Realization of optical limiting with a magnetic fluid film

In this paper, optical limiting property in a magnetic fluid film is studied. The relationship between the emergent power and the incident power is investigated experimentally and theoretically. It is found that the limiting threshold is linear with the diaphragm aperture which accord with the theoretical prediction. The external magnetic field will affect the limiting property, and increase the limiting threshold.     

ZnO/A1lN/Si(111)薄膜的外延生长和性能研究

用常压金属化学气相沉积法(MOCVD)在Si(111)衬底上制备了马赛克结构ZnO单晶薄膜.引入低温AlN缓冲层以阻止衬底氧化、缓解热失配和晶格失配.薄膜双晶X射线衍射2θ/ω联动扫描只出现了Si(111)、ZnO(000l)及AlN(000l)的衍射峰.ZnO/AlN/Si(111)薄膜C方向晶格常量为0.5195 nm,表明在面方向处于张应力状态;其对称(0002)面和斜对称(1012)面的双晶X射线衍ω摇摆曲线半峰全宽分别为460"和1105";干涉显微镜观察其表面有微裂纹,裂纹密度为20 cm-1;3 μm×3μm范围的原子力显微镜均方根粗糙度为1.5 nm激光实时监测曲线表明薄膜为准二维生长,生长速率4.3μm/h.低温10 K光致发光光谱观察到了薄膜的自由激子、束缚激子发射及它们的声子伴线.所有结果表明,采用金属化学气相沉积法并引入AlN为缓冲层能有效提高Si(111)衬底上ZnO薄膜的质量.     

A 168-W high-power single-frequency amplifier in an all-fiber configuration

We present a high-power,single-frequency,narrow linewidth fiber amplifier based on master oscillator power amplification chains in an all-fiber configuration.The effect of the delivery fiber on the maximum output power is studied.A home-made 1064-nm seed laser with a 20-kHz linewidth is boosted to 129 W,and limited by stimulated Brillouin scattering(SBS) when the delivery fiber is 1.2 m long.By shortening the delivery fiber length to 0.7 m,the SBS threshold is increased efficiently and the maximum output power rises to 168 W with an 82.9% power conversion efficiency.The experimental results indicate that the output power can be further raised by shortening the delivery fiber length and increasing the pump power.     

Local trimer orbital ordering in LiNiO2 studied by quantitative convergent beam electron diffraction technique

A local trimer orbital ordering model of LiNiO₂ was studied by means of theoretical calculation and experimental measurement of electron structure factors. Based on the trimer model, the electron structure factors were calculated by using the scattering factor of non-spherical Ni³⁺ ion. From these results, it is found that the effect of local orbital ordering on the electron structure factors of several subtle reflections, such as (202) and (107), is very large. The electron structure factors of these subtle reflections were measured by quantitative convergent beam electron diffraction method. The experimentally measured electron structure factor values of these reflections indicate that the trimer orbital ordering model is more close to the true structure of LiNiO₂.     

Lagrangian approach for dark soliton in nonlocal nonlinear media

We theoretically investigate the dynamics of dark solitons as well as their interaction in nonlocal media. Approximate equations describing the evolution of the beams are obtained via suitable trial functions of amplitude u and refractive index n in an averaged Lagrangian. Our results reveal that out-of-phase dark solitons can evolve into stable bound states in nonlocal materials. Moreover, it is found that the separations in the bound state monotonically increase with the degree of nonlocality in nonlocal limit. These results are in excellent agreement with the numerical simulations.     

Influence of switchable magnetic field on the modulation property of nanostructured magnetic fluids

Magnetic fluid is a kind of colloidal material with tunable microstructure and unique optical properties. The tunable magneto-optical modulation property of magnetic fluid under externally switchable magnetic field with various modulation periods is investigated theoretically and experimentally. The transitional modulation period (lower limit of the working frequency) between the square-like and oscillation-like modulation is achieved and found to be magnetic-field- and sample-concentration-dependent. The modulation mechanism is analyzed and ascribed to the dynamic microstructure of magnetic fluid under different modulation periods of external magnetic fields. The result of this work may be helpful for the pragmatic applications of magnetic fluid based on the square-like modulation.     

