Phase matching limitation of high-efficiency second-harmonic generation in both phase- and group-velocity-matched structures

In this paper, we studied efficient second-harmonic generation (SHG) of femtosecond pulses in both phase- and group-velocity-matched structures. Obtained results show that phase matching becomes more critical under conditions required for high levels of conversion efficiency. And the imperfect phase mismatch caused by mismatched group-velocity dispersion (GVD) will limit conversion efficiency as well as bandwidth of generated second-harmonic (SH) pulses. The spectral characteristics of the generated SH pulses and its conversion efficiency in the strong pump regime are investigated in detail. The acceptance bandwidth of nonlinear crystal in the high-efficiency SHG is redefined in the paper, and the definition is much closer to the practical application of design.     

Caustics method in dynamic fracture problem of orthotropic materials

Caustics method is a powerful optical technique in fracture mechanics because of its high sensitivity to stress gradients. In this paper, it is applied to resolve dynamic fracture problems in orthotropic composites. Considering most orthotropic materials are opaque, reflective caustics method is derived here by combining the fundamental principle of caustics method with the mechanical properties of orthotropic materials. Meanwhile, corresponding experiments are carried out for typical glass fiber-reinforced composites, where mode I and mixed-mode fracture states are taken into account. By recording and analyzing shadow spot patterns during the crack propagation process carefully, crack onset time, dynamic fracture toughness and crack growth velocity of orthotropic composite are determined. These results will be useful to evaluate the dynamic fracture properties of composites and further to optimize their designs.     

Application of fast Pade approximation in simulating photonic crystal nanocavities by FDTD technology

The exact calculation of mode quality factor Q is a key problem in the design of high-Q photonic crystal nanocavity. On the basis of further investigation on conventional Pade approximation, FDM and DFT, Pade approximation with Baker’s algorithm is enhanced through introducing multiple frequency search and parabola interpolation. Though Pade approximation is a nonlinear signal processing method and only short time sequence is needed, we find the different length of sequence requirements for 2D and 3D FDTD, which is very important to obtain convergent and accurate results. By using the modified Pade approximation method and 3D FDTD, the 2D slab photonic crystal nanocavity is analyzed and high-Q multimode can be solved quickly instead of large range high-resolution scanning. Monitor position has also been investigated. These results are very helpful to the design of photonic crystal nanocavity devices.     

Loschmidt echo near a dynamical phase transition in a Bose-Einstein condensate

We show that the quantum Loschmidt echo can be employed to characterize the dynamical phase transition, from a tunnelling phase to a self-trapping phase, of a Bose-Einstein condensate in a double-well potential. The echo is found to have a relatively fast decay in the transition region, with a Gaussian decay in the self-trapping phase and a stretched exponential decay in the tunnelling phase.     

Half-metallicity in Fe-based Heusler alloys Fe2TiZ (Z = Ga,Ge, As,In, Sn and Sb)

The electronic structure and magnetic properties of new Fe-based Heusler alloys Fe₂TiZ (Z = Ga, Ge, As, In, Sn and Sb) have been studied by first-principles calculations. In these alloys, the 24-electron Fe₂TiGe, Fe₂TiSn are nonmagnetic semiconductors and other compounds are all ferrimagnetic metals. Fe₂TiAs and Fe₂TiSb are predicted to be half-metals with 100% spin polarization. The spin polarization ratio in Fe₂TiGa and Fe₂TiIn is also quite high. The calculated total moment for Fe₂TiAs and Fe₂TiSb is 1 μ_B, which is mainly determined by the Fe partial moment. The half-metallicity of Fe₂TiSb is stable under lattice distortion. The spin polarization of Fe₂TiSb is found to be 100% for the lattice variation in a range of 5.6–6.1 Å, which is attractive in practical applications.     

