Experimental studies of extraordinary light transmission through periodic arrays of subwavelength square and rectangular holes in metal films

We fabricate a series of periodic arrays of subwavelength square and rectangular air holes on gold films, and measure the transmission spectra of these metallic nanostructures. By changing some geometrical and physical parameters, such as array period, air hole size and shape, and the incident light polarization, we verify that both global surface plasmon resonance and localized waveguide mode resonance are influential on enhancing the transmission of light through nanostructured metal films. These two resonances induce different behaviours of transmission peak shift. The transmission through the rectangular air-hole structures exhibits an obvious polarization effect dependent on the morphology. Numerical simulations are also made by a plane-wave transfer-matrix method and in good consistency with the experimental results.

Effect of Ambient Humidity on the Transmission of UV/Visible Light through Model Human Epidermis

Transmission of light through model human epidermal samples is investigated at four different wavelengths and at varying ambient humidity. Light from light emitting diodes (LEDs) is used for transmission measurements through the samples at a UVA wavelength of 365 nm, and visible wavelengths of 460 nm, 500 nm, and 595 nm. Ambient air-humidity is varied between 20% and 100%. Results show that for high ambient humidity, near 100%, transmission of light through the epidermis is higher than at low ambient humidity, 60% or lower. These results are explained with a simple model of epidermis as a turbid medium and the effect of adsorbed water in reducing light-scattering by refractive-index-matching. Biological implications of increased light-transmission through epidermis at high ambient humidity are discussed.

The Role of Periodicity in Enhanced Transmission through Subwavelength Hole Arrays

Two kinds of subwavelength hole arrays in metallic films are designed to verify the import, ant role of the periodicity in enhanced transmission of light. The measured optical spectra show that the quasiperiodic hole arrays exhibit an enhanced transmission peak centred at 707nm with a transmission intensity of about 20%, while no plasmon resonance peak is found for the amorphous hole arrays. When the hole diameter decreases in the quasiperiodic structure, the position of the transmission peak shifts slightly, and the transmittance drops, These phenomena indicate the important role of the long-range structural order （particularly the periodicity） in assisting the coupling of incident light wave with the surface plasmon modes of the metallic structures.

Basal internode elongation of rice as affected by light intensity and leaf area

Short basal internodes are important for lodging resistance of rice(Oryza sativa L.).Several canopy indices affect the elongation of basal internodes,but uncertainty as to the key factors determining elongation of basal internodes persists.The objectives of this study were(1)to identify key factors affecting the elongation of basal internodes and(2)to establish a quantitative relationship between basal internode length and canopy indices.An inbred rice cultivar,Yinjingruanzhan,was grown in two split-plot field experiments with three N rates(0,75,and 150 kg N ha−1 in early season and 0,90,and 180 kg N ha−1 in late season)as main plots,three seedling densities(16.7,75.0,and 187.5 seedlings m−2)as subplots,and three replications in the 2015 early and late seasons in Guangzhou,China.Light intensity at base of canopy(Lb),light quality as determined from red/far-red light ratio(R/FR),light transmission ratio(LTR),leaf area index(LAI),leaf N concentration(NLV)and final length of second internode(counted from soil surface upward)(FIL)were recorded.Higher N rate and seedling density resulted in significantly longer FIL.FIL was negatively correlated with Lb,LTR,and R/FR(P<0.01)and positively correlated with LAI(P<0.01),but not correlated with NLV(P>0.05).Stepwise linear regression analysis showed that FIL was strongly associated with Lb and LAI(R2=0.82).Heavy N application to pot-grown rice at the beginning of first internode elongation did not change FIL.We conclude that FIL is determined mainly by Lb and LAI at jointing stage.NLV has no direct effect on the elongation of basal internodes.N application indirectly affects FIL by changing LAI and light conditions in the rice canopy.Reducing LAI and improving canopy light transmission at jointing stage can shorten the basal internodes and increase the lodging resistance of rice.

