利用集成光学技术的新型时间脉冲整形系统

通过对时间脉冲整形技术的探索，发展了一套准备应用于未来高功率激光装置的激光脉冲整形系统。在这套整形系统中，使用了通光波长1．053μm的质子交换型波导调制器。通过这套利用集成光学调制技术的整形系统，得到了脉冲起伏小于10％的整形方波光脉冲。     

Trace analysis of organics in aqueous samples by concentration in plastic tubing and multiplex gas chromatography

Summary The inside wall of an uncoated polyethylene capillary traps organic substances from a water sample pumped through it by a nitrogen gas stream. Heating the capillary in a chromatographic oven slowly releases the trapped organic substances from the wall. Nitrogen carrier gas transports sample substances released through a thermal desorption modulator and onto a chromatographic column. Pulsing the temperature of the modulator modulates the concentrations of sample components as they enter the column. Computing the cross correlation of the detector output signal against the applied modulation signal generates the chromatogram. Detection limits below 1 ppb are possible using a flame ionization detector. No sample pretreatment or cold trap is required.     

A novel optical SSB modulation scheme with interfering harmonics suppressed for ROF transmission link

A novel optical SSB modulation scheme for ROF transmission link is proposed in this paper, the scheme employs two parallel MZMs to generate an SSB signal with major high-order interfering harmonics well suppressed. The SSB signal generated by conventional modulation scheme is interfered by adjacent high-order harmonics, and such interference may cause distortion on the RF signal generated at the base station (BS). As major high-order interfering harmonics are well suppressed in the proposed scheme, the power of the generated RF signal can be avoided and the transmission performance of the ROF transmission link is largely improved.     

Switchable instantaneous frequency measurement by optical power monitoring based on DP-QPSK modulator

We propose and analyze an instantaneous frequency measurement system by using optical power monitoring technique with improved resolution. The primary component adopted in the proposal is a dual-polarization quadrature phase shift keying (DP-QPSK) modulator which is used to modulate the microwave signal that has a designed time delay and phase shifting. The generated optical signal is sent to polarization beam splitter (PBS) in DP-QPSK modulator. Owing to the complementary transmission nature of polarization interference introduced by PBS, the frequency information is converted into the optical power and the relationship between the amplitude comparison function (ACF) and microwave frequency to be measured is established. Thus, the frequency of the microwave signal can be easily measured through monitoring the optical powers of the two output ports of the PBS. Furthermore, by adjusting the direct current (DC) biases of the DP-QPSK modulator instead of changing the electrical delay, the measurement range and resolution can be switched. In this paper, the basic principle of the instantaneous frequency measurement system is derived in detail, and simulation has been performed to investigate the resolution, the measurement range, and the influence of imperfection devices. The proposed scheme is wavelength-independent and its measurement range is switchable, which can avoid the laser wavelength drifting problem and thus greatly increasing the system flexibility.     

Hybrid complete Mueller polarimeter based on phase modulators

Optical properties of matter as diattenuation, retardance and depolarization can be evaluated using polarimetric techniques. In this paper, the analysis and implementation of a complete Mueller polarimeter is presented. The system is constituted of a polarization state generator (PSG) and a polarization state analyzer (PSA), which are controlled and synchronized through a computer program. The PSG comprises a dual liquid crystal variable retarder system while the PSA is based on a two-photoelastic modulator setup. Using air and common polarizing optics as test samples for calibration at 633 nm, the hybrid instrument met a good precision when the Mueller matrices of those optical elements were measured.     

A ferroelectric liquid crystal spatial light modulator encoded with orthogonal arrays and its optimized design for laser speckle reduction

In laser projectors, speckle reduction can be achieved by projecting a changing binary phase diffuser onto the screen. Here, we sequentially encoded a commercialized ferroelectric liquid crystal spatial light modulator (FLC-SLM) with the rows of a two-level orthogonal array of order sixty-four, thus obtaining a changing binary phase diffuser. With the help of this binary phase diffuser, the subjective speckle contrast ratio on the screen is reduced from C_b=0.71 to C_a=0.1. Based on the experimental results, a simplified transparent FLC-SLM design is first proposed. This newly designed FLC-SLM has two phase modulation depths and can be driven with the passive matrix addressing scheme. Therefore, the control electronics of the proposed FLC-SLM can be significantly simplified compared to the currently used one.     

Large Signal Performance of the Electroabsorption Modulator

Large signal analysis of the electroabsorption modulator driven by a mutisinusoidal RF signal is presented. The special case of a two-tone equal-amplitude RF signal is considered in detail, and the results are compared with previously published results.     

双小凹光学成像系统设计

随着科技发展, 如何解决大视场和高分辨率之间的矛盾成为了众多科技人员的研究重心之一, 本文提出了双小凹成像系统的概念, 在传统仿真人眼的单小凹成像系统的基础上, 通过引入反射式液晶空间光调制器对光学系统进行两个视场内波像差的调制, 改善对应的像差, 从而实现了大视场内低分辨率成像的条件下, 在两个特定的视场内满足高分辨率成像, 因此可解决大视场和高分辨率的矛盾.本文通过设计一个参考波长为587 nm, 视场为60° (即± 30°),F数为F/8, 焦距为60 mm的双小凹光学成像系统, 并利用CODE V软件模拟仿真实现了5°和17°双视场高分辨率成像, 其余视场低分辨率成像, 并以32×32的采样分辨率计算了该系统的衍射效率, 验证了设计方法的科学性和准确性.     

可控双空心光束的理论方案及实验研究

提出了一种利用双周期弧向非满额相位调制的方法产生双空心光束的方案. 当准直氦氖激光通过1.5 mm半径透光孔照射到该相位图样时, 在200 mm成像透镜像空间获得长30 mm, 间距57.6μm, 单管束宽度0.11–0.14 mm的双空心光束. 该方案结构简单, 产生的双空心光束具有较好的可控性, 双光管间距由相位调制因子p决定, 能够实现从双空心光束到单空心光束的双向演化. 对所提出的方案进行了实验研究并得到与理论相符的结果. 利用多种组合方式讨论了将该方案拓展到蓝失谐光学囚禁势阱, 可以实现可控的空心双光阱、四光阱与光学晶格等, 有望在冷原子、冷分子囚禁与操控等领域的实验研究中发挥重要作用.     

Patterning of Aluminium thin film on polyethylene terephthalate by multi-beam picosecond laser

High speed patterning of a 30 nm thick Aluminium thin film on a flexible Polyethylene Terephthalate substrate was demonstrated with the aid of Computer Generated Holograms (CGH׳s) applied to a phase only Spatial Light Modulator. Low fluence picosecond laser pulses minimise thermal damage to the sensitive substrate and thus clean, single and multi-beam, front side thin film removal is achieved with good edge quality. Interestingly, rear side ablation shows significant Al film delamination. Measured front and rear side ablation thresholds were F_th=0.20±0.01 J cm⁻² and F_th=0.15±0.01 J cm⁻² respectively. With laser repetition rate of 200 kHz and 8 diffractive spots, a film removal rate of R>0.5 cm² s⁻¹ was demonstrated during patterning with a fixed CGH and 5 W average laser power. The effective laser repetition rate was f_eff~1.3 MHz. The application of 30 stored CGH׳s switching up to 10 Hz was also synchronised with motion control, allowing dynamic large area multi-beam patterning which however, slows micro-fabrication.