Chaotic RF pulses generated by a periodically driven oscillator

The effect of a periodic drive signal on a chaotic rf oscillator is considered. The possibility to obtain chaotic pulse trains (rf pulses) of a preset duration is experimentally demonstrated.     

Stochastic resonance in a bistable system driven by a chaotic signal

The behavior of a bistable oscillator under the action of a chaotic signal from a Rössler oscillator with a spiral attractor is considered. The influence of the width of the main spectral line of the chaotic drive signal on the signal to noise ratio at the response system’s output has been studied.     

双稳系统处理微弱冲击信号的研究

双稳系统是研究随机共振的基础。在机械故障诊断中,应用双稳系统的随机共振可以提取淹没在强噪声中的故障信号。首先研究了脉冲信号通过双稳系统的响应,提出了设定迭代初值的脉冲信号检测方法。然后通过分析滚动轴承故障,验证了用双稳系统的随机共振处理含冲击故障信号的实用性。     

Gas-discharge gap passage by injected high-energy electrons driven by a high-voltage pulse

The motion of high-energy electrons in a gas-discharge gap filled by nitrogen at atmospheric pressure has been simulated. Electrons were driven by a subnanosecond high-voltage pulse with an amplitude of 150 kV. It is established that the injected electrons can reach the anode only for a very high initial energy, which cannot be provided by means of explosive emission. Therefore, under usual experimental conditions, electron emission from the cathode cannot account for the main fraction of electrons generated in a gas-filled diode at atmospheric pressure.     

Stable supercontinuum pulse generated by modulation instability in a dispersion-managed fiber

We study on non-linear localized waves on continuous wave background in a dispersion and non-linearity management fibre. We find a stable supercontinuum pulse can be generated from a small modulation on continuous wave in a proper management way, for which the pulse spectrum width and its growth rate can be controlled well by the management parameters. Additionally, we demonstrate a Kuznetsov–Ma breather like non-linear localized wave can exist in a periodic dispersion management fibre, and its spectrum evolution is distinctive from the Kuznetsov–Ma breather’s.     

行波热声发动机驱动的脉管制冷机研究

通过改变热声发动机谐振直路长度,研究系统在不同工作频率下的性能.研究发现,在一定条件下降低频率可以显著改善脉管制冷机的性能.在工作压力为2.7 MPa,加热功率为2 350W,工作频率为45 Hz时,双向进气型单级脉管制冷机获得了80.9 K的最低制冷温度,这是目前用热声制冷方法获得的最低制冷温度.     

Estimation of photon dose generated by a short pulse high power laser

The authors obtain a new equation to estimate the forward component of a photon dose generated through the interaction between a target and a short pulse high power laser. As the equation is quite simple, it is useful for calculating the photon dose. The equation shows that the photon dose is proportional to the electron temperature in the range>3 MeV and proportional to the square of the electron temperature in the range<3 MeV. The dose estimated with this method is roughly consistent with the result of Monte Carlo simulation. With some assumptions and corrections, it can reproduce experimental results obtained and the dose result calculated at other laboratories.     

线性压缩机驱动的80K单级脉管制冷机设计与实验研究

结合美国标准与技术研究院(NIST)的回热器计算软件REGEN3.2,成功设计了1台单级斯特林型脉管制冷机.采用惯性管调相,在2.5MPa充气压力和60Hz频率下,获得无负荷制冷温度59K.在压缩机输入电功率为250W时,80K获得了3.8W的制冷量,与设计计算结果吻合得较好.     

Nonlinear dynamics of a plasma torch generated by a laser pulse of large width

Experimental data on the nonlinear dynamics of a plasma torch generated by a laser pulse of large width acting upon a graphite target are presented and discussed. The mushroom shape of the luminous region and the duration of emission observed in experiment are explained by the development of the Richtmyer-Meshkov instability at the carbon plasma-air interface and by the formation of nanoparticles in the plasma expanding into the buffer gas.     

高速列车交会压力波特性分析

因动车组在高速交会时产生的瞬变交会压力波对车体侧壁变形、列车运行噪声及运行安全性都有不可忽视的影响,该文利用高速列车的实际测试数据,从3方面对高速列车在明线交汇和隧道交汇情况下的压力波进行深入分析:交会压力波的时-频特性,主要参数值及其与车速的关系,交会压力波对车体侧壁振动的激励作用。特别对压力波所产生的冲击响应谱进行深入分析,得到不同阻尼比下的频率响应。该文分析结果为进一步研究瞬变交会压力波对车体侧壁变形的影响、对列车运行噪声的贡献等提供新的参考依据。     

Properties of GaAs films deposited by pulse periodic technique

GaAs is a III-V compound possessing high mobility and a direct band gap of 1.43 eV , making it a very suitable candidate for photovoltaic applications. Thin GaAs films were prepared at room temperature by plating an aqueous solution containing GaCl₃ and As₂O₃ at a pH of 2. The current density was kept as 50 mA cm⁻² and the duty cycle was varied in the range 10–50%. The films were deposited on titanium and tin oxide coated glass substrates. Films exhibited polycrystalline nature with peaks corresponding to single phase GaAs. Optical absorption measurements indicated a direct band gap of 1.40 eV. The surface roughness of the films varied from 3 nm to 6 nm as the duty cycle increased. Raman spectra indicated both the LO and TO phonons for the films deposited at duty cycles above 25%. Photoelectrochemical studies indicated that the current and voltage output are higher than earlier reports on thin film electrodes.     

