Spin polarization in quantum dots by radiation field with circular polarization

For circular quantum dot (QD), taking into account the Razhba spin-orbit interaction (SOI), an exact energy spectrum is obtained. For a small SOI constant, the eigenfunctions of the QD are found. It is shown that the application of a radiation field with circular polarization removes the Kramers degeneracy of the QD eigenstates. Effective spin polarization of electrons transmitted through the QD owing to a radiation field with circular polarization is demonstrated.     

基于极化旋转超表面的圆极化天线设计

本文通过设计出一种反射型极化旋转超表面,在8—12 GHz频域内实现高效的极化旋转,并将其加载于微带缝隙天线下方构成新型的极化旋转超表面天线,利用超表面的90°极化旋转效应,成功实现了天线的圆极化辐射调制.仿真与实验结果表明:圆极化天线的中心工作频率为GHz,阻抗带宽为8.3—10 GHz.当微带缝隙天线与极化旋转超表面的间距H=4.5mm时,天线在8.3—8.8 GHz频带内实现了圆极化辐射;当mm时,天线在8.8—9.3 GHz频带内实现了圆极化辐射;当=8mm时,天线在9.3—10 GHz频带内实现了圆极化辐射.实验结果与仿真结果相符,证明了此种设计方法的有效性,也为微带缝隙天线的圆极化设计提供了一种新的途径.     

Cerenkov radiation and its polarization

General expression for the energy loss in Cerenkov radiation due to a charged particle possessing anomalous magnetic moment is obtained. The expressions include the spin-polarization of the particles. The contribution to the radiation due to anomalous magnetic moment is found to be small as compared to that due to charge. The interference term of charge and anomalous magnetic moment gives better contribution as compared to the term containing only anomalous magnetic moment. Polarization of the radiation as dependent on polarization of beam of particles is studied. The radiation has a dominant nature of linear polarization with small quantum corrections. The spin-flip also gives quantum correction to strong linear polarization and at threshold when phase velocity equals velocity of the particle.     

Evolution of polarization in an inhomogeneous isotropic medium

The depolarization and rotation of the polarization plane of radiation propagating in a two-dimensional graded-index medium is investigated on the basis of the quantum-mechanical method of coherent states. It is shown that the degree of polarization of both linearly and circularly polarized radiation decreases with increasing distance as a result of interaction between the polarization (spin) and the path (orbital angular momentum) of the beam. The wave nature of the depolarization is emphasized. The depolarization decreases as the radiation wavelength decreases. It is found that the degree of polarization exhibits oscillations of pure diffraction origin during the propagation of light in a single-mode optical fiber. It is shown that the rotation of the polarization plane is nonuniform in character and depends on the offset and the tilt angle of the incident-beam axis relative to the fiber axis. The Berry phase is found to undergo oscillations of a wave nature during the propagation of radiation in an inhomogeneous medium. It is shown that the spread in the angle of rotation of the polarization plane increases with distance and can be determined from measurements of the degree of polarization of the radiation. Zh. éksp. Teor. Fiz. 112, 1985–2000 (December 1997)     

Frequency-dependent polarization of incoherently excited fluorescence

We use detailed-balance considerations to relate the frequency-dependent polarization of atomic fluorescence excited by broad-band radiation to the polarization properties of the collision-induced fluorescence line excited by narrow-band radiation. The polarization of the fluorescence in the first case must display a change when the detected frequency is tuned outside the bandwidth, due to the contribution of Rayleigh scattering. In the special case of adiabatic reorientation followed by emission in the quasistatic wing of the spectral line, we derive explicit expressions for the frequency-dependent polarization in terms of the contributions to the quasistatic profile from the various interatomic difference potentials.     

Transformation of the polarization structure of laser radiation in optical systems

A range of questions regarding the calculation of the spatial polarization structure of laser radiation in optical systems is considered. It is shown that polarization aberrations in such systems lead to a distortion of the initial polarization structure. Requirements for an optical system intended for the transmission of the polarization structure of laser radiation and methods for the compensation of polarization aberrations are discussed.     

The method of polarization tomography of radiation in quantum optics

The essence and basic structural elements of the method of polarization tomography of quantum radiation (the reconstruction of the polarization states of a field solely from polarization measurements) are described. The essential features of the method are discussed in comparison with usual field and spin tomographies. A general scheme for experimentally implementing this method is suggested and its use in polarization tomography of biphotonic radiation with hidden polarization is briefly analyzed.     

