Shock tube coupled to the time-of-flight mass spectrometer via a molecular beam sampling system

A method for continuous mass spectrometric analysis of high-temperature reacting gas mixtures is described. The apparatus consists of a unique combination of three devices: the shock tube, the time-of-flight mass spectrometer, and the supersonic molecular beam. The driven section of the shock tube constitutes the reservoir of a supersonic molecular beam by which gas is continuously extracted from the reaction zone and introduced through a two-stage high-capacity vacuum system into the ionization region of the mass spectrometer. The shock tube and the mass spectrometer are coupled at right angles to one another. This configuration avoids excessive pressure buildup in the mass spectrometer system. The apparatus has an estimated mass resolution of 100 amu, a frequency range of 10-100 kHz, and can be operated over a wide range of shock conditions during the complete high-temperature pulse.     

Ultrafast time-domain spectroscopy based on high-speed asynchronous optical sampling

High-speed asynchronous optical sampling (ASOPS) is a novel technique for ultrafast time-domain spectroscopy (TDS). It employs two mode-locked femtosecond oscillators operating at a fixed repetition frequency difference as sources of pump and probe pulses. We present a system where the 1 GHz pulse repetition frequencies of two Ti:sapphire oscillators are linked at an offset of Deltaf(R)=10 kHz. As a result, their relative time delay is repetitively ramped from zero to 1 ns within a scan time of 100 micros. Mechanical delay scanners common to conventional TDS systems are eliminated, thus systematic errors due to beam pointing instabilities and spot size variations are avoided when long time delays are scanned. Owing to the multikilohertz scan-rate, high-speed ASOPS permits data acquisition speeds impossible with conventional schemes. Within only 1 s of data acquisition time, a signal resolution of 6 x 10(-7) is achieved for optical pump-probe spectroscopy over a time-delay window of 1 ns. When applied to terahertz TDS, the same acquisition time yields high-resolution terahertz spectra with 37 dB signal-to-noise ratio under nitrogen purging of the spectrometer. Spectra with 57 dB are obtained within 2 min. A new approach to perform the offset lock between the two femtosecond oscillators in a master-slave configuration using a frequency shifter at the third harmonic of the pulse repetition frequency is employed. This approach permits an unprecedented time-delay resolution of better than 160 fs. High-speed ASOPS provides the functionality of an all-optical oscilloscope with a bandwidth in excess of 3000 GHz and with 1 GHz frequency resolution.     

Development of neutron spectrometer toward deuterium plasma diagnostics in LHD

Neutron spectrometer based on coincident counting of associated particles has been developed for deuterium plasma diagnostics on Large Helical Device (LHD) at the National Institute for Fusion Science. Efficient detection of 2.5 MeV neutron with high energy resolution would be achievable by coincident detection of a scattered neutron and a recoiled proton associated with an elastic scattering of incident neutron in a plastic scintillator as a radiator. The calculated neutron spectra from deuterium plasma heated by neutral beam injection indicate that the energy resolution of better than 7% is required for the spectrometer to evaluate energetic deuterium confinement. By using a prototype of the proposed spectrometer, the energy resolution of 6.3% and the detection efficiency of 3.3×10(-7)?count/neutron were experimentally demonstrated for 2.5 MeV monoenergetic neutron, respectively.     

Triple-path collector optics for grazing incident x-ray emission spectrometer

A new type of collector optics was developed for grazing incident x-ray emission spectrometer. The collector optics used two cylindrical mirrors to add two extra light paths while keeping the center light path that directly illuminates the grating. The design and properties of the spectrometer using the triple-path collector optics were evaluated using ray-tracing simulations, and validity of this design in terms of throughput and energy resolution was confirmed by the experimentally obtained spectra.     

A neutron camera system for MAST

A prototype neutron camera has been developed and installed at MAST as part of a feasibility study for a multichord neutron camera system with the aim to measure the spatial and time resolved 2.45 MeV neutron emissivity profile. Liquid scintillators coupled to a fast digitizer are used for neutron/gamma ray digital pulse shape discrimination. The preliminary results obtained clearly show the capability of this diagnostic to measure neutron emissivity profiles with sufficient time resolution to study the effect of fast ion loss and redistribution due to magnetohydrodynamic activity. A minimum time resolution of 2 ms has been achieved with a modest 1.5 MW of neutral beam injection heating with a measured neutron count rate of a few 100 kHz.     

