Coherent neutron scattering by light water (H2O) and a light-heavy water mixture (64 per cent H2O/36 per cent D2O)

Measurements have been made, with high statistical accuracy, of the differential scattering cross-section for 1·06 Å neutrons by light water and a special mixture of light and heavy water at 22°C. For light water, the structure in the scattering pattern is attributed mainly to coherent scattering; a structure factor has been obtained over a limited range of momentum transfer. For the chosen mixture, the protons and deuterons give no contribution to the coherent scattering and a structure factor has been obtained which corresponds very well to the oxygen-nucleus structure factor obtained from X-ray data. The results show the desirability of extending these high accuracy measurements using isotopic substitution methods as a means of obtaining the three partial structure factors for water. The method of isotopic mixtures is applicable to a wide range of proton containing liquids.     

Dynamical scaling of the structure factor of some non-Euclidean systems

Predictions of nonlinear theories on dynamics of new phase formation have been examined for the hydration of calcium silicates with light water and heavy water. In the case of hydration with light water, reasonable agreement has been observed with dynamical scaling hypothesis with a new measure of the characteristic length. The characteristic length does not follow a power law relation with time. Hydrating mass is found to be mass fractal throughout hydration, with mass fractal dimension increasing with time. But, in the case of hydration with heavy water, no agreement has been observed with the scaling hypothesis. Hydrating mass undergoes transition from mass fractal to surface fractal and finally again to mass fractal. The qualitative features of the kinetics of hydration, as measured in small-angle scattering experiments, are strikingly different for hydration with light water and heavy water.     

Dynamical properties of water-methanol solutions: Brillouin and depolarized Rayleigh scattering

Summary We have performed Brillouin and depolarized Rayleigh light scattering on water-methanol solutions as a function of methanol molar fraction and temperature. For this system, molecular-dynamics (MD) simulation predicts that a shell of water forms around a methanol molecule, prediction which has been recently confirmed by neutron diffraction experiments. The results obtained by light scattering and presented here confirm previous observations and show, in addition, an increase of the stability in time of the water structure in the shells when temperature decreases and methanol concentration approaches a particular value. Paper presented at the I International Conference on Scaling Concepts and Complex Fluids, Copanello, Italy, July 4–8, 1994.     

Monte Carlo simulation of the interaction between an ultra-short pulse and a strongly scattering medium: The case of large particles

Simulations of the transmission of a short light pulse (50 fs) through a strongly scattering medium constituted by water droplets (50-150 μm diameter) are presented. Temporal emerging signals are computed using a Monte Carlo technique. In case of large particles with respect to the pulse duration, the time delay related to the interaction between light and individual particles has to be taken into account, in addition to the time delay related to the travel of light between particles. After careful comparisons with temporal Lorenz-Mie theory, it has been chosen to pre-calculate scattering characteristics of individual droplets using Debye series. Transmitted signals in forward direction and in a small temporal window (0-400 fs) are presented, showing that temporal information on particle size are still observable facing strongly scattering media.     

Laboratory measurements of light scattering by tropical fresh water diatoms

Laser light scattering characteristics of tropical fresh water diatoms and their siliceous frustules have been measured as a function of scattering angle at 543, 594 and 632 nm wavelengths by using an indigenously designed and fabricated laboratory light scattering instrument in an attempt to carryout morphological characterization of the unique regular structures specific to these type of tropical fresh water diatoms. The instrument incorporates an array of 16 highly sensitive static Si detectors that measured scattered light signals from 10° to 170° in steps of 1°. A comparative analysis between the results obtained by using the three different incident wavelengths has shown that highest resolution is obtained at 543 nm incident wavelength.     

Spatial, Spectral, and Temporal Characteristics of Stimulated Light Scattering in Water

Spatial, temporal, and spectral characteristics of stimulated light scattering (SS) in water were investigated in both nano- and picosecond ranges under different experimental conditions and compared with the analogous characteristics of stimulated light scattering in other liquids. Stimulated Raman scattering (SRS) and stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) of light were studied. The results obtained provide useful information on the structure of water, its purity, and additions, which can result in its pollution. The excitation conditions of stimulated light scattering (SS) in one spatial mode and with maximum pulse energy conversion were determined. It is shown that stimulated light scattering can be successfully applied to control water quality (and it can be done very fast) as well as for information processing, i.e., the amplitude–phase structure of complex light fields can be registered in water as a dynamic hologram and reconstructed in real time.     

On some manifestations of similarity in multiple scattering of coherent light

The similarity of the decay tendencies of statistical moments of optical fields and their combinations (the mean intensity, the temporal correlation function of the field fluctuations and the degree of polarization) due to coherent light propagation in the disordered media has been considered by using a simple phenomenological model with exponential relaxation. A theoretical consideration has been carried out for the case of light propagation through a disordered slab using the diffusion approximation. The validity of the concept of similarity has been demonstrated in experiments with water suspensions of polystyrene spheres for the light transmission mode even in the case of non-diffusion regimes of light propagation through a scattering substance.     

