An indium tin oxide(ITO) and silicon nitride(Si_(3)N_(4)) assisted compact TE-pass waveguide polarizer based on lithiumniobate-on-insulator is proposed and numerically analyzed.By properly designing the ITO and Si_(3)...An indium tin oxide(ITO) and silicon nitride(Si_(3)N_(4)) assisted compact TE-pass waveguide polarizer based on lithiumniobate-on-insulator is proposed and numerically analyzed.By properly designing the ITO and Si_(3)N_(4) assisted structure and utilizing the epsilon-near-zero effect of ITO,the TM mode is strongly confined in the ITO layer with extremely high loss,while the TE mode is hardly affected and passes through the waveguide with low loss.The simulation results show that the polarizer has an extinction ratio of 22.5 dB and an insertion loss of 0.8 dB at the wavelength of 1.55 μm,and has an operating bandwidth of about 125 nm(from 1540 nm to 1665 nm) for an extinction ratio of>20 dB and an insertion loss of<0.95 dB.Moreover,the proposed device exhibits large fabrication tolerances.More notably,the device is compact,with a length of only 7.5 μm,and is appropriate for on-chip applications.展开更多
Polarimetric imaging enhances the ability to distinguish objects from a bright background by detecting their particular polarization status,which offers another degree of freedom in infrared remote sensing.However,to ...Polarimetric imaging enhances the ability to distinguish objects from a bright background by detecting their particular polarization status,which offers another degree of freedom in infrared remote sensing.However,to scale up by monolithically integrating grating-based polarizers onto a focal plane array(FPA)of infrared detectors,fundamental technical obstacles must be overcome,including reductions of the extinction ratio by the misalignment between the polarizer and the detector,grating line width fluctuations,the line edge roughness,etc.This paper reports the authors’latest achievements in overcoming those problems by solving key technical issues regarding the integration of large-scale polarizers onto the chips of FPAs with individual indium gallium arsenide/indium phosphide(In Ga As/In P)sensors as the basic building blocks.Polarimetric and photovoltaic chips with divisions of the focal plane of 540×4 pixels and 320×256 superpixels have been successfully manufactured.Polarimetric imaging with enhanced contrast has been demonstrated.The progress made in this work has opened up a broad avenue toward industrialization of high quality polarimetric imaging in infrared wavelengths.展开更多
We demonstrate theoretically that two-dimensional photonic bandgap materials are indeed perfect polarizers provided that they have a proper photonic band structure along the incident direction of light.This kind of po...We demonstrate theoretically that two-dimensional photonic bandgap materials are indeed perfect polarizers provided that they have a proper photonic band structure along the incident direction of light.This kind of polarizer is fundamentally different from the conventional ones.It can function in a wide frequency range with high performance and its size can be made very compact,which renders it useful as a micropolarizer in micro-optics.展开更多
With the purpose of designing the extreme ultraviolet polarizer with many objectives,a combined application of multiobjective genetic algorithms is theoretically proposed.Owing to the multi-objective genetic algorithm...With the purpose of designing the extreme ultraviolet polarizer with many objectives,a combined application of multiobjective genetic algorithms is theoretically proposed.Owing to the multi-objective genetic algorithm,the relationships between different designing objectives of extreme ultraviolet polarizer have been obtained by analyzing the distribution of nondominated solutions in the four-dimensional objective space,and the optimized multilayer design can be obtained by guiding the searching in the desired region based on the multi-objective genetic algorithm with reference direction.Compared with the conventional method of multilayer design,our method has a higher probability of achieving the optimal multilayer design.Our work should be the first research in optimizing the optical multilayer designs in the high-dimensional objective space,and our results demonstrate a potential application of our method in the designs of optical thin films.展开更多
We report depolarizers made of a new kind of scattering depolarization material,named chalcedony,which can make the polarization directions of the photons in the linearly polarized incident light randomly distributed....We report depolarizers made of a new kind of scattering depolarization material,named chalcedony,which can make the polarization directions of the photons in the linearly polarized incident light randomly distributed.With a piece of the chalcedony to a thickness of 3mmf a total transmission higher than 50%and the linear polarization degree tending to zero can be easily obtained.展开更多
An FSS based circular polarizer for high-speed wireless communication at 75 GHz is presented. It has been designed on a low loss substrate with cross-dipole elements. Both simulation and measured results showed more t...An FSS based circular polarizer for high-speed wireless communication at 75 GHz is presented. It has been designed on a low loss substrate with cross-dipole elements. Both simulation and measured results showed more than 98% circular polarization at 75 GHz. Moreover, 3 dB axial-ratio bandwidth of 6.8 GHz (Simulation) and 7.8 GHz (Measured) has been achieved. The proposed design has many advantages over the recently published research such as simplicity, low-profile, percentage bandwidth, frequency of operation and relative insertion loss.展开更多
