光电系统对空间目标探测能力综合评估方法

对空间目标实际探测过程中,光电系统的探测能力不仅与其可探测信噪比有关,还与其所成图像的质量有关,即空间分辨能力有关。针对现有光电系统探测能力分析不足,提出了一种基于调制传递函数下的信噪比探测模型(MSNR),给出了基于MSNR下的系统极限探测能力综合评估方法,实现可定量分析大气、像差、目标运动等对系统探测能力的影响;利用实测数据完成对MSNR模型的完善,对不同条件下光电系统的极限探测能力进行了仿真,仿真结果表明:大气条件、系统像差、目标运动等条件对系统的探测能力影响明显,目标运动导致探测能力降低近1.0等星;该方法实现定量对光电系统的探测能力进行综合评估,可为系统优化设计与实际工作开展提供一定的科学依据。     

折射率调制脉冲射线探测技术原理验证

为验证折射率调制的脉冲射线束探测技术,建立了原理验证系统。该系统基于平行平板干涉原理,测量传感介质的折射率在射线激发下的瞬时变化。传感介质为GaAs,探针光为1310nm单模激光,外界激发射线源平均能量为300keV,脉宽为20ns。使用带宽775kHz的近红外InGaAs光电探测器,观测到了GaAs晶体在脉冲射线激发下的折射率变化。初步理论分析表明,射线脉冲在GaAs中产生的非平衡载流子浓度为1014 cm-3量级,折射率变化为10-6量级。折射率变化的实验结果与理论计算在量级上是符合的。实验结果表明,基于折射率调制的脉冲射线束探测技术基本可行,利用该系统可进一步发展高时间分辨的脉冲射线束探测技术。     

降低OFDM系统峰均比的可恢复限幅技术(英文)

针对正交频分复用系统中峰值平均功率比过高的问题,提出了一种基于限幅技术的改进算法.该算法对限幅后的信号进行标记,并将标记序列发送到接收端,从而使得接收端能够正确的解调出输入信号.此外,本文还将该改进算法应用于光载无线通信系统中.仿真结果表明,与传统限幅算法相比,改进算法能够明显降低系统的误码率,同时保证良好的抑制峰均比的性能.     

螺旋光子筛用于相衬成像的模拟研究

为了提高螺旋波带片用于相衬成像的分辨率和成像对比度,因此本文将螺旋波带片的透光环带替换为透光微孔,以类-贝塞尔函数作为螺旋光子筛透过率的振幅调制窗函数设计了一种螺旋光子筛.在相同的特征尺寸下,螺旋光子筛比螺旋波带片具有更大的数值孔径,因此分辨率更高.同时基于光瞳切趾原理,经过类-贝塞尔振幅调制窗函数对螺旋光子筛透光微孔的分布进行调制,螺旋光子筛的成像对比度将高于螺旋波带片.通过数值计算和仿真分析表明:螺旋光子筛的点扩展函数主瓣宽度相对于螺旋波带片更窄,旁瓣幅值也相对更低.在相衬成像中,螺旋光子筛不仅能够消除螺旋波带片对圆盘状位相物体成像时图像的"浮雕"效应而且能够更为清晰地分辨出位相跳变更为密集的周期矩形条状物体.因此,螺旋光子筛用于相衬成像中将具有更高的成像分辨率和成像对比度,其在医学领域将具有广阔的运用前景.     

Electromagnetically induced grating in a four-level tripod-type atomic system

An electromagnetically induced grating in a four-level tripod-type atomic system is studied theoretically. By virtue of a weak standing-wave signal field, the phase modulation effectively diffracts a weak probe field into the first-order direction. By changing the weak signal field, the diffraction of the weak probe field can be modulated in real time, and a first-order diffraction efficiency of more than 32% can be obtained with proper parameters. Such a system has a potential application in an all-optical switch controlled by a weak optical signal.     

Resource block Filtered-OFDM for future spectrally agile and power efficient systems

Spectrum sharing is a common paradigm in future communication systems and a spectrally agile baseband waveform with minimal out-of-band emissions is a critical component. In this paper, we propose a new multicarrier modulation technique, called resource block Filtered-OFDM (RB-F-OFDM) and present the transceiver design. This waveform can be used over channels with non-contiguous spectrum fragments and exhibits very low adjacent channel interference, which is required for cognitive radio systems with multi channel carrier aggregation capabilities. As such, regulatory based very stringent adjacent channel leakage ratio (ACLR) and adjacent channel selectivity (ACS) requirements can be met. We show that the transceiver complexity may be reduced by utilizing an efficient polyphase implementation that is commonly used in the filter bank multicarrier (FBMC) modulation. In addition, some efficient peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) reduction techniques can be naturally applied. The new design is backwards compatible with legacy OFDM based systems. Simulation results to evaluate the performance, including measured bit error rate (BER) in multipath channels, are provided.     

Receiver structure and estimation of the modulation index for tamed frequency modulated (TFM) signals

Tamed frequency modulation (TFM) is a spectrally efficient constant amplitude continuous phase modulation (CPM) scheme which can be simply realized by using a frequency modulator (FM). In the implementation the modulation index of TFM is calibrated to have a nominal value of 0.5, but due to temperature variations it can drift causing time varying phase jitter. In this paper we present novel algorithms and performance results to measure and control the modulation index in a coherent receiver based on the joint reduced state sequence detector (RSSD) and per-survivor processing (PSP) carrier phase estimation. The modulation index estimator measures phase transitions in the receiver and derives estimates by comparing the result to the coding rule of the TFM signal. The estimator has acquisition and tracking ability, and the current estimate can be used to replace the nominal index value. Our simulation results show that the proposed coherent receiver with the novel modulation index estimator has less than 1 dB performance degradation compared to around 4.5 dB exploiting only the PSP carrier phase estimation.     

Ultrasensitive terahertz/infrared waveguide modulators based on multilayer graphene metamaterials

This paper studies and classifies the electromagnetic regimes of multilayer graphene‐dielectric artificial metamaterials in the terahertz/infrared range. The employment of such composites for waveguide‐integrated modulators is analysed and three examples of novel tunable devices are presented. The first one is a modulator with excellent ON‐state transmission and very high modulation depth: >38 dB at 70 meV graphene's electrochemical potential (Fermi energy) change. The second one is a modulator with extreme sensitivity towards graphene's Fermi energy ‐ a minute 1 meV variation of the latter leads to >13.2 dB modulation depth. The third one is a tunable waveguide‐based passband filter. The narrow‐band cut‐off conditions around the ON‐state allow the latter to shift its central frequency by 1.25% per every meV graphene's Fermi energy change.     

Linear readout of integrated interferometric biosensors using a periodic wavelength modulation

An all‐optical phase modulation method for the linear readout of integrated interferometric biosensors is demonstrated, merging simple intensity detection with the advantages offered by spectral interrogation. The phase modulation is introduced in a simple and cost‐effective way by tuning a few nanometers the emission wavelength of commercial laser diodes, taking advantage of their well‐known drawback of power–wavelength dependence. The method is applied to the case of a bimodal waveguide (BiMW) interferometric biosensor, fabricated with standard silicon technology and operated at visible wavelengths, rendering a detection limit of $4\times {10}^{-7}$ refractive index units for bulk sensing. The biosensing capabilities of the phase‐linearized BiMW device are assessed through the quantitative immunoassay of C‐reactive protein, a key protein in inflammatory processes. This method can be applied to any modal interferometer.