金纳米流体的电场可调光学性质

利用多次还原法制备了不同粒径的金纳米颗粒,SEM和粒度分析表明其平均粒径分别为11 nm,35 nm和58 nm.进一步通过表面活性剂辅助的液相转移法制备出不同粒径的油基金纳米流体,测试了金纳米流体在电场作用下的光学性质.结果表明金纳米流体在电场作用下表现出明显的双折射现象,且随电场强度的变化双折射具有可调节性.金颗粒粒径和浓度对折射率有明显影响,在实验采用的浓度范围内,折射率随金颗粒浓度和粒径的增加而减小.最后,利用电流变液结构转变机理对金纳米流体的电致双折射进行了分析. 关键词： 纳米流体 双折射 电流变液     

硅基二氧化硅光波导器件偏振特性的理论分析

从理论上分析了硅基二氧化硅光波导器件的芯区尺寸、相对折射率差、内应力和弯曲径对器件偏振特性的影响,得出结论：小折射率差的正方形波导的双折射系数小;内应力对双折射的影响比几何参数大;弯曲半径较小时,双折射系数较大,弯曲损耗也较大。     

Magnetic and electric birefringence in the isotropic phase of nematic liquid crystals

A theory is developed of the anomalous magnetic and electric birefringence in the isotropic phase of nematic liquid crystals taking into account orientational correlations between neighbouring molecules. Use is made of a modification of Bethe’s method due to Krieger and James, and the properties of the system are derived in terms of a single parameter, viz., the two-particle interaction constant. The expressions for the magnetic and electric birefringence are similar in form to those given by the phenomenological model of de Gennes. Theoretical curves forp-azoxyanisole reproduce the trends in the observed data. A calculation of the nematic-isotropic transition point confirms that this treatment is an improvement over the mean field approximation in describing pre-transition phenomena in the isotropic phase.     

液晶电控双折射率与电压关系的研究

对向列相液晶BL-009作了电控双折射特性的研究。实验上采用简单、精确的偏光干涉法，利用岛津UV-3101PC型分光光度计，在入射光波长为630nm时，测出了液晶的透射率随交流电压的有效值和频率的变化曲线，从而得到液晶电控双折射率随电压的有效值和频率变化曲线。分析实验数据，可知液晶的电控双折射率随电压有效值的升高成一阶指数下降，而且，随电压频率的升高，在一定的范围内基本成线性下降。此实验结果对液晶器件的设计、制作、使用都具有一定的参考价值。     

菱形纤芯光子晶体光纤色散与双折射特性分析

针对光子晶体光纤多零色散点、高双折射的应用要求, 设计了一种新型结构的光子晶体光纤, 其纤芯由位于菱形四个角上的圆形空气孔组成. 通过有限元数值分析方法对该种结构光子晶体光纤的色散特性和双折射特性进行数值仿真, 得到色散与波长、色散与纤芯圆孔尺寸、双折射与波长、双折射与纤芯圆孔尺寸的关系. 研究结果表明:在满足光纤传输功率要求的条件下, 光纤的双折射在d₁<0.8 μupm 时的性能较好. 同时, 该种结构的光子晶体光纤在芯区直径满足d₁=0.4 μupm或 d₁=0.6 μupm时会出现两个零色散点, 这对进一步研制具有多零色散点的光子晶体光纤具有重要的意义.     

Precursor dynamics in rhodium-doped barium titanate single crystals studied by Brillouin light scattering and birefringence measurements

The dynamics of precursor polar clusters in rhodium(Rh)-doped barium titanate single crystals were examined in the paraelectric phase by Brillouin light scattering and birefringence measurements in a wide temperature range. The longitudinal acoustic (LA) mode and central peaks in the inelastic light scattering spectrum were investigated by Brillouin scattering, while the temperature dependence of the birefringence was accurately determined by means of a birefringence imaging system. In a specific temperature range above the ferroelectric phase transition temperature, the LA mode frequency exhibited a significant softening concomitant with the substantial increase in the hypersonic damping, which was attributed to the formation of polar clusters and their interactions with acoustic waves. In this temperature range where acoustic anomalies were brought about, the birefringence showed non-zero values, indicating the existence of local non-centrosymmetric regions. All these results clearly indicated that the off-centered motions of Ti ions in the oxygen octahedra in Rh-doped BaTiO₃ are correlated in the paraelectric phase inducing slowing down of the precursor dynamics and anomalous birefringence, similar to pure BaTiO₃ (Ko et al., Phys. Rev. B 84, 094123 (2011)). The effect of rhodium doping in BaTiO₃ enhanced the first-order character of the ferroelectric phase transition.     