Dynamics of water molecules adsorbed by silica and resin SGK-7

This paper has presented neutron spectroscopy data on the dynamics of light water molecules adsorbed in the cation exchanger (ion-exchange resin) SGK-7 and on the surface of aerosils (highly dispersed pyrogenic silica) with different levels of hydration. The measurements have been performed on a DIN-2PI spectrometer (Frank Laboratory of Neutron Physics of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia). The characteristics of the diffusive and vibrational motions of adsorbed water molecules have been determined from the experimental neutron scattering spectra. The data obtained in the quasi-elastic neutron scattering region have been analyzed using a model accounting for the effects of restricted translational and rotational diffusion. The results have demonstrated a significant decrease in the diffusion mobility of adsorbed water molecules as compared to conventional (bulk) water. In particular, the self-diffusion coefficient decreases several times, and the diffusion rate is the lower, the smaller is the thickness of the hydration layer. The dependences of the intensity and half-width of the quasi-elastic scattering peak on the magnitude of the neutron momentum transfer q in the scattering process exhibit a nonmonotonic character. This indicates manifestation of the effects of restricted translational diffusion, rotational diffusion, and jump diffusion. The partial distributions of vibrational frequencies of hydrogen atoms of water molecules adsorbed by the cation exchanger and aerosils have been obtained from the inelastic neutron scattering data.     

水下光场的蒙特卡罗法求解

水下光场分布对水下光电成像质量具有决定性的影响,通过水下光场分布可以得到水下图像的传输退化模型。在给定水体光学参数的前提下,建立光子水下传输概率模型,利用Monte Carlo法模拟光子在水下的运动,可以获得水下光子散射点体积密度分布,求解出水下光场;在水体体散射函数为球形对称的条件下,利用Monte Carlo法得到的水下光场分布与理论公式的计算结果具有很好的一致性,验证了该方法的有效性;最后给出了水下理想点光源形成的水下光场分布。基于此结论,可以将Monte Carlo法求解水下光场的应用范围推广至水体体散射函数为一般表达式的情形。     

Light transport in laser irradiated turbid media, application in medicine and image processing

Much effort is being made in the study of light propagation in human tissue due to the development and wide use of lasers for surgical and therapeutic applications. When a picosecond light pulse is incident on biological tissue, part of the light is reflected back owing to specular surface reflection and the rest of the light penetrates the tissue and encounters multiple scattering and absorption processes. An analysis has been presented for modeling of light distribution in human tissue. The influence of the refractive index, scattering phase function and scattering albedo on light distribution in laser irradiated tissue has been demonstrated.     

Low-order light scattering in multiple scattering disperse media

Light scattering has been investigated in systems in which both single and higher order scattering occur. The Monte Carlo simulation technique for studying light scattering in randomly inhomogeneous, strongly scattering disperse media was employed. The reliability of the data obtained has been checked by comparing the results of the computer simulation with analytical calculations for the intensity of doubly scattered light. The first several scattering orders have been analyzed for different geometries of the optical experiment. It has been shown, in particular, that, depending on the detector aperture, the contribution of multiple scattering can vary by almost an order of magnitude.

     

两种按比例混合颗粒系的多次散射模拟

一种颗粒与其他种类的颗粒混合后, 会使其散射特性发生变化, 本文研究了水云中混有黑炭气溶胶后的散射特性变化. 根据Mie理论计算了水云和黑炭气溶胶散射相函数、单次散射反照率和不对称因子. 给出了混合颗粒系的蒙特卡罗模拟方法, 给出了颗粒碰撞类型抽样、自由程抽样和根据Mie相函数进行散射方向抽样的方法. 计算了光垂直入射时, 水云和黑炭气溶胶混合颗粒系的反射光强随观测角的变化, 并计算了平面反照率随入射角的变化, 讨论了黑炭气溶胶的有效半径、混合比例对整个混合颗粒系散射特性的影响. 计算结果表明, 水云中混合黑炭会加强其吸收, 且黑炭的比例和尺寸不同其散射特性差异较大.     