Light field information transmission through scattering media with high fidelity

Realizing high-fidelity optical information transmission through a scattering medium is of vital importance in both science and applications,such as short-range fiber communication and optical encryption.Theoretically,an input wavefront can be reconstructed by inverting the transmission matrix of the scattering medium.However,this deterministic method for retrieving light field information encoded in the wavefront has not yet been experimentally demonstrated.Herein,we demonstrate light field information transmission through different scattering media with near-unity fidelity.Multi-dimensional optical information can be delivered through either a multimode fiber or a ground glass without relying on any averaging or approximation,where their Pearson correlation coefficients can be up to 99%.

Optimization of top polymer gratings to improve GaN LEDs light transmission

We present a grating model of two-dimensional （2D） rigorous coupled wave analysis （RCWA） to study top diffraction gratings on light-emitting diodes （LEDs）. We compare the integrated-transmission of the non-grating, rectangular-grating, and triangular-grating cases for the same grating period of 6 μm, and show that the triangular grating has the best performance. For the triangular grating with 6-μm period, the LED achieves the highest light transmission at 6-μm grating bottom width and 2.9-μm grating depth. Compared with the non-grating case, the optimized light transmission improvement is about 74.6%. The simulation agrees with the experimental data of the thin polymer grating encapsulated flip-chip （FC） GaN-based LEDs for the light extraction improvement.

SYNTHESIS AND OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF POLY (THIENYLACETYLENES)

3-Ethynyl-4-(trimethylsilyl)thiophene (1a) and 3-ethynyl-4-bromothiophene (1b) selectively undergo acetylene polymerizations in the presence of the MoCl5- and WCl6-Ph3SiH catalysts to give soluble, high-molecular-weight poly(thienylacetylenes) (2) (M-w up to 602000) in high yields (up to 100%). Light transmission spectra of THF solutions of 2 continuously red-shift with increasing concentration. The concentratochromism shows a logarithmic concentration dependence; that is, the optical transitions of 2 are predictably tunable by simply changing their concentrations.

Studies of Process and Mechanism for Preparing Nano-Sized CeO_2 Powders via Homogeneous Precipitation in Alcohol-Water Solvent

Nano-sized CeO_2 powders were synthesized by homogeneous precipitation method in alcohol-water solution with HMT as precipitator and the nano-particles were characterized by TEM and BET. The process parameters which influenced the sizes and agglomeration of nanometer CeO_2 powders were studied and the influence mechanism was discussed. The results show that the average size of the particles prepared by the above method with the best process parameters is about 8 nm, and the particles are of smaller size and better dispersion than those obtained from the ordinary powders synthesized by homogeneous precipitation in water solution.

High-efficiency all-dielectric transmission metasurface for linearly polarized light in the visible region

We propose and numerically investigate an efficient transmission-mode metasurface that consists of quasicontinuous trapezoid-shaped crystalline silicon nanoantennas on a quartz substrate. This metasurface provides a linear phase gradient and realizes both full 2π phase shift and high transmission efficiency in the operating wavelength range from 740 to 780 nm. At the central wavelength around 751 nm, the total transmission efficiency is up to 88.0% and the section of the desired anomalous refraction is 80.4%. The anomalous refraction angle is 29.62°, and larger refraction angle can be achieved by changing the period of the super cell. We demonstrate a refraction angle as large as 38.59°, and the anomalous transmission efficiency reaches 76.6% at wavelength of 741 nm. It is worth mentioning that the structure is much simpler than conventional metasurfaces based on arrays of discrete nanoantennas. Our research may pave the way for designing efficient all-dielectric phase-gradient metasurfaces and applying them in integrated optical devices for wavefront control.

