纳米多孔光波导漏模共振传感器的折射率灵敏度分析(英文)

在玻璃基片上射频溅射50 nm厚的金膜,然后利用TiO2胶体溶液在金膜表面制备了厚度约为320 nm的TiO2纳米多孔薄膜.以此双层膜为漏模光波导芯片,构建了基于Kretschmann结构的波长调制型光波导漏模共振(LMR)传感器.利用扫描电子显微镜(SEM)观测了TiO2纳米多孔薄膜的表面和横截面形貌.实验研究了在纳米多孔光波导中给定漏模的共振波长及折射率灵敏度与入射角的依赖关系.结果表明,随着入射角的增大,共振波长逐渐蓝移,折射率灵敏度随之下降.此外,与传统的表面等离子体共振(SPR)传感器进行了对比,结果表明在相同的共振波长下,纳米多孔光波导LMR传感器折射率灵敏度大于SPR传感器.     

新型低损耗级联式1×4光分路器的优化设计

为改进传统Y分支光分路器损耗较大的缺陷,我们采用激模波导结构设计新型Y分支波导和由三个分支级联的新型Y分支波导构成低损耗1×4光分路器.设计中利用辐射模和本征基模的叠加来修正光波场,通过改善模匹配来降低分支耦合损耗,同时在1×4光分路器中加入直波导来改善和优化分路器的输出均匀性,并用有限差分光束传播法对该Y分支波导和1×4光分路器进行数值模拟.模拟结果表明,该结构具有均匀性好、损耗小和结构简单等优点,有利于器件的进一步集成和大批量生产.     

H68黄铜挠性波导管制造缺陷分析

挠性波导管在生产过程中经常出现波导管齿形不规则、缩齿困难以及齿根撕裂的问题.以H68黄铜挠性波导管为例,通过对影响其质量的壁厚、软化退火工艺、酸洗工艺、滚齿模结构和钎焊工艺等因素进行了分析,得知造成以上缺陷的主要原因是毛坯管壁厚超差、滚齿模结构引起滚压轮同齿条啮合过紧、间隙不均以及退火温度选择不当.最后通过对H68黄铜...     

高灵敏Love波传感器及其关键材料

Love波传感器是声表面波传感器的一种,其灵敏度最高.对Love波生物、化学传感器的研究现状进行了综述,着重分析了波导材料及其厚度、基板材料及其切向对传感器的灵敏度及温度稳定性的影响关系.指出采用高频谐振型的器件结构并结合聚合物波导的方案可进一步提高Love波传感器的灵敏度.     

阵列波导光栅解复用器光谱响应特性分析

基于单模光波导本征模场及其端面衍射场分布的高斯近似表达,推导出两个端面非接触光波导耦合的耦合系数的函数表达式,并基于此推导出阵列波导光栅解复用器的简单光谱响应效率的函数表达式。建立了分析阵列波导光栅解复用器光谱响应特性的简洁数学模型,阐明了阵列波导光栅解复用器对通道中心频率的响应度和相邻信号通道间的串扰与基本参数的关系,为设计和分析阵列波导光栅解复用器提供了理论基础。     

铝合金异形波导管的热挤压

论述了Ｐ４Ａ１４８３－４型铝合金异形波导管的挤压模设计和挤压工艺选择；提出了采用分流组合模挤压工艺制造复杂形状的异形波导管。     

一种新颖的偏振不敏感的阵列波导光栅

提出了一种新颖偏振不敏感的阵列波导光栅(AWG)。器件的输入端增加了一个全光学偏振自动控制器(AOPSC),可将注入AWG的随机偏振的输入光转换为与AWG中TE0模偏振方向相同且功率损耗很小的线偏振光。AWG结构设计采用非对称的平面波导,包层与波导芯层的相对折射率差为0.7%,波导芯层的宽厚比要高,可以消除TE与TM模的简并,使波导中只能激励TE0模,而使TM0模截止。这种AWG结构完全消除了不同偏振态信号光对AWG工作性能的影响,从而使器件对偏振不敏感。设计的8×0.8nm器件整体尺寸为2cm×1cm,串扰优于-30dB,最大插入损耗为4.2dB。     

溶胶-凝胶法制备有机-无机杂化光波导材料研究进展

有机-无机杂化材料因同时具有有机功能基团和无机功能基团的结构特点而易于有机光活性物质和无机活性物质的掺杂已被人们广泛关注和大力研究.溶胶-凝胶法是制备有机-无机杂化光波导材料的主要方法.阐述了溶胶-凝胶法制备杂化材料的原理,比较了几种目前研究得较多的有机-无机杂化光波导材料体系,指出了各自的优缺点,介绍了杂化材料制备光波导器件的工艺流程,最后归纳了溶胶-凝胶法制备有机-无机杂化光波导材料过程中存在的问题.     

