Spectral analysis of a laser beam

The formulas of the dependence of the spectral laser power distribution and its spectral half-width on the physical parameters of its laser active medium are derived. In addition it is found that, if the gain line profile has a Lorentzian or Gaussian distribution, the spectral laser power distribution is of a Lorentzian profile. The spectral halfwidth of the laser beam in both cases are slightly different form each other. For a general gain line profile, the spectral laser power distribution behaves as a differential form like that of the gain line profile.The spectral halfwidth of He/Ne laser beam having powers (0·5 mW, 1·0 mW, 3·0 mW and 50 mW) and that of their longitudinal modes, the laser gain factor and the difference between the population atomic densities of the upper and lower energy levels for the laser line transition are experimentally determined.     

Effect of surface roughness on the aerodynamics of a high-speed train subjected to crosswinds

Acta Mechanica Sinica - The irregularities on trains bodies are normally ignored or greatly simplified in studies concerned with aerodynamics. However, surface roughness is known to affect the flow...     

Recent advances in miniaturization of portable liquid chromatography with emphasis on detection

Liquid chromatography is a prominent analytical technique in separation science and chemical analysis, applied across numerous fields of research and within industrial applications. Over the past few decades, there has been a growing interest in the miniaturization of this technique, which has been particularly enabled through new miniature and portable detection technologies for in-field, at-site, and point-of-need (collectively ‘out-of-lab’) analyses. Accordingly, significant advances have been made in recent years in the development of miniaturized liquid chromatography with photometric, electrochemical, and mass spectrometric detection, enabling the development of field-deployable and portable instruments for various applications. Herein, recent developments in the miniaturization of detection systems for inclusion within, and/or coupling with, portable liquid chromatographic systems, are reviewed in detail together with critical comments and expected future trends in this area.     

New technique to avoid “noise terms” on the solutions of inhomogeneous differential equations by using Adomian decomposition method

In this paper we present a new technique to get the solutions of inhomogeneous differential equations using Adomian decomposition method (ADM) without noise terms. We construct an appropriate differential equations for the inhomogeneity function which must be contains the integral variable, and convert all of these differential equations (original differential equation and the constructed differential equations) to augmented system of first-order differential equations. The ADM is using to solve the augmented system and the initial conditions are taken as initial approximations. Generally, the closed form of the exact solution or its expansion is obtained without any noise terms. Several differential equations will be tested to confirm the newly developed technique.     

Simulating tornado-like flows: the effect of the simulator’s geometry

Meccanica - Within the wind engineering community, a series of physical simulators of differing geometries have been used to investigate the flow-field of tornado-like vortices. This paper examines...     

Heating effects induced by a pulsed laser in a semi-infinite target in view of the theory of linear systems

The two-dimensional Laplace integral transform technique is used to solve the problem of heating a semi-infinite target induced by the surface absorption of a laser pulse. Mathematical expressions for the surface temperature and the temperature profile within the target are obtained considering cooling and temperature-dependent absorption coefficient at the front surface. The linear behaviour of the system is found to be established for all cases except for that of temperature dependent surface absorptance. As an illustrative example, computations are carried out on Al, Cu, Ag and Au targets using an empirical formula for the temporal distribution of a measured laser pulse.