Electro-flow focusing: the high-conductivity low-viscosity limit

Electro-flow focusing, a technique combining the features of electrospray (ES) and flow focusing (FF), provides a reliable tool to reach parametrical microjetting ranges not attainable by ES or FF alone under specific operational regimes (liquid properties and flow rate). In this Letter, we provide not only a closed theoretical model predicting the diameter of a high electrical conductivity electro-flow focused liquid microjet, but also its convective or absolute instability, linked to the jetting-to-dripping transition and the minimum liquid flow rate that can be ejected in steady jetting regime, in which the smallest droplets are issued. Good agreement is found with experimental values.     

Toward the subdiffraction focusing limit of optical superresolution

A superresolving three-zone plate is applied to a Fresnel diffractive lens. It is shown that for radial incident polarization this combination produces a focal spot approaching superresolution allowed subdiffractive limit of 0.36lambda/NA for focusing. For media responsive to longitudinal field component only, our phase engineering scheme results in a focal spot size of 0.368lambda/NA. When used with a solid immersion lens, the scheme can generate the smallest focal spot available for passive optics.     

Tight focusing of spirally polarized vortex beams

The tight focusing of spirally polarized focused vortex beams is analyzed numerically based on the vectorial Debye theory. The expressions for the electric field and the orbital angular momentum of focused beams are derived. It is shown that the intensity distribution in the focal plane is dependent on the specific spirally polarized state and the coefficient of the spiral polarization function. By presenting the phase contours of the component polarized in the radial direction, it is found that the radii of dislocation lines will increase with the increase of the power of the spirally polarization function. It is reveled that the same orbital angular momentum can be obtained for different spirally polarized state at certain distance along the propagation direction in the focal region. Besides, the orbital angular momentum distributions for different polarized states have fewer crossover points with each other for higher topological charge. The influence of the spirally polarized state on the orbital angular momentum in the focal plane is also studied.     

Electrostatic focusing of intense charged particle beams

Methods of forming solutions of the Maxwell equations for an electric field concerning the problem of focusing intensive charged particle beams are considered.     

Flat electron beams

Electrons from a source in a solenoidal magnetic field emerge from that field with a characteristic angular momentum. This behavior can be used to produce a flat ribbon-like electron beam with zero thickness (to first order). We show that this can be done using a quadrupole triplet and provide analytical expressions for the focal length of each lens. Solutions can be found over a wide range of practical values of the parameters.     

Electrostatic electron focusing in the betatron

The possibility of using the field generated by electrostatic quadrupole electrodes to increase the focusing force in the working chamber of a betatron is considered. It is shown that with a number of quadrupoles N 3 focusing in the axial direction, for an equal number of quadrupoles focusing in the radial direction at electrode voltage U 15 kV during injection and the initial stage of the cycle an increase in focusing force to the limits of rigid focusing is possible. Experimental testing was performed with an operating betatron. A pair of electrodes with azimuthal extent of 26° located above and below the beam being accelerated was used, with the second electrode pair formed by the conductive chamber coating. An increase in radiation intensity of 30% was achieved.Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Fizika, No. 5, pp. 81–85, May, 1984.     

Aspherical lens shapes for focusing synchrotron beams

Aspherical surfaces required for focusing collimated and divergent synchrotron beams using a single refractive element (lens) are reviewed. The Cartesian oval, a lens shape that produces perfect point‐to‐point focusing for monochromatic radiation, is studied in the context of X‐ray beamlines. Optical surfaces that approximate ideal shapes are compared. Results are supported by ray‐tracing simulations. Elliptical lenses, rather than parabolic, are preferred for nanofocusing X‐rays because of the higher peak and lower tails in the intensity distribution. Cartesian ovals will improve the gain when using high‐demagnification lenses of high numerical aperture.     

On focusing of terahertz radiation beams and pulses

We show that, for terahertz (THz) radiation, the effective focal length of a lens differs significantly from its geometrical-optics (nominal) focal length. As a pulse of THz radiation with a bell-shaped (Gaussian) transverse profile is incident on a lens, the field-amplitude distribution in the nominally focal plane of the lens may radically change, up to the formation of dips in the paraxial region. These changes in the spatiotemporal shape of the beam (pulse) may considerably distort the results of pulsed THz spectroscopy. These distortions can be minimized by using media with anomalous dispersion, including metamaterials.     

