Optical crosstalk influence in fiber imaging endoscopes design

Medical endoscopy constitutes a basic and powerful medical tool for the development of minimally invasive procedures for a wide range of medical applications. Fiber endoscopes show a high flexibility, but are severely limited by optical crosstalk. Although they have been manufactured for decades, some of their quality limiting factors have not been exhaustively studied yet, and no design curves have been published so far. In this work, we apply a theoretical model for the study of coupling between multimode optical waveguides to the analysis of crosstalk influence in fiber imaging endoscopes. The fundamental equations and novel design curves will be obtained, enabling the adjustment of the fiber endoscope parameters in order to fulfill the quality requirements for a certain application.     

ICP-MS的KED模式测定磷酸加王水复溶土壤样品中的二十种金属元素

在研究锗测定时,磷酸先溶解样品,后加入王水复溶,可同时测定锂、铍、钪、钒、铬、钴、镍、铜、锌、锗、钼、镉、钡、镧、铈、钨、铊、铅、钍和铀元素。研究ICP-MS的最佳测量模式、最佳工作状态,以铑为内标校正仪器的漂移。通过选择高、中、低几个国家一级水系沉积物和土壤标准物质随同样品一起实验溶解建立标准曲线,消除消解、分取、定容中带来的不确定误差和基体干扰,选择8个土壤标准物质为实验样本。最终结果表明,该实验方法准确度(ΔlgC)小于0.1,精密度(RSD)小于8%,该方法满足测定要求,适用于地质普通样品的多金属检测。#$NL     

Determination of the helium-4 mass in a Penning trap

The determination of the rotational quadrupole alignment of diatomic molecules via REMPI detection is investigated. In this process a high focal intensity usually increases the detection probability. At high intensities the AC Stark effect may cause a splitting of the normally degenerate m_J sublevels of a rotational state J beyond the spectral width of the exciting radiation. This leads to a selective detection of only certain m_J states with the consequence that deduced alignment factors can be misleading. From the theoretical considerations line profiles are explicitly calculated for dynamic polarizabilities which represent the B ¹Σ⁺ _u←X ¹Σ⁺ _g transition of H₂, in order to fit an experimental (3+1) REMPI spectrum and to predict (1+1') line shapes as a function of laser intensity. It is further shown that the deduced quadrupole alignment factor A ₀ ⁽²⁾ is significantly changed by the second order AC Stark effect when the intensities are chosen high enough to observe asymmetric broadened line profiles. Different combinations of relative linear polarizations of the exciting and ionizing laser beams are discussed. Received 1st August 2000 and Received in final form 2 May 2001     

Atom diffraction from magnetic gratings in the thin phase-grating approximation

The problem of atom diffraction from a reflecting magnetic diffraction grating is solved in the thin phase-grating approximation. The general problem for scalar diffraction is modelled using a semi-classical method in which the grating potential is separated into a reflecting term and a diffracting term. The trajectory of the atom in the reflecting potential is solved classically and the atom wave function in the diffracting potential found by integrating the phase change along the classical trajectory. The diffraction orders are obtained after Fourier transforming the result. This can be done independently of the grating potential resulting in a general formula for the diffraction efficiencies. The general result is applied to the problem of atom diffraction from a magnetic grating. Several approximations are required to reduce the problem to a form amenable to analytic solution. The results are compared with an accurate numerical method. Received 1st February 2001 and Received in final form 8 March 2001     

UV-laser ablation of sensory cells in living insects

Locusta migratoria L. ). The handling of living insects, the survival, and physiological response after treatment are described. We selectively interrupted the d-receptor of the tympanal organ, which is the receptor system responsible for the locust’s sensitivity in the high-frequency range (>10 kHz). The effects of the laser treatment were tested by determining hearing thresholds in electrophysiological recordings from the tympanal nerves. In agreement with the literature, the interruption of the d-receptors led to a significant shift towards higher values of the thresholds in the high-frequency range. Future perspectives and biological applications of UV-laser ablation are discussed. Received: 10 Dezember 1998 / Accepted: 15 December 1998 / Published online: 24 February 1999     

Photoacoustic cavitation in spherical and cylindrical absorbers

Photomechanical damage in absorbing regions or particles surrounded by a non-absorbing medium is investigated experimentally and theoretically. The damage mechanism is based on the generation of thermoelastic pressure by absorption of pulsed laser radiation under conditions of stress confinement. Principles of photoacoustic sound generation predict that the acoustic wave generated in a finite-size absorbing region must contain both compressive and tensile stresses. Time-resolved imaging experiments were performed to examine whether the tensile stress causes cavitation in absorbers of spherical or cylindrical shape. The samples were absorbing water droplets and gelatin cylinders suspended in oil. They were irradiated with 6-ns-long pulses from an optical parametric oscillator. Photoacoustic cavitation was observed near the center of the absorbers, even if the estimated temperature caused by absorption of the laser pulse did not exceed the boiling point. The experimental findings are supported by theoretical simulations that reveal strong tensile stress in the interior of the absorbers, near the center of symmetry. Tensile stress amplitudes depend on the shape of the absorber, the laser pulse duration, and the ratio of absorber size to optical absorption length. The photoacoustic damage mechanism has implications for the interaction of ns and sub-nslaser pulses with pigmented structures in biological tissue. Received: 9 October 1998 / Accepted: 5 January 1999 / Published online: 31 March 1999     

Reflection of a slow cesium atomic beam from a naturally magnetized Nd-Fe-B surface

We have demonstrated the partly directed reflection of a slow cesium atomic beam by using the natural magnetic stray field above a Nd-Fe-B surface. From these experiments we determine the reflectivity and a minimum value for the magnetic stray field directly at the surface. Received: 5 July 1999 / Revised version: 6 October 1999 / Published online: 3 November 1999