一种窄带导模共振负滤光片的设计

由于弱调制光栅可以等效为平面波导,本文从平面波导的本征方程出发,导出垂直入射时弱调制光栅共振位置的表达式.分别以单层、双层膜系导模共振光栅结构为例,研究了光栅层厚度、周期、占空比对共振波长的影响.结合光学薄膜理论设计出一种窄带导模共振负滤光片.由于导模共振对入射波参数和光栅参数都极为敏感,具有窄带效应,用来制作窄带负滤波片非常可行.     

局域共振型五模超构材料的低频声波调控方法

五模超构材料是一类具有固体结构与"流体"特性的人工微结构,由于较好的压缩波与剪切波的解耦合能力、 较低的填充率、丰富的晶格构型及可调参数较多等特点,在声波/弹性波隐身衣、声学波导、声学超构表面等声波调控领域具有潜在应用.由单质材料组成的五模超构材料可以被看作是布拉格散射型的声子晶体,其工作频率在高频波段,而目前针对低频...     

A slab optical waveguide with negative effective thickness

Two new asymmetric slab optical waveguides with a left-handed media (LHM) cover or substrate are studied. The effective thickness is derived by using normalized waveguide parameters. An analytical method is then proposed to calculate the universal effective thickness. We show that negative effective thickness exists in the waveguide with a LHM substrate, unlike in conventional waveguide or other LHM waveguides studied previously. However, for the waveguide with a LHM substrate, the shape of high-order mode behaves like that of a traditional slab waveguide, and neither the fundamental mode nor the other higher order modes have the novel phenomena of negative effective thickness. Both TE and TM modes are discussed.     

左手材料研究进展及应用前景

详细介绍了左手材料(同时拥有负磁导率和负介电常数)存在的理论依据、实现方法和基本电磁特性,针对其出现的新颖电磁特性介绍了它在隐身、光学和微波等领域的潜在应用,及其需进一步加强的工作和发展方向.     

光波在由左手材料和激活介质构成的光子晶体中的传输

用特征矩阵法计算了光波在包含左手材料和激活介质的一维光子晶体中的传播规律,当左手材料和激活介质厚度相等时,出现了超窄通带和透射率大于1的高增益现象,受激辐射的增强总是发生在带隙的边缘附近。进一步论证了受激辐射增强现象与光子带隙边缘群速度异常存在关联。随着频率的增加,光增益呈e指数增大。光频率不变时,光在光子晶体中的透射率随光子晶体周期数的增加呈线性增加。当左手材料和激活介质厚度不相等时,通带宽度增加,带边仍存在大于1的透射峰。     

Experimental investigation of reflection characteristics of left-handed metamaterials in free space

The transmission and reflection characteristics are presented of a one-dimensional (1D) left-handed metamaterial (LHM) and its constituents, split ring resonator and thin wire arrays. A well-defined left-handed transmission band with a peak value of -7.2 dB is obtained at frequencies where effective permittivity and permeability are both negative. A sharp dip (-34.5 dB) at the reflection spectrum of 1D ordered LHM is observed. The frequency of ultra-low reflection did not change considerably for another LHM with a different thickness, meaning that the low reflection is not because of the thickness resonance but rather the impedance-matching of LHM at the surface. Disorder in LHM structures is shown to affect the reflection characteristics     

Exact solution to plane-wave scattering by an ideal "left-handed" wedge

An exact analytical solution to the problem of plane-wave diffraction by a penetrable left-handed medium (LHM) epsilon = micro = -1 wedge of arbitrary angle (subject to valid physical constraints) is presented. Standard analysis involving discontinuous angular eigenfunctions and even/odd symmetry decomposition resulted in a discrete spectrum leading to a series solution resembling the traditional perfect electric conductor wedge solution but exhibiting the expected negative refraction phenomenology. Numerical results are presented, some of which seemed paradoxical but are explainable by classical means. A new type of illusory edge radiation is observed and explained. Also, a novel edge-launched interface standing wave is observed on the directly illuminated side. The exact analytical solution is verified by comparison with finite-difference time-domain simulation on causal LHM materials.     