Tight focusing of axially symmetric polarized vortex beams

Tight focusing of axially symmetric polarized vortex beams is studied numerically based on vector diffraction theory. The mathematical expressions for the focused fields are derived. Simulation results show that the focused fields and phase distributions at focus are largely influenced by both the polarization order and topological charge of the incident beams. Moreover, focal spots with flat-topped or tightly-focused patterns can be flexibly achieved by carefully choosing the polar- ization order and the topological charge, which confirms the potential of such beams in wide applications, such as optical tweezers, laser printing, lithography, and material processing.     

双近贴聚焦微光像增强器分辨力理论极限问题研究

分辨力和MTF是微光像增强器的2个重要参数。根据线性系统傅里叶频谱理论,分析了微光像增强器的MTF和分辨力特性。 计算出理想条件下,基于光阴极/MCP/荧光屏3部件结构以及带内电子增益机制的光阴极/荧光屏2部件结构的近贴聚焦像管的理论极限分辨力。它们分别是96.6lp/mm和98.1lp/mm。该结果可供人们改进像管MTF及分辨力特性时参考。     

强流电子束聚焦数值模拟

采用粒子模拟（PIC）方法模拟了强流电子束在薄磁透镜中的聚焦。建立了强流电子束的聚焦模型,模拟了神龙一号加速器某次实验的结果,得到的模拟结果非常接近实验值,证明采用建立的PIC模型模拟强流束经过磁透镜时的聚焦是可信的。应用此模型模拟了电子束参数（入射半径、发射度、能散度、相位角等）对焦斑直径的影响, 结果表明:在模拟条件下,电子束平行入射时最佳束包络半径位于20.0~22.5 mm;发射度和能散度对焦斑直径的影响和理论公式吻合得较好;只有入射电子束包络半径和相位角匹配时才能得到小的焦斑直径。     

New limit on the electron electric dipole moment

We present the result of our most recent search for T violation in 205Tl, which is interpreted in terms of an electric dipole moment of the electron d(e). We find d(e) = (6.9 +/- 7.4)x10(-28)e cm, which yields an upper limit /d(e)/ < or = 1.6x10(-27)e cm with 90% confidence. The present apparatus is a major upgrade of the atomic beam magnetic-resonance device used to set the previous limit on d(e).     

Specially profiled reflector for spherical front beams focusing

Focusing the power emitted from a source with spherical wave front by a specially profiled reflecting surface has been attempted using the simple ray tracing method. The reflector (mirror) surface profile that achieves such power redistribution is obtained from solving an ordinary first order differential equation using common numerical techniques. Furthermore, the proposed methodology can be useful to design complex reflectors for the electomagnatic and the acoustic systems, which finds broad engineering, industrial and biomedical applications.     

Tapered hollow waveguide for focusing infrared laser beams

A tapered hollow waveguide that can focus a laser beam into a small beam spot is proposed for medical and dental applications. We fabricated hollow tapered optics by using a traveling torch, and the shape was formed as a precise linear taper. For a hollow taper tip with input and output diameters of 700 and 200 microm, respectively, the insertion loss is as small as 0.7 dB in a 10 mm long taper. The hollow taper optic producing a 200 microm spot withstands input energy of 100 mJ. Because a focusing lens is unnecessary at the output end, the laser beam can be introduced into a deep and narrow spot with these tapered optics.     

Vector-vortex Bessel-Gauss beams and their tightly focusing properties

We demonstrate that the amplitude of vector-vortex beams has a Bessel-Gauss (BG) distribution through a rigorous vector electromagnetic analysis. We also investigate the intensity profiles in the focal plane of vector-vortex beams that are focused by a high numerical-aperture lens obeying the Helmholtz condition. Although the intensity of a vector-vortex BG beam with a topological charge n=1 is nonzero along the axis in the focal plane, the beams with n≠1 show discrete multiple spots which can be useful for optical trapping.