Model of a Rectangular Waveguide Laser Resonator with Mirrors of Arbitrary Radius of Curvature

The authors developed a multimode model of a rectangular waveguide laser resonator with mirrors of arbitrary radius of curvature; this model makes it possible to take into account the influence of intracavity elements and the quality of the electrode surface on the optical loss of normal modes in the system. Results of calculation within the framework of the model developed are in good agreement with the data of measurements of the optical loss carried out using a scanning interferometer of the middle IR range.     

The influence of optical properties of paints and coatings on the efficiency of infrared nondestructive testing applied to aluminum aircraft structures

IR NDT (Infrared Nondestructive Testing) is a popular method for detecting defects in composite, ceramic, and metallic structures. The effectiveness of IR NDT depends on various thermal and optical properties of the material being tested. The thermal properties, including thermal conductivity, thermal diffusivity, specific heat and density are important and have been discussed extensively in many treatises on IR NDT. However the optical properties of the surface are equally important and while the thermal properties cannot be changed, sometimes the optical properties can be.Bare metal surfaces have high reflectivities and low emissivities, and as a result, they are generally not good candidates for IR NDT. Painted, coated, anodized, and oxidized metal surfaces can, in some cases, be successfully tested with IR NDT, but the effectiveness depends on the optical properties of the surface. It is well known by IR NDT practitioners that the easy solution to the testing of reflective materials is to paint the surface black. However, this is not always practical and it may not be permitted by the “owner” of the part.This paper demonstrates a process of analyzing the interaction of spectral curves that are relevant to the IR NDT process. This process can be used to evaluate the effectiveness of an IR NDT process for use on real parts with specific coatings and can help select a coating that may improve the effectiveness. This paper shows examples of optical properties for some typical paints and coatings that may be used on aluminum aircraft structures. It shows the spectrum of a generic incandescent radiant heat source and how the energy from this source is absorbed by several of these paints. Further, it shows the interaction between an IR camera detector response curve and the other curves. And finally, it shows how these three can be combined to produce an “IR NDT” efficiency rating for several examples.     

基于白光干涉的光学球面半径测量研究

光学球面曲率半径是决定光学球面光学特性的重要参量,通过测量光学球面的曲率半径，可以审核光学元件设计制造质量。在基于白光干涉理论基础上，将莫尔光栅位移测量系统及CCD数字图像采集处理系统集成到迈克尔逊干涉仪上，利用CCD数字图像处理技术，构建了光学球面曲率半径自动测量系统。该测量系统对于大曲率半径的光学球面测量精度较高；对于半径R＝71.2037mm的光学球面,其测量标准误差σR＝0.4723mm。实验结果表明：设计的光学球面自动测量系统可以对大曲率半径光学球面实现高精度测量。     

硫化锌透镜中长波红外宽带增透膜的研制

硫化锌(ZnS)透镜由于其透光区域较宽,便于光学系统的装校而被经常应用于红外光学系统中,但是其作为基底,镀制中长波红外增透膜却具有相当大的难度,尤其是牢固度的问题。根据任务要求研制的增透膜是在3．5～3．9μm的中波红外波段及9～12μm的长波红外波段,平均透射率大于90％。由于长波红外区可选用的宽透射区材料较少,所以兼顾材料的选用、光谱特性及可靠性满足使用要求等几方面考虑,最终采用氟化钇(YF3)作为低折射率材料,经过多次实验,采用混蒸、离子辅助等工艺方法以及选取合适的基底温度,通过对其他工艺环节的不断改进,解决了在ZnS透镜上镀制宽带增透膜,由YF3膜层严重的应力作用而导致膜层龟裂的问题,最终研制成功符合使用要求,并且可靠性和光谱特性皆优的中长波红外增透膜。     

