Characterization of a broadband pulse for phase controlled multiphoton microscopy by single beam SPIDER

We present what we believe to be a new version of spectral phase interferometry for direct electric field reconstruction (SPIDER) using only a single-phase and polarization controlled laser beam. Two narrow pulses and one broadband pulse are selected out of an ultrafast laser pulse by a polarization and phase control technique to generate second harmonic generation (SHG) signals, which are equivalent to a spectral shear interferogram in the conventional SPIDER method. The spectral phase of the broadband laser pulse is extracted analytically with double quadrature spectral interferometry (DQSI). An arbitrary spectral phase can be retrieved with great precision and compensated in situ at the sample position of a microscope. This new method requires no separate reference beam and is suitable for nonlinear optical microscopy with a phase controlled laser pulse.     

Phase retrieval from the spectral interference signal used to measure thickness of SiO<Subscript>2</Subscript> thin film on silicon wafer

A new method of phase retrieval from the spectral interference signal is presented, which is based on the use of a windowed Fourier transform in the wavelength domain. The phase retrieved by the method is utilized for measuring the thickness of SiO₂ thin film on a silicon wafer. The numerical simulations are performed to demonstrate high precision of the phase retrieval. The feasibility of the method is confirmed in processing experimental data from a slightly dispersive Michelson interferometer with one of the mirrors replaced by SiO₂ thin film on the silicon wafer. We determine the thin-film thickness for four samples provided that the optical constants for all the materials involved in the experiment are known. We confirm very good agreement with the previous results obtained by the fitting of the recorded channelled spectra to the theoretical ones. PACS 07.60.Ly; 42.30.Rx; 68.55.Jk; 78.20.Bh     

Double-image self-encoding and hiding based on phase-truncated Fourier transforms and phase retrieval

We propose a method to encrypt two covert images into an overt image based on phase-truncated Fourier transforms and phase retrieval. In this method, the two original images are self-encoded in the manner that one of the two images is directly separated into two phase masks (PMs) and used as keys for encryption, and then multiplied by a PM which is generated by using phase retrieval algorithm. At last, the whole encryption process is completed by a Fourier transform operation. In the decryption process, the image without a separation and the two PMs used as keys for encryption are all treated as encoded data. The cryptosystem is asymmetric which means the keys for encryption are different from those for decryption. Numerical simulations are presented to show the viability and good performance of the proposed method.     

The ground state phase diagrams and low-energy excitation of dimer XXZ spin ladder

We study the ground state and low-energy excitation of dimer XXZ spin ladder with Heisenberg and XXZ interactions along the rung and rail directions, respectively. Using a bond operator method, we get low-energy effective Hamiltonians in different parameter regions. Based on those low-energy effective Hamiltonians, we set up the ground state phase diagrams and investigate the properties of low-energy excitation in each phase. We will show that the results are exact one when the XXZ interactions along rail reduce to the Ising type. The quantum Monte Carlo and exact diagonalization methods are also applied to the finite system to verify the exact nature of the phases, the phase transitions and the low-energy excitation. Of all the phases, we pay a special attention to the gapped antiferromagnetic phase, which is disclosed to be a non-trivial one that exhibits the time-reversal symmetry. We also discuss how our findings could be realized and detected by using cold atoms in optical lattice.     

A two-dimensional unstructured cell-centered multi-material ALE scheme using VOF interface reconstruction

We present a new cell-centered multi-material arbitrary Lagrangian–Eulerian (ALE) scheme to solve the compressible gas dynamics equations on two-dimensional unstructured grid. Our ALE method is of the explicit time-marching Lagrange plus remap type. Namely, it involves the following three phases: a Lagrangian phase wherein the flow is advanced using a cell-centered scheme; a rezone phase in which the nodes of the computational grid are moved to more optimal positions; a cell-centered remap phase which consists of interpolating conservatively the Lagrangian solution onto the rezoned grid. The multi-material modeling utilizes either concentration equations for miscible fluids or the Volume Of Fluid (VOF) capability with interface reconstruction for immiscible fluids. The main original feature of this ALE scheme lies in the introduction of a new mesh relaxation procedure which keeps the rezoned grid as close as possible to the Lagrangian one. In this formalism, the rezoned grid is defined as a convex combination between the Lagrangian grid and the grid resulting from condition number smoothing. This convex combination is constructed through the use of a scalar parameter which is a scalar function of the invariants of the Cauchy–Green tensor over the Lagrangian phase. Regarding the cell-centered remap phase, we employ two classical methods based on a partition of the rezoned cell in terms of its overlap with the Lagrangian cells. The first one is a simplified swept face-based method whereas the second one is a cell-intersection-based method. Our multi-material ALE methodology is assessed through several demanding two-dimensional tests. The corresponding numerical results provide a clear evidence of the robustness and the accuracy of this new scheme.     