An eigen-based high-order expansion basis for structured spectral elements

We present an eigen-based high-order expansion basis for the spectral element approach with structured elements. The new basis exhibits a numerical efficiency significantly superior, in terms of the conditioning of coefficient matrices and the number of iterations to convergence for the conjugate gradient solver, to the commonly-used Jacobi polynomial-based expansion basis. This basis results in extremely sparse mass matrices, and it is very amenable to the diagonal preconditioning. Ample numerical experiments demonstrate that with the new basis and a simple diagonal preconditioner the number of conjugate gradient iterations to convergence has essentially no dependence or only a very weak dependence on the element order. The expansion bases are constructed by a tensor product of a set of special one-dimensional (1D) basis functions. The 1D interior modes are constructed such that the interior mass and stiffness matrices are simultaneously diagonal and have identical condition numbers. The 1D vertex modes are constructed to be orthogonal to all the interior modes. The performance of the new basis has been investigated and compared with other expansion bases.     

Level structures in the 114 In nucleus

High-spin states in ¹¹⁴In were populated using the reaction ¹¹⁰Pd(⁷Li, 3n)¹¹⁴In at a beam energy of 26MeV. The level scheme of ¹¹⁴In consisting of six bands is established up to excitation energy ～ 5MeV and spin ～ 17 ? with the addition of 58 new transitions and their configurations are discussed. The intense positive-parity dipole cascade may be interpreted as shears band based on $ \pi$ [(g _9/2)^-1] ? $ \nu$ [(g _7/2/d _5/2)(h _11/2)²] configuration. The $ \Delta$ I = 2 bands based on proton excitation have been observed in ¹¹⁴In for the first time.     

Holographic imaging of full-color real-existing three-dimensional objects with computer-generated sequential kinoforms

We propose a computational method for generating sequential kinoforms of real-existing full-color threedimensional (3D) objects and realizing high-quality 3D imaging.The depth map and color information are obtained using non-contact full-color 3D measurement system based on binocular vision.The obtained full-color 3D data are decomposed into multiple slices with RGB channels.Sequential kinoforms of each channel are calculated and reconstructed using a Fresnel-diffraction-based algorithm called the dynamicpseudorandom-phase tomographic computer holography (DPP-TCH).Color dispersion introduced by different wavelengths is well compensated by zero-padding operation in the red and green channels of object slices.Numerical reconstruction results show that the speckle noise and color-dispersion are well suppressed and that high-quality full-color holographic 3D imaging is feasible.The method is useful for improving the 3D image quality in holographic displays with pixelated phase-type spatial light modulators (SLMs).     

一种精确测量光学球面曲率半径的方法

在简要总结各种检测光学球面曲率半径方法优缺点的基础上,提出了利用激光跟踪仪和激光干涉仪测量光学球面曲率半径的新方法。首先,通过激光跟踪仪精确定位测量干涉仪出射球面波前的焦点和待测球面镜的曲率中心点坐标,再调整待测球面镜与干涉仪的相对位置,使待测球面镜达到零条纹干涉状态,用激光跟踪仪测定此时待测球面镜上多点的位置坐标,通过计算分析即可得到待测球面镜的曲率半径。研究和分析了这种测量光学球面曲率半径方法的基本原理,并提出了针对凸球面镜曲率半径的多区域测定平均综合优化的方法。结合实例对一口径为400mm的球面透镜进行了曲率半径的测量,测量得到其两面曲率半径分别为1022.283mm(凸面)和4069.568mm(凹面),并将该透镜进行了轮廓法测量对比,其相对误差都小于0.05%。     

Improved optical single-sideband generation using the self-modulation birefringence difference in semiconductor optical amplifiers

By employing the self-modulation birefringence difference in a semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA), an improved method is proposed to generate a complete optical single-sideband (OSSB) signal. Over 30 dB sideband suppression ratios (SSRs) of lower OSSB signals are obtained over a 12 dB input power range and a 36 nm wavelength span, with a maximum of over 35 dB. Upper OSSB signals with an SSR of over 15 dB are observed using a SOA for what is believed to be the first time. This method is effective even for the carrier-suppressed signal. The theory for OSSB generation in an SOA is extended and verified by experiment.