基于薄芯光纤模态干涉技术的曲率光纤传感器

提出了一种新的基于薄芯光纤模态干涉技术的光纤曲率传感器。在单模光纤的中间部分插入薄芯光纤用于传感光路,没有插入薄芯光纤的单模光纤用于参考光路,以消除环境对曲率测量的影响。由于插入的薄芯光纤和单模光纤纤芯失配,导致包层的高次模被激发,并与纤芯模在单模光纤内形成干涉。当改变薄芯光纤的曲率时,沿纤芯和包层传播的模态和光纤长度会发生改变,使得干涉谷峰发生平移。将传感光纤的两端固定的平移台上,当调节平移台距离时,薄芯光纤的曲率发生改变,导致干涉谷峰向短波方向平移。通过观察谷峰的平移距离可以实现曲率的传感测量。实验表明,该装置具有低损耗、低成本和高灵敏度的特点。     

Time-resolved spectroscopy and optical gain of silica-based fibers co-doped with Bi, Al and/or Ge, P, and Ti

The optical properties of optical fibers based on silica glass doped with bismuth and co-doped with aluminum oxides and/or germanium, phosphorus, and titanium oxides are studied. The optical loss and luminescence spectra of optical fibers substantially depend on the core composition. The gain spectra of single-mode optical fibers are measured in the IR range. It is demonstrated that the phosphorus-germanium-silicate optical fiber doped with bismuth exhibits a broad gain band (1270–1520 nm) when pumped at a wavelength of 1230 nm. It is also shown that the bismuth-aluminosilicate optical fibers additionally doped with Ge or Ti at about 1 at % have the gain spectra that are significantly narrower than the IR luminescence spectra (in contrast to the fibers that do not contain Ge and Ti). The intensity decay curves of the IR luminescence in such fibers indicate the presence of both short-lived (with the lifetime τ≤4 μs) and long-lived (τ ～ 1 ms) energy levels in the bismuth active centers.     

CO2激光干涉检验轮胎面面形及双曲率半径

轮胎面属于高次非球面,不同于二次回转球面,在光学系统中具有独特重要的用途,但至今无有效的面形检验方法.本文用自行研制的移相式CO₂激光(λ=10.6μm)球波面干涉仪,检验双曲率半径之差为亚毫米量级的轮胎面面形;文中分析了测试原理,给出了测试实例的移相干涉图、双曲率半径测量值及面形波差三维立体图,并分析了测试误差.     

DWT-iPLS在烃源岩漫反射光谱数据处理中的应用

红外漫反射光谱技术被广泛地应用于粉末样品的定性、定量测量中。但是由于粉末样品自身的特点,颗粒度、密度、表面粗糙程度等几何参数的影响,使得漫反射光谱数据的信噪比很低、背景干扰很大。因此需要一种有效的方法对漫反射光谱数据进行预处理来提高信噪比,消除背景干扰。文章采用了离散小波变换对红外漫反射光谱进行了预处理,有效地消除了光谱中的高频噪声和低频背景的干扰,并结合iPLS(间隔偏最小二乘回归)方法进行线性回归分析,建立了用于复杂样品体系组分分析的建模方法(DWT-iPLS)。并以烃源岩的红外漫反射光谱为例,将DWT-iPLS应用于数据的预处理及建立数学模型,其结果与未用DWT预处理的方法相比较,准确度有明显的提高,证明了此方法是一种快速有效的定量分析的建模方法。     

液体透镜的透射波前特性研究

液体透镜是一种新型光学元件,通过改变表面曲率而调整光焦度.液体透镜的透射波前质量会影响成像质量,将液体透镜应用于精密光学系统需要探明其透射波前变化特性.通过理论和仿真分析液体透镜通光孔径内不同高度入射光线的光程差随曲率半径的变化,以及光程差对光焦度的敏感性,以此研究光瞳空间内光程差微变的一致性.分别测量液体透镜在零、正...     

Infrared Optical Absorptions in Corrugated Lateral Surface Superlattices

The optical properties are investigated numerically in infrared (IR) regions for GaAs/AIAs corrugated lateral surface superlattices (CLSSLs) with short lateral periods. The calculations are carried out for refractive indexes and optical absorption coefficients with and without inclusion of electron interactions in an attempt to study the effects of intersubbahd plasmons on the IR optical properties of CLSSLs. As lateral periods of CLSSLs increase from 10 nm to 30 nm, their IR optical properties change from the behavior dominated by single electron transitions between conduction subbands to those dominated by intersubband plasmon excitations. Strong and sharp peaks in the optical absorption coefficients, large variations of the refractive indexes and strong anisotropic optical properties of CLSSLs are predicted in IR regions.     

