Analysis of a demodulation system for Fiber Bragg Grating sensors using two fixed filters

The analysis of a demodulation system for Fiber Bragg Grating sensors based on two fixed spectral filters has been carried out both theoretically and experimentally. Different system configurations were analyzed by modifying the spectral position of the filters as well as the optical power-level of the signal reaching the two photo-detectors. Measurements with integration times that varied from 0.01 to 1 s have been compared with the low-frequency limit predicted for long-term operation. Comparisons between simulated and experimental results show good agreement, and extrapolations indicate that it should be possible to achieve an operating spectrum range of the order of 7 nm, with uncertainties equivalent to less than 2 pm in measurements of the sensor peak position.     

Recording and reading of intense optical pulses based on the induced transparency

The effect of spatial localization of the atomic (Raman) coherence in the forbidden transition of a three-level atom is studied for two intense optical pulses with comparable Rabi frequencies. We propose to use this effect for coherent recording of intense optical pulses. Various schemes of reading of the recorded pulse are considered.     

Optical reflectance of blue bronze crystals near the Peierls transition

We report on the reflectance of blue bronze crystals in the visible frequency range as a function of temperature. The observed large oscillations in the reflectance at all wavelengths at temperatures near the Peierls transition are interpreted as interference effects stemming from a surface layer. It is found that the surface layer, which appears to be tied to fluctuations, can be as much as 1.6 microns thick.     

Reply to the comment on: ‘Magnetoresistance in La1−xCaxMnO3(0≤x<0.4)’

The author of the comment objects to the characterization and the interpretation of magnetoresistance (MR) effects observed by us in La_1−xCa_xMnO₃ (0≤x<0.4) samples. In this reply, arguments are used to show that the samples' characterization and explanation of the MR by considering the role of the short-charge ordering (CO) regions and magnetic domains are reasonable and acceptable.     

Bi-large neutrino mixings by radiative magnification

Starting with the unification hypothesis of mixings of quarks and leptons and small quark-like mixings at the see-saw scale, we find that two large mixings for ν_e —νx03BC; andv _μ—v _τ at the weak scale are obtained as a result of renormalization group evolution and radiative magnification if the three neutrinos are quasi degenerate in masses and possess the same CP parity. We also find thatU _e3 remains small and well within the CHOOZ-Palo Verde bound since the correspondingV _ub for CKM mixing is very small. Several testable pedictions are pointed out.     

A new model for a mode-locked semiconductor laser

We consider a new model for passive mode locking in a semiconductor laser comprising a set of delay differential equations. Bifurcations leading to the appearance and break-up of the mode-locking regime are studied numerically.     

Application of quantum-chemical methods including density functional theory for the interpretation of isotropic hyperfine data. The example of azulenebenzoquinone

The radical anion of aceneazulenedione in which a benzoquinone is fused to an azulene moiety was generated by electrolysis and by reduction with the alkali metals in ethereal solvents. The hyperfine data could not be reproduced by standard Hückel calculations which usually give reliable predictions for the spin distribution in radical ions such as azulene quinones and a variety of extended π systems. However, PPP and, preferably,ab initio geometry optimisations followed by single-point calculations of the Fermi contact interaction with density functional theory, led to a straightforward assignment of the hyperfine coupling constants.     

Laser ablation from Lithium niobate

Received: 21 May 1997/Accepted: 4 July 1997     

Double-diaphragm shock tube at the Ioffe Physicotechnical Institute

Results of numerical calculations of the flow in a double-diaphragm shock tube with a tailored contact surface are reported. The calculations were carried out using a model of an ideal shock tube allowing for the real properties of the driver gas at high pressures and equilibrium thermodynamics of the processes behind the shock waves at Mach numbers M _s1 of the shock wave in the working gas varying in the range 5–25. Flow regimes with a tailored contact surface were obtained for Mach numbers M _s1=6.3, 11, and 15 using the double-diaphragm shock tube at the Ioffe Physicotechnical Institute. Under these conditions, the parameters of the working gas were kept constant for more than 1 ms. The calculated data were compared with the experimental results and it was shown that the calculated data may be used to determine the section lengths in a double-diaphragm shock tube and to estimate its operating time. The calculated values of the initial pressure in the sections of the tube were substantially lower than those achieved experimentally. Measurements were made of the static pressure along the axis of a conical nozzle during the expansion of hydrogen (initial temperature T ₀=293 K) and shock-heated nitrogen (T ₀=4000 K). It is found that the expansion of hydrogen is accompanied by deactivation of the rotational degrees of freedom, and that partial freezing of the vibrational degrees of freedom takes place in the nitrogen stream. Zh. Tekh. Fiz. 67, 88–95 (November 1997)