低于再碰撞阈值下强激光场原子非序列双电离

在最近的实验和理论研究中,我们探讨了氩原子和氖原子在红外强激光场中低于再碰撞阈值的非序列双电离问题。在研究中,我们发现在非序列双电离过程中,氖原子的电子关联表现为在激光偏振面内肩并肩出射,而对于氩原子的电子关联行为表现为在激光偏振面内的背对背出射,我们采用三维半经典模型（考虑电子隧道电离）很好地解释了实验结果。在阈值附近,我们发现电子在激光场中的多次散射以及电子再碰撞激发后电子隧道电离是氩原子反关联行为的主要原因,而电子在激光场作用下的单次碰撞是电子关联行为的主要原因。通过测量双电离过程中产生电子的横向电子动量分布,观察到了库伦聚焦效应,我们认为这是非经典的关联行为。最后,我们给出了氩原子和氖原子在激光场中阈值的解析模型,并给出了原子的关联和反关联激光强度区域.     

The dissociative ionization and Coulomb explosion of ethane by a femtosecond laser field

Femtosecond laser-induced dissociation and Coulomb explosion of polyatomic molecule C_2H_6 were systematically investigated using a time-of-flight mass spectrometer and a chirped pulse amplifier laser. With the laser intensity varying from 2.4×10^{15}W/cm^{2} to 1.2×10^{16}W/cm^2, strong molecular ions C_2H_n^+ (n=0－6) and atomic ions C^{m+} (m=1－3) signals were observed. The double-peak structure of atomic ions indicated the occurrence of Coulomb explosion. Compared with the nearly isotropic distribution of C^{+}, highly charged ions C^{m+} (m=2－3) exhibited a sharply anisotropic angular distribution, which was attributed to the geometric alignment.     

FIELD IONIZATION OF MOLECULES IN AN INTENSE LASER FIELD

In order to predict the field ionization probabilities, the accurate ab initio electrostatic potential of molecules has to be calculated. However, the calculation of the full ab initio electrostatic potential of molecules is complicated, even impossible for some larger molecules with low symmetry. Here, we present a semi-empirical model to treat the field ionization of molecules in an intense laser field. In this model, a modified Coulomb potential is used to take the place of the complicated ab initio electrostatic potential of molecules. The analytic equations of the Keldysh adiabatic parameter using the Coulomb potential and the modified Coulomb potential have first been given. Using our semi-empirical model, we have calculated the field ionization probabilities and the Keldysh adiabatic parameters of O₂, N₂, SO₂, C₂H₄, CH₃CN and C₆H₆ in an intense laser field. The results agree excellently with the calculations using the ab initio electrostatic potential of molecules. As the modified parameter for the Coulomb potential can be found from experimental measurements, the field ionization mechanism of molecules can be immediately predicted with our semi-empirical model.     

Bending Loss Calculation of a Dielectric-Loaded Surface Plasmon Polariton Waveguide Structure

Based on full 3D finite element method simulations, the transmission of a dielectric-loaded surface plasmon polariton waveguide （DLSPPW） based 1/4 circle is calculated for a 90° bend model and a 270° bend model, respectively. It is found that the 270° bend model gives almost pure bending loss while the 90° bend model contains additional coupling loss. The models are applied to deduce the loss and unloaded quality factor of DLSPPW based waveguide ring resonators （WRRs） and the results of the 270° bend model agree well with direct simulating results of the WRRs. Thus the 270° bend model gives a fast and simple way to calculate bending loss and it is helpful for WRR design because no wavelength scan is needed.     

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光自旋霍尔效应及面内光自旋分离

当宽度有限的实际光束反射和折射时,左旋光和右旋光成分会发生垂直于入射面的空间分离,这一新奇的光自旋霍尔效应近来引起了人们的广泛关注.文章介绍了光自旋霍尔效应的研究进展,特别关注了纳米量级分离的测量方面进展.作者还发现在入射面内也会出现光自旋分离现象,并对这一新现象进行了理论分析和实验研究,实验测量数据和理论计算结果非常符合.     

Ge-Ga-Cd硫化物玻璃的超快三阶非线性光学性质与结构关系研究

本文采用飞秒时间分辨光学克尔门技术测量了GeS2-Ga2S3-CdS硫化物玻璃体系的超快三阶非线性光学响应，所用激光波长分别为820nm和640nm。?实验结果证明了GeS2-Ga2S3-CdS组分玻璃具有很大的飞秒超快三阶非线性光学响应，另外，其Kerr信号随摩尔组分的不同呈显著变化。通过拉曼光谱结构分析，探讨了此系列硫化物玻璃的三阶非线性光学性质与结构的关系，结果表明构成玻璃网络的四面体结构单元[GeS4]([GaS4])对其超快三阶光学非线性起重要作用。实验还表明了此硫化物玻璃体系的超快三阶非线性不符合半经验的Miller定律。     

Chirping-dependent ionization and dissociation of methane in an intense femtosecond laser field

We studied the ionization and dissociation of polyatomic molecule methane in an intense femtosecond laserfield with wavelength of 810 nm and intensities ranging from 1.4×10~(14)to 2.6×10~(15) W/cm~2 by massspeetroscopy.Abundant fragment inos were observed in addition to the strong parent ion.The effect offrequency chirp was investigated and it was found that the negatively chirped pulses dramatically enhancedthe dissociation probability,which might be used to control the dissociation pathways.     

High Two-Beam Coupling Coefficients of Monolithic Small Molecule at Low Electric Field

A novel full-functional photorefractive small molecular material, (9-ethyl-9H-carbazol-3-ylmethylene)-(4-nitrophenyl)-amine (ECYENPA), was synthesized and its photorefractivity was studied by two-beam coupling experiments at a wavelength of 632.8nm. The glass transition temperature of ECYENPA, as low as -5℃, results in the chromophore being orientated easily at room temperature. High two-beam coupling coefficient was obtained to be 232cm^-1 at an electric field of 44.6 V/μm.     

Coherent Hole-burning, Mollow Absorption Effect, and Four-wave Mixing in Cycling Transition Fe=0(←→)Fg=1 Subject to a Magnetic Field

We investigate the quantum coherence effects of a cycling transition Fe=0(←→)Fg=1, which is saturated and probed by the circular polarized fields, and is subject to a linearly polarized field and a magnetic field.Saturation field is applied in the case of the maximum coherence between the drive Rabi frequency and magnetic field, corresponding to the electromagnetically induced absorption (EIA) with negative dispersion found by Gu et al.In a small saturation Rabi frequency, the holes are burned in two Autler-Towns peaks outside two symmetric electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) windows due to the two-photon resonance.When the saturation Rabi frequency is comparable with the drive Rabi frequency, the holes caused by the coherent population oscillation appear in the EIA spectrum.Continuing to increase the saturation Rabi frequency, we observe several emission peaks due to the Mollow absorption effects.Simultaneously, four-wave mixing (FWM) effects in this process are discussed.In the picture of dressed states, we explain the multi-peaks of quantum efficiency of FWM in terms of the multi-photon resonance conditions.We also find a good agreement between the absorption peaks and the FMW peaks.Finally, whenever EIA, EIT, or Mollow absorption happens, the dispersion at the pump-probe detuning center is kept to be negative with increasing the saturation Rabi frequency.It means that this point is suitable to perform the superluminal light propagation experiments.