Construction of restricted field of view holographic screens

Two different configurations employed in the recording of restricted field of view holographic screens are analyzed. The characteristics of the screens, including focal lengths, sizes and diffraction efficiencies, are characterized. Screens of size of up to 420 cm² and with diffraction efficiencies of up to 34% are produced.     

A semi-empirical approach to determine gamma activities in environmental cylindrical samples

A semi-empirical method to determine radionuclide concentrations in large environmental samples without the use of reference material and avoiding the typical complexity of Monte-Carlo codes is proposed. The calculation of full-energy peak efficiencies was carried out from a relative efficiency curve (obtained from the gamma spectra data), and the geometric (simulated by Monte-Carlo), absorption, sample and intrinsic efficiencies for energies between 130 and 3000 keV. The absorption and sample efficiencies were determined from the mass absorption coefficients, whereas the intrinsic efficiency was approximated by an empirical function. The deviations between calculated and experimental efficiencies for a reference material in most cases are less than 10%. Radionuclide activities in marine sediment samples calculated by the proposed method and by the experimental comparative method were not significantly different. This new method can be used for routine environmental monitoring when uncertainties up to 10% are acceptable.     

Trigger efficiencies at BESⅢ

Trigger efficiencies at BESⅢ were determined for both the J/ψ and ψ' data taking of 2009. Both dedicated runs and physics datasets are used; efficiencies are presented for Bhabha-scattering events, generic hadronic decay events involving charged tracks, dimuon events and ψ'→π+π-J/ψ, J/ψ→ 1+1- events.The efficiencies are found to lie well above 99% for all relevant physics cases, thus fulfilling the BESⅢ design specifications.     

Stirring up trouble: Multi-scale mixing measures for steady scalar sources

The mixing efficiency of a flow advecting a passive scalar sustained by steady sources and sinks is naturally defined in terms of the suppression of bulk scalar variance in the presence of stirring, relative to the variance in the absence of stirring. These variances can be weighted at various spatial scales, leading to a family of multi-scale mixing measures and efficiencies. We derive a priori estimates on these efficiencies from the advection-diffusion partial differential equation, focusing on a broad class of statistically homogeneous and isotropic incompressible flows. The analysis produces bounds on the mixing efficiencies in terms of the Péclet number, a measure of the strength of the stirring relative to molecular diffusion. We show by example that the estimates are sharp for particular source, sink and flow combinations. In general the high-Péclet-number behavior of the bounds (scaling exponents as well as prefactors) depends on the structure and smoothness properties of, and length scales in, the scalar source and sink distribution. The fundamental model of the stirring of a monochromatic source/sink combination by the random sine flow is investigated in detail via direct numerical simulation and analysis. The large-scale mixing efficiency follows the upper bound scaling (within a logarithm) at high Péclet number but the intermediate and small-scale efficiencies are qualitatively less than optimal. The Péclet number scaling exponents of the efficiencies observed in the simulations are deduced theoretically from the asymptotic solution of an internal layer problem arising in a quasi-static model.     

Impact of “missing” third-body efficiencies on kinetic model predictions of combustion properties

A kinetic sensitivity analysis of almost any combustion observable will highlight pressure-dependent reactions important to predictions. Third-body efficiencies play a critical role in pressure-dependent reactions, serving as a species-specific multiplier on the rate constant of the reference collider (M). When third-body efficiencies are specified, the typical convention is to specify third-body efficiencies for a handful of common species relative to nitrogen, argon, or helium as the reference (in large part due to insufficient data for most other species). Species without explicit specification of a third-body efficiency are implicitly assumed to have a value of 1.0 – i.e. the same as the reference collider. While the impact of values used for third-body efficiencies for commonly specified species like water or carbon dioxide is well recognized, the impact of unspecified or “missing” third-body colliders is considerably less known. Naturally, the lack of specification of third-body efficiencies for some species could conceivably yield significant prediction errors. Their impact could be especially pronounced given that many unspecified third bodies, which are likely to have more rovibrational degrees of freedom or have permanent dipole moments, may be more effective in inducing energy transfer than the monatomic or diatomic gases used as a reference. Here, we present a screening procedure to estimate the potential impact of unspecified third-body efficiencies; outline key results across an array of models, fuels, and initial conditions; and explore implications for model development, optimization, and validation. In general, we find that the impact of unspecified third-body efficiencies can be substantial – large enough to potentially contaminate parameter inference in optimization studies in some cases and resolve factor-of-three differences between models and experimental data in other cases. These results therefore have further implications for the list of relevant colliders to be considered in both future modeling and energy transfer studies.     

