Artificially Induced Perturbations in Chirped Magneto-Optical Bragg Gratings

2004 ◽  
Vol 834 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fredrik Jonsson ◽  
Christos Flytzanis

AbstractWe report on theoretical analysis of magneto-optically induced longitudinal perturbations in chirped magneto-optical Bragg gratings. The induced perturbations considered are of Lorentzian shape, with a spatial extent considerably larger than the spatial grating period but at least an order of magnitude less than the geometrical length of the grating. In the numerical simulation of the proposed device, we show on a high polarization state selectivity in the region of the perturbation, with resonance peaks of transmission for circularly polarized orthogonal components possessing a full width at half maximum as narrow as 0.18 nm, meanwhile being separated by 0.6 nm.

1990 ◽  
Vol 201 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. J. Pearton ◽  
B. Jalali ◽  
J. M. Poate ◽  
J. D. Fox ◽  
K. W. Kemper ◽  
...  

AbstractHigh energy (56 MeV) oxygen implants into Si, GaAs and InP give rise to sharp, non-Gaussian depth profiles with the distributions skewed towards greater depths. This skewness is probably the result of channeling, and it is a common feature of MeV implants into semiconductors. The ratio of the peak concentration in the depth profile to the concentration at the surface is ≥103 for each material, and the full width at half maximum of each profile is ∼2 μm. The experimental projected ranges for the oxygen are ∼31 μm in GaAs, ∼36 μm in InP and ∼46 μm in Si. These are ∼10% larger than the values predicted by the PRAL code. The photoluminescence intensity from the top 1 μm from the surface of both GaAs and InP is reduced by more than an order of magnitude for 56 MeV oxygen implants at a dose of 1.3 × 1015 cm−2, due to point defect introduction in this region. Potential applications for these high energy implants in electronic and photonic device fabrication will be discussed.


Author(s):  
Łukasz Zychowicz

The article presents the possibilities of detecting defect in materials using the fiber Bragg gratings (FBG). Steel belts with a thickness of 1 mm were used for the tests: one standard and the others were damaged. The damage was in the form of incisions. The FBG was glued to the sample with epoxy glue along its entire length and elongation by outside force. Based on the transmission spectrum obtained on the Optical Spectrum Analyzer (OSA) the processing characteristics: the main minimum on the transmission characteristics, total width of the spectrum and the full width at half maximum FWHM depending on the FBG strain was determine.


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (15) ◽  
pp. 6919
Author(s):  
Majid Masnavi ◽  
Martin Richardson

A series of experiments is described which were conducted to measure the absolute spectral irradiances of laser plasmas created from metal targets over the wavelength region of 123–164 nm by two separate 1.0 μm lasers, i.e., using 100 Hz, 10 ns, 2–20 kHz, 60–100 ns full-width-at-half-maximum pulses. A maximum radiation conversion efficiency of ≈ 3%/2πsr is measured over a wavelength region from ≈ 125 to 160 nm. A developed collisional-radiative solver and radiation-hydrodynamics simulations in comparison to the spectra detected by the Seya–Namioka-type monochromator reveal the strong broadband experimental radiations which mainly originate from bound–bound transitions of low-ionized charges superimposed on a strong continuum from a dense plasma with an electron temperature of less than 10 eV.


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam Huang ◽  
Chung-Wei Lee ◽  
Hon-Man Liu

AbstractMoyamoya disease (MMD) is a chronic, steno-occlusive cerebrovascular disorder of unknown etiology. Surgical treatment is the only known effective method to restore blood flow to affected areas of the brain. However, there are lack of generally accepted noninvasive tools for therapeutic outcome monitoring. As dynamic susceptibility contrast (DSC) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is the standard MR perfusion imaging technique in the clinical setting, we investigated a dataset of nineteen pediatric MMD patients with one preoperational and multiple periodic DSC MRI examinations for four to thirty-eight months after indirect revascularization. A rigid gamma variate model was used to derive two nondeconvolution-based perfusion parameters: time to peak (TTP) and full width at half maximum (FWHM) for monitoring transitional bolus delay and dispersion changes respectively. TTP and FWHM values were normalized to the cerebellum. Here, we report that 74% (14/19) of patients improve in both TTP and FWHM measurements, and whereof 57% (8/14) improve more noticeably on FWHM. TTP is in good agreement with Tmax in estimating bolus delay. Our study data also suggest bolus dispersion estimated by FWHM is an additional, informative indicator in pediatric MMD monitoring.


2016 ◽  
Vol 09 (02) ◽  
pp. 1650023 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bin Peng ◽  
Jianying Jiang ◽  
Guo Chen ◽  
Lin Shu ◽  
Jie Feng ◽  
...  

Highly c-axis oriented aluminum nitrade (AlN) films were successfully deposited on flexible Hastelloy tapes by middle-frequency magnetron sputtering. The microstructure and piezoelectric properties of the AlN films were investigated. The results show that the AlN films deposited directly on the bare Hastelloy substrate have rough surface with root mean square (RMS) roughness of 32.43[Formula: see text]nm and its full width at half maximum (FWHM) of the AlN (0002) peak is [Formula: see text]. However, the AlN films deposited on the Hastelloy substrate with Y2O3 buffer layer show smooth surface with RMS roughness of 5.46[Formula: see text]nm and its FWHM of the AlN (0002) peak is only [Formula: see text]. The piezoelectric coefficient d[Formula: see text] of the AlN films deposited on the Y2O3/Hastelloy substrate is larger than three times that of the AlN films deposited on the bare Hastelloy substrate. The prepared highly c-axis oriented AlN films can be used to develop high-temperature flexible SAW sensors.


