包装过程称量信号处理方法研究

目的 为提高包装过程定量称量精度,结合卡尔曼滤波算法和模糊控制原理设计一种称量信号处理方法。方法 定量称量控制系统一般由触摸屏、控制器、称量传感器、变频器等电气设备组成。以传感器信号处理为主要研究对象,提出一种改进卡尔曼滤波算法。采用卡尔曼滤波器实现称量信号中随机噪声的处理。利用模糊控制器来实时监测卡尔曼滤波每次更新后实际方差和理论方差的差值。最后,进行实验研究。结果 实验结果表明,改进卡尔曼滤波的实际性能比较理想,滤波处理前,称量误差最大可以达到2.5%;经滤波处理后,最大称量误差只有0.26%。结论 所述信号处理方法可以有效地降低称量信号噪声,提高称量精度。     

Refraction and diffraction by a metal-dielectric multilayered structure

An optical refraction prism consisting of metal and dielectric, subwavelength, periodic multilayered thin films has been proposed. The multilayered structure of metal and dielectric thin films has a cylindrical dispersion surface for TM polarized light. The light behaviors are very different from those of conventional glass prisms and photonic crystal superprisms. Refraction and diffraction of the light wave for the metal-dielectric multilayered prism has been investigated by numerical simulations and graphical representation based on the dispersion surface. A prism with 0.2 microm period had an angular dispersion of 0.20 degrees /nm for approximately 0.8 microm wavelength light. The finite thick metal-dielectric multilayered structure acted as a slab waveguide.     

Evaluation of multi-layered graphene surface plasmon resonance-based transmission type fiber optic sensor

Graphene is a zero band-gap semi-metal with remarkable electromagnetic and mechanical characteristics. This study is the first ever attempt to use graphene in the surface plasmon resonance (SPR) sensor as replacement material for gold/silver. Graphene, comprised of a single atomic layer of carbon, is a purely two-dimensional material and it is an ideal candidate for use as a biosensor because of its high surface-to-volume ratio. This sensor is based on the resonance occasion of the surface plasmon wave (SPW) according to the dielectric constants of each metal film and detected material in gas or aqueous phase. Graphene in the SPR sensor is expected to enlarge the range of analyte to bio-aerosols based on the superior electromagnetic properties of graphene. In this study, a SPR-based fiber optic sensor coated with multi-layered graphene is described. The multi-layered graphene film synthesized by chemical vapor deposition (CVD) on Ni substrate was transferred on the sensing region of an optical fiber. The graphene coated SPR sensor is used to analyze the interaction between structured DNA biotin and Streptavidin is analyzed. Transmitted light after passing through the sensing region is measured by a spectrometer and multimeter. As the light source, blue light which of 450 to 460 nm in wavelength was used. We observed the SPR phenomena in the sensor and show the contrary trends between bare fiber and graphene coated fiber. The fabricated graphene based fiber optic sensor shows excellent detection sensitivity of the interaction between structured DNA and Streptavidin.     

Wideband true-time-delay beam former that employs a tunable chirped fiber grating prism

A fiber grating prism that consists of four tunable chirped-grating delay lines for wideband true-time-delay beam forming is proposed and demonstrated. The chirped gratings are produced by use of the grating bending technique in which a uniform grating is surface mounted on a simply supported beam. We obtained chirped gratings with different chirp rates by bending the uniform gratings with different beam deflections. Four linear chirped fiber gratings with identical spectral width but linearly increased grating length are fabricated. The spectra and time-delay responses of the tunable chirped gratings are measured. A chirped-grating prism for wideband true-time-delay beam forming by use of four chirped gratings is constructed and tested experimentally. We obtained different time delays by tuning the wavelength of the optical carrier. The proposed true-time-delay beam former with a four-element phased-array steerer is suitable for continuous beam forming at microwave frequencies up to 20 GHz.     

