Modelling of different TIRM setups by the Discrete Sources Method

Total Internal Reflection Microscopy (TIRM) is an effective technique to measure weak interaction forces between colloidal particles in solution and a flat surface. In this paper the Discrete Sources Method has been applied to model different measuring schemes for TIRM to find the most appropriate one for the determination of the distance between a particle and the filmed surface. It has been found that the placing of a light collector beneath the prism gives a considerable advantage compared with a conventional TIRM design, where the collector is situated above the surface.     

基于时间反转的复杂声场拾声传声器阵列性能研究

探讨时间反转技术在复杂声场传声器阵列拾声中应用的可行性及其机理,给出其一般规律和性能。研究表明:在自由空间中,其拾声性能与频率,阵列形状和半径有关,频率越高,半径越大,拾声效果越好。在普通房间中,在语音频段内,圆弧阵列在预定目标点处的阵列增益性能要比离预定目标点约25 cm远处的位置处大5 dB以上。在普通房间和混响室中的实验验证了上述结论。     

Array gain for a cylindrical array with baffle scatter effects

Cylindrical arrays used in sonar for passive underwater surveillance often have sensors surrounding a cylindrical metal baffle. In some operational sonars, the phones in each stave (i.e., each line of phones aligned with the cylinder axis) are hardwired together so that the array is equivalent to a baffled circular array of directional elements, where each element corresponds to a line array of omnidirectional phones steered to broadside. In this paper a model is introduced for computing the array gain of such an array at high frequencies, which incorporates baffle scatter using infinite, rigid cylinder scattering theory, and with ambient noise described by an angular spectral density function. In practice the phones are often offset from the baffle surface, and the acoustic field sampled by the staves is distorted at high frequencies due to interference between the incident and scattered fields. Examples are given to illustrate the resulting array gain degradation, using three noise distributions that are frequently used in sonar performance modeling: three-dimensional isotropic, two-dimensional isotropic, and surface dipole noise.     

高功率椭圆形柱面介质透镜天线阵的设计

设计了一种椭圆形柱面透镜天线阵列。为改善天线的辐射性能,考虑到高功率应用中的高压击穿问题,提出在横截面为椭圆形组合矩形的天线罩内填充变压器油的方法,并将三元刀型天线阵列密封其内,形成介质透镜天线阵。利用椭圆的几何聚焦能力和介质的缩波效应,提高天线阵列的主瓣增益,并增加天线阵列的电尺寸。通过调整天线阵列的单元间距,相较于不加透镜的阵列结构,该结构的轴向远场电压峰峰值增加41%,远场辐射波束宽度变窄,前后比也得到改善,且增益提高了4.96 dB,功率容量提高338倍,达9.63 GW。     

高功率椭圆形柱面介质透镜天线阵的设计

设计了一种椭圆形柱面透镜天线阵列。为改善天线的辐射性能,考虑到高功率应用中的高压击穿问题,提出在横截面为椭圆形组合矩形的天线罩内填充变压器油的方法,并将三元刀型天线阵列密封其内,形成介质透镜天线阵。利用椭圆的几何聚焦能力和介质的缩波效应,提高天线阵列的主瓣增益,并增加天线阵列的电尺寸。通过调整天线阵列的单元间距,相较于不加透镜的阵列结构,该结构的轴向远场电压峰峰值增加41%,远场辐射波束宽度变窄,前后比也得到改善,且增益提高了4.96 dB,功率容量提高338倍,达9.63 GW。     

Array gain of fourth-order cumulants beamforming under typical probability density background

The fourth-order cumulant of zero mean Gaussian distribution noise always equals to zero theoretically.In practice the probability density of noise and reverberation is the key problem to performance of the fourth-order cumulant beamforming technique.In this paper,the array gain functions of the fourth-order cumulant beamforming are deducted considering the instantaneous amplitude distribution of the ambient sea noise and bottom reverberation respectively.And the relationships are determined between array gain and the factors including the number of the array elements,the fourth-order and second-order statistical properties of the noise and reverberation,and the input signal-to-noise ratio.It is also verified that there is a critical signal-to-interference ratio and the fourth-order cumulant beamforming can obtain higher gain and resolution than the conventional beamforming method when the ratio is larger than it.The results of experiment data processing demonstrate that the gain and the resolution of the fourth-order cumulant beamforming coincide with the theoretic.     