Phase-difference amplification using a Sagnac interferometer

In this paper, we describe a new method for achieving phase-difference amplification, which is quick and convenient, operates in real time, and requires no photographic steps. Magnification factors of 2, 4 or 6 are achieved easily in one step. Because the system operates in real time, phase stepping may be applied to extract the amplified phase distributions. Our method is a variation on longitudinally reversed shearing interferometry, using first- or higher-order diffraction from a grating (hologram) which is in fact the interferogram of the wavefront under test. The grating is derived from a standard two-beam interferometer which is phase-stepped, and displayed in real time on a spatial light modulator in the phase-difference amplification setup. It is illuminated by the two output beams from a Sagnac interferometer, similar to the set up used by (Barnes et al. Barnes TH, Eiju T, Matsuda K. Appl Opt 1986; 25:1864). for spectral resolution enhancement, and a phase-amplified fringe pattern is obtained by spatial filtering using a Fourier transform lens. We demonstrate operation of the phase amplifier and show amplified phase maps retrieved by phase-stepping. We believe this is the first time that real-time phase amplification without photographic steps and with phase stepping has been demonstrated.     

次条纹积分干涉计量

叙述了次条纹积分干涉干时的原理，仅用一幅光载频干涉纹图获取全部位相信息。先用分段积分法求出条纹初始位相，再由最小二乘原理，迭代出信息的位相解。并讨论了条纹位相的算法，误差修正和测量面形的应用。     

Recent progress in simulation of the ground state of many Boson systems

We present two recent advances in the simulation of ⁴He in the condensed phase at zero temperature. Within the variational theory of strongly interacting bosons we have studied a cluster of ⁴He atoms with one alkali ion K⁺. For the wave function we have used a new shadow wave function (SWF) in which the coupling between one ⁴He atom and its shadow variable depends on its distance from the ion. This substantially improves the energy. The first shell around the ion contains 14 atoms which are spatially ordered. However the atoms of the first shell are not completely localized and frequent exchanges with atoms which are further from the ion take place. This also suggests that at least for the ion K⁺ the atoms of the first shell participate in the superfluidity. We have also introduced a new extension of the path integral ground state (PIGS) method which is able to compute exact ground state expectation values without extrapolations and with a SWF as the trial variational wave function to project on the ground state. This is an important extension which opens up the possibility of studying disorder phenomena in the solid phase by an exact method at zero temperature. We have applied this technique to compute the energy of formation of a vacancy at different densities in the solid phase of ⁴He. This computation confirms the variational result that a vacancy is a delocalized defect in the low density helium solid.     

Phase unwrapping method along radial coordinates for speckle image reconstruction

We describe a phase estimating technique for a stellar speckle image reconstruction, which is based on the phase unwrapping method in polar coordinates. The phase unwrapping along radial lines is favorable to reduce accumulating errors in the phase estimation. This method is combined with Bruck-Sodin method which gives the estimate of the modulus of an object transform without a point reference source. Computer simulations of the image reconstruction are presented.     

Multiple phase-shifted interferograms obtained from a single interferogram with linear carrier

In this paper we propose a new method for phase retrieval in an interferogram with a spatial linear carrier. We demonstrate that from the primary interferogram one can extract multiple interferograms (with lower resolution than the original one) with arbitrary phase-shift amounts between them. Then, by applying well-known phase-shifting algorithms, from these phase-shifted interferograms the phase can be retrieved. The method does not require sophisticated data-processing and is computationally efficient. Numerical simulations and validation experiments are presented.     

