Speckle contrast reduction by linear and nonlinear photonic devices
Speckle contrast <; 3.5% was achieved by means of (i) wavelength-diversity using spectrally-broad nonlinear photonic green lasers over the 520-545nm range and (ii) polarization- and phase-diversity using birefringent nano-photonic devices.
Photonic crystal changes coherent laser to incoherent laser with random phase
It is revealed that the phase-shift and polarization properties of laser beam reflected from a photonic crystal (PC) are sensitive to the surface-layer thickness of the PC. A continuous variation of λ/4 in surface-layer thickness produces a continuous change of π in the phase-shift. Besides, in the case of an asymmetric coupled-defect PC, various polarization patterns including linearly polarization in different directions, circular polarization, and different elliptical polarizations, will appear simultaneously within one laser beam. In this paper, a PC with modified surface-layer thickness is designed to induce incoherent laser irradiation with random phase at the focus point of the reflected field. This scheme will satisfy the increasing requirements for incoherent laser irradiation.
Resonant Auger decay study of C1s -> pi* core-excited OCS
The present work aims at characterizing short-lived C1s((-1)) pi*((1)) core-excited states of the OCS molecule based on the analysis of the vibrational fine structure and lineshape profiles of the high-resolution resonant Auger decay spectra recorded at the excitation energies along the C1s -> pi* resonance in the binding energy region 15-19eV. Very different behavior in terms of lineshape and resonant enhancement is observed for the (A) over tilde, (B) over tilde and (C) over tilde final states. This is explained by (1) the variation in the C-O bond lengths for the states involved in the electronic relaxation and (2) different contributions in terms of Mulliken population to the molecular orbitals determining the electronic character of the corresponding states. Since the final-state geometries are known from a number of previous experiments and ab initio calculations, the geometry of the C1s((-1)) pi*((1)) intermediate states can be predicted in analogy with e.g. the N-2, CO2 and N2O molecules. (C) 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. (Less)