Polarizers have always been an important optical component for optical engineering and have played an indispensable part of polarization imaging systems.Metasurface polarizers provide an excellent platform to achieve ...Polarizers have always been an important optical component for optical engineering and have played an indispensable part of polarization imaging systems.Metasurface polarizers provide an excellent platform to achieve miniaturization,high resolution,and low cost of polarization imaging systems.Here,we proposed freeform metasurface polarizers derived by adjoint-based inverse design of a full-Jones matrix with gradient-descent optimization.We designed multiple freeform polarizers with different filtered states of polarization(SOPs),including circular polarizers,elliptical polarizers,and linear polarizers that could cover the full Poincarésphere.Note that near-unitary polarization dichroism and the ultrahigh polarization extinction ratio(ER)reaching 50 d B were achieved for optimized circular polarizers.The multiple freeform polarizers with filtered polarization state locating at four vertices of an inscribed regular tetrahedron of the Poincarésphere are designed to form a full-Stokes parameters micropolarizer array.Our work provides a novel approach,we believe,for the design of meta-polarizers that may have potential applications in polarization imaging,polarization detection,and communication.展开更多
Pancharatnam–Berry(PB)phase metasurface,as a special class of gradient metasurfaces,has been paid much attention owing to the robust performance for phase control of circularly polarized waves.Herein,we present an el...Pancharatnam–Berry(PB)phase metasurface,as a special class of gradient metasurfaces,has been paid much attention owing to the robust performance for phase control of circularly polarized waves.Herein,we present an element-based polarizer for the first step,which enables the incident electromagnetic waves into the cross-polarized waves with the relative bandwidth of 71%,and the polarization conversion ratio exceeds 90%at 6.9–14.5 GHz.Then an eight-elements coding polarizer based on the PB phase is presented for the applications on beam control and radar cross section reduction.The simulated values indicate that the reduction of radar cross section is more than 10 dB at 6–16 GHz.Our work reveals the availability of manipulating the waves,beamforming in communication systems and electromagnetic stealth,and so on.展开更多
Metasurfaces have exhibited great capabilities to control electromagnetic waves,and many multifunctional metasurfaces were recently proposed.However,although angle-multiplexed meta-devices were successfully realized i...Metasurfaces have exhibited great capabilities to control electromagnetic waves,and many multifunctional metasurfaces were recently proposed.However,although angle-multiplexed meta-devices were successfully realized in reflection geometries,their transmission-mode counterparts are difficult to achieve due to the additional requirements.Here,we design and fabricate a transmissive angle-multiplexed meta-polarizer in the microwave regime based on a multilayer metasurface.Coupled-mode-theory analyses reveal that the device exhibits distinct angle-dependent transmissive responses under excitations with different polarizations,and such differences are further enhanced by multiple scatterings inside the device.Microwave experimental results are in good agreement with numerical simulations and theoretical analyses.展开更多
Solar wind charge exchange produces emissions in the soft X-ray energy range which can enable the study of near-Earth space regions such as the magnetopause,the magnetosheath and the polar cusps by remote sensing tech...Solar wind charge exchange produces emissions in the soft X-ray energy range which can enable the study of near-Earth space regions such as the magnetopause,the magnetosheath and the polar cusps by remote sensing techniques.The Solar wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer(SMILE)and Lunar Environment heliospheric X-ray Imager(LEXI)missions aim to obtain soft Xray images of near-Earth space thanks to their Soft X-ray Imager(SXI)instruments.While earlier modeling works have already simulated soft X-ray images as might be obtained by SMILE SXI during its mission,the numerical models used so far are all based on the magnetohydrodynamics description of the space plasma.To investigate the possible signatures of ion-kinetic-scale processes in soft Xray images,we use for the first time a global hybrid-Vlasov simulation of the geospace from the Vlasiator model.The simulation is driven by fast and tenuous solar wind conditions and purely southward interplanetary magnetic field.We first produce global X-ray images of the dayside near-Earth space by placing a virtual imaging satellite at two different locations,providing meridional and equatorial views.We then analyze regional features present in the images and show that they correspond to signatures in soft X-ray emissions of mirrormode wave structures in the magnetosheath and flux transfer events(FTEs)at the magnetopause.Our results suggest