Quantum-dot semiconductor optical amplifier performance management under optical injection

The effect of an external beam on different characteristics of quantum-dot semiconductor optical amplifiers (QD-SOAs) has been investigated experimentally. It has been shown that injection of a relatively weak light beam at the gain transparency wavelength accelerates the full gain recovery time from 80 ps to 65 ps while it increases the saturation output power (SOP) by more than 2 dB if the beam resides in the gain region. The effect of the external beam on the fiber-to-fiber gain has been demonstrated at both the gain transparency wavelength and close to gain peak wavelength. These results are expected to be further enhanced by increasing the injected beam power, which has a peak value of ～7 mW in the experiments.     

Optical temperature sensing based on the Goos-Hänchen effect

The possibility of constructing an optical sensor for temperature monitoring based on the Goos-H?nchen (GH) effect is explored using a theoretical model. This model considers the lateral shift of the incident beam upon reflection from a metal-dielectric interface, with the shift becoming a function of temperature due mainly to the temperature dependence of the optical properties of the metal. It is found that such a sensor can be most effective by using long wavelength p-polarized incident light at almost grazing incidence onto the metal, where significant variation of negative GH shifts can be observed as a function of the temperature.     

Phase effects in guided mode resonances II: measuring the angular phase of a surface plasmon polariton

We show how the phase of a resonant interaction between a focused beam and a guided mode can be directly observed in a pupil imaging experiment, in which the irradiance leaving the pupil of a standard microscope is relayed to an image sensor through a combination Wollaston prism, calcite beam splitter and polarizer. We apply the method to the observation of a surface plasmon polariton resonance excited in a corrugated silver film fabricated using electron beam lithography. We discuss how this particular imaging configuration could be adapted for applications in plasmonic optical sensing.     

Single-mode operation in few-mode optical fibre based on resonant coupling

The design of a low-bending loss few-mode optical fibre is proposed. Low-bending loss for the fundamental mode is achieved by increasing the index contrast between the core and the cladding, and a microstructured mode filtering region is applied to filter out the higher-order modes in the fibre. Numerical results show that the fundamental mode loss is lower than 0.03 dB/turn and the high-order mode is higher than 4.4 dB/turn at the bending radius of 5 mm and 1300–1600 nm wavelength range.     

DNA hybridization using surface plasmon-coupled emission

We describe a new approach to measuring DNA hybridization using surface plasmon-coupled emission (SPCE). Excited fluorophores are known to couple with surface oscillations of electrons in thin metal films, typically 50 nm thick silver on a glass prism. These surface plasmons then radiate into the glass at a sharply defined angle determined by the emission wavelength and the optical properties of the glass and metal. This radiation has the same spectral profile as the emission spectrum of the fluorophores. We studied the emission due to Cy3-labeled DNA oligomers bound to complementary unlabeled oligomers which were themselves bound to the metal surface. Hybridization resulted in SPCE due to Cy3-DNA into the prism. Directional SPCE was observed whether the sample was illuminated from the sample side or through the glass substrate at the surface plasmon angle for the excitation wavelength. A large fraction of the total potential emission is coupled to the surface plasmons resulting in improved sensitivity. When illuminated through the prism at the surface plasmon angle, the sensitivity is increased due to the enhanced intensity of the resonance evanescent field. It is known that SPCE depends on proximity to the silver surface. As a result, changes in emission intensity are observed due to fluorophore localization even if hybridization does not affect the quantum yield of the fluorophore. The use of SPCE resulted in suppression of interfering emission from a noncomplementary Cy5-DNA oligomers due to weaker coupling of the more distant fluorophores with the surface plasmons. We expect SPCE to have numerous applications to nucleic acid analysis and for the measurement of bioaffinity reactions.     

External phase-modulation interferometry

We analyze and test a laboratory benchtop version of a compound interferometric phase sensor, a Michelson interferometer whose output is combined coherently with a phase-modulated local oscillator beam tapped off the Michelson input beam. This configuration models a whole class of external-modulation interferometers designed to shift signals, obscured by low-frequency intensity noise of the light source, into a shot-noise-limited region of the photocurrent spectrum. We find analytically that the shot-noise-limited sensitivity achievable with this system is comparable with that obtained by using internal phase modulation, with both schemes suffering (for different reasons) approximately a 22% sensitivity penalty compared with ideal shot-noise-limited direct detection. Experimentally we achieve true shot-noise-limited sensitivity, and we investigate trade-offs necessitated by commonly encountered nonideal features in any external-modulation system. Our analytic model, which specifically accounts for Michelson fringe contrast, electronic receiver noise, phase-modulation depth, and the local oscillator tap-off fraction, is sufficiently accurate to predict the absolute sensitivity of our benchtop instrument to within 0.5 dB.     

