Flat Surface Plasmon Polariton Bands in Bragg Grating Waveguide for Slow Light

The formations of the surface plasmonpolariton (SPP) bands in metal/air/metal (MAM) sub-wavelength plasmonic grating waveguide (PGW) are proposed. The band gaps originating from the highly localized resonances inside the grooves can be simply estimated from the round trip phase condition. Due to the overlap of the localized SPPs between the neighboring grooves, a Bloch mode forms in the bandgap and can be engineered to build a very flat dispersion for slow light. A chirped PGW with groove depth varying is also demonstrated to trap light, which is validated by finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) simulations with both continuous and pulse excitations.

Surface Emitting Distributed Feedback Quantum Cascade Laser around 8.3 mu m

We demonstrate surface emitting distributed feedback quantum cascade lasers emitting at wavelengths from 8.1 mu m at 90 K to 8.4 mu m at 210 K. The second-order metalized grating is carefully designed using a modified coupled-mode theory and fabricated by contact lithography. The devices show single mode behavior with a side mode suppression ratio above 18 dB at all working temperatures. At 90 K, the device emits an optical power of 101 mW from the surface and 199 mW from the edge. In addition, a double-lobe far-field pattern with a separation of 2.2 degrees is obtained in the direction along the waveguide.

PERFORMANCE OF DOUBLE SIDEBAND MODULATED PROBE WAVE IN BOTDA DISTRIBUTED FIBER SENSOR

We report on the performance of double sideband (DSB) modulated probe wave in Brillouin optical time domain analysis (BOTDA) distributed fiber sensor. Compared to single sideband (SSB)modulation, along the sensing fiber the pump depletion of DSB modulation is remarkably suppressed in time domain and also has a relatively narrower Brillouin gain spectrum in frequency domain. Both the theoretical simulation and the experimental results demonstrate that the DSB modulation provides potentially longer sensing distance and higher accuracy in measurement than the SSB modulation in the BOTDA distributed fiber sensor system.

Distributed Temperature Sensing System Based on Rayleigh Scattering BOTDA

A distributed temperature sensor based on Rayleigh scattering Brillouin optical time domain analysis (Rayleigh-BOTDA) is proposed in this paper. The sensor uses Rayleigh backscattering effect of microwave modulated pulse base sidebands as probe wave and a high sensitive photon counting detector for Brillouin signal intensity detection. Compared with a conventional BOTDA system, the Rayleigh-BOTDA effectively suppresses polarization-induced signal fluctuation resulting in improved signal intensity. The experimental scheme presented is simplified by using a single laser with one-end access. The temperature accuracy of the new sensing system was demonstrated as 1 degrees C on spatial resolution of 3 m.

Fiber Bragg Grating Sensor for Strain Sensing in Low Temperature Superconducting Magnet

Fiber Bragg grating (FBG) sensor for monitoring the electromagnetic strain in a low temperature superconducting (LTS) magnet was studied. Before used to LTS magnet strain sensing, the strain response of the sensor with 1.54-mu m wavelength at liquid helium was experimentally studied. It was found that the wavelength shift showed good linearity with longitudinal applied loads and the strain sensitivity is constant at 4.2 K. And then, the hoop strain measurement of a LTS magnet was carried out on the basis of measured results. Furthermore, the finite element method (FEM) was used to simulate the magnet strain. The difference between the experimental and numerical analysis results is very small.

Fiber Bragg Grating Sensor for Strain Sensing in Low Temperature Superconducting Magnet

Fiber Bragg grating (FBG) sensor for monitoring the electromagnetic strain in a low temperature superconducting (LTS) magnet was studied. Before used to LTS magnet strain sensing, the strain response of the sensor with 1.54-mu m wavelength at liquid helium was experimentally studied. It was found that the wavelength shift showed good linearity with longitudinal applied loads and the strain sensitivity is constant at 4.2 K. And then, the hoop strain measurement of a LTS magnet was carried out on the basis of measured results. Furthermore, the finite element method (FEM) was used to simulate the magnet strain. The difference between the experimental and numerical analysis results is very small.

双重辐射源~9C束流在其Bragg峰区对细胞致死效应增强的生物物理机制

相对12C束流而言,β缓发粒子衰变放射性9C束流在其Bragg峰区附近深度对细胞的致死效应明显增强,这已经在我们先前的研究中证实.9C束流的相对生物学效应(RBE)较12C束流要大1倍以上.本研究旨在探讨造成这一重要实验现象的生物物理机理.首先,建立模型计算了用于实验时产生的9C束流的阻止沉积几率密度分布,模型考虑了初始束流的动量分布,束流随贯穿深度增加由核反应导致的离子通量衰减和能量损失岐离等效应.发现9C束流对细胞致死效应增强的区域出现在入射9C离子的阻止沉积区域.其次,以9C束流入射处剂量为1Gy为例,根据计算得到的入射9C离子阻止分布几率密度推导了9C束流在不同贯穿深度上的沉积离子密度,进而得到了不同深度上每细胞内平均沉积9C离子数;同时,由相近剂量平均传能线密度(LET)深度上9C和12C束流实验上测得的细胞存活率推导出了9C及12C束流在这些深度上导致的每细胞平均致死事件数.研究结果表明,在照射剂量相同时每细胞平均沉积9C离子数与9C及12C束流每细胞平均致死事件数之差竟相吻合.由此推测,一个沉积9C离子将造成该细胞死亡.考虑到由9C衰变而发射低能粒子的性质,9C离子细胞中沉积可能会在该细胞中造成团簇损伤,因而本研究结果可作为辐射团簇损伤高效细胞致死的间接证据.

Enhanced biological effect induced by a radioactive C-9-ion beam at the depths around its Bragg peak

To explore the potential of double irradiation source, radioactive C-9-ion beam, in tumor therapy, a comparative study oil the surviving effect of human salivary gland cells at different penetration depths between C-9 and C-12-ion beams has been carried out. The 9C-ion C beam, especially at the distal side of the beam came out more efficient in cell killing at the depths around its Bragg peak than the 12 Bragg peak. Compared to the C-12 beam, an increase in RBE by a factor of up to 2.13 has been observed at the depths distal to the Bragg peak of the 9C beam. The 9C beam showed an enhanced biological effect at the penetration depths around its Bragg peak, corresponding to the stopping region of the incident C-9-ions and where the delayed low-energy particles were emitted. Further analysis revealed that cell lethality by the emitted particles from the stopping C-9-ions is responsible for the excessive biological effect at the penetration depths around the Bragg peak of the C-9 beam.

位置灵敏Bragg探测器的研制

位置灵敏Bragg探测器的研制，是为实现戴光曦老师提出的设想：在Bragg探测器的内部实现对位置测量而进行的一项研究工作。这项工作的实现对中、低能重离子核反应完成对裂片的测量是很有意义的。本工作采用电阻串进行电荷分除来定位，这在近物所为第一次。试验中，同时测量位置，能量及电荷对~(252)C+源的α粒子可以达到：ΔE/E = 1.9%, ΔZ/Z = 1.6% ΔX好于9mm