Collocation-based harmonic balance framework for highly accurate periodic solution of nonlinear dynamical system

Periodic dynamical systems ubiquitously exist in science and engineering. The harmonic balance (HB) method and its variants have been the most widely-used approaches for such systems, but are either confined to low-order approximations or impaired by aliasing and improper-sampling problems. Here we propose a collocation-based harmonic balance framework to successfully unify and reconstruct the HB-like methods. Under this framework a new conditional identity, which exactly bridges the gap between frequency-domain and time-domain harmonic analyses, is discovered by introducing a novel aliasing matrix. Upon enforcing the aliasing matrix to vanish, we propose a powerful reconstruction harmonic balance (RHB) method that obtains extremely high-order (>100) nonaliasing solutions, previously deemed out-of-reach, for a range of complex nonlinear systems including the cavitation bubble dynamics, the three-body problem and the two dimensional airfoil dynamics. We show that the present method is 2–3 orders of magnitude more accurate and simultaneously much faster than the state-of-the-art method. Hence, it has immediate applications in multidisciplinary problems where highly accurate periodic solutions are sought.     

Tuning effective dynamical properties of periodic media by FFT-accelerated topological optimization

This works concerns the propagation of waves in periodic media, whose microstructure is optimized to obtain specific dynamical properties (typically, to maximize the dispersion in given directions). The present study, focusing on scalar waves in two dimensions, for example, antiplane shear waves, aims at setting a generic optimization framework. The proposed optimization procedure relies on a number of mathematical and numerical tools. First, the two-scale asymptotic homogenization method is deployed up to second-order to provide an effective dispersive model. Simple dispersion indicators and cost functionals are then considered on the basis of this model. Then, the minimization of these functionals is performed thanks to an algorithm that relies on the concept of topological derivative to iteratively perform phase changes in the unit cell characterizing the material. Finally, fast Fourier transform-accelerated solvers are extensively used to solve the cell problems underlying the homogenized model. To illustrate the proposed approach, the resulting procedure is applied to the design of anisotropic media with maximal dispersion in specific directions, and to the reconstruction of unknown microstructures from effective phase velocity data.     

Dispersion of Cherenkov radio pulse generated by a cascade shower on the Moon surface

Phenomena accompanying the propagation of a short bipolar radio pulse with duration of ～1 ns through the Earth’s ionosphere are considered. Such pulses can be generated by a cascade shower caused by an ultrahigh-speed cosmic particle on the Moon’s surface. It is shown that the width of the radio pulse increases by almost two orders of magnitude as a result of dispersion. A method is proposed for retaining the real sensitivity of a detector. The possibility of using dispersion for separating informative signals from local interferences is considered. The power of a cosmic-particle-induced radio signal is compared to the power of cosmic radio-frequency interferences.     

Transition to phase synchronization in a system with periodic dynamics under the action of a chaotic signal

Intermittent behavior has been studied near the boundary of phase synchronization in an autooscillatory system with periodic dynamics under the action of an external chaotic signal. It is shown that the intermittency obeys the same scenario as that observed in the case of interaction between two coupled chaotic oscillators.     

Vibration reduction of pulse tube cryocooler driven by single piston compressor

The development of pulse tube coolers has progressed significantly during the past two decades. A single piston linear compressor is used to in order to reduce the size and mass of a high frequency pulse tube cryocooler. The pulse tube achieved a no-load temperature of 61 K and a cooling power of 1 W@80 K with an operating frequency of 80 Hz and an electrical input power of 50 W. By itself, the single piston compressor generates a large vibration, so a set of leaf springs with an additional mass is used to reduce the vibration. The equation relating the mass, the elasticity coefficient of leaf spring and the working frequency is obtained through an empirical fit of the experimental data. The vibration amplitude is reduced from 55 mm/s to lower than 5 mm/s by using a proper leaf spring. This paper demonstrates that a single piston compressor with vibration reduction provides a good choice for a PTC.     

Isolated sub-50 attosecond pulse generation driven by tricolor multi-cycle pulses

We theoretically investigate the high-order harmonic generation (HHG) driven by laser pulses with tri-color carrier wave in the multi-cycle regime. Through the modulation of the carrier wave, the peak of the return kinetic energy of the electron near the pulse center extends dramatically and the other peaks are suppressed by the envelope. Thus, a very broad continuum spectrum appears in the HHG. Moreover, due to the propagation effect, the long path of the electron for the continuum spectrum is eliminated effectively. Hence, the continuum spectrum is well-phase locked, from which an isolated sub-50 attosecond pulse could be obtained even for the driver pulse with duration of 30 fs.     

Investigation of the ionization of atom driven by a few-cycle laser pulse in phase space

We perform a comprehensive study of the ionization of hydrogen atom by a few-cycle laser pulse with a fixed carrier-envelop in phase space through calculating the Wigner functions. The results show that the electrons always locate around the nucleus before the laser electric field force reaches a certain intensity. While as the force of the laser electric field increases, the electrons are gradually deviated away from the nucleus. The ionized electrons are driven back to the core region and make a wiggling motion because of the variation of the laser electric field force with time. Moreover Wigner functions enable us to clearly show the classical and quantum behaviours during ionization process are presented in phase space, and explicitly attribute the arc fringes to the interference effect between the electronic wavepackets born at different ionization times.     

Nearly diffraction-limited signal generated by a lower beam-quality pump in an optical parametric oscillator

The beam quality of an optical parametric oscillator (OPO) within a singly resonant, confocal-positive branch unstable resonator is investigated. Resonator configurations have been found in which the beam quality of the outgoing signal exceeds the beam quality of the pump. Cavity magnification and pump-pulse duration are found to determine the signal beam quality. It is shown that signal M2 decreases with increasing pump-pulse duration for a given cavity magnification. In an experimental demonstration of a LiNbO3 OPO within an unstable resonator, pumped by a multitransversal mode beam, a signal beam with an almost-single transversal mode has been generated, whereas the multitransversal mode behavior of the pump beam is projected on the idler beam.