立体显示用柱面透镜光栅的设计

分析了柱面透镜光栅的单柱面透镜的光传输特性,进而推导出柱面透镜光栅的曲率半径、节距和厚度等重要参量的计算公式.根据这些理论公式,为15英寸柱面透镜光栅自由立体显示器设计了柱面透镜光栅的参量,通过应用光学软件ASAP模拟该立体显示器的立体视区分布,得出该立体显示器能显示良好立体图像,从而验证了理论的正确性.     

Analysis and Simulation of Adiabatic Bend Transitions in Optical Fibers

A low-loss criterion for bend transitions in optical fibers is proposed. An optical fiber can be tightly bent with low loss to be adiabatic for the fundamental mode, provided that an approximate upper bound on the rate of change of bend curvature for a given bend curvature is satistied. Two typical adiabatic bend transition paths, the optimum profile and linear protile, are analyzed and studied numerically. A realizable adiabatic transition with an Archimedean spiral profile is introduced for low bend loss in tightly bent optical fibers. Design of the transitions is based on modeling of the propagation and coupling characteristics of the core and cladding modes, which clearly illustrate the physical processes involved.     

Polycrystalline lead selenide: the resurgence of an old infrared detector

The existing technology for uncooled MWIR photon detectors based on polycrystalline lead salts is stigmatized for being a 50-year-old technology. It has been traditionally relegated to single-element detectors and relatively small linear arrays due to the limitations imposed by its standard manufacture process based on a chemical bath deposition technique (CBD) developed more than 40 years ago. Recently, an innovative method for processing detectors, based on a vapour phase deposition (VPD) technique, has allowed manufacturing the first 2D array of polycrystalline PbSe with good electro optical characteristics. The new method of processing PbSe is an all silicon technology and it is compatible with standard CMOS circuitry. In addition to its affordability, VPD PbSe constitutes a perfect candidate to fill the existing gap in the photonic and uncooled IR imaging detectors sensitive to the MWIR photons. The perspectives opened are numerous and very important, converting the old PbSe detector in a serious alternative to others uncooled technologies in the low cost IR detection market. The number of potential applications is huge, some of them with high commercial impact such as personal IR imagers, enhanced vision systems for automotive applications and other not less important in the security/defence domain such as sensors for active protection systems (APS) or low cost seekers. Despite the fact, unanimously accepted, that uncooled will dominate the majority of the future IR detection applications, today, thermal detectors are the unique plausible alternative. There is plenty of room for photonic uncooled and complementary alternatives are needed. This work allocates polycrystalline PbSe in the current panorama of the uncooled IR detectors, underlining its potentiality in two areas of interest, i.e., very low cost imaging IR detectors and MWIR fast uncooled detectors for security and defence applications. The new method of processing again converts PbSe into an emerging technology.     

试论我国眼镜片屈光值的基准传递和测量

本文从镜度仪的光学设计原理和有关各国眼镜片的基准弯度,提出作为校正和检定镜度仪精度的基准屈光值镜片之内侧面弯度为-6 D。基准值镜片接触面曲率不同,会产生原理误差。本文还提出测试基准屈光值的方法和仪器,根据眼镜片内顶点屈光度的定义,在光具座上测定顶焦距l_f′的倒数值比直接测试要正确。     

Synthesis, growth and characterization of l-valine cadmium chloride monohydrate—A novel semiorganic nonlinear optical crystal

Single crystals of l-valine cadmium chloride monohydrate (LVCC), a novel semiorganic nonlinear optical material were synthesized and grown from aqueous solution by slow evaporation method at room temperature. The powder X-ray diffraction pattern and FT IR spectrum analysis confirmed the formation of the new crystal. LVCC has good optical transmission in the entire visible region, which is an essential requirement for a nonlinear crystal. The thermal studies reveal that the material has good thermal stability. The LVCC crystal was characterized by energy dispersive X-ray analysis. The optical second harmonic generation conversion efficiency of LVCC was determined using Kurtz powder technique.     