that,although the time scales associated with the motion of those transient phenomena will likely be significantly smaller than the integration time of the SMILE and LEXI imagers,mirror-mode structures and FTEs can cumulatively produce detectable signatures in the soft X-ray images.For instance,a local increase by 30%in the proton density at the dayside magnetopause resulting from the transit of multiple FTEs leads to a 12%enhancement in the line-of-sight-and time-integrated soft X-ray emissivity originating from this region.Likewise,a proton density increase by 14%in the magnetosheath associated with mirror-mode structures can result in an enhancement in the soft X-ray signal by 4%.These are likely conservative estimates,given that the solar wind conditions used in the Vlasiator run can be expected to generate weaker soft X-ray emissions than the more common denser solar wind.These results will contribute to the preparatory work for the SMILE and LEXI missions by providing the community with quantitative estimates of the effects of small-scale,transient phenomena occurring on the dayside.展开更多
An on-chip, high extinction ratio transverse electric(TE)-pass polarizer using a silicon hybrid plasmonic grating is proposed and experimentally demonstrated. Utilizing plasmonics to manipulate the effective index and...An on-chip, high extinction ratio transverse electric(TE)-pass polarizer using a silicon hybrid plasmonic grating is proposed and experimentally demonstrated. Utilizing plasmonics to manipulate the effective index and mode distribution, the transverse magnetic mode is reflected and absorbed, while the TE mode passes through with relatively low propagation loss. For a 6-μm-long device, the measurement result shows that the extinction ratio in the wavelength range of 1.52 to 1.58 μm varies from 24 to 33.7 dB and the insertion loss is 2.8–4.9 dB. Moreover,the structure exhibits large alignment tolerance and is compatible with silicon-on-insulator fabrication technology.展开更多
Polarizers have been widely used in various optical systems to reduce polarization cross talk.The polarizers based on the silicon nanowire waveguide can provide chip-scale device size and a high polarization extinctio...Polarizers have been widely used in various optical systems to reduce polarization cross talk.The polarizers based on the silicon nanowire waveguide can provide chip-scale device size and a high polarization extinction ratio.However,the working bandwidth for the on-chip silicon polarizers is always limited(<~100 nm)by the strong waveguide dispersion.In this paper,an on-chip all-silicon polarizer with an extremely broad working bandwidth is proposed and demonstrated.The device is based on a 180°sharp waveguide bend,assisted with anisotropic subwavelength grating(SWG)metamaterial cladding to enhance the polarization selectivity.For TE polarization,the effective refractive index for SWG is extraordinary,so the incident TE mode can propagate through the sharp waveguide bend.For TM polarization,the effective refractive index for SWG is ordinary,so the incident TM mode will be coupled into the radiation mode regardless of the wavelength.The fabricated polarizer shows low loss(<1 d B)and high polarization extinction ratio(>20 d B)over a>415 nm bandwidth from1.26 to 1.675μm,which is at least fourfold better than what has been demonstrated in all previous works.To the best of our knowledge,such a device is the first all-silicon polarizer that covers O-,E-,S-,C-,L-,and U-bands.展开更多
By transferring 100 nm gold-coated CVD monolayer graphene onto the well-polished surface of D-shaped fiber, we achieve a graphene in-line polarizer with a high polarization extinction ratio of ~27 d B and low insertio...By transferring 100 nm gold-coated CVD monolayer graphene onto the well-polished surface of D-shaped fiber, we achieve a graphene in-line polarizer with a high polarization extinction ratio of ~27 d B and low insertion loss of 5 d B at 1550 nm, meanwhile achieving a strong saturable absorption effect of 14%. The manufacture of this graphene in-line polarizer also simplifies the graphene transfer process. To explore the potential applications of the new device, we also demonstrate noise-like pulse generation and supercontinuum spectrum generation. By launching the designed graphene device into a fiber ring laser cavity, 51 nm bandwidth noise-like pulse is obtained. Then, launching the high-power noise-like pulse into high nonlinear fiber, a 1000 nm wide supercontinuum spectrum is obtained, which is favorable for sensing and nonlinearities scientific fields.展开更多
A TM-pass polarizer based on multilayer graphene polymer waveguide is proposed and theoretically analyzed.The mode properties,the extinction ratio,the insertion loss and the bandwidth are also discussed.The results sh...A TM-pass polarizer based on multilayer graphene polymer waveguide is proposed and theoretically analyzed.The mode properties,the extinction ratio,the insertion loss and the bandwidth are also discussed.The results show that a TM-pass polarizer,which only guides the TM mode,can be achieved by multilayer graphene polymer waveguide.With length of 150μm,the proposed polarizer can achieve extinction ratio of 33 dB and insertion loss of 0.5 d B at optical wavelength of 1.55μm.This device has an excellent performance,including large extinction ratio and low insertion loss within the spectral range from 1.45μm to 1.6μm.展开更多