The direct solution of the radiative transfer equation for optically thick atmospheres

A simple improvement of a previous direct method of solution of the spherical harmonics approximation to the radiative transfer equation results in higher computational efficiencies by factors of 2–4; these higher efficiencies are particularly important to shorten the lengthy computations required in optically thick nonhomogeneous atmospheres.     

Influences of water vapor and fly ash addition on NO and SO2 gas conversion efficiencies enhanced by pulsed corona discharge

The NO and SO₂ gas conversion processes in a pulsed corona discharge field have been studied. The experiments were conducted to investigate the influences of water vapor and fly ash addition on the conversion efficiencies of NO and SO₂. Experimental results show that positive pulsed corona discharge can facilitate NO and SO₂ conversion processes, and the conversion efficiencies of NO and SO₂ are primarily dependent on the radicals OH, O and the active species O₃, HO₂, H₂O₂, etc. With water vapor addition, SO₂ conversion efficiency is improved, but NO conversion process is restrained. Low fly ash concentration helps to enhance the conversion of NO and SO₂; however, the conversion efficiencies of NO and SO₂ are drastically degraded by high fly ash concentration addition. The synergistic effects of water vapor and fly ash addition strengthen the chemical adsorption ability of the fly ash surface, which results in a considerable improvement in the conversion of NO and SO₂. Furthermore, the specific input energy plays an important role in NO and SO₂ conversion efficiencies. Measured conversion efficiencies of NO and SO₂ reach about 60% and 90%, respectively, under the conditions tested.     

Theoretical and experimental investigation of desalting and dehydration of crude oil by assistance of ultrasonic irradiation

In this paper desalting/dehydration process of crude oil by ultrasonic irradiation in a novel batch standing-wave resonator reactor is studied both theoretically and experimentally. The effect of main parameters including ultrasonic irradiation parameters, namely irradiation input power and irradiation time, and also operating parameters, such as temperature and injected water, on the removal efficiencies of salt and water is examined. The obtained results demonstrate that finding the optimum values of the above mentioned parameters is important to prevent a significant decrease in the removal efficiencies of water and especially salt. Thus, crude oil was subjected to optimal ultrasonic irradiation with an input power of 57.7 W, and irradiation time of 6.2 min at temperature of 100 °C. The injected water to dissolve the salt of crude oil was 7 vol.%. Also, the applied settling time and dosage of chemical demulsifier were 60 min and 2 ppm, respectively. Under these optimum conditions the removal efficiencies of the desalting/dehydration process were 84% and 99.8%, respectively, which are suitable for refineries.Also, based on the optimal experimental data, two inferential estimators are developed to obtain the relationships between the salt and water removal efficiencies, and input energy density. These empirical relationships can offer a proper estimation for the salt and water removal efficiencies with irradiation input energy.     

谐波回旋速调管的效率优化

推导出了由两个无量纲量群聚系数与相位系数构成的非线性运动方程,并对其进行了数值计算分析。数值计算结果表明:通过优化设计参数,当谐波回旋速调管工作在放大区时,其基波、二次谐波、三次谐波、四次谐波的纵向互作用效率分别可达到55%,40%,30%,15%;当其工作在振荡区时,其基波、二次谐波、三次谐波、四次谐波的纵向互作用效率最高分别可达到93.9%, 88.2%, 81.8%, 62.7%。     

谐波回旋速调管的效率优化

推导出了由两个无量纲量群聚系数与相位系数构成的非线性运动方程,并对其进行了数值计算分析。数值计算结果表明:通过优化设计参数,当谐波回旋速调管工作在放大区时,其基波、二次谐波、三次谐波、四次谐波的纵向互作用效率分别可达到55%,40%,30%,15%;当其工作在振荡区时,其基波、二次谐波、三次谐波、四次谐波的纵向互作用效率最高分别可达到93.9%, 88.2%, 81.8%, 62.7%。     