Characterization of a polarization-resolved high spectral resolution UV-visible spectrometer

To measure the degree of polarization of a plasma emission, a polarization-resolved UV-visible Czerny-Turner-type spectrometer was designed and constructed. For a high spectral resolution, F=1 m mirrors were used as a focusing and collimating mirrors and the incidence angles to the mirrors were determined to eliminate coma. The effect of astigmatism was reduced by designing the incidence angles to the mirrors to be as small as possible. The flat focal plane condition proposed by Reader [J. Opt. Soc. Am. 59, 1189 (1969)] was used to determine the grating position. The measured spatial resolution was 170 microm. To simultaneously measure the intensities with two perpendicular polarizations, a calcite crystal was placed after the entrance slit of the spectrometer. The change in the imaging property of the spectrometer due to the calcite crystal was measured and minimized. The spectral resolution was experimentally measured with a laser produced plasma to be 0.05 nm at 348 nm. The resolving power measured is 6600.     

软X射线光学技术的某些进展

本文主要介绍软X射线等离子体光源、多层膜软X射线反射镜和软X射线显微镜。高强度的实验室用软X射线等离子体光源较之同步辐射具有体积小、造价低、光束大和单位脉冲光通量高等优点。最近发展的多层镀膜用于软X射线正入射光学元件,可以得到比掠入射光学元件好得多的分辨率。软X射线显微镜提供了生物样品分析的一种新工具,它填补了常用的光学显微镜和电子显微镜之间的空隙。     

Development of double-decker pulse radiolysis

Double-decker pulse radiolysis (DDPR), which utilizes double-decker electron beams, was investigated to develop a new pulse radiolysis with a high time resolution. The double-decker electron beams were generated by injecting two UV pulses into a photocathode radio-frequency gun. In the pulse radiolysis, one electron beam was used as a pump beam, and the other was converted to a probe pulse. Finally, as its first application, the DDPR was successfully used for observing solvated electrons in water, with a 10%-90% rise time of 8.6 ps.     

Subnanosecond pulsing of a 3-MV Van de Graaff electron accelerator by means of a passive coaxial pulse shaper

A passive coaxial pulse shaper has been developed which produces a subnanosecond duration pulse with short rise and decay time from a long pulse with short rise time. The mechanical construction of the pulse shaper is a modified coaxial air line T-section. The pulse shaper has been incorporated in the pulsing circuit of a 3-MV Van de Graaff accelerator. The form of the resulting electron beam pulses was monitored both as the charge collected by a coaxial target and as the Cerenkov light emitted by a quartz plate. In both cases sequential sampling techniques were used. The electron beam pulses were found to have rise and decay tiems of approxiamtely 100 ps and a half-width as short as approximately 200 ps could be obtained. An advantage of this method of producing subnanosecond beam pulses is that it does not interfere with normal nanosecond pulsed operation of the Van de Graaff.     

Imaging of thermal and elastic surface properties by scanning electron acoustic microscopy

Scanning electron acoustic microscopy is a new technique for imaging the thermal and elastic properties of surfaces and detecting subsurface flaws. It can be carried out in a modified scanning electron microscope. The effects of electron beam energy and phase angle on scanning electron acoustic images of the thermal and elastic properties of surfaces were studied with an alumina fiber/aluminum matrix composite for fiber directions both transverse and coaxial to the surface. Images produced with 10- and 30-keV electrons at beam modulation frequencies of 80–1200 kHz appeared to be identical, with the exception of a lower signal-to-noise ratio for the lower electron energy. This observation suggests that the energy input from the beam can be considered to occur at the surface for electron energies below 30 keV and frequencies below 1200 kHz. Images recorded at 0° phase angle mapped regions of different thermal and elastic properties. Images recorded at 90° phase angle highlighted the boundaries between such regions. Scanning electron acoustic microscopy can image features of different thermal and elastic properties at greater depth than traditional imaging with backscattered electrons. The practical application of the technique to the study of surfaces is illustrated by the imaging of grain structure and subsurface particles for an extruder barrel.     