2016 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
pp. 675-686 ◽  
Author(s):  
Z.-L. Pan ◽  
J.-H. Yang ◽  
X.-B. Cheng

AbstractAn anti-resonance pulse forming network (PFN) has been designed, analyzed, and tested for its application in generating quasi-square pulses. According to the circuit simulations, a compact generator based on two/three-section network was constructed. Two-section network is applied in the generator due to its compact structure, while three-section network is employed for generating pulses with higher quality. When two-section network is applied in the generator, the full-width at half-maximum of the load pulse is 400 ns, at the same time, its rise time, flat top and fall time are 90, 180 and 217 ns, respectively. When the three-section network is applied with the same pulse width of the load pulse, the rise time of the output decreases to 60 ns, while the flat top increases to 240 ns and the fall time reduces to 109 ns. Meanwhile, this kind of network could be used to shape the output pulses of generators whose equivalent circuit is LC series discharge network, such as MARX generator, into quasi-square pulses. And the preliminary experiment demonstrates that anti-resonance network could work well on four-stage Marx generators. A sine pulse generated by the four-stage Marx generator is shaped into a quasi-square pulse with voltage of 11.8 kV and pulse width about 110 ns based on two-section anti-resonance network.


1996 ◽  
Vol 422 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Horiguchi ◽  
T. Kinone ◽  
R. Saito ◽  
T. Kimura ◽  
T. Ikoma

AbstractErbium films are evaporated on crystalline silicon substrates and are thermally diffused into silicon in an Ar+02 or H2 flow. Very sharp Er3+-related luminescence peaks are observed around 1.54 μ m.The main peak as well as the fine structures of the luminescence spectra depend on the annealing atmosphere, suggesting different luminescence centers. The full width at half maximum (FWHM) of the main peaks is ≤ 0.5nm at 20K. Thermal diffusion with Al films on top of the Er films is found to increase the intensity of the Er3+-related peaks greatly. The temperature dependence between 20 K and room temperature is relatively small, and a strong luminescence is obtained at room temperature.


2008 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 605-617 ◽  
Author(s):  
V.F. Tarasenko ◽  
E.H. Baksht ◽  
A.G. Burachenko ◽  
I.D. Kostyrya ◽  
M.I. Lomaev ◽  
...  

AbstractThis paper reports on the properties of a supershort avalanche electron beam generated in the air or other gases under atmospheric pressure and gives the analysis of a generation mechanism of supershort avalanche electron beam, as well as methods of such electron beams registration. It is reported that in the air under the pressure of 1 atm, a supershort (<100 ps) avalanche electron beam is formed in the solid angle more than 2π steradian. The electron beam has been obtained behind a 45 µm thick Al-Be foil in SF6 and Xe under the pressure of 2 atm, and in He, under the pressure of about 15 atm. It is shown that in SF6 under the high pressure (>1 atm) duration (full width at half maximum) of supershort avalanche electron beam pulse is about 150 ps.


2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Shoufeng Lan ◽  
Xiaoze Liu ◽  
Siqi Wang ◽  
Hanyu Zhu ◽  
Yawen Liu ◽  
...  

AbstractThe interplay between chirality and magnetism generates a distinct physical process, the magneto-chiral effect, which enables one to develop functionalities that cannot be achieved solely by any of the two. Such a process is universal with the breaking of parity-inversion and time-reversal symmetry simultaneously. However, the magneto-chiral effect observed so far is weak when the matter responds to photons, electrons, or phonons. Here we report the first observation of strong magneto-chiral response to excitons in a twisted bilayer tungsten disulfide with the amplitude of excitonic magneto-chiral (ExMCh) anisotropy reaches a value of ~4%. We further found the ExMCh anisotropy features with a spectral splitting of ~7 nm, precisely the full-width at half maximum of the excitonic chirality spectrum. Without an externally applied strong magnetic field, the observed ExMCh effect with a spontaneous magnetic moment from the ferromagnetic substrate of thulium iron garnet at room temperature is favorable for device applications. The unique ExMCh processes provide a new pathway to actively control magneto-chiral applications in photochemical reactions, asymmetric synthesis, and drug delivery.


2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 295-311 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. P. Langowski ◽  
C. von Savigny ◽  
J. P. Burrows ◽  
V. V. Rozanov ◽  
T. Dunker ◽  
...  

Abstract. An algorithm has been developed for the retrieval of sodium atom (Na) number density on a latitude and altitude grid from SCIAMACHY (SCanning Imaging Absorption spectroMeter for Atmospheric CHartographY) limb measurements of the Na resonance fluorescence. The results are obtained between 50 and 150 km altitude and the resulting global seasonal variations of Na are analyzed. The retrieval approach is adapted from that used for the retrieval of magnesium atom (Mg) and magnesium ion (Mg+) number density profiles recently reported by Langowski et al. (2014). Monthly mean values of Na are presented as a function of altitude and latitude. This data set was retrieved from the 4 years of spectroscopic limb data of the SCIAMACHY mesosphere and lower thermosphere (MLT) measurement mode (mid-2008 to early 2012). The Na layer has a nearly constant peak altitude of 90–93 km for all latitudes and seasons, and has a full width at half maximum of 5–15 km. Small but significant seasonal variations in Na are identified for latitudes less than 40°, where the maximum Na number densities are 3000–4000 atoms cm−3. At middle to high latitudes a clear seasonal variation with a winter maximum of up to 6000 atoms cm−3 is observed. The high latitudes, which are only measured in the summer hemisphere, have lower number densities, with peak densities being approximately 1000 Na atoms cm−3. The full width at half maximum of the peak varies strongly at high latitudes and is 5 km near the polar summer mesopause, while it exceeds 10 km at lower latitudes. In summer the Na atom concentration at high latitudes and at altitudes below 88 km is significantly smaller than that at middle latitudes. The results are compared with other observations and models and there is overall a good agreement with these.


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