敦煌辐射校正场反射辐射偏振特性研究

卫星遥感器辐射校正场的地表反射辐射测量(例如地表反射率、地表辐亮度等)对卫星遥感器的在轨定标至关重要。由于地物光谱仪自身具有一定的偏振敏感性, 场地反射辐射的偏振特性将会引入偏振测量误差。采用基于偏振成像仪和塔吊的非定点测量方式以及基于偏振光谱仪和BRDF测量架的定点测量方式, 测量了敦煌场490 nm和670 nm波段场地反射辐射的多角度偏振分布和局地偏振均匀性。试验结果表明, 敦煌辐射校正场的反射辐射具有一定的偏振特性。偏振特性和波段有关, 490 nm波段偏振度明显大于670 nm波段。490 nm和670 nm波段的多角度偏振分布关于太阳主平面对称。在太阳主平面内, 前向散射区偏振度大于后向散射区, 并随天顶角变大而变大。两种测量方式获得了一致的偏振特性分布规律。获得了直径100 m区域的场地反射辐射局部均匀性, 均匀性在6%左右。研究场地反射辐射的偏振特性对于场地辐射探测方案的改进以及辐射测量精度的提高具有重要意义。     

热红外偏振成像技术在目标识别中的实验研究

简要分析了热红外偏振探测与热红外强度探测在物理含义方面的区别,由此提出了一种利用偏振信息在红外图像中识别目标的新方法。通过热红外偏振成像系统获得了目标的偏振图像,并由计算机提取出了图像中的偏振信息。由于目标与自然背景的热红外偏振特性有较大的差异,所以通过分析这些信息,可以更好的识别目标。实验结果表明,该方法不仅可以很好地识别自然背景中的人造目标,而且对热红外伪装目标的识别也很有效。     

On the polarization characteristics of Cherenkov radiation from a dielectric screen

The Cherenkov effect is a well-known phenomenon and its properties are widely used in many fields of physics. However, some features of the polarization characteristics of Cherenkov radiation that appears when charged particles pass near azimuthally asymmetric, finite dielectric targets are still poorly studied. This problem is solved in this work. The polarization characteristics of Cherenkov radiation in the case of a rectangular dielectric screen are analyzed using the Stokes approach. Owing to the azimuthal asymmetry of the target, radiation acquires an elliptic polarization whose rotation direction and inclination angle depend both on the direction of radiation propagation and on the dielectric properties of a substance. The results demonstrate that the Cherenkov effect can be used to create sources of elliptically polarized radiation with the controlled direction of polarization rotation.     

利用偏振干涉成像光谱仪进行偏振检测的最佳角度分析

利用偏振干涉成像光谱仪进行偏振探测,这一方法将偏振测量与干涉成像光谱技术相结合,一方面能提供辐射测量所不能提供的物体偏振信息,另一方面又可获取目标的空间图像和光谱,具有比辐射测量更高的准确度.在简要分析了利用偏振干涉成像光谱仪进行偏振检测的理论基础上,深入研究了偏振检测的方法,分析比较了目前常用的偏振探测角度（45°,60°）对偏振度探测的影响.进一步计算推导出偏振测量的最优探测角度,将之与以往常用的探测角度进行了分析比较,证明了此最佳探测角度可以有效地减小偏振误差、提高偏振探测的精度.这将极大地提高偏振干涉成像光谱仪的应用范围,为新型偏振干涉成像光谱技术的研究以及仪器研制提供重要的理论依据. 关键词： 偏振检测 偏振干涉成像光谱仪 探测角 Savart偏光镜     

Vacuum polarization for atomic quasienergy states

Vacuum polarization for an atomic system in the laser field is considered in the representation of quasienergy states as a radiation correction to the quasienergy. It is shown that laser effects are absent in the polarization fermion loop in case of resonant mixing of atomic levels. Perspectivity of investigation of laser effects in vacuum polarization of muonic atoms is discussed.     

Manifestation of anisotropic collisional generation of higher polarization moments in polarization of quadrupole emission

Direct observability of polarization moments of a higher order—octupole orientation of atomic angular momenta (κ=3) and their hexadecapole alignment (κ=4)—from polarization of quadrupole radiation is discussed. The case when atoms are excited through dipole absorption of light producing orientation or alignment of angular momenta with κ=1 or 2 and higher polarization moments are induced by collisions with a beam of particles is considered. It is shown that differences in the laws of transformation of polarization moments of various ranks κ in rotations of coordinate axes allow us to select the pure contribution of the higher polarization moment under study from the signal of polarization of quadrupole emission by excluding the contribution of orientation or alignment with κ=1 or 2. Optimum systems of coordinate axes for the observation of octupole orientation from circular polarization of light and for the observation of hexadecapole alignment from linear polarization of light, in which the pure contribution of the higher polarization moment under study to polarization of quadrupole emission reaches its maximum, are calculated.     

