Abstract:By analyzing the principle of dual-pump parametric amplification and the polarization dependent gain of fiber optical parametric amplifier(FOPA),a polarization-insensitive FOPA based on polarization-diversity technique with dual parallel pumps is presented.The performances of polarization-insensitivity,gain and BER are theoretically analyzed and numerically simulated by comparing the proposed scheme with parallel pump solution and orthogonal pump solution.The presented solution can reduce the co...

Abstract:We report the enhanced performance of organic solar cells(OSCs) based on regioregular poly(3-hexylthiophene)(P3HT) and methanofullerene [6,6]-phenyl C61-butyric acid methyl ester(PCBM) blend by using dihydroxybenzene as additive in the active layer.The effect of the content of the additives on electrical characteristics of the device is studied.The device with 0.2 wt% dihydroxybenzene additive achieves the best power conversion efficiency(PCE) of 4.58% with Jsc of 12.5 mA/cm2,Voc of 0.65 V,and F...

Abstract:Thin alloy films of palladium(Pd) and silver(Ag) are deposited onto glass substrates via the direct current(DC) magnetron technique.The hydrogen sensor probe consists of optical fiber bundle and Pd/Ag optical thin film.when the sensor is exposed to hydrogen,the refractive index of Pd/Ag optical thin layer will diminish and cause attenuation changes of the reflective light.It is observed that the thickness of Pd/Ag alloy layer can affect the hydrogen sensor signal.Under different substrate temper...

Abstract:We propose a novel optical polarizer based on an asymmetric dual-core photonic crystal fiber(PCF) with triangular lattice air-holes.The fiber is designed as that the effective indices of modes in the two cores are matched at one polarized state but mismatched at another polarized state.As a result,one of the polarization states is coupled to the other core and transferred into a high-order mode.The transmission properties of the polarizer are investigated by the semi-vectorial beam propagation m...

Abstract:The performance of broadband polarizing beam splitters(PBSs) is sensitive to the incident angle.By taking account of the spectrum of the laser source and using the needle optimization method,a large acceptance angle PBS for laser-based displays is designed.The average degrees of polarization in transmission and reflection can reach 0.989 and 0.980 for an acceptance angle of 13.6in air using two materials,while better results of 0.993 and 0.989 for an acceptance angle of 14.8?in air are attained ...

Abstract:In order to study the dark current characteristics in a quantum wire infrared photodetector(QRIP),the average number of electrons in quantum wires(QRs) must be got,which is mostly too complicated.In this paper we give a simple formula to calculate the average number of carriers in a quantum wire(QR) that can be easily evaluated by mathematical softwares,and then we use this formula to study dark current characteristics of a quantum wire infrared photodetector(QRIP). 更多还原

Abstract:The proton implantation is one of key procedures to confine the current diffusion in vertical cavity surface emitting lasers(VCSELs),in which the proton implanted depth and profile are main parameters.Threshold characteristics of VCSELs with various proton implanted depths are studied after optical,electrical and thermal fields have been simulated self-consistently in three dimensions.It is found that for VCSELs with confinement radius of 2 mm,increasing proton implanted depth can reduce the inj...

Abstract:We demonstrate a novel SOI-based photonic crystal(PC) double-heterostructure slot waveguide microcavity constructed by cascading three PC slot waveguides with different slot widths,and simulate the luminescence enhancement of sol-gel Er-doped SiO2 filled in the microcavity by finite-difference time-domain(FDTD) method.The calculated results indicate that a unique sharp resonant peak dominates in the spectrum at the expected telecommunication wavelength of 1.5509 mm,with very high normalized peak...

Abstract:The influence of thermal stress on the temperature sensitivity of fiber Bragg grating-glass fiber reinforce polymer(FBG-GFRP) bars is studied by three methods,namely,direct experimental calibration method,stress analysis(finite element analysis) method and the method of apparent temperature sensitivity coefficient.In comparison with the other two methods,fewer parameters are required and the calculation is simple in the method of apparent temperature sensitivity coefficient,while the analytical ...

Abstract:AlN films with preferred c-axis orientation are deposited on Si substrates using the radio frequency(RF) magnetron sputtering method.The post-processing is carried out under the cooling conditions including high vacuum,low vacuum under deposition gas ambient and low vacuum under dynamic N2 ambient.Structures and morphologies of the films are analyzed by X-ray diffraction(XRD) and atomic force microscopy(AFM).The hardness and Young’s modulus are investigated by the nanoindenter.The experimental r...

