Slow light in tapered slot photonic crystal waveguide

A slotted single-mode photonic crystal waveguide with a linear tapered slot is presented to realize slow light, whose dispersion curve is shifted by changing the slot width. When the slot width is reduced, the band curve shifts in the tapered structure, and the group velocity of light approach zero at the cut-off frequency. Therefore, different frequency components of the guided light are slowed down even localized along the propagation direction inside a tapered slot photonic crystal waveguide. Furthermore, this structure can confine slow light-wave in a narrow slot waveguide, which may effectively enhance the interaction between slow light and the low-index wave-guiding materials filled in the slot. In addition, this tapered slot structure can be used to compensate group velocity dispersion of slow light by modifying the structure, thus opening the opportunity for ultra-wide bandwidth slow light.     

Enhanced parametric amplification in slow-light photonic crystal waveguides

We demonstrate both theoretically and numerically that slow light can enhance the parametric process of silicon in photonic crystal line-defect waveguides. Specifically, to get the desired gain, the pump power for a given gain medium length or the gain medium length for given pump power can be reduced by （c/vgn）^2 when slow light waveguides are used, where n is the material index of conventional waveguide, vg is the group velocity of the slow light waveguide and c is the light velocity in vacuum.     

浅谈进化学说及其发展历程

著名的俄裔美籍遗传学家杜布赞斯基(Theodosius Dobzhansky)说过这样一句话:Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution(如果没有进化之光,生物学的一切将毫无意义).由此可见,进化是生物学的核心和灵魂.那么何为生物进化呢...     

First-principles investigation of the impurity-kink interaction in bcc iron

Using the first-principles self-consistent discrete variational method based on density functional theory, we investigated the effect of light impurities C and N on the electronic structure of kink on the [100]（010） edge dislocation （ED） in bcc iron. Our energetic calculations show that the light impurities have a strong segregation tendency to enter the kink. The results of the charge distribution and the local density of states indicate that the strong bonds between the impurity atoms and the neighboring Fe atoms are formed due to the hybridizations of impurity atoms 2p states and Fe 3d4s4p states. The introduction of light impurities can stabilize the kink system, and impedes the sideward motion of the kink in the [100]（010） ED. This is, the light impurities induce a strong pinning effect on the [100]（010） ED and may result in the solid solute hardening.     

Simulation of Grey Scale Ghost Imaging By Labview

In this paper,we present a simulation method to reconstruct the object’s imaging in a ghost-imaging system.We use Laguerre-Gaussian(LG) beam as the light source which will produce the Orbital Angular Momentum(OAM) states.In the signal arm,the object spatial information is encoded as phase,and added to the phase of the signal light.In the idler arm,the phase of the idler light is changed according to the maximum coincidence rate in the receiver.We get each pixel matched phase of the object and reconstruct the object’s imaging in the idle arm.We demostrate some examples of the reconstruction and compare with the other reported method.The results show that our method can improve the resoltuion of the image effectively.     

Effect of nluminants on the Colour Appearance of Reactive - dyed Cotton

The colour appearance of dyed textile materials changes with the viewing condition, especially with a change in the light source or Illuminant. The attitude and magnitude of the change vary with the hue of the colour, the light absorbance nature of the dye and the colour depth to which it is dyed. This paper examines the change in colour appearance of reactive - dyed cotton when the light source is changed from CIE Uluminant D65 to CIE illuminant A. Reactive dyes of primary hues were selected and applied at various depths and the dyed colours were assessed with reference to changing the illuminant.     

Effects of light and temperature conditions on flowering in Mat Rush

The effects of photoperiod and light intensity on flowering in Mat Rush cv.Gangshan 3 were studied.The results showed that treatments with longer day length stimulated flowering significantly and increased stem flowering percentage(SFP),Plants treated with low light intensity at early stage had substantially reduced florets per cyme.SFP,tillers per plant and stem length.At middle and late stage,low light intensity significantly reduced SFP,The principal climatic factors affecting SFP were as follows:mean temperatures (MT) of the third ten-day perod(TDP) in December and of the second TDP in Febrary,actual sunlight hours(SH) of the third TDP in February and precipitation of the third TDP in March,A nolinear simulation model for SFP was establishe with experimental results and corresponding climatic data(See Eq.(2)).Simulation by the above equation yielded values the same as those observed from 1992 to 2000,indicating its accuracy in describing the relationship between flowering and light and temperature conditions.The interaction between vernalization and SH is also discussed in this paper.     