A 24-GHz Patch Array with a Power Amplifier/Low-Noise Amplifier MMIC

This paper presents an active patch array designed at 24 GHz. It can be used as a front-end component for a phased array. A series resonant array structure is chosen which is compact and easy excite. With 5 elements, the array proved a 12-dB antenna gain. A power amplifier and a low noise amplifier are designed on a single GaAs chip (PALNA). Bias switch is used in the PALNA, which greatly reduces the switch loss in a transceiver and increases the efficiency. 20-dB small signal gain is achieved in both power amplifier and low noise amplifier. The active patch array is built by the combination of the patch array and PALNA. The measured active gain of this antenna is 35-dB for the PA mode and 31-dB for the LNA mode. This active patch array can obtain an EIRP of 34 dBm with a total radiated power of 22dBm and a maximum PAE of 32%. To check the noise performance, we applied sources at both normal temperature and 77K (liquid nitrogen) and extracted the noise figure (3.5 dB) of the active antenna by the Y factor method. The results proved that the active antenna is working efficiently as both a transmitting and receiving antenna.     

不同顺序中子/γ辐照对双极器件电流增益的影响

利用CFBR-Ⅱ快中子反应堆（中国第二座快中子脉冲堆）和⁶⁰Co装置开展不同顺序的中子/γ辐照双极晶体管的实验。在集电极-发射极电压恒定条件下,测量了双极晶体管电流增益随集电极电流的变化曲线,研究不同顺序中子/γ辐照对双极晶体管电流增益的影响。分析实验结果发现,集电极-发射极电压一定时,集电极电流极低情况下电流增益退化比较大,随集电极电流增加电流增益逐渐减小;就实验选中的两类晶体管而言,先中子后γ辐照造成双极晶体管电流增益的退化程度大于先γ后中子辐照,而且PNP型晶体管比NPN型晶体管差异更明显。本文进行了双极晶体管电离/位移协同辐照效应相关机理的初步探讨。     

Multi-radius geographical spatial networks: Statistical characteristics and application to wireless sensor networks

In this paper, a new kind of complex network model named multi-radius geographical spatial networks is proposed. We investigate statistical characteristics of this model and then map wireless sensor networks (WSNs) to it based on an efficient mechanism of broadcasting radius adjustment. Analysis and simulation show that WSNs working under this mechanism obtain longer lifetime and faster data delivering speed than those in traditional uniform radius WSNs.     

Beam reconfigurable antenna for the THz band based on a graphene high impedance surface

In this paper a reconfigurable beam antenna is proposed for THz applications, based on a switchable Graphene High Impedance Surface (G-HIS) that acts as a reflector for a primary radiator. The Graphene-HIS structure composed of two layers of graphene cells arranged in a 5×5 array, the two planes of the array are separated by a thin silicon oxide layer; patches in the same row are connected together, to be biased by a common DC voltage to the entire row; this gives the ability to control the graphene conductivity σ. The results show that the shape of the radiation pattern can be changed by changing the voltage applied to each row of G-HIS array. The antenna was fabricated and characterized using a THz-TDS laser system. Measurements are in good agreement with simulations as far as the graphene surface impedance and the resonance frequency are concerned. The scanning reflection on the antenna surface due to the change on the applied voltage is presented to show the effect of biased graphene layer on the dipole properties.     

Optimum beam steering of optical phased arrays using mixed weighting technique

In this paper, we present a novel technique for high precision optical beam steering of optical phased arrays (OPA) using mixed weighting method. Optimal OPA parameters are determined to obtain the best beam directivity by minimizing the main lobe width and eliminating grating lobes of the far field diffraction pattern. The quantitative analysis for a fibre-type optical phased array is given. The calculation results demonstrate that the grating lobe level can be distinctly reduced from 80% to 20% of the main lobe level. Thus, the mixed weighting technique proposed in this paper can substantially improve the beam steering efficiency and the beam quality.     