The radial Marchenko-Blažek integral equation for complete spectra

The same simple and standard way, by means of which an inverse problem for scattering of spinless particles by central potentials is solved in the Gelfand-Levitan method, is applied to the Marchenko method for general angular momenta including the bound states. We first derive an integral equation for the kernel with a triangularity property, which relates it to a potential and then the other one, which connects the kernel with spectral data. A solution corresponding to the general Yukawa potential is found and some formulae are checked by solving the problem of the restrained phase equivalent potentials.     

Spectral filtering of dual lasers with a high-finesse length-tunable cavity for rubidium atom Rydberg excitation

We propose and demonstrate an alternative method for spectral filtering and frequency stabilization of both 780-nm and 960-nm lasers using a high-finesse length-tunable cavity(HFLTC). Firstly, the length of HFLTC is stabilized to a commercial frequency reference. Then, the two lasers are locked to this HFLTC using the Pound–Drever–Hall(PDH) method which can narrow the linewidths and stabilize the frequencies of both lasers simultaneously. Finally, the transmitted lasers of HFLTC with each power up to about 100 μW, which act as seed lasers, are amplified using the injection locking method for single-atom Rydberg excitation. The linewidths of obtained lasers are narrowed to be less than 1 k Hz, meanwhile the obtained lasers' phase noise around 750 k Hz are suppressed about 30 d B. With the spectrally filtered lasers, we demonstrate a Rabi oscillation between the ground state and Rydberg state of single-atoms in an optical trap tweezer with a decay time of(67 ± 37) μs, which is almost not affected by laser phase noise. We found that the maximum short-term laser frequency fluctuation of a single excitation lasers is at ～ 3.3 k Hz and the maximum long-term laser frequency drift of a single laser is ～ 46 k Hz during one month. Our work develops a stable and repeatable method to provide multiple laser sources of ultra-low phase noise, narrow linewidth, and excellent frequency stability, which is essential for high precision atomic experiments, such as neutral atom quantum computing, quantum simulation, quantum metrology, and so on.     

Graph spectra and the detectability of community structure in networks

We study networks that display community structure--groups of nodes within which connections are unusually dense. Using methods from random matrix theory, we calculate the spectra of such networks in the limit of large size, and hence demonstrate the presence of a phase transition in matrix methods for community detection, such as the popular modularity maximization method. The transition separates a regime in which such methods successfully detect the community structure from one in which the structure is present but is not detected. By comparing these results with recent analyses of maximum-likelihood methods, we are able to show that spectral modularity maximization is an optimal detection method in the sense that no other method will succeed in the regime where the modularity method fails.     

ReALE: A reconnection-based arbitrary-Lagrangian–Eulerian method

We present a new reconnection-based arbitrary-Lagrangian–Eulerian (ALE) method. The main elements in a standard ALE simulation are an explicit Lagrangian phase in which the solution and grid are updated, a rezoning phase in which a new grid is defined, and a remapping phase in which the Lagrangian solution is transferred (conservatively interpolated) onto the new grid. In standard ALE methods the new mesh from the rezone phase is obtained by moving grid nodes without changing connectivity of the mesh. Such rezone strategy has its limitation due to the fixed topology of the mesh. In our new method we allow connectivity of the mesh to change in rezone phase, which leads to general polygonal mesh and allows to follow Lagrangian features of the mesh much better than for standard ALE methods. Rezone strategy with reconnection is based on using Voronoi tessellation. We demonstrate performance of our new method on series of numerical examples and show it superiority in comparison with standard ALE methods without reconnection.     

Diverse solid and supersolid phases of bosons in a triangular lattice

We investigate the ground state of bosons with long-range interactions in the large U limit on a triangular lattice. By mapping this system to the spin-1/2 XXZ model in a magnetic field, we can apply the spin wave theory to this study. We demonstrate how to construct the phase diagrams within the spin wave theory. The phase diagrams are given in an extensive parameter region, where, besides the superfluid phase, diverse solid and supersolid phases are shown to exist in this model. Especially, we find that the phase diagram obtained in this method is consistent with the one obtained previously using numerical techniques in the Ising limit. This confirms the effectiveness of our method. We analyze the stability of all the obtained supersolids and show that they will not be ruined by the quantum fluctuations. We observe that the quantum fluctuations in the stripe supersolid phase could be enhanced by the external field. We also discuss the relevance of our result with the experiment that may be realized with ultracold bosonic polar molecules in a triangular optical lattice.     

