衍射光栅光谱级数与实验误差的关系研究

从理论上证明了光栅衍射的光谱级数与实验绝对误差的关系,得到二级衍射谱线的精度高于一级衍射谱线的精度,从而能降低实验误差。依据实验数据,计算得到衍射光谱级数不同时的波长,实验结果与理论结论是相吻合的。     

FBG测温系统的光谱校正算法的研究

为了解决在大范围、多点位温度实时监测过程中温度传感器铺设工程复杂、维护成本高等问题,研究开发了基于光纤布拉格光栅结构的温度监测系统。利用光纤光栅衍射对波长的选择性,建立了温度与波长的函数关系,通过计算波长变化量反演被测位置的温度信息。由于环境、材料等因素,光谱分布与温度变化并不满足线性变化,所以设计了光谱校正算法完成波长与温度函数的曲线拟合,曲线拟合度大于99.7%。实验采用FB136L-IAC型防爆干燥箱、LPT-200型二极管,1 550 nm光纤等对20～280 ℃范围内温度进行多点位实时检测,实验结果显示,当防爆干燥箱中的温度每改变1 ℃时,对应的中心波长向长波方向偏移大约0.04 nm,与标准温度测试数据进行对比,误差低于±0.3 ℃。由于系统采用光纤传感网络,所以具有很强的抗电磁干扰能力,而光纤光栅衍射可实现精密测量,动态响应范围大、精度高。系统的新颖之处在保证高精度测量的同时,仍满足大范围、多点位、高抗干扰能力的快速铺设,具有很强的实际应用价值。     

Surface plasmon scattering on polymer-bimetal layer covered fused silica gratings generated by laser induced backside wet etching

Large amplitude fused silica gratings are prepared by combining the UV laser induced backside wet etching technique (LIBWE) and the two-beam interference method. The periodic patterning of fused silica surfaces is realized by s-polarized fourth harmonic beams of a Nd:YAG laser, applying saturated solution of naphthalene in methyl-methacrylate as liquid absorber. Atomic force microscopy is utilized to analyze how the modulation amplitude of the grating can be controlled by the fluence and number of laser pulses. Three types of plasmonic structures are prepared by a bottom-up method, post-evaporating the fused silica gratings by gold-silver bimetal layers, spin-coating the metal structures by thin polycarbonate films, and irradiating the multilayers by UV laser. The effect of the bimetal and polymer-coated bimetal gratings on the surface plasmon resonance is investigated in a modified Kretschmann arrangement allowing polar and azimuthal angle scans. It is demonstrated experimentally that scattering on rotated gratings results in additional minima on the resonance curves of plasmons excited by second harmonic beam of a continuous Nd:YAG laser. The azimuthal angle dependence proves that these additional minima originate from back-scattering. The analogous reflectivity minima were obtained by scattering matrix method calculations realized taking modulation depths measured on bimetal gratings into account.     

亚波长介质光栅的制作误差分析

利用严格耦合波理论（RCWA）分析了方向误差和面形误差对亚波长光栅衍射效率的影响. 通过分析发现,方向误差和图案边缘钝化对光栅的衍射效率影响不大,而刻蚀过程中由于侧壁倾斜而产生的面形误差对光栅的衍射效率影响非常大.在制作亚波长光栅时,可以通过选取合理的刻蚀系统或增大占空比的方法来避免基底型误差的出现.该结论对于制作亚波长光栅具有重要的指导作用.同时根据得出的结论,选用专门用于硅深刻蚀的等离子体辅助刻蚀系统制作出了红外30 μm亚波长抗反射光栅,检测结果显示,光栅沟槽侧壁陡峭且透过率和设计值吻合得比较好.     

一种同时测量电流和温度的光纤光栅传感器

提出了一种基于光纤光栅法布里-珀罗干涉仪且可以同时测量交变电流和温度的传感器,并对其进行了理论分析和实验研究.该传感器采用单频激光入射,作为反射镜的一对光纤布喇格光栅自由放置,其间的法布里-珀罗腔粘贴在磁致伸缩材料上,通电导线周围的磁场通过磁致伸缩材料作用于光纤光栅法布里-珀罗腔,引起腔长周期性变化.同时,由于热膨胀和热光效应,环境温度的变化会引起光纤长度和折射率的改变,从而改变光纤光栅法布里-珀罗腔的反射光谱特性.通过检测输出光信号的频率和峰值可实现电流和温度的同时测量.对通电线圈的电流及环境温度进行测量的实验结果与理论分析相吻合.     