Inner edge state with spin and valley degrees of freedom is a promising candidate for designing a dissipationless device due to the topological protection. The central challenge for the application of the inner edge s...Inner edge state with spin and valley degrees of freedom is a promising candidate for designing a dissipationless device due to the topological protection. The central challenge for the application of the inner edge state is to generate and modulate the polarized currents. In this work, we discover a new mechanism to generate fully valley-and spin–valley-polarized current caused by the Bloch wavevector mismatch(BWM). Based on this mechanism, we design some serial-typed inner-edge filters. By using once of the BWM, the coincident states could be divided into transmitted and reflected modes, which can serve as a valley or spin–valley filter. In particular, while with twice of the BWM, the incident current is absolutely reflected to support an off state with a specified valley and spin, which is different from the gap effect.These findings give rise to a new platform for designing valleytronics and spin-valleytronics.展开更多
Spinal cord injury-induced motor dysfunction is associated with neuroinflammation.Studies have shown that the triterpenoid lupenone,a natural product found in various plants,has a remarkable anti-inflammatory effect i...Spinal cord injury-induced motor dysfunction is associated with neuroinflammation.Studies have shown that the triterpenoid lupenone,a natural product found in various plants,has a remarkable anti-inflammatory effect in the context of chronic inflammation.However,the effects of lupenone on acute inflammation induced by spinal cord injury remain unknown.In this study,we established an impact-induced mouse model of spinal cord injury,and then treated the injured mice with lupenone(8 mg/kg,twice a day)by intrape ritoneal injection.We also treated BV2 cells with lipopolysaccharide and adenosine5’-triphosphate to simulate the inflammatory response after spinal cord injury.Our res ults showed that lupenone reduced IKBa activation and p65 nuclear translocation,inhibited NLRP3 inflammasome function by modulating nuclear factor kappa B,and enhanced the conve rsion of proinflammatory M1 mic roglial cells into anti-inflammatory M2 microglial cells.Furthermore,lupenone decreased NLRP3 inflammasome activation,NLRP3-induced mic roglial cell polarization,and microglia pyroptosis by inhibiting the nuclear factor kappa B pathway.These findings suggest that lupenone protects against spinal cord injury by inhibiting inflammasomes.展开更多
Background:Polydatin,a glucoside of resveratrol,has shown protective effects against various diseases.However,little is known about its effect on hepatic ischemia-reperfusion(I/R)injury.This study aimed to elucidate w...Background:Polydatin,a glucoside of resveratrol,has shown protective effects against various diseases.However,little is known about its effect on hepatic ischemia-reperfusion(I/R)injury.This study aimed to elucidate whether polydatin protects liver against I/R-induced injury and to explore the underlying mechanism.Methods:After gavage feeding polydatin once daily for a week,mice underwent a partial hepatic I/R procedure.Serum alanine aminotransferase(ALT)/aspartate aminotransferase(AST),hematoxylin-eosin(H&E)and TdT-mediated dUTP nick-end labeling(TUNEL)staining were used to evaluate liver injury.The severity related to the inflammatory response and reactive oxygen species(ROS)production was also investigated.Furthermore,immunofluorescence and Western blotting were used to detect macrophage polarization and the NF-κB signaling pathway in macrophages.Results:Compared with the I/R group,polydatin pretreatment significantly attenuated I/R-induced liver damage and apoptosis.The oxidative stress marker(dihydroethidium fluorescence,malondialdehyde,superoxide dismutase and glutathione peroxidase)and I/R related inflammatory cytokines(interleukin1β,interleukin-10 and tumor necrosis factor-α)were significantly suppressed after polydatin treatment.In addition,the result of immunofluorescence indicated that polydatin reduced the polarization of macrophages toward M1 macrophages both in vivo and in vitro.Western blotting showed that polydatin inhibited the pro-inflammatory function of RAW264.7 via down-regulating the NF-κB signaling pathway.Conclusions:Polydatin protects the liver from I/R injury by remodeling macrophage polarization via NFκB signaling.展开更多
基金Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 61875148)。
文摘An indium tin oxide(ITO) and silicon nitride(Si_(3)N_(4)) assisted compact TE-pass waveguide polarizer based on lithiumniobate-on-insulator is proposed and numerically analyzed.By properly designing the ITO and Si_(3)N_(4) assisted structure and utilizing the epsilon-near-zero effect of ITO,the TM mode is strongly confined in the ITO layer with extremely high loss,while the TE mode is hardly affected and passes through the waveguide with low loss.The simulation results show that the polarizer has an extinction ratio of 22.5 dB and an insertion loss of 0.8 dB at the wavelength of 1.55 μm,and has an operating bandwidth of about 125 nm(from 1540 nm to 1665 nm) for an extinction ratio of>20 dB and an insertion loss of<0.95 dB.Moreover,the proposed device exhibits large fabrication tolerances.More notably,the device is compact,with a length of only 7.5 μm,and is appropriate for on-chip applications.
