射

基于Kogelnik的耦合波理论,研究了在色散效应的影响下,超短脉冲激光光束在反射型体全息光栅中衍射的性质.研究给出了衍射光及透射光在频谱域及时间域的振幅及强度分布、光栅的光谱宽度及衍射效率随光栅参量及入射条件的变化.数值研究的结果表明,在光栅记录介质色散效应的影响下,衍射光束的光谱宽度减小,脉冲展宽,衍射效率降低.通过适当的选取光栅参量及入射条件,可以控制衍射和透射光束的频谱和时间强度分布,得到满意的衍射和透射光束的带宽和波形,从而可以将其应用于脉冲整形等技术中.     

劳厄对晶体衍射的发现

介绍了劳厄提出晶体衍射思想的科学背景及当时的实验过程,并探讨在劳厄发现晶体衍射的过程中其科学思想的形成及X射线晶体衍射的发现带给我们的启示及影响．     

衍射光栅的第二类角色散及其特性分析

在由矢量衍射理论得到的锥面衍射情形下的广义光栅方程基础上，给出了对应于衍射极角的衍射光栅第一类角色散公式和对应于衍射方位角的衍射光栅第二类角色散公式，并通过理论和数值分析导出了第二类角色散发生突变的条件及相应的数学表达式. 关键词： 衍射光栅 锥面衍射 第一类角色散 第二类角色散     

超短脉冲激光光束被局域体全息光栅衍射的性质分析

利用二维耦合波理论,分析了超短脉冲激光光束被完全重叠型的局域体全息光栅衍射的时空变化性质,给出了衍射和透射脉冲激光光束沿光栅出射边界的强度时空分布。以LiNbO3晶体为例,数值研究了衍射光脉冲强度沿光栅出射边界的分布和脉冲波形的变化及光栅的总衍射效率受光栅二维尺寸、入射角度、光栅折射率调制度及入射脉冲的脉冲时域半峰全宽等条件的影响而变化的情况。与一维体全息光栅对超短脉冲激光光束衍射的性质,及此光栅对连续光衍射的性质作比较,给出了合理选择光栅参量及入射条件以在光栅出射边界上得到总衍射效率较大且分布较均匀的衍射光脉冲的方法。     

微小孔近场衍射的能量传输

用标量衍射理论研究了圆孔近场衍射中的能量传输,计算了透系数及轴线上衍射场的能流密度,在微小孔衍射的情况下,讨论了矢量衍射理论对能量传输问题标量处理的修正。     

菲涅耳型衍射光学元件的研究

本文在衍射理论基础上,深入分析了菲涅耳型衍射光学元件的特性,针对连续及二元浮雕结构,建立了位相深度因子(M),波长匹配系数(α)与衍射效率的关系式,对影响衍射效率的因素进行了讨论.研究了设计与工艺的匹配问题,建立了数值孔径,最小特征尺寸与衍射效率的关系,为不同波段衍射光学元件的应用,及设计和评价衍射光学元件提供了有效的理论方法.本文最后举例分析了用于白光波前传感器中的小数值孔径微透镜列阵的性能,并对衍射效率及传递函数两个综合指标进行了测量.     

On Time Scales of Intrinsic Oscillations in the Climate System

Proxy temperature data records featuring local time series, regional averages from areas all around the globe, as well as global averages, are analyzed using the Slow Feature Analysis (SFA) method. As explained in the paper, SFA is much more effective than the traditional Fourier analysis in identifying slow-varying (low-frequency) signals in data sets of a limited length. We find the existence of a striking gap from ~1000 to about ~20,000 years, which separates intrinsic climatic oscillations with periods ranging from ~60 years to ~1000 years, from the longer time-scale periodicities (20,000 year+) involving external forcing associated with Milankovitch cycles. The absence of natural oscillations with periods within the gap is consistent with cumulative evidence based on past data analyses, as well as with earlier theoretical and modeling studies.     

