Electron-beam-driven anomalous Doppler effects in Smith–Purcell radiation

The interaction between electrons and matter is an effective means of light emission,through mechanisms including Cherenkov radiation and Smith–Purcell radiation(SPR).In this study,we show that the superlight inverse Doppler effects can be realized in reverse Smith–Purcell radiation excited by a free electron beam with a homogeneous substrate.In particular,we find that two types of anomalous SPR exist in the homogenous substrate:special SPR and reverse SPR.Our results reveal that the electron velocity can be tuned to simultaneously excite different combinations of normal SPR,special SPR,and reverse SPR.The proposed manifold light radiation mechanism can offer greater versatility in controlling and shaping SPR.

Weak signal extraction of micro-motor rotor unbalance based on all-phase fast Fourier transform

To improve the dynamic balancing accuracy of the micro-motor rotor,an unbalanced vibration feature extraction based on an all-phase fast Fourier transform(APFFT)method is proposed.The amplitude and phase of the signal are extracted by spectrum analysis after windowing the unbalanced signal.The mathematical model is derived to simulate the weak signal of rotor unbalance.The simulation results show that this method is accurate in extracting the weak signal of the rotor under different noise levels.The micro-motor rotor unbalanced test system is developed for experimental validations.The accuracy and stability of the vibration amplitude and phase extracted by the APFFT are better than the accuracy and stability from the hardware filtering method.The rotor unbalance is reduced by more than 80%.Furthermore,secondary balance of the rotor after the first balance is carried out.The proposed method can still extract the residual unbalance of the rotor.The results demonstrated that the proposed method can achieve a reduction rate of 90%and the accuracy is within 5mg,verifying the effectiveness of the proposed method for high-precision rotor dynamic balance.

Tunable optical topological transition of Cherenkov radiation

Approaches to generate and manipulate Cherenkov radiation(CR)are challenging yet meaningful.Optical topological transition(OTT)in novel materials and metamaterials is also promising for modern photonics.We study the OTT of CR in graphene-based hyperbolic metamaterials(GHMs)for the first time.In GHMs,conventional and hyperbolic CR can be switched when crossing the topological transition frequency.This frequency can be altered by metamaterial components and external optical elements.For instance,external ultrafast optical pumps cause an ultrafast OTT from the elliptical to the hyperbolic state.Then,hyperbolic CR can be excited by lowenergy electrons by leveraging the excellent photothermal properties of graphene.Hyperbolic CR vanishes when the GHM returns to its original state.Furthermore,graphene nonlocality occurs when the electron velocity is low enough,corresponding to a large wave vector.Concretely,when the electron velocity approaches the Fermi velocity of graphene,a nonlocality-induced OTT modifies the plasmonic properties of the GHM and brings a new lower velocity threshold of hyperbolic CR.Therefore,hyperbolic CR can only be induced in a limited velocity range.These findings pave the way for understanding CR properties in active plasmonic metamaterials and may be applied to complex photonic and polaritonic systems.