基金financially supported by the following projects:Open project of SITP(Project Number:IIMDKFJJ-18-09)National Natural Science Foundation of China(Project Number:61927820)+2 种基金The STCSM2019-11-20 funding(Project Number:19142202700)National Natural Science Foundation of China(Project Number:NSF No.U1732104)Zhejiang Lab’s International Talent Fund for Young Professionals。
文摘Polarimetric imaging enhances the ability to distinguish objects from a bright background by detecting their particular polarization status,which offers another degree of freedom in infrared remote sensing.However,to scale up by monolithically integrating grating-based polarizers onto a focal plane array(FPA)of infrared detectors,fundamental technical obstacles must be overcome,including reductions of the extinction ratio by the misalignment between the polarizer and the detector,grating line width fluctuations,the line edge roughness,etc.This paper reports the authors’latest achievements in overcoming those problems by solving key technical issues regarding the integration of large-scale polarizers onto the chips of FPAs with individual indium gallium arsenide/indium phosphide(In Ga As/In P)sensors as the basic building blocks.Polarimetric and photovoltaic chips with divisions of the focal plane of 540×4 pixels and 320×256 superpixels have been successfully manufactured.Polarimetric imaging with enhanced contrast has been demonstrated.The progress made in this work has opened up a broad avenue toward industrialization of high quality polarimetric imaging in infrared wavelengths.
基金Supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No.69625609,Pandeng plan(Y-41)Shanghai Science and Technology Commission.
文摘We demonstrate theoretically that two-dimensional photonic bandgap materials are indeed perfect polarizers provided that they have a proper photonic band structure along the incident direction of light.This kind of polarizer is fundamentally different from the conventional ones.It can function in a wide frequency range with high performance and its size can be made very compact,which renders it useful as a micropolarizer in micro-optics.
基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.62175018,61905239,and 61974142)Jilin Scientific and Technological Development Plan,China(Grant Nos.20190201013JC and 20200401052GX)。
文摘With the purpose of designing the extreme ultraviolet polarizer with many objectives,a combined application of multiobjective genetic algorithms is theoretically proposed.Owing to the multi-objective genetic algorithm,the relationships between different designing objectives of extreme ultraviolet polarizer have been obtained by analyzing the distribution of nondominated solutions in the four-dimensional objective space,and the optimized multilayer design can be obtained by guiding the searching in the desired region based on the multi-objective genetic algorithm with reference direction.Compared with the conventional method of multilayer design,our method has a higher probability of achieving the optimal multilayer design.Our work should be the first research in optimizing the optical multilayer designs in the high-dimensional objective space,and our results demonstrate a potential application of our method in the designs of optical thin films.
文摘We report depolarizers made of a new kind of scattering depolarization material,named chalcedony,which can make the polarization directions of the photons in the linearly polarized incident light randomly distributed.With a piece of the chalcedony to a thickness of 3mmf a total transmission higher than 50%and the linear polarization degree tending to zero can be easily obtained.
文摘An FSS based circular polarizer for high-speed wireless communication at 75 GHz is presented. It has been designed on a low loss substrate with cross-dipole elements. Both simulation and measured results showed more than 98% circular polarization at 75 GHz. Moreover, 3 dB axial-ratio bandwidth of 6.8 GHz (Simulation) and 7.8 GHz (Measured) has been achieved. The proposed design has many advantages over the recently published research such as simplicity, low-profile, percentage bandwidth, frequency of operation and relative insertion loss.
