基于单一相位模板的带状光纤上多波长阵列光纤光栅刻写工艺研究

设计了一种带状光纤上阵列光纤光栅刻写系统,仅利用一块相位掩模板,即实现8芯带纤上阵列光纤布拉格光栅的刻写.使用自行设计的带纤夹具夹持带纤,电控位移平台对带纤整体施加拉伸力,采用相位掩模工艺对光纤逐根曝光,并同时以扫描写入的方法进行汉明切趾.刻栅过程由电脑编程控制,中心波长、波长间隔以及切趾方式可以灵活调整.测试结果表明,刻写完成的阵列光纤布拉格光栅3 dB带宽为0.2 nm、波长间隔为0.5 nm、波长偏差小于±50 pm、反射率达到80％～85％.     

顺序扫描阵列配置方法研究

对于超宽带稀疏阵列,均匀无冗余阵列具有低栅瓣水平和高方位向分辨率。阵列配置的目的是设计双程阵列,使其单程等效阵列是均匀无冗余的。文中主要配置顺序扫描阵列,证明了若阵元总数大于4,没有均匀无冗余阵列的配置方法。然后给出了一种非均匀阵列配置方法,分析了其方位向分辨率和栅瓣水平。理论与仿真表明,文中提出的方法比与其阵元总数相同的端发多收阵列的栅瓣低。最后,根据所需要的方位向分辨率和栅瓣水平配置了一种实际顺序扫描阵列。     

一种新型具有温度补偿功能的光纤光栅交流电流互感器

为了消除温度对实现电流测量的影响,提出了一种具有温度补偿 功能的光纤Bragg光栅(FBG)交流电流互感器。利用两个FBG和超磁致伸缩材料(GMM)组成的 传感单元分别放置在两个相邻对称的铁磁回中,并加上两个方向相反的直流偏置磁场,利用 匹配检测方法对两只FBG进行解调,实现交流的测量。测量结果表明,在温度的影响下,系 统的静态工作点几乎未发生变化,在线性区测得最大电流为93.78A , 可获得1.68%的满量程精度。这种FBG电流传感器不仅可以测量交流电 流,也可以实现直流电流的测量。     

Patterning Flexible Substrates Using Surface Relief Structures in Azobenzene Functionalized Polymer Films

A novel method for maskless micro-patterning of polymeric substrates is presented. First, an azobenzene functionalized polymer film is spin-coated on a Poly (ethylene terephthalate) (PET) sheet. Then surface relief structures are optically inscribed on the polymer film by interference of laser beams. The patterned azobenzene functionalized film is then etched in the plasma chamber such that the gratings are transferred to the PET substrate. Finally, any remaining azobenzene functionalized polymer is dissolved away using an appropriate solvent. This method of patterning can be broadly applied to a variety of flexible/polymeric substrates and the resolution is not limited by the substrate thermo-mechanical properties.     

Fabrication of Gold Nano‐Structures with Azopolymer Templates

Fabrication of gold nano‐patterns has been demonstrated employing surface relief structures created on films of an azobenzene‐functionalized polymer as templates. The surface relief templates were photoinscribed on the azopolymer films in one‐step with two laser beams. Thin layers of gold were over‐coated on the polymer templates by thermal evaporation. Gold lines of a few hundred nanometer width were successfully fabricated by pyrolyzing the azobenzene polymer. Sub‐micron gold dots were also created. The resulting gold structures exhibited the same periodicity as the polymer templates.     

Controllable alignment of liquid crystals based on the surface relief gratings from a photocross-linkable organic monomer

The orientational control of liquid crystal (LC) molecules is essential for high-quality liquid crystal displays, and the photo-induced surface relief grating (SRG) is a facile and effective non-contact process. Here, SRGs with different period and depth were prepared with a photocross-linkable organic monomer 4-propyldiphenylacetylenecarboxylic acid cinnamyl ester (PDACE), and the LC alignment induced by SRG was studied. It is found that both the surface topography and the chemical nature of the surface are responsible for the LC alignment, which is strongly dependent on the groove geometry of the gratings. Furthermore, the patterned LC cell was fabricated with the patterned SRG surface. These results demonstrate that the planar, perpendicular and patterned orientations of LC can be easily photo-controllably obtained with PDACE, which have important applications in optical devices.     

Electro-disclinic effect in tilted smectic phases of banana-shaped liquid crystal materials

We give the first evidence that the director tilt angle can be reduced by electric fields in the tilted smectic phase of banana-shaped molecules. In these phases the value of polarization is determined by the molecular packing and no electro-clinic effect is expected. Our studies show that high electric fields eventually induce a meta-stable phase with zero director tilt. The tilted phase slowly recovers at low fields. We propose that the field-induced quenching of the layer fluctuations is responsible for the observed effects.     

Multiple plasmonic effect on photocurrent generation of metal‐loaded titanium dioxide composite/dye films on gold grating surface

We demonstrate the multiple plasmonic effect on the photocurrent properties of photoanodes containing Ag or Au nanoparticles (NPs) loaded onto titanium dioxide film (Ag–TiO₂ or Au–TiO₂) on Au grating surfaces. Ag–TiO₂ or Au–TiO₂ nanocomposite particles are prepared by a flame spray pyrolysis route. The structures and morphologies of the prepared products are characterized by high‐resolution transmission electron microscopy. The Ag–TiO₂ or Au–TiO₂ composite NPs are deposited by spin coating onto the Au grating surfaces. The photoanode electrode is a layered structure of blu‐ray disc‐recordable grating substrate/Au/Ag (or Au)–TiO₂/dye/electrolyte/indium‐tin oxide. The plasmonic effect is induced when Ag or Au NPs are located within the propagating surface plasmon (SP) field on the Au grating surface. The short‐circuit photocurrent is increased by exciting the grating‐coupled propagating SP on the Au gratings and is further enhanced by positioning the Ag or Au NPs within the grating‐coupled SP field. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Monolithically integrated 64‐channel silicon hybrid demultiplexer enabling simultaneous wavelength‐ and mode‐division‐multiplexing

A compact 64‐channel hybrid demultiplexer based on silicon‐on‐insulator nanowires is proposed and demonstrated experimentally to enable wavelength‐division‐multiplexing and mode‐division‐multiplexing simultaneously in order to realize an ultra‐large capacity on‐chip optical‐interconnect link. The present hybrid demultiplexer consists of a 4‐channel mode multiplexer constructed with cascaded asymmetrical directional‐couplers and two bi‐directional 17 × 17 arrayed‐waveguide gratings (AWGs) with 16 channels. Here each bi‐directional AWG is equivalent as two identical 1 × 16 AWGs. The measured excess loss and the crosstalk for the monolithically integrated 64‐channel hybrid demultiplexer are about ‐5 dB and ‐14 dB, respectively. Better performance can be achieved by minimizing the imperfections (particularly in AWGs) during the fabrication processes.