第四讲 超强激光脉冲与等离子体相互作用中高能离子的产生

近几年来，由于高功率激光技术的不断发展，利用超强激光脉冲与等离子体相互作用产生高能离子束的研究得到了极大推动．实验和理论模拟均发现，在超强激光脉冲与等离子体相互作用过程中，可以产生高亮度、小尺寸、方向性好的高能质子束和高能重离子束．这种基于超强激光的高能离子源在先进离子束成像技术、惯性约束聚变混合“快点火”、新型台面离子加速器以及医疗等方面都有很诱人的应用前景．文章主要介绍了超强激光与固体靶相互作用中高能离子束（尤其是质子束）的加速机制、高能离子束特性、常用测量方法及其潜在应用，并对最新的研究进展进行了简单介绍．     

T1 and T2 effects during radio-frequency pulses in spoiled gradient echo sequences

Finite pulse durations in diverse pulse schemes lead to the reduction of the magnitude of the magnetization vector due to T₁ and T₂ effects during the radio-frequency pulses. This paper presents an analysis of the steady state signal in the presence of relaxation effects during radio-frequency pulses in MRI spoiled gradient echo sequences. It is shown that minor attenuations of the magnetization vector can have dramatic consequences on the measured signal, and may thus entail a loss in SNR benefits at high static magnetic fields if a careful analysis is not performed. It is emphasized that it is the time-integrated magnetization vector trajectory that matters for these effects and not only the pulse duration. Some experimental results obtained on a phantom at 3 T verify this analysis.     

Biselective refocusing pulses and the SERF experiment

The SERF experiment is a variant of the homonuclear J-resolved experiment, in which a single coupling constant is measured. It consists of a single chemical shift selective excitation that is followed by a biselective spin echo. Recent articles mention the existence of artefacts in SERF spectra that are supposedly related to pulse imperfections. This article presents a detailed study of the biselective refocusing pulses. It also reports a method for predicting the position and amplitude of the expected and unexpected 2D spectral peaks in SERF spectra. Artefacts can be partially eliminated by phase cycling or by the introduction of static field gradient pulses in the acquisition sequence. A procedure to obtain of pure absorption peaks in SERF spectra is proposed.     

Evolution of Hyperbolic-Secant Pulses Towards Cross-Phase Modulation Induced Optical Wave Breaking and Soliton or Soliton Trains Generation in Quintic Nonlinear Fibers

The approximate analytical frequency chirps and the critical distances for cross-phase modulation induced optical wave breaking (OWB) of the initial hyperbolic-secant optical pulses propagating in optical fibers with quintic nonlinearity (QN) are presented. The pulse evolutions in terms of the frequency chirps, shapes and spectra are numerically calculated in the normal dispersion regime. The results reveal that, depending on different QN parameters, the traditional OWB or soliton or soliton pulse trains may occur. The approximate analytical critical distances are found to be in good agreement with the numerical ones only for the traditional OWB whereas the approximate analytical frequency chirps accords well with the numerical ones at the initial evolution stages of the pulses.     

高阶效应对超短艾里-高斯脉冲相互作用的影响

本文运用分步傅里叶变换,对满足高阶耦合非线性薛定谔方程的超短艾里脉冲与超短高斯脉冲,利用MATLAB数值模拟了在高阶效应下两脉冲相互作用后的演化过程以及时域上的强度变化.获得了负三阶色散效应使超短脉冲相互作用能传输更远距离;正三阶色散效应会减慢超短脉冲相互作用的传输.自陡峭效应通过孤子分裂现象的形式使超短脉冲相互作用产生时域位移.内拉曼效应可以将超短脉冲相互作用的能量由前沿处转移到后沿处.     