Soliton-induced waveguides in photorefractive photovoltaic materials

Waveguides induced by one-dimensional spatial photovoltaic solitons are investigated in both self-defocusing-type and self-focusing-type photorefractive photovoltaic materials. The number of possible guided modes in a waveguide induced by a bright photovoltaic soliton is obtained using numerical techniques. This number of guided modes increases monotonically with increasing intensity ratio, which is the ratio between the peak intensity of the soliton and the sum of the background illumination and the dark irradiance. On the other hand, waveguides induced by dark photovoltaic solitons are always single mode for all intensity ratios, and the higher the intensity ratio, the more confined is the optical energy near the centre of the dark photovoltaic soliton. Relevant examples are provided where photorefractive photovoltaic materials are of self-defocusing and self-focusing types. The properties of soliton-induced waveguides in both self-defocusing-type and self-focusing-type materials are also discussed.     

Scattering properties of an impedance-matched, ideal, homogeneous, causal "left-handed" sphere

The plane-wave scattering properties of a sphere of material having an ideal, homogeneous, and causal permittivity epsilon(f), and permeability mu(f) were investigated through detailed three-dimensional finite-difference time-domain, method-of-moments, and series-solution simulations. A Lorentzian functional form was chosen for epsilon(f) and mu( f), as it yields causal responses and allows us to study the physics of the left-handed-medium (LHM) regime. Our interest lies mainly in the frequency range where negative refraction [Re(n) < 0] is observed. We found that when operating in the LHM regime, an impedance-matched sphere responds with scattering features strikingly different from those found in ordinary materials. In particular, we found zero back-scattering and forward scattering that exceeds that of a metal sphere of similar size. The equality of E- and H-plane patterns was proved analytically and numerically, and the possibility of internal subwavelength focusing with a zero index sphere is also reported.     

Acoustic modes in optical fiberlike waveguides

A perturbation analysis of guided and leaky modes in fiber acoustic waveguides with core and cladding parameters that are slightly different is presented. The perturbing parameter is the shear-velocity difference between the core and cladding material epsilon(s). Acoustic fields and eigenvalues are expanded in power series of epsilon (s)(1/2) for radial and flexural modes and in powers of epsilon(3) for torsional modes. Expansion of leaky longitudinal modes is also in terms of epsilon(s), but the nature of perturbation analysis for these modes is somewhat different from that of guided modes. Zero-order solutions for all types of modes are obtained, and some important higher-order effects are discussed. Common features of optical and acoustic modes in weakly guiding fibers are addressed. It is shown that with respect to zero-order solutions of guided modes, optical and acoustic fibers have identical propagation characteristics. Exact and zero-order propagation characteristics for several lower-order shear-type modes are calculated and compared.     

Two-dimensional analysis of spurious modes in aluminum nitride film resonators

In this paper, a hybrid method, which combines the traditional concept of guided waves and the finite element method (FEM), is proposed to analyze the spurious modes of aluminum nitride (AIN) film with electrodes. First, the guided wave modes in the plated area are obtained by 1-D FEM. Second, a mode-match method is used to satisfy the boundary conditions. The vibration of the film resonator is a superposition of all of the guided modes. With respect to an A1N film resonator, which is a thickness-stretch mode resonator, we have identified three families of spurious modes: extension, thickness-stretch, and thickness-shear. The spectrum of spurious modes is calculated and the influence of the spurious modes is discussed.     

Tunable Modal Birefringence in a Low‐Loss Van Der Waals Waveguide

van der Waals (vdW) crystals are promising candidates for integrated phase retardation applications due to their large optical birefringence. Among the two major types of vdW materials, the hyperbolic vdW crystals are inherently inadequate for optical retardation applications since the supported polaritonic modes are exclusively transverse‐magnetic (TM) polarized and relatively lossy. Elliptic vdW crystals, on the other hand, represent a superior choice. For example, molybdenum disulfide (MoS₂) is a natural uniaxial vdW crystal with extreme elliptic anisotropy in the frequency range of optical communication. Both transverse‐electric (TE) polarized ordinary and TM polarized extraordinary waveguide modes can be supported in MoS₂ microcrystals with suitable thicknesses. In this work, low‐loss transmission of these guided modes is demonstrated with nano‐optical imaging at the near‐infrared (NIR) wavelength (1530 nm). More importantly, by combining theoretical calculations and NIR nanoimaging, the modal birefringence between the orthogonally polarized TE and TM modes is shown to be tunable in both sign and magnitude via varying the thickness of the MoS₂ microcrystal. This tunability represents a unique new opportunity to control the polarization behavior of photons with vdW materials.