Effect of polarization nonreciprocity in rotating fiber ring interferometers

The effect of polarization nonreciprocity in sensors of angular velocity of rotation—fiber ring interferometers (FRIs)—is considered for arbitrary polarization of eigenmodes of the single-mode optical fiber of an FRI loop and arbitrary polarization state of radiation at the FRI input. A new method for detecting the polarization nonreciprocity in an FRI is proposed. Numerical estimations are made.     

Computer-generated space-variant polarization elements with subwavelength metal stripes

A novel method of performing two-dimensional space-variant polarization operations is presented. The method is based on determining the local direction and period of subwavelength metal-stripe gratings by use of vectorial optics to obtain any desired continuous polarization change. We demonstrate our approach with specific computer-generated space-variant polarization elements for laser radiation at 10.6mum. The polarization properties are verified with complete space-variant polarization analysis and measurement.     

Rotational Raman scattering dependence on pump polarization

The influence of the ellipticity degree of the pump radiation polarization on threshold energies and energy conversion efficiencies of stimulated rotational Raman scattering (SRRS) are investigated in H₂ with a XeCl excimer laser, by using different focusing geometries. For the first time, it is shown that the dependence of SRRS on pump radiation polarization is also affected by the focusing geometry, i.e. whether low- or high-angle focusing is applied. The experimentally determined threshold energies as a function of the pump radiation polarization are in accordance with theory mainly at high-angle focusing geometries. It is also shown for the first time that gain suppression effects on vibrational Raman scattering have to be considered in understanding the experimental results. Received: 5 January 1999 / Final version: 10 September 1999 / Published online: 8 March 2000     

New methods for determining the polarization state of vacuum ultraviolet radiation

Two new methods are proposed for determining the polarization of vacuum ultraviolet radiation which permit the determination of an arbitrary polarization mode for photons with energies of 10–100 eV. The essence of these methods is to create and detect a nonequilibrium population of the magnetic sublevels of atoms and molecules excited by the original VUV radiation and then determine the polarization of this radiation based on these measurements in accordance with known formulas. Zh. Tekh. Fiz. 69, 115–122 (September 1999)     

Explaining the polarization signal from rain dichroic effects

Radiative transfer simulations for a dichroic medium consisting of horizontally oriented spheroid raindrops in a cloud have been performed to better understand the polarization properties of the radiation field in such kind of media. A successive order of scattering methodology is employed to obtain exact and approximate equations of the rain medium in order to evaluate the contribution of the different scattering orders to the polarization signal for a 1D geometry approximation at all cloud levels. Then a Monte Carlo technique is used to evaluate the impact of 3D effects in the polarization of the downwelling/upwelling radiation field at the bottom/top of the dichroic layer. An accurate analysis of the impact of the emission term onto the total polarization signal is carried out. The 3D effects seem to be more relevant in polarization signatures when the emission/absorption processes dominate.     

Skin as a transformer of the polarization structure of laser radiation

Transformation of the polarization structure of a laser radiation scattered by the human skin is studied. A technique based on the matrix modeling of the optical properties of the skin considered as a superposition of epidermis and dermis, is proposed. Physical mechanisms behind the transformation of the polarization state of the scattered laser radiation are analyzed in terms of the ensemble of biospeckles.     

Universal method for the synthesis of arbitrary polarization states radiated by a nanoantenna

Optical nanoantennas efficiently convert confined optical energy into free‐space radiation. The polarization of the emitted radiation depends mainly on nanoantenna shape, so it becomes extremely difficult to manipulate it unless the nanostructure is physically altered. Here, a simple way is demonstrated to synthetize the polarization of the radiation emitted by a single nanoantenna so that every point on the Poincaré sphere becomes attainable. The nanoantenna consists of a single scatterer created on a dielectric waveguide and fed from its both sides so that the polarization of the emitted optical radiation is controlled by the amplitude and phase of the feeding signals. The nanoantenna is created on a silicon chip using standard top‐down nanofabrication tools, but the method is universal and can be applied to other materials, wavelengths and technologies. This work will open the way towards the synthesis and control of arbitrary polarization states in nano‐optics.