基于超短脉冲的癌细胞荧光光谱

研究用于癌症诊断与治疗的光敏剂血卟啉(hematoporphyrinderivative,HPD)的超快光动力学过程。采用超短脉冲激光光谱技术和皮秒时间相关单光子计数系统,测量经血卟啉培养的活体癌细胞与正常细胞的荧光光谱、荧光寿命特性及荧光峰值强度随时间的变化,观测到:癌细胞样品在645nm处具有特征发射光谱峰;癌细胞与正常细胞样品荧光寿命的快成分分别为150,300ps;癌细胞与正常细胞的荧光峰值强度经12h分别衰减10%和55%。对测量所得的荧光光谱曲线及时间分辨荧光衰减曲线分析,计算出:在癌细胞内部血卟啉浓度增大了约2个数量级;癌细胞与正常细胞的荧光寿命分别为824,1798ps;血卟啉在癌细胞与正常细胞样品中滞留时间分别为17,6d。测量结果确认了荧光光谱技术诊断与治疗癌症的可行性,并对发展超短脉冲激光光谱技术早期诊断与治疗癌症具有重要的指导意义和临床应用价值。     

太赫兹场中里德堡铷原子的相干操控

采用含时多态展开方法研究了太赫兹场中里德堡铷原子布居数迁移的动力学过程,计算了一个太赫兹脉冲序列与三能级里德堡铷原子系统相互作用后的布居数分布,以及多脉冲序列对多量子态里德堡铷原子系统的相干操控,给出了同一主量子数n中不同角量子数l态布居数的含时演化过程.结果表明:通过优化太赫兹脉冲序列参数,铷原子布居数可由初态被抽运到较高的目标态,在太赫兹频率范围实现里德堡原子的操纵与控制.     

Spectral compression of femtosecond pulses via frequency intermodulation

A new technique of spectral compression of femtosecond pulses, based on their frequency intermodulation in the frequency mixing process, is demonstrated experimentally. In the exploited phenomenon of frequency intermodulation the phase of the reference pulse is superimposed on the signal instead of phase self- or cross-modulation used in traditional spectral compressors. In the process of frequency mixing a twelve-fold aberration-free spectral compression of 100 fs pulses has been achieved experimentally.     

Simultaneous soft pulses applied at nearby frequencies

The rotation of a spin subject to an on-resonance soft pulse and simultaneously to a soft pulse at a nearby frequency may strongly deviate from the desired rotation expected for a single on-resonance pulse. The deviation is the result of transient frequency shifts of the spin caused by the off-resonance irradiation. We show that the resulting error can be corrected by shifting the frequency of the on-resonance pulse in such a way that it tracks the shift of the spin frequency. Experimentally, the effectiveness of this simple and intuitive method is demonstrated for simultaneous inversions at nearby frequencies in the case of both coupled and uncoupled spins. Simulations predict that the correction technique is effective for arbitrary pulse shapes and tip angles and is particularly useful when the frequency window of the shaped pulse is two to eight times the frequency separation between the chemical shifts of the two spins.     

SERF-filtered experiments: new enantio-selective tools for deciphering complex spectra of racemic mixtures dissolved in chiral oriented media

The use of chiral liquid crystals as NMR solvent is a powerful tool to visualize and quantify enantiomers. This technique is much more robust than traditional liquid state techniques. Recent developments have been performed to simplify proton spectra obtained in these solvents which are usually complex to analyze. In the different published sequences the enantiomeric differentiation can be visualized but none of them rely the different (1)H-(1)H couplings to have a coherent set for each enantiomer especially in cases of racemic mixtures. In this work to overcome such limitations, we present a new NMR pulse sequence using semi-selective pulses to assign for each enantiomer the different (1)H-(1)H couplings. The aim is to obtain the signal of only one enantiomer, through a first Selective ReFocussing (SERF) filtering block implemented for the enantio-selection followed by a second SERF block for measuring a chosen coupling. The whole sequence is called (1)H SERF-filtered-SERF. These techniques permit for the first time to assign all dipolar couplings to each enantiomer of racemic mixtures dissolved in chiral oriented media. We demonstrate that using this experiment it is possible to visualize enantio-differentiation even in the case where the multiplets are not resolved in the SERF experiments, pushing back the limits of the enantiomeric visualization.