Detection of determinism and randomness in time series: A method based on phase space overlap of attractors

The space overlap of an attractor reconstructed from a time series with a similarly reconstructed attractor from a random series is shown to be a sensitive measure of determinism. Results for the time series for Henon, Lorenz and Rössler systems as well as a linear stochastic signal and an experimental ECG signal are reported. The overlap increases with increasing levels of added noise, as shown in the case of Henon attractor. Further, the overlap is shown to decrease as noise is reduced in the case of the ECG signal when subjected to singular value decomposition. The scaling behaviour of the overlap with bin size affords a reliable estimate of the fractal dimension of the attractor even with limited data.     

Cochlear implant speech recognition with speech maskers

Speech recognition performance was measured in normal-hearing and cochlear-implant listeners with maskers consisting of either steady-state speech-spectrum-shaped noise or a competing sentence. Target sentences from a male talker were presented in the presence of one of three competing talkers (same male, different male, or female) or speech-spectrum-shaped noise generated from this talker at several target-to-masker ratios. For the normal-hearing listeners, target-masker combinations were processed through a noise-excited vocoder designed to simulate a cochlear implant. With unprocessed stimuli, a normal-hearing control group maintained high levels of intelligibility down to target-to-masker ratios as low as 0 dB and showed a release from masking, producing better performance with single-talker maskers than with steady-state noise. In contrast, no masking release was observed in either implant or normal-hearing subjects listening through an implant simulation. The performance of the simulation and implant groups did not improve when the single-talker masker was a different talker compared to the same talker as the target speech, as was found in the normal-hearing control. These results are interpreted as evidence for a significant role of informational masking and modulation interference in cochlear implant speech recognition with fluctuating maskers. This informational masking may originate from increased target-masker similarity when spectral resolution is reduced.     

Forensic analysis of automotive paints by Raman spectroscopy

In this work, the possible contribution of Raman spectroscopy in forensic science is evaluated, more specifically for the analysis of automotive paint samples. Spectra from paint flakes as well as from cross sections were examined, in order to identify not only the pigments but also binders and extenders in all paint layers. Moreover, the possibility of distinguishing paint samples from different cars was evaluated to assess the use of vibrational spectroscopic techniques in the investigation of a hit-and-run accident. The presence of rutile and extenders, such as calcite and barium sulphate, could be demonstrated by their characteristic Raman bands. However, the identification of the binder by Raman spectroscopy was hampered: only with additional information from IR analysis could most of the bands in the spectrum be assigned to molecular vibrations of the binders. In contrast, organic pigments, having very distinctive and well-resolved characteristic bands, could easily be identified by comparing the spectra from the basecoat of the sample with spectra from a reference database. Because of these characteristic bands, the basecoat seems to provide the best spectra to distinguish paint samples. Moreover, some paints can also be distinguished by the absence or presence of the bands from calcium carbonate and barium sulphate in the primer surfacer. When recording spectra from paint flakes, Raman bands from the spectra of the clearcoat as well as from the basecoat are obtained. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Diffraction of fast atomic projectiles during grazing scattering from a LiF(001) surface

Light atoms and molecules with energies from 300 eV to 25 keV are scattered under a grazing angle of incidence from a LiF(001) surface. For impact of neutral projectiles along low index directions for strings of atoms in the surface plane we observe a defined pattern of intensity spots in the angular distribution of reflected particles which is consistently described using concepts of diffraction theory and specific features of grazing scattering of atoms from insulator surfaces. Experimental results for scattering of H, D, 3He, and 4He atoms as well as H2 and D2 molecules can be unequivocally referred to atom diffraction with de Broglie wavelengths as low as about 0.001 Angstroms.     