晶体的双参量调制及其应用

利用折射率椭球分析法,分析了某些具有多重光学效应的光学晶体在两个外场同时作用下的一些特有调制规律.结果表明,当晶体的折射率椭球方程的三个交叉项中只有一项x1x2不为零时,可以得到其外场诱导新主轴折射率及其主轴取向的简单计算式.据此可以揭示出某些晶体在两个外加电场同时作用下将具有双横向电光Pockels效应,例如ˉ6点群的电光晶体.但一般晶体在双横向应力作用下不具有与双横向电光效应类似的调制特性,其弹光双折射大小与其应力差成正比,其双折射主轴方向一般为固定值.在相互垂直的外加应力和电场同时作用下,某些晶体(例如ˉ43m点群晶体)的双折射大小与外加应力和外加电场的加权几何平均值成正比,且新折射率主轴旋转角由外加应力和外加电场的比值来确定.晶体的上述双参量调制特性对设计新型光学调制器或传感器具有重要指导意义.     

高双折射的混合格子太赫兹光子晶体光纤的设计与研究

提出了一种新型高双折射的混合格子太赫兹光子晶体光纤,通过对芯区亚波长尺寸的空气孔进行多种格子组合排列,增加结构的非对称性实现高的模式双折射. 全文仿真建模采用专业的有限元计算软件COMSOL Multiphysics 4.0,结果表明:混合格子太赫兹光子晶体光纤在很宽的频率范围内都具有较高的双折射(达到10^-2)和低的限制损耗,且通过改变光纤的某些参数可以灵活地控制其双折射或限制损耗特性. 相比于同类光通信波段光纤,由于太赫兹波波长较大,能够降低芯区微结构加工的难度,具有可行性. 关键词： 双折射 混合格子 太赫兹光子晶体光纤 限制损耗     

Cluster self-organization of nanotubes in a nematic phase: The percolation behavior and appearance of optical singularities

The structural features, as well as the optical and electrophysical properties of a 5CB nematic liquid crystal with additions of multilayer carbon nanotubes, have been investigated in the concentration range C = 0.0025–0.1 wt %. The self-aggregation of nanotubes into clusters with a fractal structure occurs in the liquid crystal. At 0.025 wt %, the clusters are merged, initiating the percolation transition of the composite to a state with a high electric conductivity. The strong interaction of 5CB molecules with the surface of nanotube clusters is responsible for the formation of micron surface liquid crystal layers with an irregular field of elastic stresses and a complex structure of birefringence. They are easily observed in a polarization microscope and visualize directly invisible submicron nanotube aggregates. Their transverse size increases when an electric field is applied to the liquid crystal cell. Two mechanisms of the generation of optical singularities in the passing laser beam have been revealed. Optical vortices appear in the speckle fields of laser radiation scattered at the indented boundaries of the nanotube clusters, whereas the birefringence of the beam in surface liquid-crystal layers is accompanied by the appearance of polarization C points.     

椭圆六角分布微结构光纤中的双折射

利用全矢量有限元方法,对椭圆六角对称分布微结构光纤(MF)的双折射特性进行了理论分析,得到了双折射大小与结构参量、入射波长间的依赖关系。分析表明:合理设计结构参量可得到10-3量级大小的双折射;微结构光纤的双折射对光波波长极其敏感,并出现随波长变化快慢轴交换的现象。采用统计的方法对双折射与微结构光纤空气孔直径随机变化的统计相关性进行了理论分析,假定空气孔直径为高斯分布,获得了双折射大小的平均值和标准偏差与随机变化孔径的统计关系。结果表明,由孔径分布不规则所产生的双折射的大小主要取决于空气孔直径的平均值。     

Precursor dynamics to the structural instability in SrTiO3

The structural instability of SrTiO₃ at T _S?=?105?K is reinvestigated experimentally and theoretically by birefringence measurements and within the self-consistent phonon approximation. Analogous to BaTiO₃ the phase transition shows precursor dynamics starting approximately 60?K above the phase transition temperature. These rotational dynamic clusters compete with precursor effects stemming from the polar soft mode and appear on different length scales as compared to BaTiO₃.     

Squeezed hexagonal highly birefringent photonic crystal fiber with low effective modal area

A modified hexagonal index guiding photonic crystal fiber made of pure silica with high birefringence and a low effective modal area is proposed, and properties, including birefringence and effective modal area, are numerically analyzed using the multipole method. Numerical results show that high birefringence of 1.362 × 10⁻² and a low effective modal area of 3.435 μm² are achieved at 1.55 μm, simultaneously. Moreover, impacts of hole spacing and hole size on birefringence and effective modal area are also investigated in detail.     

TiO2电子结构与其双折射性、各向异性 关联的理论研究

采用基于密度泛函理论的第一性原理平面波超软赝势方法对锐钛矿相TiO₂的晶体结构、能带结构、态密度等电子结构进行了理论分析, 在此基础上对介电函数、能量损失函数、光电导率等光学性质进行系统的理论计算, 分析了TiO₂双折射现象、各向异性与电子结构之间的关联, 其结果与文献报道的相关实验结果相符合, 从理论上探讨了TiO₂电子结构和其双折射现象、各向异性的特征.     