Abstract:When the electromagnetic wave propagates through a slab superconducting material in microwave ranges,tunneling properties of the electromagnetic wave at critical temperature are investigated theoretically.The transmittance and the reflectance of the slab superconducting material vary with the thickness of material as well as the refractive index of substrates.The high transmittance is found for thin superconductor at low wavelength region.However,optical properties are strongly dependent upon te..

Abstract:The band characteristics of two-dimensional(2D) lead lanthanum zirconate titanate(PLZT) photonic crystals are analyzed by finite element method.The electro-optic effect of PLZT can cause the refractive index change when it is imposed by the applied electric field,and the band structure of 2D photonic crystals based on PLZT varies accordingly.The effect of the applied electric field on the structural characteristics of the first and second band gaps in 2D PLZT photonic crystals is analyzed in det...

Abstract:By citrate sol-gel auto-combustion method,the nanophase M-type planar hexagonal ferrite is prepared.The transmission electron microscopy(TEM),X-ray diffraction(XRD) and thermal analysis are used to study the grain size,phase composition,microstructure and crystallization process.The results show that the nanophase M-type Sr-ferrite prepared by this method is single,and its grain size is smaller than 100 nm.Moreover,most of the grains present hexagonal sheet shape.Tests are carried out for its at...

Abstract:In order to reduce the noises affixed to the signals when testing high frequency devices,a single-port test mode(S11) is used to test frequency response of high frequency(GHz) and dual-port surface acoustic wave devices(SAWDs) in this paper.The feasibility of the test is proved by simulating the Fabry-perot model.The frequency response of the high-frequency dual-port resonant-type diamond SAWD is measured by S11 and the dual-port test mode(S21),respectively.The results show that the quality fact...

Abstract:A precise measurement of the applanated diameter of the ocular cornea with the optical probe is very important in applanation tonometry.A novel optical probe with a common path configuration is presented.The optical probe mainly consists of a cone-shaped prism and a photodetector.The former serves as a measuring body touching the ocular cornea to shape the area to be measured,and the latter converts the quantity of the luminous flux returning from the cone-shaped prism into one electronic curren...

Abstract:To shun the vortex hazard,the airport wake vortex monitoring system based on 1.5-mm pulsed coherent Doppler lidar is designed successfully in this paper.Based on the realistic analytical model,the wake vortex generated by airbus A340 under typical flight condition is simulated.Then the principle of airport wake vortex monitoring is introduced,and the work flow of the monitoring system is also presented.Moreover,based on the mechanism of vortex coherent detection and typical system parameters,bot...

Abstract:A scheme is presented to realize the controlled teleportation of an unknown three dimensional(3D) two-particle state by using a non-maximally entangled two-particle state and a non-maximally entangled three-particle state in the 3D space as the quantum channels,and one of the particles in the channels is used as the controlled particle.Analysis shows that when the quantum channels are of maximal entanglement,namely the channels are composed of a 3D Bell state and a 3D GHZ state,the total success...

Abstract:Based on the coherence theory of diffracted optical field and the model for partially coherent beams,analytical expressions for the cross-spectral density and the irradiance spectral density in the far zone are derived,respectively.Utilizing the theoretical model of radiation from secondary planar sources,the physical conditions for sources generating a cosh-Gaussian(CHG) beam are investigated.Analytical results demonstrate that the parametric conditions strongly depend on the coherence property...

Abstract:Under classical mechanics,the general equation of particle motion in the periodic field is derived.In the dampless case,the existence possibility of the higher-order harmonic radiation is explored by using Bessel function expansion of a generalized trigonometrical function and the multi-scale method.In the damping case,the critical properties and a chaotic behavior are discussed by the Melnikov method.The results show that the use of a higher-order harmonic radiation of non-relativistic particle...

Abstract:We investigate theoretically the temperature effects on the evolutions of both bright and dark screening spatial solitons in biased two-photon photorefractive crystals.For a stable bright or dark two-photon screening spatial soliton originally formed in a crystal at a given temperature,when the crystal temperature changes,it will evolve into another stable screening soliton if the temperature change is quite small,while it will become unstable or break down if the temperature change is large eno...

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