炸药爆炸作用下液体破碎后颗粒尺寸分布的研究

 对液体抛撒的液滴尺寸进行研究在军事和民用上是很重要的,国内刚开始使用激光散射仪开展此项研究工作。利用R. A. Dobbins等人的液体颗粒测量技术,研制了一套既简单又实用的测量液体抛撒过程中液滴尺寸的实验装置——激光散射仪。对于激光与液体微粒的相互作用,当微粒的反射与折射和吸收效应可被忽略时,可导出液体微粒对激光散射的光强公式。只要测量激光被微粒散射的光强,就可推算出微粒的Sauter平均直径。在使用激光散射仪测量液体抛撒液滴尺寸的实验中,用水代替爆炸抛撒液体,测量结果表明：液体抛撒二次破碎中,在固定位置测量到的云雾区液滴Sauter平均直径随测量时间的增加呈现出减小的趋势;而云雾区的宽度则随着与抛撒中心距离的增大而呈现出增加的趋势;云雾区前沿的液滴Sauter平均直径随着与抛撒中心距离的增加而呈现出先逐渐增大然后迅速减小的趋势。为便于比较,对燃料抛撒二次破碎进行了回收法测量和数值模拟计算,其测量与计算结果与用激光散射仪测量的结果有较好的一致性。     

胆甾相液晶散射光的特性研究

基于胆甾相液晶的电光特性,进行了液晶散射光相干性与不同外加电场之间关系的实验研究.利用反转剪切干涉仪具体测量了不同外加电压条件下液晶散射光的空间相干性,得出了液晶散射光相干性随外加电场变化的初步规律.结果表明,胆甾相液晶散射光的强度以及空间相干性可以由外加电场调制.     

米散射理论在新型导光板中的应用

根据米散射理论,提出了新型导光板的设计思路,计算并分析了对于一定波长的入射光,不同粒径的微粒的散射特性。总结了随着微粒粒径的变化,散射效率、消光效率与背向散射效率的变化规律,分析了散射过程中的偏振度随粒子粒径几散射角变化的情况,同时模拟计算了多个微粒对同一波长的入射光经过多次散射后的概率统计结果。     

Spectral Changes of Light and Scattering Phenomena

In the last few years renewed attention has been paid to the study of light scattering from random media. This is due to the recent discovery of a phenomenon that dynamic light scattering from a fluctuating random medium may produce shifts of spectral lines, even when the source and the scattering medium are at rest relative to the observer. It has also been demonstrated that a similar phenomenon may occur in static light scattering from spatially random media without dynamic fluctuations. By the well-known analogy between the processes of scattering and radiation, these phenomena in scattering are found to be closely related to the correlation-induced spectral changes in the coherence theory which are often referred to as the Wolf effect. In this paper some recent developments are reviewed on research regarding the phenomena of changes in the spectrum of light induced by scattering from random media. Emphasis is placed on a number of up-to-date attempts for elucidating the effects of multiple scattering on these phenomena.This review was presented as an invited paper at the Symposium on Spectral Effects in Collective Phenomena organized as a satellite meeting of the Seventh Rochester Conference on Coherence and Quantum Optics, June 7–10 1995 (Rochester, NY).     

Condition for far-zone spectral isotropy of an electromagnetic light wave on weak scattering

The far-zone spectral isotropy of an electromagnetic light wave on scattering has been discussed. It is shown that a sufficient condition for the far-zone spectral isotropy of an electromagnetic light wave on scattering can be expressed by the following two requirements: the two-point correlation function of the dielectric susceptibility of the scattering medium obeys the so-called scaling law, and the normalized spectrum of the incident light wave has the same distribution along the two perpendicular directions.     

相干瑞利散射海水水下温度测量技术的理论研究

海水水下温度的快速大范围测量是海洋监测的重要内容,在民用和军事领域都有着至关重要的意义,本文提出了采用相干瑞利散射方法测量海水水下温度的新方法:用宽带高速光电探测器接收本振激光和海水后向瑞利散射光相干产生的差频信号,进行傅里叶变换分析获取海水瑞利散射展宽谱,从而反演海水温度,首先从海水的热力学特性出发,对利用瑞利散射谱测量海水水下温度的基本原理进行了理论研究和软件模拟;然后对采用相干探测测量海水瑞利散射谱的测量方法进行了理论分析和软件模拟;在此基础上对瑞利散射海水水下温度测量精度进行了分析,得出当水体瑞利散射频谱半宽度测量精度为1 MHz时,测温精度约为0.35 K。     

光在水中吸附膜层气泡上的散射特性

光在水中大尺度气泡上散射特性的研究多是基于Davis模型.该模型没有考虑到吸附膜层对光在气泡上散射的影响,而海水中的大多数气泡都有膜层附着,这些膜层会影响到气泡的光散射特性.本文从几何光学的角度出发,建立了吸附膜层气泡的体积散射函数简化公式.在此理论基础上,模拟计算了尺度远大于入射光波长的大气泡散射光强分布曲线,得出光照射下气泡上散射光强的远场特性,讨论了影响气泡散射光强分布的主要因素.并与无膜气泡光散射分布曲线比较,讨论了油膜膜厚、折射率等参量对气泡的光散射特性影响.得出结论:吸附膜层气泡的光强分布曲线与无膜气泡相似,但吸附膜层会削弱前向散射光,增强后向散射光.