Highly birefringent photonic crystal fiber polarization splitter made of soft glass

A soft glass dual core polarization splitter based on highly birefringent photonic crystal fiber (PCF) is proposed and the full vector finite element method (FEM) is employed to analyze the impacts of structural parameters on birefringence and the coupling length, and simulation results show that high birefringence on the order of 10⁻² can be obtained at 1.55 μm, moreover, hole size, hole pitch and elliptic ratio all affect birefringence and the coupling length. Based on these results, the PCF's structure is optimized to realize a polarization splitter of 282 μm whose largest extinction ratio is around −45.42 dB at 1.55 μm. Meanwhile, the bandwidth at the extinction ratio of −10 dB is about 90 nm, and around 32 nm at −20 dB.     

Study on stress birefringence measurement of uniaxial crystal

Residual stress birefringence in crystal will affect frequency conversion efficiency and beam quality. In this paper the distribution characteristic of inherent stress birefringence in uniaxial crystal is analyzed, qualitative results are obtained for KDP crystals by digital stress measurement instrument, and the stress gradient distribution is calculated, also the effect of deviation from optical axis on the measured stress distribution results is discussed. Exact determination of stress birefringence and its spatial distribution is of great importance to the manufacture and application of optical materials and components.     

Photonic crystal fibers with material anisotropy

In this paper we are modeling the interplay of material and form birefringence in photonic crystal fibers. We introduce an efficient numerical method for the calculation of the modal structure. Our approach relies solving the fully vectorial wave equation for the transverse magnetic field and the respective propagation constants using a plane wave expansion. The method accounts for a simple form of material anisotropy. Our analysis is relevant to certain application areas, and in particular to fiber sensing, where material birefringence arises for instance due to transversally applied mechanical stress. We analyze the influence of material birefringence on the modal birefringence and the state of polarization of the fundamental mode.     

Calculation of geometrical birefringence from two-dimensional refractive-index profile in single-mode fibres

We present two numerical approaches to calculate the geometrical birefringence from two-dimenslonal refractive-index profile in single-mode fibres. One is the improved perturbation model theory, the other is based on the general solution of noncircular uniform optical waveguide in an arbitrary coordinate system. Using these methods, we can obtain not only the magnitude of geometrical birefringence, but also the orientation of birefrlngent axes. We report the calculation results of geometrical birefringence in a real single-mode fibre.     

圆芯边孔光纤的应力区和双折射

报道了圆芯边孔光纤(CSF)中应力分布和双折射的研究结果。用有限元法建立了求解圆芯边孔光纤横截面应力和双折射的计算模型,分析了圆芯边孔光纤横截面应力和应力双折射的分布形态,给出了详尽的物理解释。计算结果表明圆芯边孔光纤的横截面上出现应力分量的拉应力区和压应力区,应力区在纤芯附近对称分布,且不同应力区中应力双折射取向不同。应力分量和应力双折射在圆芯边孔光纤横截面上积分为零。圆芯边孔光纤的几何双折射随波长增加而增大,短波长处几何双折射为零,模式双折射等于应力双折射,随着波长增加,模式双折射逐渐偏离纤芯中心处应力双折射而靠近几何双折射,到长波长处模式双折射主要是几何双折射。对于不同材料组成和结构尺寸的圆芯边孔光纤,模式双折射的数值在10-5量级,随波长增加模式双折射先减小后增加。     

Measurement of photo-induced birefringence in germanosilicate fibers

In this paper, we report a novel method for accurately measuring the photo-induced birefringence of germanosilicate fibers by using an all fiber Mach-Zehnder interferometer. The results indicate that the photo-induced normalized birefringence of C₅98-302(s) germanosilicate fiber can attain 10⁻⁵ and is multi-decaying-exponentially proportional to the UV exposure.      

Optical study of the antiferromagnetic-paramagnetic phase transition in chromium oxide Cr2O3

Abstract

Optical effects of the first and second order with respect to the order parameter (1 is antiferromagnetic vector) have been studied in Cr₂O₃ around its phase transition at T_N = 306 K from the antiferromagnetic to paramagnetic state. The magnetic linear birefringence is characterized by a rather large magnitude Δn _sp ? 10^?3 and by a large contribution of fluctuations of the order parameter to the birefringence. The study of the nonreciprocal optical rotation induced by an electric field has shown that the phase transition has a well defined first-order character. This result is also supported by the observation of a nonlinear (quadratic in the electric field) nonreciprocal rotation in a narrow temperature region ΔT = 0.15 K around T_N . The temperature variation of the order parameter l(T) below T_N is well described by a power low l where τ^β = (T_N - T)/T_N and β = 0.355. We also observed a very reproducible effect of the rotation of the optical indicatrix in opposite directions for two types of antiferromagnetic domains. The possible explanation of this effect could be related to the so-called gyrotropic birefringence, an effect related to k_il_i terms in the dielectric permeability.