The magneto-mechanical coupling effect and magnetic anisotropy of Fe10Co90(FeCo)films deposited on silicon wafer(Si),flexible polyethylene terephthalate(PET),freestanding polydimethylsiloxane(PDMS),and pre-stretched 2...The magneto-mechanical coupling effect and magnetic anisotropy of Fe10Co90(FeCo)films deposited on silicon wafer(Si),flexible polyethylene terephthalate(PET),freestanding polydimethylsiloxane(PDMS),and pre-stretched 20%PDMS substrates were studied in detail.The loop squareness ratio Mr/Ms and the coercive Hc of the FeCo film grown on a PET substrate can be obviously tuned by applying a small tensile-bending strain,and those of the FeCo film grown on a freestanding PDMS substrate can only be slightly changed when applying a relatively large tensile bending strain.For the FeCo film prepared on a 20%pre-stretched PDMS,a wrinkled morphology is obtained after removing the pre-strain.The wrinkled FeCo film can keep the magnetic properties unchanged when applying a relatively large tensile bending strain perpendicular to the wrinkles.This reveals that PDMS is an ideal substrate for magnetic films to realize flexible immutability.Our results may help for developing flexible magnetic devices.展开更多
Recently,computational sampling methods have been implemented to spatially characterize terahertz(THz)fields.Previous methods usually rely on either specialized THz devices such as THz spatial light modulators or comp...Recently,computational sampling methods have been implemented to spatially characterize terahertz(THz)fields.Previous methods usually rely on either specialized THz devices such as THz spatial light modulators or complicated systems requiring assistance from photon-excited free carriers with high-speed synchronization among multiple optical beams.Here,by spatially encoding an 800-nm near-infrared(NIR)probe beam through the use of an optical SLM,we demonstrate a simple sampling approach that can probe THz fields with a single-pixel camera.This design does not require any dedicated THz devices,semiconductors or nanofilms to modulate THz fields.Using computational algorithms,we successfully measure 128×128 field distributions with a 62-μm transverse spatial resolution,which is 15 times smaller than the central wavelength of the THz signal(940μm).Benefitting from the noninvasive nature of THz radiation and sub-wavelength resolution of our system,this simple approach can be used in applications such as biomedical sensing,inspection of flaws in industrial products,and so on.展开更多
A single-end adaptive-optics(AO)module is experimentally demonstrated to mitigate the emulated atmospheric turbulence efects in a bi-directional quantum communication link,which employs orbital angular momentum(OAM)fo...A single-end adaptive-optics(AO)module is experimentally demonstrated to mitigate the emulated atmospheric turbulence efects in a bi-directional quantum communication link,which employs orbital angular momentum(OAM)for data encoding.A classical Gaussian beam is used as a probe to detect the turbulence-induced wavefront distortion in the forward direction of the link.Based on the detected wavefront distortion,an AO system located on one end of the link is used to simultaneously compensate for the forward and backward channels.Specifcally,with emulated turbulence and when the probe is turned on,the mode purity of photons carrying OAMℓ=1 is improved by∼21%with AO mitigation.We also measured the performance when encoding data using OAM{ℓ=−1,+2}and{ℓ=−2,+1}in the forward and backward channels,respectively,at 10 Mbit/s per channel with one photon per pulse on average.For this case,we found that the AO system could reduce the turbulence efects increased quantum-symbolerror-rate(QSER)by∼76%and∼74%,for both channels in the uni-directional and bi-directional cases,respectively.Similar QSER improvement is observed for the opposite direction channels in the bi-directional case.展开更多
基金Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.11674336 and 11874150).
文摘The magneto-mechanical coupling effect and magnetic anisotropy of Fe10Co90(FeCo)films deposited on silicon wafer(Si),flexible polyethylene terephthalate(PET),freestanding polydimethylsiloxane(PDMS),and pre-stretched 20%PDMS substrates were studied in detail.The loop squareness ratio Mr/Ms and the coercive Hc of the FeCo film grown on a PET substrate can be obviously tuned by applying a small tensile-bending strain,and those of the FeCo film grown on a freestanding PDMS substrate can only be slightly changed when applying a relatively large tensile bending strain.For the FeCo film prepared on a 20%pre-stretched PDMS,a wrinkled morphology is obtained after removing the pre-strain.The wrinkled FeCo film can keep the magnetic properties unchanged when applying a relatively large tensile bending strain perpendicular to the wrinkles.This reveals that PDMS is an ideal substrate for magnetic films to realize flexible immutability.Our results may help for developing flexible magnetic devices.
基金funded by the US Army Research Office(ARO)(W911NF-17-1-0428)support from the Canada Research Chairs Program and the National Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada.
文摘Recently,computational sampling methods have been implemented to spatially characterize terahertz(THz)fields.Previous methods usually rely on either specialized THz devices such as THz spatial light modulators or complicated systems requiring assistance from photon-excited free carriers with high-speed synchronization among multiple optical beams.Here,by spatially encoding an 800-nm near-infrared(NIR)probe beam through the use of an optical SLM,we demonstrate a simple sampling approach that can probe THz fields with a single-pixel camera.This design does not require any dedicated THz devices,semiconductors or nanofilms to modulate THz fields.Using computational algorithms,we successfully measure 128×128 field distributions with a 62-μm transverse spatial resolution,which is 15 times smaller than the central wavelength of the THz signal(940μm).Benefitting from the noninvasive nature of THz radiation and sub-wavelength resolution of our system,this simple approach can be used in applications such as biomedical sensing,inspection of flaws in industrial products,and so on.
基金This work is supported by the Ofce of Naval Research(ONR)[N00014-15-1-2635]the Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship program sponsored by the Basic Research Ofce of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering and funded by ONR[N00014-16-1-2813]the National Science Foundation(NSF)[ECCS-1509965].
文摘A single-end adaptive-optics(AO)module is experimentally demonstrated to mitigate the emulated atmospheric turbulence efects in a bi-directional quantum communication link,which employs orbital angular momentum(OAM)for data encoding.A classical Gaussian beam is used as a probe to detect the turbulence-induced wavefront distortion in the forward direction of the link.Based on the detected wavefront distortion,an AO system located on one end of the link is used to simultaneously compensate for the forward and backward channels.Specifcally,with emulated turbulence and when the probe is turned on,the mode purity of photons carrying OAMℓ=1 is improved by∼21%with AO mitigation.We also measured the performance when encoding data using OAM{ℓ=−1,+2}and{ℓ=−2,+1}in the forward and backward channels,respectively,at 10 Mbit/s per channel with one photon per pulse on average.For this case,we found that the AO system could reduce the turbulence efects increased quantum-symbolerror-rate(QSER)by∼76%and∼74%,for both channels in the uni-directional and bi-directional cases,respectively.Similar QSER improvement is observed for the opposite direction channels in the bi-directional case.