Dispersion and Confinement Loss Control in Modified Hexagonal Photonic Crystal Fibers

This paper presents a novel technique for the control of chromatic dispersion and confinement loss in hexagonal photonic crystal fibers (H-PCFs). It is demonstrated that it is possible to obtain very low chromatic dispersion of 0 ± 0:38 ps/(nm·km) in the wavelength range of 1.41 to 1.66 μm and confinement loss of less than 0.0001 dB/km from a six ring modified H-PCF (MH-PCF). The higher order dispersion at 1.55 μm is about −0.001 ps/(nm²-km).     

第一性原理研究Zr的掺杂对Xe在UO_2中溶解能力的影响

Zr既是反应堆中核燃料组件的包壳材料,也是核燃料UO_2的一种裂变产物,不可避免地会掺杂到UO_2中,对其性质等产生一定的影响.本文通过第一性原理密度泛函理论计算,研究了Zr掺杂所引起的Xe在UO_2中溶解能力的变化.首先应用引入Hubbard U修正的广义梯度近似密度泛函计算了U,O间隙和空位缺陷的形成能,结果与文献值符合,验证了计算方法的可靠性.在此基础上对Zr掺杂后空位缺陷的形成能及Xe吸附到空位缺陷所需的结合能的变化情况进行了研究.结果表明,Zr的掺杂会增加空位缺陷的形成能,减小大部分Xe吸附的结合能,且空位缺陷形成能的变化量普遍更大,从而在整体上增加了Xe在UO_2中的溶解能.说明在UO_2中,Zr掺杂主要是通过增加缺陷的形成难度而减弱了Xe在其中的溶解能力.     

Effect of the nonlinearity of the CCD in Fourier transform profilometry on spectrum overlapping and measurement accuracy

In Fourier transform profilometry (FTP), we must restrain spectrum overlapping caused by the nonlinearity of the charge coupled device (CCD) and increase the measurement accuracy of the object shape. Firstly, the causes of producing higher-order spectrum components and inducing spectrum overlapping are analysed theoretically, and a simple physical explanation and analytical deduction are given. Secondly, aiming to suppress spectrum overlapping and improve measurement accuracy, the influence of spatial carrier frequency of projection grating on them is analysed. A method of increasing the spatial carrier frequency of projection grating to restrain or reduce the spectrum overlapping significantly is proposed. We then analyze the mechanism of how the spectrum overlapping is reduced. Finally, the simulation results and experimental measurements verify the correction of the proposed theory and method.     

A flexible block classical Gram–Schmidt skeleton with reorthogonalization

We investigate a variant of the reorthogonalized block classical Gram–Schmidt method for computing the QR factorization of a full column rank matrix. Our aim is to bound the loss of orthogonality even when the first local QR algorithm is only conditionally stable. In particular, this allows the use of modified Gram–Schmidt instead of Householder transformations as the first local QR algorithm. Numerical experiments confirm the stable behavior of the new variant. We also examine the use of non-QR local factorization and show by example that the resulting variants, although less stable, may also be applied to ill-conditioned problems.     

Synthesis of single-crystalline wurtzite aluminum nitride nanowires by direct arc discharge

High-density hexagonal aluminum nitride (h-AlN) nanowires were synthesized through the direct reaction of Al with nitrogen gas without catalyst and template using a direct arc discharge method. The as-grown AlN nanowires were characterized by X-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscopy, transmission electron microscopy, and Raman spectroscopy. The h-AlN nanowires have a diameter in the range 20–70 nm and a length of several tens of micrometers. Vapor–solid growth mechanisms can be employed to explain the formation of the h-AlN nanowires. PACS 81.05.Ea; 81.10.Bk; 81.16.Dn; 68.65.-k; 81.16.-c