Comparison between blue lasers and light‐emitting diodes for future solid‐state lighting

Solid‐state lighting (SSL) is now the most efficient source of high color quality white light ever created. Nevertheless, the blue InGaN light‐emitting diodes (LEDs) that are the light engine of SSL still have significant performance limitations. Foremost among these is the decrease in efficiency at high input current densities widely known as “efficiency droop.” Efficiency droop limits input power densities, contrary to the desire to produce more photons per unit LED chip area and to make SSL more affordable. Pending a solution to efficiency droop, an alternative device could be a blue laser diode (LD). LDs, operated in stimulated emission, can have high efficiencies at much higher input power densities than LEDs can. In this article, LEDs and LDs for future SSL are explored by comparing: their current state‐of‐the‐art input‐power‐density‐dependent power‐conversion efficiencies; potential improvements both in their peak power‐conversion efficiencies and in the input power densities at which those efficiencies peak; and their economics for practical SSL.     

Harmonic and sum-frequency generation of pulsed laser radiation in BBO,LBO, and KD*P

The optical properties of the nonlinear crystals lithium borate (LBO), barium borate (BBO) and deuterated potassium phosphate (KD*P) are compared for second and third harmonic generation of Nd:YAG laser radiation. In an experimental investigation the conversion efficiency has been measured as a function of the energy density of 8 ns long laser pulses, generated by a commercial Nd:YAG oscillator-amplifier system. In LBO and BBO the second harmonic generation saturates at an energy density of about 1.5 J cm^–2 at efficiencies of 55–60%. In KD*P comparable efficiencies (40–55%) require energy densities of 2–2.6 J cm^–2. Similar results are obtained for frequency tripling. In LBO and BBO saturated efficiencies of 20–25% are measured at an energy density of about 1.5 J cm^–2. In KD*P efficiencies of 20% are obtained at energy densities exceeding 2 J cm^–2. Besides for doubling and tripling of Nd:YAG laser radiation the phase-matching is calculated for frequency conversion of tunable laser light. The results demonstrate that in LBO and BBO phase-matched sum-frequency mixing of UV and infrared laser light generates tunable radiation at wavelengths as short as the transmission cut-off at 160 nm and 190 nm, respectively.     

External radiative quantum efficiency of 96% from a GaAs / GaInP heterostructure

 GaAs/GaInP double heterostructures are index matched with ZnSe hemispheres to increase the coupling of photoluminescence out of the device. We measure external quantum efficiencies as large as 96% at room temperature using a bolometric calibration technique. When the carriers are optically injected near the bandgap energy, the luminescence is blueshifted by up to 1.4 kT. In this case, external efficiencies exceeding 97.5% would yield optical refrigeration in the solid state. Received: 22 July 1996/Accepted: 23 September 1996     

Holography with guided optical waves

This paper deals with “waveguide holograms” recorded in a layer of storage material covering a planar dielectric waveguide. Reference and read-out waves are guided modes of the waveguide. Their field in the storage medium is evanescent. A theory of the diffraction efficiencies of these waveguide holograms is presented fors-polarized wavefields. To calculate the hologram structure the attenuation of the reference wave caused by absorption in the light-sensitive storage material is taken into account. Analytical expressions for the local and the overall diffraction efficiencies and for the intensity profiles of the diffracted fields are derived. The dependence of these quantities on experimental parameters (the waveguide thickness, the mode numbers of the reference and read-out waves, and the angle of incidence of the plane object wave) is presented graphically, i.e., by computer plots. Grating couplers for integrated optics can be made by waveguide holography. We consider this application to be interesting because incoupling efficiencies for Gaussian beams of up to 96% can be achieved theoretically.     