The application of the microstructured metallic grating to light emission extraction

Microstructured metallic gratings can be used to enhance the light emission efficiency of LEDs,and the spectral radiation properties of the LEDs vary with the different metallic materials used,leading to variation of the light emission enhancement at the same wavelength for different metallic grating materials.In this paper,the finite difference time domain(FDTD) method has been used to investigate the light emission extraction enhancement of LEDs in which gratings with different metallic materials have been applied.Through analysis of the permittivity of the metals and the quality factors of the surface plasmons(SPs),we concluded that the larger the plasma frequency obtained for the metallic interband transition,then the more suitable the metals are for light emission extraction of photons with relatively short wavelengths.This is because of the abundance of free electrons in the metals with large plasma frequencies.We also found that the wavelength-dependent trends of the extraction enhancement resulting from the scattering mechanism for different metallic materials are similar to each other.For SP-induced enhancement,either the enhancement peak position or the peak value changes significantly with the different metals.     

Manipulation of light in MIM plasmonic waveguide systems

Plasmonic waveguides that allow deeply subwavelength confinement of light provide an effective platform for the design of ultracompact photonic devices.As an important plasmonic waveguide,metal-insulator-metal(MIM)structure supports the propagation of light in the nanoscale regime at the visible and near-infrared ranges.Here,we focus on our work in MIM plasmonic waveguide devices for manipulating light,and review some of the recent development of this topic.We introduce MIM plasmonic wavelength filtering and demultiplexing devices,and present the electromagnetic induced transparency(EIT)-like and Fano resonance effects in MIM waveguide systems.The slow-light and rainbow trapping effects are demonstrated theoretically.These results pave a way toward dynamic control of the special and useful optical responses,which actualize some new plasmonic waveguide-integrated devices such as nanoscale filters,demultiplexers,sensors,slow light waveguides,and buffers.     

Squeezing bandwidth controllable twin beam light and phase sensitive nonlinear interferometer based on atomic ensembles

We review our recent experimental progress in quantum technology employing amplification effect of four-wave mixing in a rubidium vapor. We have produced an intensity difference squeezed light source at frequencies as low as 1.5 kHz which is so far the lowest frequency at which squeezing has been observed in an atomic system. Moreover, we find that the bandwidth of our squeezed light source can be controlled with light intensity pumping. Using our non-classical light source, we have further developed a nonlinear Mach-Zehnder (MZ) interferometer, for which the maximum fringe intensity depends quadratically on the intensity of the phase-sensing field at the high-gain regime, leading to much better sensitivity than a linear MZ interferometer in which the beam splitters have the same phase-sensing intensity. The quantum technologies developed by our group could have great potential in areas such as precision measurement and quantum information.     

Imaging of apoptotic HeLa cells by using scanning near-field optical microscopy

By using scanning near-field optical microscopy (SNOM), HeLa cells in apoptosis process are imaged with a higher optical resolution beyond the diffraction limit. Since SNOM provides both topographic and transmitted light intensity information of a cell, it can correlate the structural characteristics and optical properties with the spatial position of the apoptotic cells. Wavelength imaging by using near-field spectroscopy shows that there is a great difference in light propagation and absorption in the cell. This unique technique can be applied to the super high resolution imaging of different components in the cell. The observations by near-field optical imaging and near-field spectroscopy indicate an inhomogeneous aggregation of the inner structure in the apoptotic HeLa cells and the change of transmission intensity of light with the apoptosis status.     

DEM/CFD modelling of the deposition of dilute granular systems in a vertical container

Deposition of granular materials into a container is a general industrial packing process. In this study, the deposition behaviour of dilute granular mixtures consisting of two types of particles that were of the same particle size but different particle densities in the presence of air was numerically analyzed using a coupled discrete element method （DEM） and computational fluid dynamics （CFD）. Bilayer granular mixtures with light particles at bottom and heavy particles at top were first simulated. It was found that the presence of air significantly affected the flow behaviour of the bilayer mixtures. For the system with a relatively low initial void fraction, the air entrapped inside the container escaped through the dilated zones induced due to the friction between the powder bed and wall surfaces. The escaping air streams entrained light particles that were originally located at the bottom of the granular system. Consequently, these light particles were migrated to the top of the granular bed at the end of deposition process. More light particles were migrated when the deposition distance was increased. For the system with a high initial void fraction, some light particles penetrated into the top layer of heavy particles and created a mixing zone. Deposition of random mixtures with different initial void fractions was also investigated and the influence of initial void fraction on the segregation behaviour was explored as well. It was found that the increase of void fraction promoted segregation during the deposition in air. It was demonstrated that, for granular mixtures consisting of particles of different air sensitivities, the presence of air had a significant impact on the mixing and segregation behaviour during the deposition.     

Generalized multiparticle Mie modeling of light scattering by cells

The development of nanobiology requires a fundamental understanding of the interaction features between light and cells as well as cells containing nanoparticles. In this study, the generalized multiparticle Mie (GMM) theory was employed to calculate the scattering properties of cells under refractive index matching conditions. The angular distribution of scattered light is statistically averaged to obtain a good fit for the experimental results. Based on a simplified cell model, the variabilities between the scattered light pattern of normal cells and that of cancerous cells were examined. The results indicate that the small angle scattering is sensitive to the organelle distribution, which could be applied in the diagnostics of cancerous cells. Finally, the effects of cellular uptake of nanoparticles on the scattering pattern was also investigated.     