A dye laser with small beam divergence and a stable emission spectrum

The design of a dye-laser head with a hollow cylindrical cell is described. The cell is excited from the inside by a coaxial lamp. The design of the laser head provides the possibility of transverse circulation of the dye solution, which allows generation of sharply directed radiation with a spectrum and a directional pattern that remain constant during the laser pulse. A lasing energy of 290 mJ was obtained in the laser with an ethanol solution of Rhodamin 6G in a 150-mm-long cell with inner and outer diameters of 30 and 35 mm, respectively. The use of a resonator with an interference-polarization filter resulted in the spectrum narrowing to ～0.7 nm and allowed the radiation wavelength to be tuned in a band of ～31.5 nm. The beam divergence was within 5 mrad in all cases.     

基于LCP径向偏振光输出的掺镱MOPA脉冲光纤激光器

为实现光纤激光器径向偏振光的高效输出,提出并搭建了基于液晶聚合物(LCP)的纳秒脉冲掺镱(Yb)主振荡器功率放大(MOPA)系统。该系统采用空间相位转换法,利用LCP涡旋半波片将全光纤MOPA激光器输出的高峰值功率、窄线宽、线偏振、高斯形分布的纳秒脉冲信号转换为横向强度呈空心环状分布的拉盖尔-高斯光。MOPA激光器系统由窄线宽连续种子源、电光强度调制器和后续的5级YDF放大器组成,通过实验获得了20.1 W的稳定LP01模输出。而后的LCP涡旋波片用作空间模式转换器,最终获得的平均输出功率为19.5 W,脉宽为10 ns,重复频率为10 kHz,横向剖面呈规则空心环形的径向偏振光输出,模式转换效率可达97%。另外,通过PBS测量法测得径向偏振光的模式纯度约为88.5%,兼具高功率与高纯度的优势。     

Pound-Drever-Hall-locked, frequency-stabilized cavity ring-down spectrometer

We describe a high sensitivity and high spectral resolution laser absorption spectrometer based upon the frequency-stabilized cavity ring-down spectroscopy (FS-CRDS) technique. We used the Pound-Drever-Hall (PDH) method to lock the probe laser to the high-finesse ring-down cavity. We show that the concomitant narrowing of the probe laser line width leads to dramatically increased ring-down event acquisition rates (up to 14.3 kHz), improved spectrum signal-to-noise ratios for weak O(2) absorption spectra at λ = 687 nm and substantial increase in spectrum acquisition rates compared to implementations of FS-CRDS that do not incorporate high-bandwidth locking techniques. The minimum detectable absorption coefficient and the noise-equivalent absorption coefficient for the spectrometer are about 2×10(-10) cm(-1) and 7.5×10(-11) cm(-1)Hz(-1/2), respectively.     

Angle-resolving time-of-flight electron spectrometer for near-threshold precision measurements of differential cross sections of electron-impact excitation of atoms and molecules

This article presents a new type of low-energy crossed-beam electron spectrometer for measuring angular differential cross sections of electron-impact excitation of atomic and molecular targets. Designed for investigations at energies close to excitation thresholds, the spectrometer combines a pulsed electron beam with the time-of-flight technique to distinguish between scattering channels. A large-area, position-sensitive detector is used to offset the low average scattering rate resulting from the pulsing duty cycle, without sacrificing angular resolution. A total energy resolution better than 150 meV (full width at half maximum) at scattered energies of 0.5-3 eV is achieved by monochromating the electron beam prior to pulsing it. The results of a precision measurement of the differential cross section for electron-impact excitation of helium, at an energy of 22 eV, are used to assess the sensitivity and resolution of the spectrometer.     