Characterization of a broadband all-optical ultrasound transducer-from optical and acoustical properties to imaging

A broadband all-optical ultrasound transducer has been designed, fabricated, and evaluated for high- frequency ultrasound imaging. The device consists of a 2-D gold nanostructure imprinted on top of a glass substrate, followed by a 3 microm PDMS layer and a 30 nm gold layer. A laser pulse at the resonance wavelength of the gold nanostructure is focused onto the surface for ultrasound generation, while the gold nanostructure, together with the 30 nm thick gold layer and the PDMS layer in between, forms an etalon for ultrasound detection, which uses a CW laser at a wavelength far from resonance as the probing beam. The center frequency of a pulse-echo signal recorded in the far field of the transducer is 40 MHz with -6 dB bandwidth of 57 MHz. The signal to noise ratio (SNR) from a 70 microm diameter transmit element combined with a 20 microm diameter receive element probing a near perfect reflector positioned 1.5 mm from the transducer surface is more than 10 dB and has the potential to be improved by at least another 40 dB. A high-frequency ultrasound array has been emulated using multiple measurements from the transducer while mechanically scanning an imaging target. Characterization of the device's optical and acoustical properties, as well as preliminary imaging results, strongly suggest that all-optical ultrasound transducers can be used to build high-frequency arrays for real-time high-resolution ultrasound imaging.     

基于MEMS技术集成硅微棱镜耦合和微流道的近红外表面等离子体谐振芯片

为促进表面等离子体谐振（surface plasmon resonance, SPR）测试技术在片上的实现,提出硅基近红外SPR芯片,由硅微棱镜、金属膜和聚合物微流体通道组成．利用有掩膜和无掩膜各向异性湿法腐蚀加工出底角为25．24。的单微硅棱镜阵列,用有掩膜各向异性湿法腐蚀加工出底角为54．74。的双微硅棱镜阵列,利用聚合物的复制注塑技术加工得到微流体通道．在波长1550nm时进行仿真与实验测试,实验测得以空气、水和乙醇为测试介质的SPR角分别为16．75°、22．58°和22．72°,这些值比以玻璃棱镜加工SPR传感器测得的SPR角要小很多．通过实验表明,近红外SPR芯片可以实现表面等离子体谐振传感器微型化,进而推动微全分析系统的实现,降低其成本并提高其性能．     

极化聚合物薄膜电光系数的实时测量

提出了一种极化聚合物薄膜电光系数的实时测量方法。实验结构由耦合棱镜和依次制备在棱镜底面的四层薄膜组成,这四层薄膜分别是金属层（作为上电极）、极化聚合物,缓冲层和下电极。包含导波共振角并具有一定角度的入射光线会聚于棱镜底面,然后用CCD探测拍摄反射光斑,当外加电场作用于上下电极时,就可从光斑暗线位置的变化测量极化聚合物薄膜的电光系数。在测量过程中,使用了计算机图像处理方法和光学空间滤波技术。     

All-optical NRZ-to-RZ format conversion at 10 Gbit/s with 1-to-4 wavelength multicasting exploiting cross-phase modulation & four-wave-mixing in single dispersion-flattened highly nonlinear photonic crystal fiber

All-optical NRZ-to-RZ format conversion with a function of wavelength multicasting is proposed in this paper, which is realized by exploiting cross-phase modulation (XPM) and four-wave-mixing (FWM) in a dispersion-flattened highly nonlinear photonic crystal fiber (DF-HNL-PCF). The designed format converter is experimentally demonstrated, for which the 1-to-4 wavelength multicasting is achieved simultaneously by filtering out two FWM idler waves and both blue-chirped and red-chirped components of the broadened NRZ spectrum induced by XPM. Moreover, the wavelength tunability and dynamic characteristics of the proposed NRZ-to-RZ format converter are also exploited using the different central wavelengths of an optical clock signal and varying the input optical power at a DF-HNL-PCF in our experiment. It is shown that the designed format converter can possess a wide range of operational wavelength over 17 nm, an optimal extinction ratio of 11.6 dB, and a Q-factor of 7.1, respectively. Since the proposed scheme uses an optical fiber-based configuration and is easy for implementation, it can be very useful for future applications in advanced fiber-optic communication networks.     

