Optical filaments and optical bullets in dispersive nonlinear media

We have investigated the evolution of picosecond and femtosecond optical pulses governed by the amplitude vector equation in the optical and UV domains. We have written this equation in different coordinate frames, namely, in the laboratory frame, the Galilean frame, and the moving-in-time frame and have normalized it for the cases of different and equal transverse and longitudinal sizes of optical pulses or modulated optical waves. For optical pulses with a small transverse size and a large longitudinal size (optical filaments), we obtain the well-known paraxial approximation in all the coordinate frames, while for optical pulses with relatively equal transverse and longitudinal sizes (so-called light bullets), we obtain new non-paraxial nonlinear amplitude equations. In the case of optical fields with low intensity, we have reduced the nonlinear amplitude vector equations governing the light-bullet evolution to the linear amplitude equations. We have solved the linear equations using the method of Fourier transform. An unexpected new result is the relative stability of light bullets and the significant decrease in the diffraction enlargement of light bullets with respect to the case of long pulses in the linear propagation regime.     

Comparisons between sine-Gordon and perturbed nonlinear Schrödinger equations for modeling light bullets beyond critical collapse

The sine-Gordon (SG) equation and perturbed nonlinear Schrödinger (NLS) equations are studied numerically for modeling the propagation of two space dimensional (2D) localized pulses (the so-called light bullets) in nonlinear dispersive optical media. We begin with the (2 + 1) SG equation obtained as an asymptotic reduction in the two level dissipationless Maxwell-Bloch system, followed by the review on the perturbed NLS equation in 2D for SG pulse envelopes, which is globally well posed and has all the relevant higher order terms to regularize the collapse of standard critical (cubic focusing) NLS. The perturbed NLS is approximated by truncating the nonlinearity into finite higher order terms undergoing focusing-defocusing cycles. Efficient semi-implicit sine pseudospectral discretizations for SG and perturbed NLS are proposed with rigorous error estimates. Numerical comparison results between light bullet solutions of SG and perturbed NLS as well as critical NLS are reported, which validate that the solution of the perturbed NLS as well as its finite-term truncations are in qualitative and quantitative agreement with the solution of SG for the light bullets propagation even after the critical collapse of cubic focusing NLS. In contrast, standard critical NLS is in qualitative agreement with SG only before its collapse. As a benefit of such observations, pulse propagations are studied via solving the perturbed NLS truncated by reasonably many nonlinear terms, which is a much cheaper task than solving SG equation directly.     

一种抗光干扰光幕靶的设计与改进

提出一种抗光干扰光幕靶的设计方法。当光幕靶工作于近炮口距离时,炮口火光会影响光幕靶产生误触发信号,从而影响测试系统的准确度。设计利用了光电器件阵列对火光同时反映的特点,设计光电补偿部件及前置放大减法器,将火光引起的变化的光电流信号抵消掉。分析了设计原理,并用实弹射击的方法验证了电路设计的正确性。     

Guided ionization waves: Theory and experiments

This review focuses on one of the fundamental phenomena that occur upon application of sufficiently strong electric fields to gases, namely the formation and propagation of ionization waves–streamers. The dynamics of streamers is controlled by strongly nonlinear coupling, in localized streamer tip regions, between enhanced (due to charge separation) electric field and ionization and transport of charged species in the enhanced field. Streamers appear in nature (as initial stages of sparks and lightning, as huge structures—sprites above thunderclouds), and are also found in numerous technological applications of electrical discharges. Here we discuss the fundamental physics of the guided streamer-like structures—plasma bullets which are produced in cold atmospheric-pressure plasma jets. Plasma bullets are guided ionization waves moving in a thin column of a jet of plasma forming gases (e.g., He or Ar) expanding into ambient air. In contrast to streamers in a free (unbounded) space that propagate in a stochastic manner and often branch, guided ionization waves are repetitive and highly-reproducible and propagate along the same path—the jet axis. This property of guided streamers, in comparison with streamers in a free space, enables many advanced time-resolved experimental studies of ionization waves with nanosecond precision. In particular, experimental studies on manipulation of streamers by external electric fields and streamer interactions are critically examined. This review also introduces the basic theories and recent advances on the experimental and computational studies of guided streamers, in particular related to the propagation dynamics of ionization waves and the various parameters of relevance to plasma streamers. This knowledge is very useful to optimize the efficacy of applications of plasma streamer discharges in various fields ranging from health care and medicine to materials science and nanotechnology.     