基金supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China(Nos.2022YFB3607300 and 2021YFB2802003)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(NSFC)(No.62075084)the Guangdong Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation(No.2022B1515020004)。
文摘Polarizers have always been an important optical component for optical engineering and have played an indispensable part of polarization imaging systems.Metasurface polarizers provide an excellent platform to achieve miniaturization,high resolution,and low cost of polarization imaging systems.Here,we proposed freeform metasurface polarizers derived by adjoint-based inverse design of a full-Jones matrix with gradient-descent optimization.We designed multiple freeform polarizers with different filtered states of polarization(SOPs),including circular polarizers,elliptical polarizers,and linear polarizers that could cover the full Poincarésphere.Note that near-unitary polarization dichroism and the ultrahigh polarization extinction ratio(ER)reaching 50 d B were achieved for optimized circular polarizers.The multiple freeform polarizers with filtered polarization state locating at four vertices of an inscribed regular tetrahedron of the Poincarésphere are designed to form a full-Stokes parameters micropolarizer array.Our work provides a novel approach,we believe,for the design of meta-polarizers that may have potential applications in polarization imaging,polarization detection,and communication.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.42274189)the Project of Science and Technology of Shaanxi(No.2021JM-395).
文摘Pancharatnam–Berry(PB)phase metasurface,as a special class of gradient metasurfaces,has been paid much attention owing to the robust performance for phase control of circularly polarized waves.Herein,we present an element-based polarizer for the first step,which enables the incident electromagnetic waves into the cross-polarized waves with the relative bandwidth of 71%,and the polarization conversion ratio exceeds 90%at 6.9–14.5 GHz.Then an eight-elements coding polarizer based on the PB phase is presented for the applications on beam control and radar cross section reduction.The simulated values indicate that the reduction of radar cross section is more than 10 dB at 6–16 GHz.Our work reveals the availability of manipulating the waves,beamforming in communication systems and electromagnetic stealth,and so on.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.11734007,62192771,and 91850101)National Key Research and Development Program of China(Nos.2017YFA0303504 and 2020YFA0710100)Natural Science Foundation of Shanghai(No.20JC1414601)。
文摘Metasurfaces have exhibited great capabilities to control electromagnetic waves,and many multifunctional metasurfaces were recently proposed.However,although angle-multiplexed meta-devices were successfully realized in reflection geometries,their transmission-mode counterparts are difficult to achieve due to the additional requirements.Here,we design and fabricate a transmissive angle-multiplexed meta-polarizer in the microwave regime based on a multilayer metasurface.Coupled-mode-theory analyses reveal that the device exhibits distinct angle-dependent transmissive responses under excitations with different polarizations,and such differences are further enhanced by multiple scatterings inside the device.Microwave experimental results are in good agreement with numerical simulations and theoretical analyses.
基金The National Key R&D Program of China(No.2022YFC38010000)the Key Research&Development Plan of Jiangsu Province(No.BE2020084-2)the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(No.2242022k60001).
基金the European Research Council for starting grant 200141-QuESpace,with which the Vlasiator model was developedconsolidator grant 682068-PRESTISSIMO awarded for further development of Vlasiator and its use in scientific investigations+4 种基金Academy of Finland grant numbers 338629-AERGELC’H,339756-KIMCHI,336805-FORESAIL,and 335554-ICT-SUNVACThe Academy of Finland also supported this work through the PROFI4 grant(grant number 3189131)support from the NASA grants,80NSSC20K1670 and 80MSFC20C0019the NASA GSFC FY23 IRADHIF funds。
文摘Solar wind charge exchange produces emissions in the soft X-ray energy range which can enable the study of near-Earth space regions such as the magnetopause,the magnetosheath and the polar cusps by remote sensing techniques.The Solar wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer(SMILE)and Lunar Environment heliospheric X-ray Imager(LEXI)missions aim to obtain soft Xray images of near-Earth space thanks to their Soft X-ray Imager(SXI)instruments.While earlier modeling works have already simulated soft X-ray images as might be obtained by SMILE SXI during its mission,the numerical models used so far are all based on the magnetohydrodynamics description of the space plasma.To investigate the possible signatures of ion-kinetic-scale processes in soft Xray images,we use for the first time a global hybrid-Vlasov simulation of the geospace from the Vlasiator model.The simulation is driven by fast and tenuous solar wind conditions and purely southward interplanetary magnetic field.We first produce global X-ray images of the dayside near-Earth space by placing a virtual imaging satellite at two different locations,providing meridional and equatorial views.We then analyze regional features present in the images and show that they correspond to signatures in soft X-ray emissions of mirrormode wave structures in the magnetosheath and flux transfer events(FTEs)at the magnetopause.Our results suggest that,although the time scales associated with the motion of those transient phenomena will likely be significantly smaller than the integration time of the SMILE and LEXI imagers,mirror-mode structures and FTEs can cumulatively produce detectable signatures in the soft X-ray images.For instance,a local increase by 30%in the proton density at the dayside magnetopause resulting from the transit of multiple FTEs leads to a 12%enhancement in the line-of-sight-and time-integrated soft X-ray emissivity originating from this region.Likewise,a proton density increase by 14%in the magnetosheath associated with mirror-mode structures can result in an enhancement in the soft X-ray signal by 4%.These are likely conservative estimates,given that the solar wind conditions used in the Vlasiator run can be expected to generate weaker soft X-ray emissions than the more common denser solar wind.These results will contribute to the preparatory work for the SMILE and LEXI missions by providing the community with quantitative estimates of the effects of small-scale,transient phenomena occurring on the dayside.
