AFM针尖耦合激光加工PMMA薄膜的加工重复性

利用飞秒激光与原子力显微镜的针尖部分耦合进行加工,是有望突破衍射极限,实现多隧道结加工的技术。本文在室温大气环境下,利用微焦级别脉宽为130fs、波长800nm的飞秒激光照射镀有金薄膜的原子力显微镜的探针针尖,使其耦合产生局域场加强效应在PMMA薄膜表面加工出光栅状纳米图形。通过最大残差法计算了条纹高度和宽度的重复性百分比,计算得到高度和宽度的最大残差值分别为6.3%和2.9%。结果表明在文中所提供的加工条件下,原子力显微镜针尖耦合激光是一种有潜力的激光加工方法。     

飞秒激光刻蚀微结构对NaOH水热法制备TiO_2光催化性能的影响

Ti基底三维微纳米结构TiO_2(3D-TiO_2)具有比表面积大、光捕获能力强、电荷传输快、可循环利用的优点,在光催化领域具有重要的研究意义和应用前景。采用飞秒激光刻蚀复合Na OH水热法制造Ti基底3D-TiO_2,并研究飞秒激光刻蚀的微阵列结构对3D-TiO_2光催化性能的影响。采用激光共聚焦显微镜(LSCM)、SEM、TEM、XRD对3DTiO_2进行表征分析,并对3D-TiO_2在紫外光照下进行甲基橙降解性能测试。结果表明,复合方法制备的3D-TiO_2由飞秒激光刻蚀的微阵列和Na OH水热法制备的TiO_2纳米线组成。与采用Na OH水热法直接在平整Ti表面制备的TiO_2纳米线相比,3D-TiO_2的染料吸附能力提升100%,光催化性能提升37%。微阵列结构尺寸对3D-TiO_2的性能具有明显影响,随着微阵列宽度的减小或高度的增加,3D-TiO_2的比表面积增大、入射光反射率降低、光催化性能提高。     

飞秒激光耐高温光纤光栅传感器的制备

针对传统光纤光栅传感器由于折射率调制量导致温度稳定性差的缺点,利用了飞秒激光诱导折射率变化的机理制备了一种耐高温的光纤光栅温度传感器. 首先采用800 nm飞秒激光结合相位掩膜板法在标准通信光纤上写制了光纤布拉格光栅传感器,然后通过高温退火实验对该传感器在900 ℃下的温度稳定性进行了测量,最后采用线性拟合的方法得到了传感器的温度灵敏度系数. 实验结果表明,该传感器在900 ℃下具有较好的温度稳定性,在温度为100 ℃到900 ℃范围内温度灵敏度系数达到1.27×10-11 m/℃.     

Re-Heating Effect on the Enhancement of Plasma Emission Generated from Fe Under Femtosecond Double-Pulse Laser Irradiation

In this paper, we present a study on the effect of inter-pulse delay using femtosecond double-pulse laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy in a collinear geometry. The temporal evolution of spectral intensity is performed for the lines of Fe I 423.60 nm, Fe I 425.08 nm and Fe I 427.18 nm. It is found that, by selecting appropriate inter-pulse delay, the signal enhancement can be significantly increased compared with the single-pulse case. A three-fold enhancement in the current experiment is obtained. The plasma temperature and electron density are also investigated based on the theory of Boltzmann plot and Stark broadening. We attribute the main mechanism for emission enhancement to the plasma re-heating effect.     

Multi-height phase recovery combined with Fast Iterative Shrinkage-Thresholding Algorithm to handle phase microspheres from complex diffracted field in inline holography

ABSTRACT

We describe in this work an approach that individually combines constant initialization, free-space backpropagation, transport of intensity equation (TIE) and multi-height phase recovery with Fast Iterative Shrinkage-Thresholding Algorithm (FISTA) to predict reconstruction of the phase microspheres from diffracted field measurements. We incorporate appropriate initialization and regularization to reconstruct unknown phase microspheres (transparent objects).     

70-femtosecond Gaussian pulse generation in a dispersion-managed erbium-doped fibre laser

We experimentally demonstrated the generation of transform-limit Gaussian ultrashort pulses as short as 70 fs from a dispersion-managed mode-locked erbium-doped fibre (EDF) laser. The output spectrum is close to the Gaussian profile with a full-width half-maximum (FWHM) output of 49?nm, and the measured autocorrelation trace exhibits the Gaussian profile. The shortest pulse duration of 70 fs was observed after external recompression. The time-band product is 0.44, showing the best transform limit pulse.     

Third-order dispersion in a pair of prisms

The general equation for third-order group velocity dispersion is derived in this paper, which contains all the terms of equation (11) in Arissian and Diels [1], as well as one extra term, which we have verified is not negligible. To verify our equation we have modeled the sum of Gaussian modulated frequencies. We show the electric field of bandwidth limited incident ultrashort pulses with a time duration of: 5 fs, 10 fs, 15 fs, 20 fs, 30 fs and 50 fs after propagating through a pair of identical isosceles prisms for a central frequency of 0.8 µm and 0.620 µm. The model is applied by using (a) the finite phase, (b) the phase approximated up to the second-order dispersion and (c) up to the third-order dispersion for each frequency component of the pulse. Graphs are presented for prisms made with fused silica and SF14.     

Binary representation of interference patterns for phase-shifting digital hologram

Phase-shifting digital holograms can completely record the complex (amplitude and phase) wavefront information, containing three-dimensional object shape and relative position. In this study, we examine a binary representation for a phase-shifting digital hologram and apply it to three-dimensional object recognition and reconstruction. For this purpose, we derive an optimal threshold and quantized value for the binary representation of the interference patterns. The recognition results indicate that even with only one bit to represent the digital hologram, there is still enough information for us to recognize the three-dimensional objects. By using the proposed algorithms, one can easily implement the overall recognition process in real-time applications.     

Hidden possibilities in soliton switching through tunneling in erbium doped birefringence fiber with higher order effects

In this paper, coupled higher order nonlinear Schrödinger–Maxwell–Bloch equations are studied for the ultrashort pulse propagation in erbium-doped birefringent fiber system. Lax pair is constructed for the CHNLS–MB system. Through the Darboux method and symbolic computation, analytic two-soliton solution is obtained. To analyze the specific problem, we design an optimal system by properly choosing the special form of variable coefficients. Here, using obtained two-soliton solution, tunneling of femtosecond soliton through barrier and well is investigated. While solitons are passing through barrier and well, some unexpected behavior is observed and hidden possibilities in switching action through tunneling is investigated.     

New mechanism for THz oscillation of the nonlinear refractive index in air: particle-like solutions

We describe a generalized nonlinear envelope equation governing the propagation of optical pulses, with superbroad spectrum, in air. The corresponding modified nonlinear term in the equation oscillates with terahertz frequency. The fluctuation is due to the group and phase velocity difference. In the partial case of femtosecond pulses that have a power slightly above that which is critical for self-focusing, an exact 3D + 1 particle-like solution is found.