A tabletop femtosecond time-resolved soft x-ray transient absorption spectrometer

A laser-based, tabletop instrument is constructed to perform femtosecond soft x-ray transient absorption spectroscopy. Ultrashort soft x-ray pulses produced via high-order harmonic generation of the amplified output of a femtosecond Ti:sapphire laser system are used to probe atomic core-level transient absorptions in atoms and molecules. The results provide chemically specific, time-resolved dynamics with sub-50-fs time resolution. In this setup, high-order harmonics generated in a Ne-filled capillary waveguide are refocused by a gold-coated toroidal mirror into the sample gas cell, where the soft x-ray light intersects with an optical pump pulse. The transmitted high-order harmonics are spectrally dispersed with a homebuilt soft x-ray spectrometer, which consists of a gold-coated toroidal mirror, a uniform-line spaced plane grating, and a soft x-ray charge coupled device camera. The optical layout of the instrument, design of the soft x-ray spectrometer, and spatial and temporal characterizations of the high-order harmonics are described. Examples of static and time-resolved photoabsorption spectra collected on this apparatus are presented.     

Inverse photoemission with energy resolution better than 200 meV

We present a spectrometer for inverse photoemission in the vacuum ultraviolet range with variable energy resolution between 400 and 165 meV full width at half maximum. The energy distribution of the electron beam used for excitation can be adjusted between 300 and 125 meV by the use of a toroidal 90 degrees electrostatic deflector combined with a slit aperture. The emitted photons are detected by Geiger-Muller counters filled with either acetone or iodine as counting gas. The optical bandpasses of the detectors can be tuned between 100 and 330 meV by varying the temperature of their entrance windows. The overall resolution of the spectrometer is determined by measuring the Fermi-level onset in inverse-photoemission data of polycrystalline gold. Furthermore, the resolution enhancement is demonstrated by spectra of image-potential-induced surface states at Cu(001).     

Versatile apparatus for attosecond metrology and spectroscopy

We present the AS-2 Attosecond Beamline at the Joint Laboratory for Attosecond Physics of the Max-Planck-Institut fu?r Quantenoptik and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universita?t for time resolved pump/probe experiments with attosecond resolution. High harmonic generation and subsequent filtering of the generated extreme ultraviolet (XUV) continuum by means of metal filters and XUV multilayer mirrors serve for the generation of isolated attosecond laser pulses. After high harmonic generation, the remaining fundamental laser pulse is spatially separated from the attosecond XUV pulse, to what is to our knowledge for the first time, by means of a perforated mirror in a Mach-Zehnder interferometer. Active stabilization of this interferometer guarantees the necessary temporal resolution for tracking attosecond dynamics in real time. As a proof-of-principle, photoelectron streaking experiments are performed and experimental techniques for their realization are summarized. Finally we highlight the potential of the presented beamline system for future experiments in comparison with previously demonstrated attosecond beamlines.     

Development of a control system for pulsed-electron spin resonance spectrometers

A pulse control and data acquisition system with high time resolution of 300 ps and data-averaging rate of 100 kHz for a pulsed-ESR spectrometer was constructed. The system consists of two sets of 3.34 GHz data timing generator and a dual-channel analog-to-digital converter with 1 GHz samples, both of which are commercially available. We developed a scheme and software to control these equipments with high efficiency in pulsing design, data acquisition, and accurate synchronization of the devices. The system was developed at Ku band (17.5 GHz) and demonstrated some examples of electron spin echo and double quantum measurements.     

计算化合物分子式的五种方法

计算化合物分子式的五种方法包括高分辨质谱法 ( HRMS) ,高分辨质谱数据法 ( HRMS data) ,元素分析法 ( EA) ,1 3 C-核磁共振 ( COM,DEPT)数据法 ( 1 3 C-NMR( COM,DEPT) data)和三相似法。第一种方法 :根据 HRMS测得的分子量精确值 M和环加双键数 ( r+db) ,推断出化合物的分子式。第二种方法 :计算分子式的方法与第一种方法相类似 ,只不过是首先应按照测得的精确分子量的尾数 ,估算出分子式的总含氢原子数 ,然后再确定分子式。第三种方法 :按照 HRMS测量的 M、( r+db)和 EA测量的化合物的组成元素百分比含量 ,计算分子式。第四种方法 :根据 1 3 C-NMR测量的化合物分子各组成功能团的数目来确认分子式。第五种方法 :通过被测化合物的特征离子质谱与共同的分子式 CH3 ( CH2 ) n COR进行比较后 ,推断出分子式 ,例如柱晶白霉素、麦地霉素和生枝霉素具有共同的分子式 C3 5H56NO1 3 RR1 R2 ,其差别仅是它们的 R、R1 和 R2 不同。