Photoelectric Responses of Stainless Steel to Monochromatic Light

Photoelectric responses of unpretreated 1Cr18Ni9Ti stainless steel immersed insolution are quite weak aud difficult to detect. Photoresponses of such stainless steelto polychromatic light over the visible range of radiation have been detected quanti-tatively, for the first time, by the present authors using signal averaging techni-que. More information may be acquired with monochromatic light excitation. How-ever, photoresponses to monochromatic light are decreased by a factor of 300 com-     

The first determination of atmospheric phosphine in Antarctica

It is generally thought that phosphine (PH3) concentrations exist at the low ng/m3 level during the night and at the pg/m3 level during daylight in the remote atmosphere of the lower troposphere. The first de- termination of gaseous PH3 on the Antarctic Millor Peninsula is reported in this paper. No PH3 was de- tected in the air samples around 10:00 when it was sunny. However, PH3 was found in all the 10:00 air samples when it was cloudy or light snow with the average of 75.3±28.8 ng/m3 (n=5). It was also found in nearly all the samples around 22:00 with the average of 87.2±70.9 ng/m3 (n=11). Atmospheric PH3 concentrations around 22:00 were generally higher than those around 10:00 in January and they were almost the same in February. In addition, PH3 concentrations around 22:00 showed a downtrend with the decreasing air temperature, suggesting that light intensity and air temperature had an important effect on atmospheric PH3 concentration. It is very surprising to have found that high concentrations of PH3 exist in the Antarctic atmosphere under the influence of strong UV-radiation and light intensity. The tentative analyses show that dry, cold and very clean atmosphere may be very suitable for the PH3 sur- vival and cause the concentration to increase and accumulate in the local atmosphere. New ap- proaches for the PH3 formation and the process of atmospheric chemistry may exist under such an extreme environment. Atmospheric PH3 may also be from the emissions of local sources.     

Three-Dimensional Measurement and Reconstruction of Fabric Drape Shape

This paper introduces a new method of measuring the three-dimensional drape shape of fabrics with structural light. First, we apply parallel annular structural light to form light and shade alternating contour stripes on the surface of fabrics. We then collect the images of contour stripes using Charge Coupled Device （CCD）. Subsequently, we process the images to identify the contour stripes and edges of fabrics, and obtain the fabric contour lines of curved surfaces. Finally, we apply three-dimensional curved surface modeling method based on a network of polar coordinates, and reconstruct the three-dimensional drape shape of fabrics. Experiments show that our method is effective in testing and reconstructing three-dimensional drape shape of fabrics.     

Communication between osteoblasts stimulated by electromagnetic fields

Pulsed electromagnetic field can affect the proliferation of osteoblasts, but the mechanism is obscure yet. The communication between osteoblasts, isolated from calvaria bone of newborn SD rats and stimulated with the rectangular electromagnetic field of 15 Hz and 4 mT, was studied. Our results showed that the osteoblasts radiated a kind of light after they were stimulated with the electromagnetic field and it is the light that promotes the proliferation of un-stimulated osteoblasts.     

Application of upconversion luminescence in dye-sensitized solar cells

An upconversion luminescence powder TiO2:(Er3+,Yb3+) is prepared by a hydrothermal method and used to fabricate dye-sensitized solar cell (DSSC).The TiO2:(Er3+,Yb3+) powder undergoes upconversion luminescence,converting infrared light which the dye can not absorb into visible light with wavelengths of 510-700 nm which the dye can absorb,increasing the photocurrent of the DSSC.TiO2:(Er3+,Yb3+) also acts as a p-type dopant,heightening the Fermi level of the oxide film,which increases the photovoltage of the DSSC.The best performance of the DSSC is found when the ratio of TiO2/luminescence powder is 1/3 in the luminescence layer.Under simulated solar irradiation of 100 mW cm-2 (AM 1.5),the DSSC containing TiO2:(Er3+,Yb3+) doping achieves a light-to-electricity energy conversion efficiency of 7.28% compared with 6.41% for the undoped DSSC.     

Photosynthesis characteristics of three species of forages in the arid-hot valleys

By using TPS-1 portable photosynthesis measuring system, the photosynthesis characteristics of three kinds of high quality forages used in the arid-hot valley eco-agricultural models in Yuanmou were measured. The paper shows that Pennisetum purpureum Schumach is the heliophilous shade tolerance C4 plant and Styiosanthes guianensis is the heliophilous shade tolerance plant, both of them could make full use of the light energy under the weak light environment and have relatively strong CO2 assimilation capacity. Cajanus cajan（L.） Millspaugh is the strong heliophilous plant with high requirement for light and has a relatively weak CO2 assimilation capacity. Generally, these three kinds of high quality forages are drought resistant and show a relatively good adaptability to the arid-hot valley environment. To improve cultivation administration level and to interplant timely in the forest can be helpful to the ecological niche and to improve the productivity force.