干涉成像光谱仪中宽谱段傅氏光学系统设计

设计了一种宽谱段前置光孔远心光学系统,其孔径光阑位于透镜组的焦面上,该设计集宽谱段自动复消色差、长工作距、前置光孔及远心等特点于一体. 讨论了这样一种特殊光组的设计. 选用国产牌号的光学玻璃配对,价格低廉且在校正色差后,自动校正宽谱段二级光谱,并实现了透镜组两侧同时具有长工作距. 设计结果表明,光学系统的残余二级光谱很容易控制在千分之一焦距以内,波面平行差小于0.000 22弧度.     

嫦娥一号卫星干涉成像光谱仪电子学设计

介绍了嫦娥一号卫星用于获取矿物光谱信息的干涉成像光谱仪电子学系统设计.概述了电子学系统的技术指标、系统组成、工作模式、外部接口和设计原则,详细描述了焦平面组件设计、视频处理和时序控制组件设计和EMC设计,给出部分正样产品实物照片以及地面实验和在轨飞行图像.各项地面试验和一年的在轨飞行结果表明该设计达到了预定的技术要求.     

干涉型复合腔激光束相干合成中分束器的相移特性研究

分析了采用分束器构建干涉型复合腔进行激光束相干合成的过程与原理.利用分束器的特征矩阵研究了分束时产生的反射与透射相移,得到了两束相干光经过分束器分束后进行相干叠加时相移满足的普适关系,从相移的角度解释了分束器一侧发生相长干涉时另一侧必然发生相消干涉这一现象.比较了分束器与光纤耦合器在激光束相干合成应用中的一些特性,并验证了所得相移关系式的正确性.     

Spot focus size effect in spectroscopic ellipsometry of thin films

A focused as opposed to collimated light beam is typically used as probe in order to achieve a smaller as well as more intense light interrogation area in spectroscopic ellipsometry of thin films. In this work, we performed geometric ray analysis at the illumination and recording ends of such a system. The numerical results revealed substantial changes in (i) average optical path length and (ii) optical path length differences, which varied according to wavelength despite the film thickness remaining uniform. These results were able to consistently explain the anomalies found when different focus probe beam sizes were used in experimental spectroscopic ellipsometry measurements.     

Dispersion compensation properties of grating-based temporal-correlation Optical Coherence Tomography systems

This article explores specific dispersion compensation properties of an OCT set-up based on temporal correlation performed by using a diffraction grating. The linear dispersion term introduced by a glass plate with a thickness of up to 9 mm has been experimentally compensated optically through the position adjustment of the output imaging lens and for a light bandwidth of 100 nm. The dispersion compensation principle is described theoretically and results obtained experimentally are compared successfully with simulated ones. System limitations are discussed, especially regarding compensation of second orders of dispersion. Perspectives are given to achieve such a dispersion compensation.     

Coherent combination of two ytterbium fiber amplifier based on an active segmented mirror

To control the phase noise of two ytterbium fiber amplifiers, a coherent combination system based on an active segmented mirror (ASM) has been established in our laboratory. The ASM is controlled by a feed back control loop on the basis of a Peak Rate (PR) algorithm which is realized on a DSP + FPGA hardware control board. Experimental results indicate that when the control loop is off, the far-field interference pattern is blurred and dynamic, while when it is on, the far-field beams interference pattern achieves clear and stable. At two different output powers, the contrasts of the interference stripes are improved from 7% to 19% and 8% to 28% respectively.     

Obtaining high refractive index with vanishing absorption via spontaneously generated coherence and incoherent pumping

A three-level ∧-model atomic system with incoherent pumping is proposed to achieve high refractive index without absorption. In this kind of model, two lower levels are near-degenerate levels. It is found that high refractive index accompanied by vanishing absorption can be always accomplished by adjusting some related parameters. Although probe field is very weak, the SGC effect is prominent in the presence of incoherent pumping.     

Broadband near-infrared fibers dispersion measurement using white-light spectral interferometry

A new technique for an experimental determination of the effective refractive index, group refractive index and dispersion of fibers in a broad near-infrared spectral range is presented. The method is based on a white-light spectral interference which utilizes an unbalanced Michelson interferometer. The effective refractive index is obtained by a direct fitting the cosine function to the spectral interference pattern recorded by a low resolution spectrometer. The method has been tested in the spectral range of 1000-1700 nm both with standard telecommunication fibers and a sample of a photonic fiber. The accuracy of dispersion measurement () exceeds those from the previously reported near-infrared white-light spectral interference methods.     

Coherent laser-induced optical behaviors in three-coupled-quantum wells and their application to terahertz signal detection

We investigate quantum optical behaviors of a weak-probe laser field in an asymmetric semiconductor three-coupled-quantum wells (TCQW) structure based on intersubband transitions (ISBTs) via switch-on/off of terahertz (TH) signal radiation under the application of a control laser field. A scheme for TH signal detection and its strength measurement based on this probe absorption characteristic also are put forward, where TH signal field does not interact directly with electron, but significantly affects the coherent optical absorption properties of such a weak-probe laser field. Consequently, the proposed TCQW nanostructure may be used for reducing and cancelling out the important thermionic dark current component in the process of TH signal detection, measurement and photodetector design.     

Phase-shifting interferometry with four interferograms using linear polarization modulation and a Ronchi grating displaced by only a small unknown amount

A method to reduce the number of captures needed in phase-shifting interferometry is proposed on the basis of grating interferometry and modulation of linear polarization. The case of four interferograms is considered. A common-path interferometer is used with two windows in the object plane and a Ronchi grating as the pupil, thus forming several replicated images of each window over the image plane. The replicated images, under proper matching conditions, superpose in such a way so that they produce interference patterns. Orders 0 and +1 and −1 and 0 form useful patterns to extract the optical phase differences associated to the windows. A phase of π is introduced between these orders using linear polarizing filters placed in the windows and also in the replicated windows, so two π-shifted patterns can be captured in one shot. An unknown translation is then applied to the grating in order to produce another shift in the each pattern. A second and final shot captures these last patterns. The actual grating displacement and the phase shift can be determined according to the method proposed by Kreis before applying proper phase-shifting techniques to finally calculate the phase difference distribution between windows. Related simulations and experimental results are given.