Production of Ammonia From Hippurate in the Kidney of Different Species Including Man. an in vitro Study with 15N-Hippurate

Hippurate, synthetized from benzoate and glycine in the liver and in the kidney of several species modulates the activity of renal γ-glutamyl-transpeptidase. By this mechanism hippurate interferes with renal intra-luminal ammonia production. Besides, in the rat hippurate serves as a minor substrate for renal ammoniagenesis as well. Hippurate may yield ammonia from its glycine moiety either after cleavage by hippuricase, or after condensation with an aldehyde according to Erlenmeyer's reaction. This reaction results in producing equimolar amounts of ammonia, benzoate and an α-keto acid, thus in a net gain of an acid equivalent. -In order to evaluate variability and extent of renal ammonia production from hippurate in different species, experiments were carried out on isolated tubular segments of the rat and on cortical kidney slices of rat, cow, man and cat. The incubation medium was enriched with J0mmol/1 hippurate spiked with 5% of ¹⁵N-hippurate, some of the known inhibitors of hippuricase and γGT as well as glyceraldehyde or propional-dehyde. Factors known to affect hippuricase or γGT did not interfere with renal ammonia production from hippurate, but glyceraldehyde and propionaldehyde (up to 1mmol/1) had a stimulating effect. Renal ammoniagenesis from hippurate as well as production of benzoate was lowest in the cow (～ 0.1%), amounted to 1–2% in rat and man and reached high values in the cat (up to 15% of the total ammonia production). These results indicate that hippurate could have physiological significance in the renal metabolism of some species.     

My Life in Nuclear Physics, Photography, and Opera

I sketch my life as an experimental nuclear physicist, beginning as a graduate student at Harvard University from 1948 to 1951, then as a postdoctoral fellow at the Cavendish Laboratory from 1951 to 1952, and finally as a faculty member at the University of Minnesota from 1952 until my retirement in 1991. I also carried out research at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen, Indiana University, and Los Alamos National Laboratory, and I participated in a number of summer schools and international conferences on nuclear physics. I also have worked in photography and opera. Over the years, I met and collaborated with many people in many walks of life who became friends for life.     

Manipulations of listeners' echo perception are reflected in event-related potentials

To gain information from complex auditory scenes, it is necessary to determine which of the many loudness, pitch, and timbre changes originate from a single source. Grouping sound into sources based on spatial information is complicated by reverberant energy bouncing off multiple surfaces and reaching the ears from directions other than the source's location. The ability to localize sounds despite these echoes has been explored with the precedence effect: Identical sounds presented from two locations with a short stimulus onset asynchrony (e.g., 1-5 ms) are perceived as a single source with a location dominated by the lead sound. Importantly, echo thresholds, the shortest onset asynchrony at which a listener reports hearing the lag sound as a separate source about half of the time, can be manipulated by presenting sound pairs in contexts. Event-related brain potentials elicited by physically identical sounds in contexts that resulted in listeners reporting either one or two sources were compared. Sound pairs perceived as two sources elicited a larger anterior negativity 100-250 ms after onset, previously termed the object-related negativity, and a larger posterior positivity 250-500 ms. These results indicate that the models of room acoustics listeners form based on recent experience with the spatiotemporal properties of sound modulate perceptual as well as later higher-level processing.     

Thermal desorption mass spectrometric and x-ray photoelectron studies of etched surfaces of polytetrafluoroethylene

The etching of polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) with Na solutions is known to lead to a loss of F, a loss which is correlated with enhanced adhesion. Subsequent heating partially restores surface F with a concurrent loss of adhesion strength. We have combined X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and gas phase mass spectroscopy for in situ measurements of the processes that occur as the fluorocarbon is heated. An array of volatile products, which vary with the specific treatment, desorb from etched PTFE. Among these are: N₂ and low molecular weight fluorocarbons, the amounts of which monotonically decrease with increasing exposure to the etching solution (and probably result from the bulk); species such as CO and CO₂, which in part result from surface impurities; and water and acetone which result from the rinse steps following the etching process. XPS measurements show that etching produces a major loss of surface F and a gain of surface O. The latter probably results from the subsequent rinse steps. Heating produces a substantial recovery in surface F with only a small decrease in the surface O, and the gain in surface F is shown to occur at a higher temperature than the desorption of any species from the surface. Thus, desorption of products from the surface is decoupled, in terms of both the distribution of products and their relative temperatures, from the surface changes as monitored by XPS. This decoupling suggests that the increase in surface F results from diffusion of low molecular weight fluorocarbons from the bulk or a transition region, or from a rearrangement of the sponge-like surface region produced in the etching process.