典型概率密度背景下四阶累积量波束形成的阵增益

在理论上零均值高斯分布噪声的四阶累积量恒等于零,而实际噪声和混响的概率密度是影响四阶累积量波束形成技术性能的关键问题。本文针对海洋环境噪声与海底混响的瞬时幅度分布,分别推导了四阶累积量波束形成阵增益函数;建立了阵增益与阵元数、海洋环境噪声和海底混响统计特性的四阶矩和二阶矩及输入信噪比的关系;确定了与常规波束形成阵增益之间存在临界信噪比,高于临界信干比时四阶累积量波束形成可以获得比常规波束形成更高的阵增益与分辨率。实验数据处理结果验证了四阶累积量波束形成阵增益和分辨率理论结果的一致性。     

相关阵在抑制局部相关噪声中的应用

本文提出用阵元间互相关作为基元加权求和形成波束(相关阵)，并给出用来抑制线阵局部强相关干扰的一种权向量实现方法。海上试验数据处理结果表明，利用本文提出的权向量实现相关阵比CBF阵有较高的信噪比增益和较好的抗噪声干扰能力。     

Adaptive coding clustered routing protocol for energy efficient and reliable WSN

In Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), the sensor nodes are expected to remain autonomous for a long time and the communication must be successful. So, energy efficiency and communication reliability are the main challenges for WSN. Routing protocols and, in particular, clustering is the key to energy constraints in WSNs. In a loss milieu, data shared between nodes is susceptible to corruption by errors caused by signal fading, random noise, and some other forces. For this reason, channel coding is necessary to assure efficient and reliable transmission. Therefore, energy efficiency and reliability of communications are the most crucial factors in the design of an efficient cluster-based routing protocol. In this context, to raise the reliability of the communication link and minimize the necessary transmission energy, a new adaptive coding routing protocol is proposed, which implements RS and LDPC codes to a routing protocol. Simulation results show that our proposed protocol improves energy consumption, network lifetime, stability, and throughput compared to LEACH and BRE-LEACH. In addition, it reaches a good BER performance and coding gain by using the LDPC code.     

Non-contact optical fibre phased array generation of ultrasound for non-destructive evaluation of materials and processes

The use of non-contact laser techniques for the generation of ultrasound has extended the limits of the application of traditional ultrasonic techniques. This paper focusses on the use of one such non-contact laser technique, known as ‘optical fibre array’, to generate shear and surface waves. The shear wave experimental directivity pattern results are presented and compared with the theoretical results of a single source and an array source. The experimental directivity results for the surface wave are also presented, and compared with the theoretical results. The data show that the array enhances signal generation in the forward direction for both shear and surface waves. The array gain is also discussed. The receiver for the directivity measurements was a contact piezoelectric transducer.     

基于空间结构内部锁相的光纤激光相干合成技术

介绍了本课题组近年来在基于空间结构内部锁相的光纤激光相干合成方面的研究工作,给出了空间结构内部锁相相干合成的基本原理,搭建了七路低功率光纤激光阵列实验系统,结果表明在内部相位噪声校正基础之上,可以稳定补偿外部相位差进而实现激光阵列同相位输出,验证了内部锁相方法的可行性。进一步介绍了空间结构内部锁相技术在目标在回路相干合成、阵列光束光场调控等方面的拓展应用,通过实验论证了空间结构内部锁相技术能够有效提升目标在回路相干合成系统的相位控制带宽,并在远场有效生成轨道角动量光束阵列,其拓扑荷数可从-1到+1切换。     

