Development of a laser photothermoacoustic frequency-swept system for subsurface imaging: theory and experiment

In conventional biomedical photoacoustic imaging systems, a pulsed laser is used to generate time-of-flight acoustic information of the subsurface features. This paper reports the theoretical and experimental development of a new frequency-domain (FD) photo-thermo-acoustic (PTA) principle featuring frequency sweep (chirp) and heterodyne modulation and lock-in detection of a continuous-wave laser source at 1064 nm wavelength. PTA imaging is a promising new technique which is being developed to detect tumor masses in turbid biological tissue. Owing to the linear relationship between the depth of acoustic signal generation and the delay time of signal arrival to the transducer, information specific to a particular depth can be associated with a particular frequency in the chirp signal. Scanning laser modulation with a linear frequency sweep method preserves the depth-to-delay time linearity and recovers FD-PTA signals from a range of depths. Preliminary results performed on rubber samples and solid tissue phantoms indicate that the FD-PTA technique has the potential to be a reliable tool for biomedical depth-profilometric imaging.     

Ultraslow bright and dark optical solitons in a cold three-state medium

We show the formation of ultraslow bright and dark optical solitons in a lifetime-broadened three-state atomic system under Raman excitation. We also discuss why such ultraslow optical solitons may not exist under the conditions of the usual electromagnetically induced transparency configuration where zero one- and two-photon detunings are required.     

Eigenstates and eigenenergies of four-wave-mixing models

We present explicit analytical expressions of all the eigenenergies and eigenstates for two different kinds of four-wave-mixing model in terms of a parameter lambda without the so-called Bethe ansatz assumption. The parameter lambda is shown to be determined by the roots of a simple polynomial. We also obtain the exact explicit analytical expressions of infinite eigenstates and energies without any unknown parameter.     

Red luminescent polymeric cuprous organosulfide generated by solvothermal redox reaction

A new polymeric metal organosulfide [Cu(I)3(pymt)3]n(pymt = pyrimidine-2-thiolate) with strong red photoluminescence was synthesized through solvothermal redox reaction, and crystallographically characterized to be a one-dimensional chiral structure containing metal-metal interactions.     

Circumferential resonance modes of solid elastic cylinders excited by obliquely incident acoustic waves

When an immersed solid elastic cylinder is insonified by an obliquely incident plane acoustic wave, some of the resonance modes of the cylinder are excited. These modes are directly related to the incidence angle of the insonifying wave. In this paper, the circumferential resonance modes of such immersed elastic cylinders are studied over a large range of incidence angles and frequencies and physical explanations are presented for singular features of the frequency-incidence angle plots. These features include the pairing of one axially guided mode with each transverse whispering gallery mode, the appearance of an anomalous pseudo-Rayleigh in the cylinder at incidence angles greater than the Rayleigh angle, and distortional effects of the longitudinal whispering gallery modes on the entire resonance spectrum of the cylinder. The physical explanations are derived from Resonance Scattering Theory (RST), which is employed to determine the interior displacement field of the cylinder and its dependence on insonification angle.     

Recoil-limited laser cooling of 87Sr atoms near the Fermi temperature

A dynamic magneto-optical trap, which relies on the rapid randomization of population in Zeeman substates, has been demonstrated for fermionic strontium atoms on the 1S0-3P1 intercombination transition. The obtained sample, 1x10(6) atoms at a temperature of 2 microK in the trap, was further Doppler cooled and polarized in a far-off resonant optical lattice to achieve 2 times the Fermi temperature.     

Multicolor luminescence patterning by photoactivation of semiconductor nanoparticle films

Indiscriminate adsorption of nanoparticles (NPs) significantly complicates the preparation of mesoscale NP patterns considered as enabling technology for many devices and processes. Instead of selected chemical functionalization of the substrate surface prior to the assembly of nanocolloids, the required optical properties - in our case, high quantum yield luminescence - are imparted to the layer-by-layer assembled films by spatially selected photoactivation. The films are made by sequential adsorption of a positively charged polyelectrolyte and a negatively charged CdSe/CdS aqueous dispersion with an initial quantum yield of 0.5-2%. The photoactivation process takes place in the presence of oxygen and may be accompanied by photoetching. A 50-500-fold increase in the luminescence intensity of CdSe/CdS citrate-stabilized particles (quantum yield 25-45%) after visible light illumination provides excellent pattern contrast. Micron scale luminescence patterns were produced from NPs of various CdSe core diameters with red, yellow, and green emission. It was also demonstrated that different emission colors such as orange and green can be combined in one image by taking advantage of spatially selective photoetching. The presented optical patterning technique significantly simplifies the preparation of luminescence patterns as compared to conventional methods. The high signal-to-noise ratio associated with it is essential for optical devices, information processing, and biophotonics. The most immediate use of this approach is expected in cryptography and cell monitoring.     

湖南花垣陨石岩石学特征及其起源初探

1　引　言湖南花垣陨石于 1 998年 9月 1 7日下午约 1 9时落于湖南省花垣县茶洞庭湖镇石牛村 ,地处湘、黔、川三省交界处 .当时方圆数公里内众多村民目睹了陨石燃烧的火球及尾迹 ,并听到空中雷鸣般的轰响 .陨石落地后约 1 h,当地村民在茶洞庭湖镇石牛村小学附近山坡发现了坠落点 .地表土壤见有直径约 2 0 0 mm的撞击坑 ,后滚落山坡 ,被村民捡到后 ,陨石尚有灼手之余热 .这是继 1 976年 3月吉林陨石之后 ,发生在我国的又一次较重要的陨石事件 ,由于坠落点地处山区 ,尚未引起国内科技界的重视 .陨石后经湖南省永顺县科委送浙江大学地球科学系…     

基于灰度相关的图像匹配算法的改进

针对目前图像匹配算法中存在的匹配精度不高和匹配速度慢的缺点，对基于灰度相关的2类匹配算法——最小误差法和相关系数法进行了改进。最小误差法采用新的ML距离法，提出动态调整阈值的方法，既保证了匹配精度，又避免了局部噪声的影响；相关系数法对相关系数的计算公式进行了简化，并采用三步搜索策略进行匹配，以达到减少计算量和搜索位置的目的。实验证明：改进后的算法，在保证一定匹配精度的条件下，匹配速度大大提高，能够满足实际应用中的实时性要求。