Two-point versus multipartite entanglement in quantum phase transitions

We analyze correlations between subsystems for an extended Hubbard model exactly solvable in one dimension, which exhibits a rich structure of quantum phase transitions (QPTs). The T = 0 phase diagram is exactly reproduced by studying singularities of single-site entanglement. It is shown how comparison of the latter quantity and quantum mutual information allows one to recognize whether two-point or shared quantum correlations are responsible for each of the occurring QPTs. The method works in principle for any number D of degrees of freedom per site. As a by-product, we are providing a benchmark for direct measures of bipartite entanglement; in particular, here we discuss the role of negativity at the transition.     

A new analysis for extending the measurement range of the retardation-modulated differential interference contrast (RM-DIC) microscope

While considering measurements of grating-type samples with the retardation-modulated differential interference contrast (RM-DIC) microscope, we found a problem of phase objects. The problem is that smaller measured values than the actual phase distribution are obtained when phase objects are beyond the weak phase approximation range. We analyze the image characteristics of phase objects and show that the problem is caused by the effect of an image component which is proportional to the square of the phase distribution.To overcome this disadvantage, we propose a new analysis method named self phase-correction (SPC). The SPC method corrects the phase distribution of the first order approximation under the weak phase condition and obtains the actual phase distribution of an object’s phase beyond the weak phase approximation range. We propose a two-image SPC method and a three-image SPC method for the RM-DIC microscope, and examine the suitability of these methods.We confirm that the three-image SPC method effectively overcomes the problem, and that the measurement range of the RM-DIC microscope can thus be extended to a half-wavelength phase difference.     

Generalized linear prediction method in phase-shifting interferometry in the presence of noise

The effectiveness of phase-shifting interferometry (PSI) techniques employing piezoelectric device PZT in the estimation of phase depends largely on the accuracy with which the phase shifts are imparted to the device and the noise influencing the measurement. Several effective algorithms have been proposed to compute the phase shifts imparted to the device and subsequently obtain the phase using least-squares estimation technique. In this paper, we propose a generalized approach, which accurately estimates the phase shifts in the presence of noise. The method is based on the idea of linear prediction and explores the fact that sampling more data frames yields a reliable phase step estimate in a least-squares sense. We also compare our method with a commonly used generalized phase-shifting method based on histogram analysis and show that our proposed approach is highly effective. We also present simulation and experimental validations of our proposed method.     

结合线性回归的离轴数字全息去载波相位恢复算法

为实现仅用一幅离轴数字全息图便能直接恢复相位,提出一种利用空间载波相移技术(spatial carrier phase shift, SCPS)和线性回归相结合的离轴数字全息去载波相位恢复算法.首先,利用SCPS将一幅离轴数字全息图分为四幅含有载波相移的全息图,其中载波相移由沿行、列两个方向的正交载波所引入;然后,将四幅载波相移全息图作为输入,将所求物体相位和两个正交的载波作为未知量,结合最小二乘法和线性回归同时求出载波和相位信息.相较于已有的去载波技术,本算法无需背景全息图作为参考,便可准确地去除载波,实现高质量的相位重建.本文结合数值仿真和具体实验结果验证本算法的有效性和优越性.     

二维多相反应流的欧拉数值方法

本文研究二维多相反应流的数值模拟方法.对于非完全流体,考虑两种状态方程：刚性气体状态方程和JWL（Jones-Wilkins-Lee）型的状态方程.针对这些非完全流体,研究一种混合单元物理量重构法,它由单元内的已知物理量出发,应用单元内不同相的物理量之间的关系：混合密度与各自密度之间的关系、及混合内能与各物质内能之间的关系,再由温度与压强平衡条件,建立关于单变量的非线性方程,对所得方程通过"移动跟踪法"求解,得到单元内的压力、温度及声速等.再利用HLLC解法器,求解各个单元边界数值通量,从而构造一种高效的数值方法.数值结果表明：该算法能清晰地捕捉爆轰波的结构特征,胞格排列有序,三波点的特征明显.