Contrast-enhanced MR angiography with frequency-dependent mask subtraction

One of the main challenges for high-resolution contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance angiography (CE-MRA) is the limited signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). In conventional CE-MRA, spoiled gradient-recalled echo sequence is typically used to acquire raw data before and after contrast material injection, followed by mask subtraction to improve vessel contrast at the cost of increased image noise. We reported here on a frequency-dependent mask subtraction technique where only low spatial frequency data were subject to mask subtraction to improve image contrast and reduce motion artifact while high spatial frequency data were not subtracted to preserve image noise level. The feasibility of this technique was demonstrated through phantom, animal, and human volunteer studies. The lowest half, quarter, 1/8 and 1/16 of all spatial frequencies were subject to mask subtraction, respectively. These partial subtraction techniques were compared with conventional mask subtraction in terms of SNR and artifact power. An SNR gain up to 37% was achieved without significant artifact power increase for quarter-subtraction where only the central one quarter k-space data were subject to mask subtraction.     

考虑钕玻璃放大器增益特性的光谱色散匀滑系统性能研究

采用数值方法研究了钕玻璃放大器的增益特性对高功率激光系统中光谱色散匀滑单元性能的影响.分析结果表明,入射光中心波长与放大器增益曲线中心波长不一致时,焦斑强度分布会受到一定的影响,且该影响随放大倍数增大趋于明显,而两个波长一致时,强度分布变化较小.靶面焦斑整体的辐照均匀性则主要取决于经过相位调制后的激光束的带宽,放大器的增益特性对其空间功率谱及均匀性无明显的影响.所得结论为光谱色散匀滑单元在激光系统中的实际应用提供了重要的理论参考.     

On array design for matched-field processing

Conventional plane-wave beamforming array design guidelines are motivated by the desire to obtain particular beampattern characteristics, such as main lobe width and side lobe levels. These design guidelines are appropriate for arrays employed for beamforming, where a plane-wave signal model is utilized to derive both the array design parameters and the beamforming algorithm. However, matched-field processing utilizes full-field acoustic propagation models to exploit the complexities of ocean acoustic propagation. As a result, there may be more appropriate design guidelines for arrays employed for matched-field processing. In this paper, general guidelines for matched-field processing array design utilizing a normal mode propagation model are proposed. Various line array configurations are evaluated with respect to source localization performance, and the results suggest that arrays designed for matched-field processing should provide a unique representation of each propagating mode along the extent of the array. Further, the empirical analyses support the guidelines suggested by the theoretical analyses and show that arrays which are far from meeting conventional beamforming array design requirements may be more than sufficient for matched-field processing.     

Beamspace channel estimation in wideband lens antenna array-based mmWave mMIMO-OFDM systems under beam squint

Sparse Bayesian learning (SBL) and particularly relevant vector machines (RVMs) have drawn much attention to improving the performance of existing machine learning models. The methodology depends on a parameterized prior that enforces models with weight sparsity, where only a few are non-zeros. Wideband mmWave massive multiple-input multiple-output (mMIMO) systems with lens antenna array (LAA), expect to play a key role in future fifth-generation (5G) wireless systems. To provide the beamforming gain required to overcome path loss, we consider a lens antenna array (LAA)-based beamspace mMIMO system. However, the spatial-wideband influence causes the beam squint effect to emerge, making the beamspace channel path components exhibit a unique frequency-dependent sparse structure, and thus nullifies the frequency domain common support assumption. In this paper, we first propose a channel estimation (CE) algorithm, namely a reduced-antenna selection progressive support-detection (RAS-PSD), for the wideband mmWave mMIMO-OFDM systems with LAA, which considers the beam squint effect. Secondly, by exploring Bayesian learning (BL), a Gaussian Process hyperparameter optimization-based CE (GP-HOCE) algorithm is proposed for the considered system, where both its own hyperparameter and the hyperparameters of its adjacent neighbors governs the sparsity of each coefficient. The simulation results show that the wideband beamspace channel coefficients can be estimated more efficiently than those of the existing state-of-the-art algorithms in terms of normalized mean square error (NMSE) of CE for wideband mmWave mMIMO-OFDM systems.