Review of highly charged ion production with ECR ion source and the future opportunities for HCI physics

In recent years, there is very intense worldwide research and development work on electron cyclotron resonance ion source (ECRIS). Remarkable progress represented by the third generation superconducting ECRIS has been made with regards of intense highly charged ion beam production such as >600 eμA Ar¹⁶⁺, >10 eμA Ar¹⁸⁺, and hundreds of enA He-like Kr³⁴⁺. A low energy heavy ion platform named Low Energy heavy ion Accelerator Facility (LEAF) that features a next generation 45 GHz ECRIS, a 300 kV high voltage platform, a 0.5 MeV/u radio-frequency quadrupole, and several multidisciplinary experimental terminals is under construction at the Institute of Modern Physics (IMP). This paper will report on the recent progress with ECRIS dedicated to highly charged ions and the status of LEAF at IMP that will provide new opportunities for highly charged ion physics in the near future.     

Aerial Video Trackers Review

Target tracking technology that is based on aerial videos is widely used in many fields; however, this technology has challenges, such as image jitter, target blur, high data dimensionality, and large changes in the target scale. In this paper, the research status of aerial video tracking and the characteristics, background complexity and tracking diversity of aerial video targets are summarized. Based on the findings, the key technologies that are related to tracking are elaborated according to the target type, number of targets and applicable scene system. The tracking algorithms are classified according to the type of target, and the target tracking algorithms that are based on deep learning are classified according to the network structure. Commonly used aerial photography datasets are described, and the accuracies of commonly used target tracking methods are evaluated in an aerial photography dataset, namely, UAV123, and a long-video dataset, namely, UAV20L. Potential problems are discussed, and possible future research directions and corresponding development trends in this field are analyzed and summarized.     

60 GHz Radio over Fiber Technology for Wireless Access by employing Narrow-Angle PSK Modulation

This paper investigates two key techniques used in 60 GHz Radio over Fiber (RoF) technology for wireless access, namely, the generation of 60 GHz signals and the distribution of 60 GHz local oscillator (LO). In the proposed model, a 60 GHz PSK signal is generated by a heterodyne of two subcarriers with narrow-angle PSK (NA-PSK) modulation, whose phase shift is equal to one half that of a normal PSK signal. Then we use a 60 GHz mixer to frequency mix two PSK signals in two different bands, 60 GHz and baseband. By doing this, the modulation information can be fully eliminated, resulting in a 60 GHz LO. In the wireless terminal, coherent demodulation is realized by a self-mixing of the transmitted 60 GHz PSK signal and LO. Thus no millimeter-wave (mm-wave) band oscillator is needed in the wireless terminal.     

The geometric phase of the quantum systems with slow but finite rate of the external time-dependent field

With the help of the time-dependent gauge transformation technique, we have studied the geometric phase of a spin-half particle in a rotating magnetic field. We have found that the slow but finite frequency of the rotating magnetic field will make the difference between the adiabatic geometric phase and the exact geometric phase. When the frequency is much smaller than the energy space and the adiabatic condition is perfectly guaranteed, the adiabatic approximation geometric phase is exactly consistent with the adiabatic geometric phase. A simple relation for the accuracy of the adiabatic approximation is given in terms of the changing rate of the frequency of the rotating magnetic field and the energy level space.     

The influence of preparative parameters on the adhesion of alumina washcoats deposited on metallic supports

Well-adhered alumina washcoats on FeCrAl metallic supports were prepared using boehmite sols and alumina slurries. The microstructure and the surface performance of the washcoat/support were investigated by SEM, XRD, and ultrasonic vibration. The effects of the main preparative parameters on the coating adherence were studied. The optimal coating conditions are presented as follows: pre-oxidation of the metallic supports was performed at 900 °C for 10 h, the sol layer loadings were 2.0-6.6 wt.%, and the slurry layer loadings were less than 25.3 wt.%. The sol layer drying was performed at 30 °C for 1 h and that for the slurry layer the drying was performed at 120 °C for 2 h, and the coating calcining was performed at 900 °C for 2 h. The SEM photographs of coated samples show that alumina washcoats were well deposited on the metallic supports.     

The accuracy evaluation method of baseline estimation algorithms in energy dispersive X-ray fluorescence spectrum analysis

In energy dispersive X-ray fluorescence analysis (EDXRF), many baseline estimation algorithms have been proposed for the accurate characteristic peak area. However, the true value of the characteristic peak area of measured spectrum is unknown and cannot be used to evaluate the accuracy of the baseline estimation algorithms. In this article, an assessment method was proposed based on Monte Carlo simulation, which can obtain the characteristic peak area, and evaluate the accuracy of the baseline estimation algorithms directly. Meanwhile, the accuracy and practicality of four baseline estimation algorithms were evaluated by the assessment method, which include statistics-sensitive nonlinear iterative peak-clipping (SINP), fast Fourier transform (FFT), adaptive iteratively reweighted penalized least squares (AirPLS), and automated iterative moving averaging (AIMA). Comparing the relative error of the characteristic peak area, AirPLS gave the best performance for baseline estimation in EDXRF.     

调强放射治疗子野权重优化方法研究

由于子野分割带来的误差, 使得调强放疗(Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy, 简称IMRT)计划系统所制作的计划往往不能满足临床要求。 本研究将采用基于共轭梯度法的子野权重优化方法来减小此误差, 提高制作计划的效率和效果。 采用共轭梯度法优化子野权重和微调子野形状, 最终使得子野分割前后强度误差最小。 在精确放疗系统中对常见的临床病例（鼻咽癌和周围性肺癌）进行测试, 通过对比靶区和危及器官的剂量体积直方图以及CT片上的等剂量线, 发现子野权重优化后靶区的平均剂量分别从87.0%提高到100.2%和从90.0%提高到98.4%, 更好地满足临床要求。     

Photon counts modulation in optical time domain reflectometry

The quantum fluctuation of photon counting limits the field application of optical time domain reflection. A method of photon counts modulation optics time domain reflection with single photon detection at 1.55 μm is presented. The influence of quantum fluctuation can be effectively controlled by demodulation technology since quantum fluctuation shows a uniform distribution in the frequency domain. Combined with the changing of the integration time of the lock-in amplifier, the signal to noise ratio is significantly enhanced. Accordingly the signal to noise improvement ratio reaches 31.7 dB compared with the direct photon counting measurement.     

基于窄带多区域水平集方法的遥感图像分割

由于遥感图像存在边缘混叠等问题,经典的C-V模型会产生大量的冗余轮廓,而且无法分割多个同质区域的目标.为此,提出了基于C-V模型的窄带多区域水平集图像分割方法,采用N-1个水平集函数将图像分割成N(N＞1)个区域,每个水平集函数表达一个区域.该方法一方面通过建立独立多区域水平集模型可以消除多余的轮廓,避免分割区域的重叠...