基金National Natural Science Foundation of China(NSFC)(61377049,61775005)Fundamental Research Project of Shenzhen Sci.&Tech.(JCYJ20170412153729436)
文摘An on-chip, high extinction ratio transverse electric(TE)-pass polarizer using a silicon hybrid plasmonic grating is proposed and experimentally demonstrated. Utilizing plasmonics to manipulate the effective index and mode distribution, the transverse magnetic mode is reflected and absorbed, while the TE mode passes through with relatively low propagation loss. For a 6-μm-long device, the measurement result shows that the extinction ratio in the wavelength range of 1.52 to 1.58 μm varies from 24 to 33.7 dB and the insertion loss is 2.8–4.9 dB. Moreover,the structure exhibits large alignment tolerance and is compatible with silicon-on-insulator fabrication technology.
基金National Major Research and Development Program(2018YFB2200200)National Natural Science Foundation of China(11861121002,61922070)
文摘Polarizers have been widely used in various optical systems to reduce polarization cross talk.The polarizers based on the silicon nanowire waveguide can provide chip-scale device size and a high polarization extinction ratio.However,the working bandwidth for the on-chip silicon polarizers is always limited(<~100 nm)by the strong waveguide dispersion.In this paper,an on-chip all-silicon polarizer with an extremely broad working bandwidth is proposed and demonstrated.The device is based on a 180°sharp waveguide bend,assisted with anisotropic subwavelength grating(SWG)metamaterial cladding to enhance the polarization selectivity.For TE polarization,the effective refractive index for SWG is extraordinary,so the incident TE mode can propagate through the sharp waveguide bend.For TM polarization,the effective refractive index for SWG is ordinary,so the incident TM mode will be coupled into the radiation mode regardless of the wavelength.The fabricated polarizer shows low loss(<1 d B)and high polarization extinction ratio(>20 d B)over a>415 nm bandwidth from1.26 to 1.675μm,which is at least fourfold better than what has been demonstrated in all previous works.To the best of our knowledge,such a device is the first all-silicon polarizer that covers O-,E-,S-,C-,L-,and U-bands.