超短脉冲激光照射下光栅Talbot效应的实验研究

理论上研究了超短脉冲激光照射下光栅的Talbot效应,得到了超短脉冲激光照射下光栅Talbot图像的性质.实验上采用严格的实验方法(频率分辨光学开关装置测量超短脉冲激光、反射式扩束系统对超短脉冲进行扩束)很好地验证了理论分析结果.理论分析和实验结果表明,超短脉冲激光照射下光栅的Talbot图像的对比度会显著下降,而且超短脉冲激光的脉宽越短,Talbot距离越大,Talbot图像的对比度会进一步下降.     

现代高分辨拉曼光谱仪的配置及应用研究

拉曼光谱分辨率是关系到从光谱中提取出样品结构信息的关键参数,高分辨拉曼光谱能够提供更多、更精细的样品有关信息。在此全面分析了现代高分辨拉曼光谱仪中决定光谱分辨率的各参数,辨析了易于混淆的分辨率和色散度概念。用理论分析和实验结果说明光栅密度与光谱分辨率的关系以及采用高密度光栅增进光谱分辨率所受到的限制、如何利用长焦长光栅增进光谱分辨率而不损害仪器通光效率、入射狭缝宽度对光谱分辨率及灵敏度的影响,在此基础上如何求得一个合理的平衡选择;并且用不同配置的现代新型拉曼光谱仪实验研究了多层硅结构中的应力分布和单壁碳纳米管管径分布,实验结果清晰地佐证了以上分析,并充分说明了拉曼光谱测量中选择分辨率的重要性。     

On metallic gratings coated conformally with isotropic negative-phase-velocity materials

Application of the differential method (also called the C method) to plane-wave diffraction by a perfectly conducting, sinusoidally corrugated metallic grating coated with a linear, homogeneous, isotropic, lossless dielectric-magnetic material shows that coating materials with negative index of refraction may deliver enhanced maximum nonspecular reflection efficiencies in comparison to coating materials with positive index of refraction.     

Synthesis of long-period fiber gratings with a Lagrange multiplier optimization method

Based on the Lagrange multiplier optimization (LMO) method, a new synthesis approach for designing complex long-period fiber grating (LPG) filters is developed and demonstrated. The proposed synthesis method is a simple and direct approach. It was used to efficiently search for optimal solutions and constrain various parameters of the designed LPG filters according to practical requirements. The inverse scattering algorithm is a good tool for designing FBG filters; as well as for designing transmission-type fiber grating filters like LPGs. Compared to the results of the discrete layer-peeling (DLP) inverse scattering algorithm for LPGs, the synthesized LPGs, using the LMO approach, are more flexible and workable for the constraint conditions can be easily set in the user-defined cost functional, such as the limitation on the maximum value of the refractive index modulation and the parameters of the initial guess in LMO algorithm. Linear transmission LPG filters and EDFA gain flattening filters are synthesized and analyzed systematically by using the proposed method with different parameters. Moreover, as a variation-based method, we find that the convergence and the synthesized results of the LMO method are strongly dependent on the initial guess parameters.     

Talbot effect of a high-density grating under femtosecond laser illumination

The Talbot effect of a high-density grating under femtosecond laser illumination is analyzed with rigorous electromagnetic theory which is based on the Fourier decomposition and the rigorous coupled-wave analysis (RCWA). Numerical simulations show that the contrast of the Talbot images steadily decreases as the transmitted femtosecond laser pulses propagate forward and with wider spectrum width of the femtosecond laser pulses. The Talbot images of high-density gratings have much higher sensitivity of the spectrum widths of the incident laser pulses than those of the traditional low-density gratings. In experiments, the spectrums and the pulse widths of the incident pulses are measured with a frequency-resolved optical grating (FROG) apparatus. The Talbot images are detected by using a Talbot scanning near-field optical microscopy (Talbot-SNOM) technique, which are in coincidence with the numerical simulations. This effect should be useful for developing new femtosecond laser techniques and devices.