原子吸收光谱对碱金属原子蒸气密度与压强的测量方法

利用SERF原子自旋效应能够实现高灵敏度的磁场测量,碱金属原子密度与缓冲气体压强是敏感表头碱金属气室的重要参数,需要精确地测量。提出一种应用原子吸收光谱对碱金属蒸气的原子密度与压强测量方法,通过扫描碱金属原子的吸收光谱,进行Lorentz线型拟合,经解算同时得到原子密度和压强,一次实验获得两个物理量。由于多普勒展宽和压力展宽主要受到碱金属气室温度和缓冲气体压强的影响,从这两个方面进行了仿真分析。结果表明,充入2 amg缓冲气体时,313～513 K温度范围内的Lorentz线型与Voigt线型计算的光子吸收截面积峰值的理论误差始终小于0.015%;缓冲气体压强高于0.6 amg(393 K)时,其峰值误差小于0.1%,表明该条件下多普勒展宽对吸收光谱的影响可以忽略,可用Lorentz线型拟合原子的吸收谱线。最后分析了该方法能够获得的理论分辨率以及激光器的功率波动、波长波动和气室温度波动对测量精度的影响,得出同等条件下温度波动的影响比其他两个因素高1~2个数量级。     

基于声弛豫频率的可激发气体压强合成算法

声弛豫频率是声吸收谱峰值点的频率,包含可激发气体成分、环境温度和压强信息.利用声弛豫频率线性正比气体压强的特性,提出一种通过两频点声吸收系数和声速测量值计算声弛豫频率,并通过查表方式合成气体压强的算法.算法的声弛豫频率测量误差具有随声测量值误差线性变换的特性,且当两频点的声吸收测量误差相等时,压强的合成误差为零.对于一定温度下的甲烷及其混合气体,仿真计算证明算法的有效性和声测量误差的稳健性.提供一种简单、稳健性好、可实时连续在线检测可激发气体腔体压强的声学方法.     

基于光谱吸收法的碱金属原子配比检测方法研究

碱金属混合物原子配比是超高灵敏惯性测量装置表头的重要参数,需精确测量。针对碱金属配比与碱金属蒸汽密度相关的特点,提出运用光深理论检测碱金属配比。结果表明：受多种因素影响,光深理论得到的碱金属蒸汽密度与饱和蒸汽压经验公式计算的结果相差3个数量级,无法保证碱金属配比的测量精度;改变数据处理方法,建立光谱吸收率与气室内部温度的映射模型,运用光谱吸收率标定碱金属气室内部温度,通过碱金属饱和蒸汽压经验公式计算气室内部碱金属原子的配比,多组数据分析表明：检测误差在10%以内。     

基于三频点声速测量的气体压强合成算法

利用声速测量精度高, 测量方法简单的特点, 提出一种基于三个频率点测量声速合成气体压强的算法。首先在三个频率点测量声速, 然后计算得到声速频散谱拐点的弛豫频率, 最后根据弛豫频率与压强成线性正比的关系得到气体压强, 仿真结果验证了该算法的可行性。为在线实时检测气体腔体压强提供了一种技术简单、精度高的超声方法。     