Experimental Study of Shrinkage Displacements of Points on Injection Molded Parts

The existing research on shrinkage of the injection molded plastic part mainly focuses on various shrinkage ratios of the part dimensions,and the relevant experimental studies belong to mere dimension measurement after demoulding.Obviously,measuring after the plastic part is demoulded from the cavity can not offer shrinkage displacements of points on the plastic part.However,shrinkage displacements of points on an injection molded plastic part are essential for exposing the inner relation among shrinkage ratios of various dimensions of the part.So visualization of the in-mold plastic part which can indicate the location relationship between the part and the cavity is needed.In this paper,a visual injection mold was fabricated by adopting the half mold structure and light transmission manner.With the visual mold,in-mold shrinkage images of injection molded plastic parts were photographed after the plastic part stayed in the injection mold for 24 h.By means of digital image processing of the in-mold shrinkage images,the experimental data of shrinkage displacements of points on injection molded parts were researched.From the experimental data,it is found that shrinkage directions of points on an injection molded part are related with both positions of the gate and of the part centroid,and either the gate or the centroid will exert more influence on the shrinkage direction of some point which is closer.Furthermore,some point at the later filled area has more shrinkage distance than the point at the earlier filled area.Combination of shrinkage directions and shrinkage distances of points on an injection molded part determine shrinkage ratios for various dimensions of the part,and shrinkage directions are more influential to shrinkage ratios of dimensions.This experimental research of shrinkage displacements offers a unique approach to understand the shrinkage principles of injection molded parts.

FULLERENE POLYMERS WITH TUNABLE OPTICAL PROPERTIES

Light transmission spectra of THF solutions of poly (C-60-co-methyl methacrylate)s and poly(C-60-co-styrene)s continuously red-shift with increasing concentration. Formation of fullerene nanoclusters may be responsible for the unusual spectral shift, with concentration. It has long been scientists' dream to ''tune'' material's properties by simple means, and the C-60-containing polymers represent such a group of novel materials whose optical properties are predictably and reversibly tunable by a simple change in concentration.

Route-asymmetrical light transmission of a fiber-chip-fiber optomechanical system

In this paper, we proposed and experimentally demonstrated a route-asymmetrical light transmission scheme based on the thermal radiative effect, which means that forward and backward propagations of an optical device have different transmittances provided they are not present simultaneously. Employing a fiber-chipfiber optomechanical system, our scheme has successfully achieved a broad operation bandwidth of at least 24 nm and an ultra-high route-asymmetrical transmission ratio （RATR） up to 63 dB. The route-asymmetrical device has been demonstrated effectively with not only the continuous-wave （CW） light but also 10 Gbit/s on-off-keying （OOK） digital signals. Above mentioned unique features can be mostly attributed to the significant characteristics of the thermal radiative effect, which could cause a fiber displacement up to tens of microns. The powerful and significant thermal radiative effect opens up a new opportunity and method for route-asymmetrical light transmission. Moreover, this research may have important applications in all-optical systems, such as the optical limiters and ultra-low loss switches.

200 Mb/s visible optical wireless transmission based on NRZ–OOK modulation of phosphorescent white LED and a pre-emphasis circuit

We present a high-speed visible light communication （VLC） link that uses a commercially available phos- phorescent white light-emitting diode （LED）. Such devices have few megahertz bandwidth due to the slow response of phosphorescent component, which severely limit the transmission data rate of VLC system. We propose a simple pre-emphasis circuit. With blue-filtering and the pre-emphasis circuit, the bandwidth of VLC system can be enhanced from 3 to 77.6 MHz, which allows non-return-to-zero on-off-keying （NRZ- OOK） data transmission up to 200 Mb/s with the bit error ratio of 5.3 × 10-7 which is below 10-6. The VLC link operates at the room illumination level of -1000 lx at 1.1 m range using a single 1 W white LED.

