基于氟掺杂双芯光子晶体光纤偏振光分束器的设计及研究

在光子晶体光纤二氧化硅材料中掺入氟元素、在光纤中引入七个椭圆空气孔以及三角形和矩形周期性空气圆孔,设计了一种氟掺杂双芯光子晶体光纤偏振光分束器.对该分束器结构参量进行优化,对分束器分离两正交偏振光的性能进行分析.结果表明:在优化结构尺寸下,当光纤长度为102.717μm的超短长度时,在1.55μm波长处具有超强的分离两束正交偏振光的能力,消光比可以达到126.442dB,具有60nm的有效带宽.此偏振光分束器在大容量光通信系统中具有重要的应用价值.     

偏振分光光学天线前向散射杂光仿真测试与抑制

利用口径150mm、视场±0.17°、接收波长974nm的光学天线望远系统原理样机,搭建了试验装置并进行了实测,测量结果显示光学天线在0.35°附近及1°附近出现了两个原路回波杂光峰值.通过对两个杂光峰值的仿真分析,提出了在主镜内部增加二次斜光阑及临时挡光环的措施,消除望远系统前向散射杂光.通过分析主次镜焦距分配对光学天线望远系统杂光的影响,指出在设计中缩小主镜焦距可降低系统原路回波杂光,这对光学天线消回波杂光设计具有指导意义.     

Vibrational spectroscopic studies of an organic non-linear optical crystal 8-hydroxyquinolinium picrate

8-hydroxyquinolinium picrate (8-HQP) was synthesized by the addition of equimolar quantities of 8-hydroxyquinoline (8-HQ) and picric acid (PA). Single crystals were grown from N,N dimethyl formamide (DMF) by restricted evaporation method at room temperature. The solubility of 8-HQP was determined in different solvents at various temperatures. The structural characterization of the grown crystals was carried out by X-ray diffraction. Vibrational modes were classified on the basis of group theoretical analysis and the spectral bands were compared with those of parent compounds in order to propose a tentative assignment by recording FT-IR, FT-Raman and polarized Raman spectra in different crystal orientations. The crystal possess lower cut-off at 230 nm and good transparency as confirmed by optical transmittance studies.     

Angular and dose dependence of CR-39 neutron response for shape-selected tracks

A shape selection method corresponding to an energy discrimination was used to eliminate unwanted events disturbing evaluation of CR-39 detectors in detecting tracks induced by particles both of perpendicular and oblique incidence. The angular dependence of the response was examined, detecting fast neutrons from ²⁵²Cf with shape selection technique at various angles and distances. Also, the CR-39 track detectors with the ²⁵²Cf source were exposed to high γ-intensity of a ⁶⁰Co irradiation facility in the range 0.1 to 4.5 kGy, similar to the exposures inside spent fuel assemblies. Using the two functions the lower limit of burnup could be determined by the method.     

Monitoring neutrons from spent reactor fuel by bubble detectors

In order to eliminate the strong temperature-dependence of bubble detectors used for spent fuel assay, a simple way could be to keep them in the water pond but far from fuel assemblies before exposure for about 20 min, until the detectors warm up. Fast neutrons from fuel assemblies in the Paks Nuclear Power Plant, Hungary, were detected by BD-100R type detectors at 28°C (in winter) and at 35°C in summer). Calibration was performed by a standard ²⁵²Cf source in borated water. Burnup monitoring inside fuel assemblies can be provided by smaller diameter detectors prepared from BD-100R type ones.     

The renormalon contribution to the current product j μ5 j S

The product of an axialvector and a scalar current and its relation to the chiral-odd distribution function h ₁ is discussed in the framework of the renormalon approach. Using a bag-model calculation for h ₁, we calculate its intrinsic uncertainty due to renormalon poles. The result is given as a function of Bjorken-x as well as for the first moments separately. Received: 9 November 1998 / Revised version: 22 January 1999     

Hadron diffractive processes: the structure of soft pomeron and colour screening

On the basis of the experimental data on diffractive processes in πp, pp and pˉp collisions at intermediate, moderately high and high energies, we restore the scattering amplitude related to the t-channel exchange by vacuum quantum numbers by taking account of the diffractive s-channel rescatterings. At intermediate and moderately high energies, the t-channel exchange amplitude turns, with a good accuracy, into an effective pomeron which renders the results of the additive quark model. At superhigh energies the scattering amplitude provides a Froissart-type behaviour, with an asymptotic universality of cross sections such as σ^tot _πp/σ^tot _pp→ 1 at s→∞. The quark structure of hadrons being taken into account at the level of constituent quarks, the cross sections of pion and proton (antiproton) in the impact parameter space of quarks, σ_π(r _1⊥, r _2⊥; s) and σ_p(r _1⊥, r _2⊥, r _3⊥; s), are found as functions of s. These cross sections implicate the phenomenon of colour screening: they tend to zero at |r _i⊥−r _k⊥|→ 0. The effective colour screening radius for pion (proton) is found for different s. The predictions for the diffractive cross sections at superhigh energies are presented. Received: 15 December 1998     

Polarized neutron scattering studies of the kagomé lattice antiferromagnet

We report polarized neutron scattering studies of spin-wave excitations and spin fluctuations in the lattice antiferromagnet KFe₃(OH)₆(SO₄)₂ (jarosite). Inelastic polarized neutron scattering measurements at 10 K on a single crystal sample reveal two spin gaps, associated with in-plane and out-of-plane excitations. The polarization analysis of quasi-elastic scattering at 67 K shows in-plane spin fluctuations with XY symmetry, consistent with the disappearance of the in-plane gap above the Néel temperature . Our results suggest that jarosite is a promising candidate for studying the 2D XY universality class in magnetic systems.     

In situ SEOP polarised He neutron spin filter for incident beam polarisation and polarisation analysis on neutron scattering instruments

We discuss the development and characterisation of a new in situ spin exchange optical pumping (SEOP) based ³He neutron spin filter polarisation device. We present results from a recent test of the prototype system developed with the Institut Laue-Langevin. The polariser was installed on the polarised reflectometer CRISP at ISIS in the analyser position. The ³He was pumped continuously in situ on the beamline. The system also integrated a ³He adiabatic fast passage spin flipper that allowed reversal of the ³He and therefore neutron polarisation state, allowing for measurement of all four polarisation cross-sections. The system was run for a number of days reaching a ³He polarisation of 63%.     

Spatial modulation of a neutron beam by Larmor precession

We modulated the intensity of a neutron beam using Larmor precession techniques. We simulated triangular coils by using magnetised foils in electromagnets with rectangular pole shoes. Reversing the orientation of two of the magnetised foils in the spin-echo small-angle neutron scattering (SESANS)-instrument in Delft and changing the field settings was sufficient to obtain a modulation with a period in the order of 1 mm. We expect to be able to go to a modulation with a period of .This technique can be used to measure small-angle neutron scattering, analogous to the method used in SESANS, but with the advantage that all the manipulation of the neutron spin occurs before the sample. This means that the technique is insensitive to magnetic perturbations at the sample position. By positioning several of these devices after each other it will be possible to obtain a sharper modulation, or a modulation in two directions.