大气环境条件下波长调制光谱无标测量的压强修正

可调谐激光吸收光谱技术(TDLAS)由于其高灵敏度、高选择性等优势广泛用于痕量气体检测领域。然而其测量结果容易受到目标气体压力波动的影响,特别是在大气环境下尤为明显,现有方法多为在现场安装压力传感器,对测量结果进行校正。提出了一种无需压力传感装置的气体浓度修正方法。选取碰撞展宽占主导地位的气体吸收谱线,分别建立谱线展宽与波长调制光谱一次谐波(WMS-1f)信号的峰谷值间距和二次谐波(WMS-2f)过零点间距的解析表达式,通过测量一次谐波峰谷值间距或二次谐波过零点间距直接得到被测气体压强,进而利用波长调制光谱一次谐波归一化的二次谐波(WMS-2f/1f)技术补偿测量环境中压力波动对气体浓度测量结果的影响。实验以浓度为1 980 mg·m~(-3)的CO_2为目标气体,选取其位于4 989.97 cm~(-1)的吸收作为目标谱线,在大气压附近进行不同调制深度的变压力测量实验,通过实验分析了压强变化对二氧化碳吸收谱线谐波信号的影响,利用一次谐波峰谷值间距和二次谐波过零点间距分别反演了气体压强,并与气体压强传感器测得的压强数据进行对比,压强偏差在1%以内,验证了通过谐波间距解析表达式计算压强的正确性及通过测量谐波间距对浓度补偿的可行性。最后利用WMS-2f/1f技术和通过谐波间距测得的压强数据对气体浓度进行压强补偿修正,结果表明通过测量谐波间距修正后的浓度与通过高精度压力表补偿后浓度相比误差小于2%,与通过谐波间距推导得出的压力不确定度(小于2%)一致,验证了该方法的可行性和有效性,进一步提高了TDLAS技术在压强波动较大环境下进行气体浓度检测的测量精度。利用谐波间距对气体浓度补偿的方法无需额外的气体压力传感器,简单易行,特别适合于大气环境中气体成分的高灵敏高精度开放光路遥测,也可用于气体浓度和压强的同时测量。     

可激发气体振动弛豫时间的两频点声测量重建算法

振动弛豫时间是可激发气体分子内外自由度能量转移速率的宏观体现,它决定了声吸收谱峰值点对应的弛豫频率.本文给出了等温、绝热定压和绝热定容三种不同热力学过程下振动弛豫时间的相互关系;基于Petculescu和Lueptow[2005 Phys.Rev.Lett.94 238301]的弛豫过程合成算法,推导了单一压强下两频点声测量值的弛豫时间重建算法.该算法可应用于等温、绝热定压、绝热定容弛豫时间和弛豫频率的重建测量,并避免了弛豫时间传统声测量方法需要不断改变气体腔体压强的问题.仿真结果表明,对于室温下CO_2,CH_4,Cl_2,N_2和O_2组成的多种气体,重建的弛豫时间和弛豫频率与实验数据相符.     

铷原子横向弛豫时间的测量方法比较研究

为测量短暂的碱金属原子横向弛豫时间,分析了改进了的自由感应衰减法、磁共振展宽拟合法以及旋转坐标系下的横向磁矩分量比值拟合法三种测量方法。并设计了实验装置,用这三种方法对10μs量级的铷原子横向弛豫时间进行了测量。测量结果表明,这三种方法的精度皆可达1μs量级。通过对这三种方法的测量环境分析,改进了的自由感应衰减法和比值拟合法的测量值可以直接作为一般的原子磁力仪的参数使用,展宽拟合法可以用于研究无光条件下的碱金属原子弛豫机制。     

基于光偏振旋转效应的碱金属气室原子极化率测量方法及影响因素分析

利用原子自旋效应能够实现超高灵敏度的惯性和磁场测量。一类操控原子自旋处于无自旋交换弛豫态的器件可以进行物理参数测量。碱金属气室为该类器件的敏感表头。碱金属原子密度与原子极化率是碱金属气室的重要参数,对研究原子自旋处于无自旋交换弛豫态有着重要的作用。光的偏振效应在量子计算和原子物理研究中发挥了重要作用。利用光的偏振效应能够实现对碱金属原子密度与原子极化率的检测。提出一种基于光偏振旋转效应的碱金属原子极化率测量方法。首先对碱金属气室加恒定磁场,利用激光作为检测光,根据光偏振旋转原理,检测通过气室的偏振光的法拉第旋转角,得到碱金属气室原子密度。然后将碱金属原子抽运,利用激光作为检测光,检测通过气室的偏振光的偏转角,得到碱金属原子极化率。该方法在测量原子极化率的过程中也测量了碱金属原子密度,实现利用一套系统测量两个重要参数,具有快速测量和高灵敏度等特点,简化了实验设备及过程。对两种偏转角进行仿真分析,得到该方法实验时检测激光波长变化对偏转角的影响,根据仿真图得到检测激光波长的可取范围,验证了该方法的可行性。最后分析激光器波长波动与磁场波动对其测量精度的影响,提出实验对激光器与磁场的要求。     