Multiplexing of optical fiber gas sensors with a frequency-modulated continuous-wave technique

We report on the use of a frequency-modulated continuous-wave technique for multiplexing optical fiber gas sensors. The sensor network is of a ladder topology and is interrogated by a tunable laser. The system performance in terms of detection sensitivity and cross talk between sensors was investigated and found to be limited by coherent mixing between signals from different channels. The system performance can be improved significantly by use of appropriate wavelength modulation-scanning coupled with low-pass filtering. Computer simulation shows that an array of 37 acetylene sensors with a detection accuracy of 2000 parts in 10(6) for each sensor may be realized. A two-sensor acetylene detection system was experimentally demonstrated that had a detection sensitivity of 165 parts in 10(6) for 2.5-cm gas cells (or a minimum detectable absorbance of 2.1 x 10(-4)) and a cross talk of -25 dB.     

抑制微光波前传感器随机噪声的方法研究

在自适应光学系统微光波前传感器中采用像增强器后，高帧频CCD输出的图像中会产生严重的随机噪声，影响光斑质心计算精度，从而使自适应光学系统波前探测精度降低。本文根据微光波前传感器中CCD输出图像的特点对中值滤波，均值滤波，自相关，延时相关等多种方法进行了仿真和实验比较，并提出了一系列评价方法。研究表明延时相关算法是最佳选择。     

Optical router for optical fiber sensor networks based on a liquid crystal cell

Optical fiber sensor networks are evolving rapidly. They are used because of the inert nature of optical fibers allowing no electromagnetic interference and safe applications in inflammable atmospheres; other relevant characteristics are their low weights and wide bandwidths as a transmission medium. In any case, it is very interesting to have specific components such as optical routers for selecting a certain path in a network with no optical to electrical and electrical to optical conversions. In this paper, we propose an all-optical router based on liquid crystals, polarizers, and a spatial split polarization beam splitter. The implemented device is designed to operate with visible light and it has been tested with plastic optical fibers. It has a crosstalk of 14 dB between selected ON channels and nonoperative OFF channels and 11-dB insertion losses. An average switch time of 100 ms is measured. The device checks the optical power level in each channel and, in case of failure, automatically switches to an operative channel while an alarm is activated.     

Metal coverage dependence of local optical properties of semicontinuous metallic films

Semicontinuous silver films on insulator substrates, which exhibit unique electrical and optical properties, were studied experimentally and theoretically. The percolation threshold of the films, which were synthesized by laser ablation, was determined from a combination of studies of the surface morphology by electron microscopy and the dc electrical resistance as a function of metal concentration. Local optical properties measured by near-field optical microscopy were compared with theoretical results obtained using the Block elimination method, with good agreement. Local field distributions were found to depend on the metal concentration and wavelength of illumination. The degree of localization was found to increase at metal concentrations above and below the percolation threshold.     

High sensitivity liquid surface deformation sensor based on cascaded Bowknot Type Tapers

A liquid surface deformation sensor with high sensitivity based on a Mach–Zehnder interferometer (MZI) was demonstrated. The MZI was constructed by cascading two Bowknot Type Tapers (BTTs) with an interval of 1.0?cm. As the liquid surface changes gradually from the position higher than the optical fibre to a position lower than the optical fibre, the external environment of the optical fibre changes gradually from the liquid to air, this will result in a change of the interference of the MZI. By measuring the intensity variations of the resonant wavelength, the liquid surface deformation in the range from 0 to 5.22?mm can be determined with a high sensitivity of 0.99?dB/mm.