Synthesized All-Pass Waveguide for Ultrafast Electronics

Ultrashort pulse transmission has been recognized as a primary problem that fundamentally hinders the development of ultrafast electronics beyond the current nanosecond timescale.This requires a transmission line or waveguide that exhibits an all-pass frequency behavior for the transmitted ultrashort pulse signals.However,this type of waveguiding structure has not yet been practically developed;groundbreaking innovations and advances in signal transmission technology are urgently required to address this scenario.Herein,we present a synthesized all-pass waveguide that demonstrates record guidedwave controlling capabilities,including eigenmode reshaping,polarization rotation,loss reduction,and dispersion improvement.We experimentally developed two waveguides for use in ultrabroad frequency ranges(direct current(DC)-to-millimeter-wave and DC-to-terahertz).Our results suggest that the waveguides can efficiently transmit picosecond electrical pulses while maintaining signal integrity.This waveguide technology is an important breakthrough in the evolution of ultrafast electronics,providing a path towards frequency-engineered ultrashort pulses for low-loss and low-dispersion transmissions.

Ab Initio Study of the Dehydrogcnation of Methylenimine

The ab initio calculations were performed by the intrinsic reaction coordinated(IRC) method for the reaction paths of the dehydrogenations of methylenimine. We determined the geometries and energies of the transition states and obtained the activation energies, activation entropies and the statistical A factors on the RHF/4 -31G singlet potential energy surface. The mode selective study reveals the intrinsic reaction coordi-nates(URC) of 1 ,1 and 1 ,2 dehydrogenations of methylenimine to be related with the H2C= group symmetrical stretch mode and the =NH group stretch mode, respectively. The vibration coupling between the normal coordinates occurs in either of these two reaction paths.

Ab Initio Study on the Isomerization and Dehydrogenation of Methylnitrene

The ab initio calculations were performed at the RHF/4-31G level with the reaction pathways of the iso-merization and dehydrogenation of methylnitrene by the intrinsic reaction coordinate method. The results show that the transformation from methylnitrene to methylenimine would be very easy. This accountes for the experimental fact that one couldn' t find the methylnitrene, but only obtained the methylenimine in the pyrolysis of methyl azide. The mode-selective study reveals the reaction coordinates (IRC) of isomerization and dehydrogenation of methylnitrene are associated with the molecular deformation mode of 1191 cm-1 and the methyl group unsymmetrical stretch mode, respectively. The coupling between normal coordinates is favourable to select the reaction channel of isomerization.

Generation of cylindrical vector beams in a mode-locked fiber laser using a mode-selective coupler

We experimentally obtain cylindrical vector beams（CVBs） in a passively mode-locked fiber laser based on nonlinear polarization rotation. A mode-selective coupler composed of both a single-mode fiber（SMF） and a twomode fiber（TMF） is incorporated into the cavity to act as a mode converter from LP01 mode to LP11 mode with broad spectral bandwidth. CVBs in different mode-locked states including single-pulse, multi-pulse, and bound pulse are obtained, for the first time to our best knowledge. The ultrafast CVBs with different operation states have potential applications in many fields such as laser beam machining, nanoparticle manipulation, and so on.