KTP(001)晶体分光性能研究

根据同步辐射光源对软X射线分光晶体的性能要求,分析了软X射线能区常用分光晶体的性能优劣,指出对于晶格常数值大的分光晶体,KTP(KTiOPO₄)(011)是该能区比较理想的分光晶体. 同时提出了一种利用同步辐射光源测量晶体衍射效率的实验方法,指出光源的发散度与晶体的衍射效率密切相关. 测量了KTP(011)晶体的晶格常数,给出了KTP(011)晶体的实测衍射效率. 关键词： 同步辐射 KTP(011)晶体 衍射效率 光源发散度     

The deuterium effect on electrochemiluminescence efficiencies of anthracene and phenanthrene

The effect of deuteration on the electrochemiluminescence (ECL) efficiencies of the mixed systems containing anthracene or phenathrene has been examined using the single light pulse in the double potential programme. Deuteration of anthracene or phenanthrene decreases the ECL efficiencies by factors of 1·2–16·0. This decrease appears to arise from the quenching of the triplets by radical ions in solution. The quenching factors are estimated by using Marcus theory of electron transfer reactions.     

Harmonic generation during ultrashort-pulse ultraintense p-polarized laser interaction with solid target

In this Letter, we developed the “relativistic surface currents” model to investigate the harmonic generation under the conditions of p-polarized obliquely incident ultrashort-pulse ultraintense laser. As a result of this Letter, up to 70 harmonics are generated with conversion efficiencies exceeding 10⁻⁶, which is very close to the result from Norreys' experiment and Gibbon's PIC simulations. For highly relativistic regime and nonrelativistic regime of laser power, the harmonic conversion efficiencies as a function of laser strength parameter q are discussed.     

Comparison of detection efficiencies of negatively charged gold-alkanethiolate-, gold-sulfur- and gold-clusters in ToF-SIMS

In order to improve quantification of high mass ions, the influence of cluster composition on detection efficiencies has been studied using a TOF-SIMS IV with the extended capability of postaccelerating ions up to 20 keV. In this experimental study, we focus on the comparison of detection efficiencies for three types of negatively charged secondary cluster ions: gold-alkanethiolate-clusters (Au_xM_y), gold-sulfur-clusters (Au_xS_y) and gold-clusters (Au_x). The clusters were sputtered from self-assembled monolayers of hexadecanethiols on gold substrates using 10 keV Ar⁺ primary ions. The detection efficiencies were derived on the basis of a function for the secondary electron yield and a fourth-order approximated Poisson probability distribution for electron propagation and amplification within the microchannel plate.In addition to the well-known dependence of detection efficiencies on ion mass and energy, which has already been studied for positively charged ions, we were able to show a similar behaviour for the investigated negatively charged secondary ions. We have observed major variations among the three types of clusters at similar mass and energy as predicted in a theoretical approach. The observed differences are due to the different composition of the investigated clusters which has a major influence on the kinetic ion induced electron emission within the microchannel plate. For the first time it was possible to experimentally verify these predictions for detection efficiencies.     

Measurement of photocarrier injection efficiencies at the interface in double layered organic photoconductors

Photocarrier injection efficiencies from the carrier generation layer into the transport layer in double-layered photoconductors were measured by using a photoacoustic technique. Photoinjection efficiencies were derived by measuring the decrease in photoacoustic signal when an electric field was applied to the samples. A linear relationship was observed between the logarithm of the photoinjection efficiencies and the square root of the applied electric field. Photocarrier injection efficiencies are limited by a barrier between the carrier generation layer and the carrier transport layer.     

Position Dependence of 2-Aminopurine Spectra in Adenosine Pentadeoxynucleotides

The fluorescent probe/base, 2-aminopurine (2AP), has been incorporated into DNA pentamers that otherwise contain only adenine, the base that has been shown to stack strongly with itself and with the adenine mimic, 2AP. The probe base has been placed in each of the five positions in single strands. Optical spectral shifts, energy-transfer efficiencies, and their respective temperature dependencies behave simply as a function of 2AP position: those quantities approximately double when 2AP is placed between two adenines, compared to 2AP at either end of the chain. Transfer efficiencies of 80% (at 5°C) are measured for APAAA and AAPAA, 68% for AAAPA, while PAAAA and AAAAP efficiencies are 52% and 46%, respectively (P = 2AP). The spectroscopic parameters are therefore reliable measures of local DNA conformation that can be interpreted in a straightforward manner in terms of interbase electronic interactions. Interactions of 2AP with nonadenine bases have previously been shown to mostly be much weaker.