Experimental umbilic diabolos in random optical fields

The intensity of a random optical field consists of bright speckle spots (maxima) separated from dark areas (minima and optical vortices) by saddle points. We show that hidden in this complicated landscape are umbilic points--singular points at which the eigenvalues Lambda (+/-) of the Hessian matrix that measure the curvature of the landscape become degenerate. Although not observed previously in random optical fields, umbilic points are the most numerous of all special points, outnumbering maxima, minima, saddle points, and vortices. We show experimentally that the directions of principal curvature, the eigenvectors Psi (+/-), rotate about intensity umbilic points with positive or negative half-integer winding number, in accord with theory, and that Lambda (+) and Lambda (-) generate a double cone known as a diabolo. At optical vortices the curvature of the amplitude is singular, and we show from both theory and experiment that for this landscape Psi (+/-) rotate about vortex centers with a positive integer winding number. Diabolos can be classified as elliptic or hyperbolic, and we present initial results for the measured fractions of these two different types of umbilic diabolos.     

Fabrication and characterization of silicon antireflection structures for infrared rays using a femtosecond laser

We focus on IR sensors with lower reflection for the wavelength around 10 μm, strongly awaited for detecting human bodies. A concave structure was designed as a more suitable reflection-free structure for IR light, and an optical system with a femtosecond laser was employed for verification of the effectiveness of the structure. The microstructures prepared through this process were fabricated and optically measured using SEM, FT-IR, and Raman spectroscopy. The measurement revealed that good reflection-free structures were realized for IR sensors with lower reflection for the wavelength of around 10 μm.     

Aberration correction of a single aspheric lens with particle swarm algorithm

In order to design a single aspheric lens to meet the requirements of spherical aberration, the particle swarm algorithm is applied to the aberration correction for a single aspheric lens. A mathematical model is constructed, and a program code is developed. Merit functions in an optical system are employed as fitness functions, which combined coefficients of a higher order polynomial equation, a reciprocal of radius of curvature, the conic constant, thicknesses among lens surfaces and refractive indices regarding an optical system. By using this function, the automatic correction of spherical aberration is carried out. The example for a single aspheric lens design using particle swarm algorithm shows that PSO as a tool of the spherical aberration correction for a single aspheric lens is simple and effective, and easy to find a series of good design results. The asphere's more complex surface profile can reduce or eliminate easily spherical aberration at different incidence heights at one time. The automatic design and analysis of a single aspheric lens using this method from the view of a particular optical design problem are presented.     

曲率波前传感器探测高斯光束时的信号误差

曲率波前传感器已被用于天文自适应光学和光学度量等领域。在这些领域使用时都假设入射波前光强均匀,但这种假设与曲率传感技术的基本原理不一致。利用傅里叶光学理论,给出了光强不均匀情况下曲率波前传感器的曲率信号解析式,并利用光强均匀和不均匀情况下的信号表达式对探测高斯光束时的信号误差进行了数值分析。结果表明：曲率波前传感器探测高斯光束时存在一定误差,相位分布为4阶Zernike多项式时,误差最大,且阶数越高,误差越小;分区平均曲率信号误差较小,一般在10％以下。     

激光对红外系统的失效机理和破坏效应研究

 根据红外光学系统的会聚特性，用光学增益方法分析了红外系统中各元件对应的光强分布，确定了位于焦面附近光学元件是激光破坏的易损部件，并提出了强激光对红外系统元件损伤,造成其探测、制导功能失效的硬破坏机理；由红外滤光片、探测器和信号处理电路与入射激光波长的光谱响应分析，提出了弱激光对红外系统干扰，导致其探测、制导功能在激光辐照一段时间内失效的软破坏机理；开展了激光辐照红外系统的失效验证实验，较好地解释了其失效的机理和效应。