Three-dimensional spatiotemporal solitary waves in strongly nonlocal media

We construct a class of three-dimensional strongly nonlocal spatiotemporal solitary waves of the nonlocal nonlinear Schrödinger equation, by using superpositions of single accessible solitons as initial conditions. Evolution of such solitary waves, termed the accessible light bullets, is studied numerically by choosing specific values of topological charges and other solitonic parameters. Our numerical results reveal that in strongly nonlocal nonlinear media with a Gaussian response function, different classes of accessible spatiotemporal solitons can be generated and controlled by tailoring different soliton parameters.     

斜入射弹丸着靶位置立靶测量原理

常规的立靶测量装置要求弹道垂直预定靶面,当弹道不垂直预定靶面时,得到的测量结果是错误的。在终点弹道,有时很难保证靶面垂直飞行弹道。提出了一种由多光幕阵列组成的光幕立靶,可以实现小于70°入射角的弹丸着靶坐标的测量,不要求飞行弹道垂直靶面。在X和Y方向分别采用四个成固定角度的光幕来实现入射角度的测量,一次射击可得到弹丸的速度、速度方向上的空间角和着靶位置坐标。     

空间诱导产生艾里-贝塞尔光弹研究

利用波动方程,研究了脉冲贝塞尔光束在自由空间传输时的空间诱导群速度色散(SIGVD)效应. 结果表明,三阶SIGVD能使脉冲贝塞尔光束的时域逐渐演化为艾里分布. 由于艾里-贝塞尔光弹是一种新奇的时、空都不扩展的局域波包, 能在光与物质相互作用的很多应用领域发挥作用.因此,本文提出了 通过色散管理技术补偿二阶SIGVD,利用三阶SIGVD在自由空间产生艾里-贝塞尔光弹的方案. 为分析这种光弹的时空传输特性,数值模拟了它在色散介质中的传输情况. 结果表明,这种光弹能在色散介质中保持空域不衍射、时域不色散的稳定传输.     

Nonlinear Airy Light Bullets in a 3D Self‐Defocusing Medium

The (3+1)‐dimensional [(3+1)D] nonlinear Schrödinger (NLS) equation is investigated, describing the propagation of nonlinear spatiotemporal wave packets in a self‐defocusing medium, and a new type of Airy spatiotemporal solutions is presented. By using the reductive perturbation method, the (3+1)D NLS equation is reduced to the spherical Kortewegde Vries (SKdV) equation. Based on the Hirota's bilinear method, the bilinear form of the SKdV equation is constructed and Airy light bullet (LB) solutions of different orders are obtained, which depend on the sets of two free constants associated with the amplitude and initial phase. The results show that these Airy LBs can exist in the self‐defocusing medium and their intensities can be controlled by selecting the suitable free parameters along the propagation distance. As examples, three types of low‐order approximate LB solutions are presented and their intensity profiles numerically discussed. The obtained results are helpful in exploring nonlinear phenomena in a self‐defocusing medium and providing a new approach for possible experimental verification of LBs.     

光纤编码武器射击命中精度测试系统

研制一套用于测试武器射击准确度和射击密集度并识别多管齐射武器的管序与弹序的全自动实时测量系统.以光电转换原理为基础,采用光纤编码方法形成能够敏感弹丸空间坐标的无形光幕,同时由光电传感器与多路测试仪结合,测每发弹的管序与弹序.全部数据由计算机采集和处理.这种集光、机、电、计算机多种先进技术为一体的先进测试设备完全可以替代传统的木板等有形靶,实现测试过程的自动化、实时化.