双光子共振非简并四波混频测量Ba原子里德伯态的碰撞展宽和频移

采用双光子共振非简并四波混频测量了Ar缓冲气压引起的Ba原子里德伯6snd ¹D₂谱线系的碰撞展宽和频移, 计算了n=16---33的碰撞展宽截面和频移截面. 本方法是一种纯光学的测量技术, 当采用窄带激光器时可以获得里德伯态的消多普勒光谱. 与传统实验方法测量到的里德伯态纵向弛豫的碰撞展宽不同, 本方法可以研究碰撞引起的两能态间横向弛豫的展宽.     

基于光腔衰荡光谱技术的压力计校准方法

压强是工业生产过程中的一个重要参数,其准确测量是过程控制的关键。气体分子光谱线型和线宽取决于分子间相互作用和温度、气压等因素,利用窄线宽气体吸收光谱的压力展宽效应,可通过高分辨地测量气体吸收谱线得到压强信息,实现压力计校准。提出了一种基于光腔衰荡光谱技术和气体吸收谱线压力展宽效应的压力计校准方法。采用5.2 μm可调谐量子级联激光器,基于连续光腔衰荡光谱技术建立了压力计校准实验装置。室温下,测量水汽在1 877 cm-1附近的一吸收谱线,线宽为0.084 21 cm-1,重复性测量误差小于1.53×10-4 cm-1,对应的压强大小为98.12 kPa,检测灵敏度优于0.18 kPa,与高精度压力计读数98.14 kPa一致。利用测试谱线线宽与压强的关系得到压力展宽系数(0.087 12±0.000 965) cm-1·atm-1,与HITARN数据库参考值0.087 1 cm-1·atm-1一致。实验校准了一小量程压力计。结果表明基于光腔衰荡光谱的高分辨吸收谱线测量在压强检测和压力计校准领域具有很好的应用前景。     

微米气室铯原子自旋噪声谱

利用自旋噪声谱技术研究了无缓冲气体133Cs原子气室的自旋动力学和展宽机制.在宏观原子气室中,自旋弛豫速率失谐频率谱的线型为高斯分布;在空间局域较强的微米气室中,自旋弛豫速率失谐频率谱的线型为洛伦兹分布.实验测量得到的自旋弛豫速率失谐频率谱的展宽约4 GHz,明显大于宏观原子气室中约度强烈依赖于激光相对于原子共振跃迁的频率失谐;在微米气室中,由于较强的均匀展宽,总噪声的失谐频率谱中心处出现明显的凹陷.通过建立简化的物理模型来计算微米气室的展宽机制,在实验与理论中解释了原子的均匀展宽特性.     

Multiple relaxation and inhomogeneous broadening in resonance enhanced Raman scattering: Application to tunable infrared generation

The solutions for the imaginary susceptibility of the Raman field transition with arbitrary relaxation rates and field strengths are examined for differeing sets of relaxation rates with emphasis on alkali metal vapors which have spontaneous emission dominated relaxation. The model is further expanded to include Doppler broadening and used to predict the peak gain as a function of detuning for a frequency doubled alexandrite laserpumped cesium vapor gain cell.This work was supported by an Alfred P.Sloan Fellowship and a grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NAG-5-526)     

Atomic vapor cells for chip-scale atomic clocks with improved long-term frequency stability

A novel technique for microfabricating alkali atom vapor cells is described in which alkali atoms are evaporated into a micromachined cell cavity through a glass nozzle. A cell of interior volume 1 mm3, containing 87Rb and a buffer gas, was made in this way and integrated into an atomic clock based on coherent population trapping. A fractional frequency instability of 6 x 10(-12) at 1000 s of integration was measured. The long-term drift of the F=1, mF=0-->F=2, mF=0 hyperfine frequency of atoms in these cells is below 5 x 10(-11)/day.     