基金supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China(61322507,61090393 and 61575122)
文摘By transferring 100 nm gold-coated CVD monolayer graphene onto the well-polished surface of D-shaped fiber, we achieve a graphene in-line polarizer with a high polarization extinction ratio of ~27 d B and low insertion loss of 5 d B at 1550 nm, meanwhile achieving a strong saturable absorption effect of 14%. The manufacture of this graphene in-line polarizer also simplifies the graphene transfer process. To explore the potential applications of the new device, we also demonstrate noise-like pulse generation and supercontinuum spectrum generation. By launching the designed graphene device into a fiber ring laser cavity, 51 nm bandwidth noise-like pulse is obtained. Then, launching the high-power noise-like pulse into high nonlinear fiber, a 1000 nm wide supercontinuum spectrum is obtained, which is favorable for sensing and nonlinearities scientific fields.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.61405083)the Natural Science Foundation of Gansu Province of China(No.17JR5RA197)the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(No.LZU-JZH1931)
文摘A TM-pass polarizer based on multilayer graphene polymer waveguide is proposed and theoretically analyzed.The mode properties,the extinction ratio,the insertion loss and the bandwidth are also discussed.The results show that a TM-pass polarizer,which only guides the TM mode,can be achieved by multilayer graphene polymer waveguide.With length of 150μm,the proposed polarizer can achieve extinction ratio of 33 dB and insertion loss of 0.5 d B at optical wavelength of 1.55μm.This device has an excellent performance,including large extinction ratio and low insertion loss within the spectral range from 1.45μm to 1.6μm.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos.12204073 and 12147102)the Scientific and Technological Research Program of Chongqing Municipal Education Commission (Grant No.KJQN202303105)+1 种基金the Specific Research Project of Guangxi for Research Bases and Talents (Grant No.2022AC21077)the Foundation of Guangxi University of Science and Technology (Grant No.21Z52)。
文摘Inner edge state with spin and valley degrees of freedom is a promising candidate for designing a dissipationless device due to the topological protection. The central challenge for the application of the inner edge state is to generate and modulate the polarized currents. In this work, we discover a new mechanism to generate fully valley-and spin–valley-polarized current caused by the Bloch wavevector mismatch(BWM). Based on this mechanism, we design some serial-typed inner-edge filters. By using once of the BWM, the coincident states could be divided into transmitted and reflected modes, which can serve as a valley or spin–valley filter. In particular, while with twice of the BWM, the incident current is absolutely reflected to support an off state with a specified valley and spin, which is different from the gap effect.These findings give rise to a new platform for designing valleytronics and spin-valleytronics.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China,Nos.81801226(to QK and XS)and 82101445(to XJ)。
文摘Spinal cord injury-induced motor dysfunction is associated with neuroinflammation.Studies have shown that the triterpenoid lupenone,a natural product found in various plants,has a remarkable anti-inflammatory effect in the context of chronic inflammation.However,the effects of lupenone on acute inflammation induced by spinal cord injury remain unknown.In this study,we established an impact-induced mouse model of spinal cord injury,and then treated the injured mice with lupenone(8 mg/kg,twice a day)by intrape ritoneal injection.We also treated BV2 cells with lipopolysaccharide and adenosine5’-triphosphate to simulate the inflammatory response after spinal cord injury.Our res ults showed that lupenone reduced IKBa activation and p65 nuclear translocation,inhibited NLRP3 inflammasome function by modulating nuclear factor kappa B,and enhanced the conve rsion of proinflammatory M1 mic roglial cells into anti-inflammatory M2 microglial cells.Furthermore,lupenone decreased NLRP3 inflammasome activation,NLRP3-induced mic roglial cell polarization,and microglia pyroptosis by inhibiting the nuclear factor kappa B pathway.These findings suggest that lupenone protects against spinal cord injury by inhibiting inflammasomes.
基金This study was supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.81970563)the Medical Health Science and Technology Project of Health Commission of Zhejiang Province(2019RC055).
文摘Background:Polydatin,a glucoside of resveratrol,has shown protective effects against various diseases.However,little is known about its effect on hepatic ischemia-reperfusion(I/R)injury.This study aimed to elucidate whether polydatin protects liver against I/R-induced injury and to explore the underlying mechanism.Methods:After gavage feeding polydatin once daily for a week,mice underwent a partial hepatic I/R procedure.Serum alanine aminotransferase(ALT)/aspartate aminotransferase(AST),hematoxylin-eosin(H&E)and TdT-mediated dUTP nick-end labeling(TUNEL)staining were used to evaluate liver injury.The severity related to the inflammatory response and reactive oxygen species(ROS)production was also investigated.Furthermore,immunofluorescence and Western blotting were used to detect macrophage polarization and the NF-κB signaling pathway in macrophages.Results:Compared with the I/R group,polydatin pretreatment significantly attenuated I/R-induced liver damage and apoptosis.The oxidative stress marker(dihydroethidium fluorescence,malondialdehyde,superoxide dismutase and glutathione peroxidase)and I/R related inflammatory cytokines(interleukin1β,interleukin-10 and tumor necrosis factor-α)were significantly suppressed after polydatin treatment.In addition,the result of immunofluorescence indicated that polydatin reduced the polarization of macrophages toward M1 macrophages both in vivo and in vitro.Western blotting showed that polydatin inhibited the pro-inflammatory function of RAW264.7 via down-regulating the NF-κB signaling pathway.Conclusions:Polydatin protects the liver from I/R injury by remodeling macrophage polarization via NFκB signaling.