Transmission enhancement properties of double-layered metallic hole arrays

We report experimental results on enhanced light transmission through double-layered （Ag/Au） metallic hole arrays within a skin-depth. Zero-order transmission spectrums are characterized as a function of Ag film＇s thickness, which extends from 5/15, 5/6 to approximately 5, where 5 is a skin-depth. In contrast with other reported results （Refs. [11 - 13]） in single-layered metallic hole arrays, our experimental results show much more dramatic properties of transmission process dependent on sub-5 thickness. It is shown that there is no negligible transmission enhancement at 5/15. At 5/6, much higher transmission efficiency can be achieved. With film＇s thickness being close to 5, the transmission efficiency declines contrarily. Simultaneously, the corresponding resonant peak also slightly moves toward the shorter wavelength. It is proposed that the coupling of surface plasmon polaritons （SPPs） at Ag/Au interface within 5 is involved in the process.

Picosecond soliton transmission using concatenated gain-distributed nonlinear amplifying fiber loop mirrors

Stable picosecond soliton transmission is demonstrated numerically by use of concatenated gain-distributed nonlinear amplifying fiber loop mirrors （NALMs）. We show that, as compared with previous soliton transmission schemes that use conventional NALMs or nonlinear optical loop mirror （NOLM） and amplifier combinations, the present scheme permits significant increase of loop-mirror （amplifier） spacing. The broad switching window of the present device and the high quality pulses switched from it provide a reasonable stability range for soliton transmission. Soliton-soliton interactions can be reduced efficiently by using lowly dispersive fibers.

Pulse re-shaping by using a liquid crystal spatial light modulator and deflector for producing a specific waveform

A new shaping method for producing nanosecond pulses with specific shape is introduced. When a Gaussian laser pulse passes through an electro-optic deflector, it. has been scanned as a line on the focal plane according to time precedence. Through controlling the intensity of transmitted light on each pixol of the liquid crystal spatial light modulator （LCSLM）, various complicated pulses can be easily produced. Using this method, various specific shaped pulses with pulse duration varying from 750 ps to 5 ns are achieved.

Transmission characteristics of an excited-state induced dispersion optical filter of rubidium at 775.9 nm

The operation of an ultra-narrow bandwidth optical filter based on the 5P3/2→5D3/2 excited-state transition in rubidium vapor is reported. The 5D3/2 state is excited by a circularly polarized pump beam at 780 nm from a diode laser. The filter displays a single 398-MHz bandwidth at a peak transmission of 9.0%, which is narrower than the Doppler bandwidth. The dependence of peak transmission on the pump intensity and cell temperature is also given.

Error detection using mode information of macroblocks for video transmission

A new method for error detection using mode information of macroblocks （MBs） is proposed. For decodable inter MBs, inter residues are calculated by adding up absolute values of received residual pixels and intra complexities are estimated by that of motion compensated reference blocks. If inter residues are larger than intra complexities by a predefined quantity, MBs are considered to be erroneous. For decodable intra MBs, the connective smoothness of the current MB with correctly decoded neighboring MBs is tested to find erroneous MBs. Combined with error concealment, the new method improves the quality of reconstructed images by about 0.5-1 dB in peak signal-noise ratio （PSNR）.

Novel scheme enabling broadcast signal transmission in WDM passive optical network

We present a novel method for providing broadcast signal transmission in a wavelength division multiplexing passive optical network （WDM-PON）. An unmodulated optical carrier for downstream transmission and a pair of unmodulated single-side band subcarriers are utilized for broadcast delivery and upstream transmission, respectively. System performance at 2.5-Gb/s down/upstream and 2.5-Gb/s broadcast transmission is also investigated.

160-Gb/s NRZ-DQPSK optical transmission system employing QC-LDPC code

A quasi-cyclic low-density parity check （QC-LDPC） code is constructed by an improved stability of the shortest cycle algorithm for 160-Gb/s non-return zero differential quadrature phase shift keying （NRZ- DQPSK） optical transmission system with the fiber-based optical parametric amplifier （FOPA）. The QC- --14 d LDPC code with stability of the shortest cycle reduces the bit error ratio （BER） to 10 an restrains the error floor effectively.