混合制冷剂循环膨胀机内复叠天然气液化流程设计

提出一种混合制冷剂循环膨胀机内复叠天然气液化流程(Hybrid JT-exp)。采用自主开发的流程模拟程序,分别对C3/MRC流程、AP-XTM流程和Hybrid JT-exp流程进行了模拟,并以单位能耗为指标对三种流程进行了优化。优化结果发现,Hybrid JT-exp流程综合特性曲线匹配效果最好,其流程总功耗和单位能耗与AP-XTM流程相当;与C3/MRC流程相比,其流程总功耗降低约9.5%,单位能耗降低约9.6%。Hybrid JT-exp流程可作为AP-XTM流程的一种替代技术方案。     

Implementation of a novel two-attractor grid multi-scroll chaotic system

This paper proposed a method of generating two attractors in a novel grid multi-scroll chaotic system.Based on a newly generated three-dimensional system,a two-attractor grid multi-scroll attractor system can be generated by adding two triangular waves and a sign function.Some basic dynamical properties,such as equilibrium points,bifurcations,and phase diagrams,were studied.Furthermore,the system was experimentally confirmed by an electronic circuit.The circuit simulation results and numerical simulation results verified the feasibility of this method.     

Comparative study on the propagation performance of coherently combined and incoherently combined beams

Taking phase error, turbulent atmosphere, jitter, vacancy factor and tilt error into consideration, we propose a general propagation formula for both coherent and incoherent combined beams with different kinds of aberrations. Comparative study on the propagation performance of coherent and incoherent combined beams is presented. Beam propagation factor (BPF) defined as laser output power in a specified far-field bucket divided by the total output power radiating from the effective near-field exit aperture of the laser beam is introduced as the beam quality factor to give a quantitative study. It is revealed that the coherent combined beam has great advantage when propagating in free-space compared with the incoherent combined beams. However, the coherent combined beam is more sensitive to the environmental aberrations, and the beam quality degrades faster with an increase in the aberrations’ intensity. Scintillation index as the high moments of the combined intensity field is also studied. It is revealed that both coherent and incoherent combined beams exhibit less scintillations compared with a single-aperture beam, and the incoherent combined beam demonstrates better scintillations reducing the performance. Our methodology offers an all-round performance evaluation on the two kinds of laser systems.     

Sparsity-constrained SENSE reconstruction: An efficient implementation using a fast composite splitting algorithm

Parallel imaging and compressed sensing have been arguably the most successful and widely used techniques for fast magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Recent studies have shown that the combination of these two techniques is useful for solving the inverse problem of recovering the image from highly under-sampled k-space data. In sparsity-enforced sensitivity encoding (SENSE) reconstruction, the optimization problem involves data fidelity (L2-norm) constraint and a number of L1-norm regularization terms (i.e. total variation or TV, and L1 norm). This makes the optimization problem difficult to solve due to the non-smooth nature of the regularization terms. In this paper, to effectively solve the sparsity-regularized SENSE reconstruction, we utilize a new optimization method, called fast composite splitting algorithm (FCSA), which was developed for compressed sensing MRI. By using a combination of variable splitting and operator splitting techniques, the FCSA algorithm decouples the large optimization problem into TV and L1 sub-problems, which are then, solved efficiently using existing fast methods. The operator splitting separates the smooth terms from the non-smooth terms, so that both terms are treated in an efficient manner. The final solution to the SENSE reconstruction is obtained by weighted solutions to the sub-problems through an iterative optimization procedure. The FCSA-based parallel MRI technique is tested on MR brain image reconstructions at various acceleration rates and with different sampling trajectories. The results indicate that, for sparsity-regularized SENSE reconstruction, the FCSA-based method is capable of achieving significant improvements in reconstruction accuracy when compared with the state-of-the-art reconstruction method.