Features of the Magnetic Resonance of an Alkali Metal upon Biharmonic Pumping

The dynamics of spin projections of the electron shell of an alkali metal on the coordinate axis is considered in the electron paramagnetic resonance scheme with continuous pumping by biharmonic circularly polarized laser radiation. The working region is a cell with alkali vapor metal vapors and a buffer gas at a high concentration at temperature 60°C. It was found that the use of biharmonic pumping causes not only the expected electron-spin precession, but also pulsations of the electron-spin projection on the axis along which the magnetic field is directed. The frequency of these pulsations depends on the nuclear angular momentum of alkali metal atoms. In the case of the transverse electron magnetic resonance, this effect is absent.     

A new fully quantum-mechanical method used to calculate the collisional broadening coefficients and shift coefficients of Rb D_1 lines perturbed by noble gases He and Ar

In this work, a new full quantum method is proposed to calculate the broadening and shift coefficients of the D_1 line in neutral collision. Based on the variable phase approach and Baranger theory, this method calculates the scattering phase shift instead of scattering matrix elements in order to simplify the calculation. As an illustration, this method is used to calculate the broadening and shift coefficients of the absorption lines of alkali metal atom Rb, as it collides with buffer gas He and Ar, in a temperature range from 150 K to 800 K. With a comparison with other calculations and experiment measurements, the reasonable agreements in all cases demonstrate the validity and simplicity of this method.     

An accurate comparison of lineshape models on H2O lines in the spectral region around 3 μm

In this paper we present the main results concerning lineshape analysis on ν₁ and ν₃ water vapor lines in the region around 3 μm. Narrow-bandwidth radiation used in this experiment was produced by difference-frequency generation in a periodically poled crystal between two near-infrared solid state lasers. We have investigated pressure broadening and shift for five H₂O absorption lines induced by collisions with Xe atoms and water vapor itself. From an accurate lineshape analysis we have obtained information on the influence of Dicke narrowing as well as correlations between velocity-changing and dephasing collisions and of speed-dependent effects. Finally, the self-broadening and pressure broadening and shift coefficients in presence of the buffer gas are furnished.     

Tunable atomic magnetometer for detection of radio-frequency magnetic fields

We describe an alkali-metal magnetometer for detection of weak magnetic fields in the radio-frequency (rf) range. High sensitivity is achieved by tuning the Zeeman resonance of alkali atoms to the rf frequency and partially suppressing spin-exchange collisions in the alkali-metal vapor. We demonstrate magnetic field sensitivity of 2 fT/Hz(1/2) at a frequency of 99 kHz with a resonance width of 400 Hz. We also derive a simple analytic expression for the fundamental limit on the sensitivity of the rf magnetometer and show that a sensitivity of about 0.01 fT/Hz(1/2) can be achieved in a practical system with a measurement volume of 200 cm3.     

Optical characterization and manipulation of alkali metal nanoparticles in porous silica

Rubidium and cesium metal nanoparticles were grown in nanoporous silica samples placed in alkali vapor cells. Their size and shape were investigated by measuring the sample optical transmittance. Spectral changes due to photodesorption processes activated by weak light were also analyzed. Alkali atoms photoejected from the silica walls diffuse through and out of the nanopores, modifying both the nanoparticle distribution in the silica matrix and the atomic vapor pressure in the cell volume. The number of rubidium and cesium atoms burst out of the samples was measured as a function of photon energy and fluence. The optical absorption measurements together with the analysis of the photodesorption yield give a complete picture of the processes triggered by light inside the nanopores. We show that atomic photodesorption, upon proper choice of light frequency and intensity, induces either growth or evaporation of nanosized alkali metal clusters. Cluster size and shape are determined by the host-guest interaction.