Optical-field-induced memory effect of nematic liquid crystal doped with zinc porphyrin dimers

In this paper, the optical-field-induced reorientation ofnematic liquid crystal （5CB） doped with a volume fraction of 1.0% of zinc porphyrin dimers ο, ο-C2-（L-Thr）-C2-（TPP）2Zn（II）2 has been studied. Excited by 1.06 lain, YAG laser pulse with 10 ns pulse duration and 100 mJ pulse energy, both of the doped 5CB and pure 5CB perform the reorientation. When the exciting laser pulse withdraws, the doped 5CB retains the reorientation and without back to the initial orientation, and the memory effect is formed accordingly, whereas the pure 5CB relax to the initial orientation. A model considering the intermolecular coupling change between the dopant and host 5CB, and together with the aligning surface adsorption process of deformed dopant are present to explain this memory effect. In order to prove this mechanism, 5CB doped with another dopant （zinc porphyrin, ZnTPP） was used for contrast, which induces no such memory effect. This phenomenon is very useful to study the optical data storage and memory display.

Different Types of Projective Synchronization in a Class of Time-Delayed Chaotic Systems Using Active Control Approach

We study different types of projective synchronization （projective-anticipating, projective, and projectivelag synchronization） in a class of time-delayed chaotic systems related to optical bistable or hybrid optical bistable devices. We relax some limitations of previous work, where the scaling factor a can not be any desired value. In this paper, we achieve projective-anticipating, projective, and projective-lag synchronization without the limitation of a. A suitable controller is chosen using active control approach. Based on the Lyapunov stability theory, we derive the sufficient stability condition through theoretical analysis. The analytical results are validated by the numerical simulations using Ikeda model and Mackey-Glass model.

Realization of population inversion between 7S_(1/2) and 6P_(3/2) levels of cesium for four-level active optical clock

We demonstrate experimentally the population inversion between 7S1/2 and 6P3/2 levels of cesium in thermal cesium cell with a 455.5 nm pumping laser.We calculate the relative population probabilities at each level theoretically with the density matrix method.In a steady state,5.8% atoms are at 7S1/2 level and 2.9% at 6P3/2 level,which builds up the population inversion between the two levels.We obtain the fluorescence spectra produced in thermal cesium cell in our experiment.The measured relative intensity of each available fluorescence spectral line in the experiment agrees very well with the theoretical result.The demonstrated population inversion between 7S1/2 and 6P3/2 levels can be used to construct an active optical clock of four-level system with a wavelength of 1469.9 nm.

Design of chirped fiber gratings for optical beamforming networks

The properties of the linear chirped fiber grating （CFG） which is used in the true time delay unit of the optical beamforming networks （OBFNs） are studied intensively through theoretical analyses and numerical calculations. It is concluded that the dispersion of the CFG is equal to 1/（3Gc）, where G is the chirp coefficient of CFG and c is the light speed. Based on this relationship, a simplified designing process of a CFG which satisfies the requirements of the O13 FN is given. The simula- tion results are coincident with the theoretical conclusions.