A planar chiral nanostructure with asymmetric transmission of linearly polarized wave and huge optical activity in near-infrared band

Just like an electronic diode that allows the electrical current to flow in one direction only, a kind of chiral metamaterial structure with a similar functionality for the electromagnetic wave is proposed. The designed nanostructure that consists of twisted metallic split-ring resonators on both sides of a dielectric substrate achieves asymmetric transmission for a forward and backward propagating linearly polarized wave by numerical simulation in near-infrared band. Difference in transmission efficiency of the optimized structure between the same polarized waves incident from opposite directions can reach a maximum at the communication wavelength （1.55 μm）. Moreover, the simulation results of this structure also exhibit strong optical activity and circular dichroism.

Synthesis, Characterization and Conductivity of α-Keggin-type Nanoparticles, Co(en)_3PMo_(12)O_(40)·8H_2O with Optical Activity

Polyoxometallates Co(en) 3PMo 12O 40·8H 2O(+,-)[abbreviated as PMo 12-Co(+,-)], nanoparticles were synthesized by the chemical precipitation reaction at room temperature for the first time. They were characterized by means of elemental analyses, IR spectrometry and X-ray diffraction. The images of scanning electron microscopy(SEM) and the results of calculation by using the Scherrer equation for the line widths of the XRD patterns were used to estimate the average particle size of the powder products, which was 40 nm. The results show that the nanoparticle size was affected by starting materials′ concentrations. The particles had a small size and a narrow distribution, when the concentrations of H 3PMo 12O 40·24H 2O and Co(en) 3I 3·H 2O were around 1.7×10 -4 and 1.0×10 -3 mol/L, respectively. When the concentration was increased, there was no significant increase in the particle size, but more polydisperse Co(en) 3(PMo 12O 40) (+, -) were obtained. In poly(ethylene glycol)(PEG) with an average molecular weight(M W) of 600 g/mol and containing LiClO 4[n(O)/n(Li)=100∶1] as the supporting electrolyte, the conductivity of the composite system increases upon the addition of PMo 12-Co(+ or -) nanoparticles, which was measured by the a.c. impedance technique. The interactions among PEG, LiClO 4, PMo 12, and Co can be used to explain that the PMo 12-Co(+ or -) nanoparticles could promote the conductivity of the PEG-LiClO4-PMo12-Co system.

Helioal Structure and Optical Activity of Two New Derivatives of R(+)-1,1'-Binaphthyl-2,2'-diol

Correlation between the belieal structure and optical activity of two derivatives of R(+)- 1, 1'-binaphthyl-2,2'-diol was derived from a study of their optical rotations, CD curves and Xray crystal structures.

Studies on the Relationship between the Helical Structure and Optical Activity of Some Chiral Cyclic Esters Ⅱ

A method for the analysis of the relationship between the helical structure and optical activity was proposed by the study of the conformations and X-ray diffraction structures of some cyclic esters prepared by esterification of L-(-)-2.3-O-methylidene threitol and L-(+)-2,3-O-isopropplidene threitol with alkanedioyl dichlorides and o-,m-,and p-phthaloyl dichlorides.

Optically Activated Charge Domain Model for High-Gain GaAs Photoconductive Switches

A model for theoretical analysis of nonlinear (or high gain) mode of photoconductive semiconductor switches (PCSS's) is proposed.The switching transition of high gain PCSS's can be described with an optically activated charge domain. The switching characteristics including rise time,delay and their relationship to electric field strength,optical trigger energies are discussed.The formation and radiation transit,accumulation of the charge domain are related with the triggering and sustaining phases of PCSS's,respectively.The results of the mathematical model on this mechanism agree with experimental results.

The Parameters Selection of SMA Optically Activated and Its Application

Shape Memory Alloy (SMA) optically activated is the key technology of optical SMA activator.According to the shape memory mechanism of SMA,researches are done on the activating response time and light wavelength of activating source etc of SMA optically activated to approach the parameters selection of optical activation.SMA has the optimum efficiency in the range of 13 seconds to 27 seconds when SMA is illuminated continuously by wavelength of 675nm;The power of light wave has a low effect on SMA;The longer the activating wavelength,the quicker the response time of SMA activated.If the proper activating time and activating wavelength are adopted, and the structure deformation of composite material of SMA imbedded may be actively controlled,an ideal effect will be gotten.The research provides an evidence for the design of optical SMA activator and is of great significance to its application.The research on smart structure has a wide application prospect.

Tri-band transparent cross-polarization converters using a chiral metasurface

A chiral metasurface is proposed to realize a tri-band polarization angle insensitive cross-polarization converter. The unit cell of the chiral metamaterial is composed by four twisted anisotropic structure pairs in four-fold rotation symmetry. The simulation results show that this device can work at 9.824 GHz, 11.39 GHz, and 13.37 GHz with low loss and a high polarization conversion ratio （PCR） of more than 99%. The proposed design can transmit the co-polarization wave at 14.215 GHz, like a frequency selective surface. The study of the current and electric fields distributions indicates that the cross-polarization transmission is due to electric dipole coupling.

Baker's Yeast Mediated Reduction of Optically Active Diketone

Baker's Yeast mediated reduction of optically active diketone has been described.

Preliminary study of a dispersed fringe type sensing system

Telescopes with large aspherical primary mirrors collect more light and are therefore sought after by astronomers. Instead of using a single large one-piece mirror, smaller segments can be assembled into a useable telescopic primary. Because the segments must fit together to create the effect of a single mirror, segmented optics present unique challenges to the fabrication and testing that are absent in monolithic optics. A dispersed fringe sensor （DFS） using a broadband point source is an efficient method for cophasing and is also highly automated and robust. Unlike the widely adopted Shack- Hartmann Wavefront sensor and curvature wavefront sensor with edge sensors for calibration of relative pistons, DFS can estimate the piston between segments by only using the spectrum formed by the transmissive grating＇s dispersion, and therefore can replace the edge sensors, which are difficult to calibrate. We introduce the theory of the DFS and Dispersed Hartmann Sensor （DHS） for further utilization of the coarse phasing method of DFS. According to the theory, we bring out the preliminary system design of the cophasing experimental system based on DFS and DHS which is now established in our institute. Finally, a summary is reached.

The Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST)

The Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST, also called the Guo Shou Jing Telescope) is a special reflecting Schmidt telescope. LAMOST’s special design allows both a large aperture (effective aperture of 3.6 m–4.9 m) and a wide field of view (FOV) (5°). It has an innovative active reflecting Schmidt configuration which continuously changes the mirror’s surface that adjusts during the observation process and combines thin deformable mirror active optics with segmented active optics. Its primary mirror (6.67m×6.05 m) and active Schmidt mirror (5.74m×4.40 m) are both segmented, and composed of 37 and 24 hexagonal sub-mirrors respectively. By using a parallel controllable fiber positioning technique, the focal surface of 1.75 m in diameter can accommodate 4000 optical fibers. Also, LAMOST has 16 spectrographs with 32 CCD cameras. LAMOST will be the telescope with the highest rate of spectral acquisition. As a national large scientific project, the LAMOST project was formally proposed in 1996, and approved by the Chinese government in 1997. The construction started in 2001, was completed in 2008 and passed the official acceptance in June 2009. The LAMOST pilot survey was started in October 2011 and the spectroscopic survey will launch in September 2012. Up to now, LAMOST has released more than 480 000 spectra of objects. LAMOST will make an important contribution to the study of the large-scale structure of the Universe, structure and evolution of the Galaxy, and cross-identification of multiwaveband properties in celestial objects.

Active Optics in LAMOST

Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST) is one of the major national projects under construction in China. Active optics is one of the most important technologies for new large telescopes. It is used for correcting telescope errors generated by gravitational and thermal changes. Here, however, we use this technology to realize the configuration of LAMOST,—a task that cannot be done in the traditional way. A comprehensive and intensive research on the active optics used in LAMOST is also reported, including an open-loop control method and an auxiliary closed-loop control method. Another important development is in our pre-calibration method of open-loop control, which is with some new features: simultaneous calculation of the forces and displacements of force actuators and displacement actuators; the profile of mirror can be arbitrary; the mirror surface shape is not expressed by a fitting polynomial, but is derived from the mirror surface shape formula which is highly accurate; a proof is given that the solution of the pre-calibration method is the same as the least squares solution.

Dual-Wavelength Bad Cavity Laser as Potential Active Optical Frequency Standard

We experimentally realize the dual-wavelength bad cavity laser for the first time. As the Cs cell temperature is kept between 118℃ and 144℃, both the 1359nm and 147Ohm lasing outputs of dual-wavelength bad cavity laser are detected. The laser output power of dual-wavelength bad cavity laser is measured when changing the 455 nm pumping laser frequency and power at 127℃ Cs cell temperature. Both the 1359 nm laser and the 1470 nm laser are working at the deep bad cavity regime, and the ratio between the linewidth of cavity mode and the laser gain bandwidth a ≈ 40 for 1359nm and 1470nm lasers. The 147Ohm laser linewidth is measured to be 407.3Hz. The dual-wavelength bad cavity laser operating on atomic transitions demonstrated here has a potential in the application as a stable optical local oscillator, even an active optical frequency standard directly in the future.

Synthesis of optically active lactide catalyzed by nanocrystals of La-Ti composite oxides

With sol-gel method,nanometer La-Ti composite oxides were prepared.By means of atomic force microscope,the surface pattern,particle size distribution and specific surface area were studied.The newly prepared nanocrystals of La-Ti composite oxides were used as the catalysts to catalyze the dehydration of external compensated lactic acid to lactide.The lactide product was measured by polarimeter and micropolariscope.The results demonstrate that the ratio between D-lactide and L-lactide will not be equal to 1-1 if nanocrystals of La-Ti composite oxides are used as the catalysts,which implies,that nanocrystals of La-Ti composite oxides may be potential catalysts with a good selectivity.

Co-focus experiment of segmented mirror

In this paper, an active optics and co-focus experimental system of segmented mirror is built. Firstly, a support structure of segmented mirror is designed and it is verified by simulation to meet the requirement for the experimental system of segmented mirror. In this system, the large de-focus and tilt/tip errors of the segmented mirror are adjusted by observing the density and contrast of interference fringes based on isoclinic interference theory until the defocus and tilt/tip errors are in the detective range of the Shack–Hartmann. Then, the Shack–Hartmann is used to measure them and they are adjusted by actuators. The actuators are controlled by active optics to realize the closed-loop adjustment and maintenance for fine co-focus of segmented mirror. And the interference fringes are utilized to verify the detective precision of Shack–Hartmann. After the co-focus fine-tuning of the segmented mirror, the tilt/tip residual surface error is better than 0.01λ RMS; the defocus residual surface error is better than 0.01λ RMS.

Synthesis and Crystal Structure of 5(R)-(1R,2S,5R)-Menthoxy-4(R)-N-cyclohexylaminobutyrolactone

The title compound, 5（R）-（1R,2S,5R）-menthoxy-4（R）-N-cyclohexylaminobutyrolactone 1, has been synthesized via the asymmetric Micheal addition reaction of 5（R）-menthoxy- 2（5H）-furanone 4 with cyclohexylamine 5, and structurally determined by single-crystal X-ray diffraction. Crystal data： C20H36NO3, Mr = 337.49, monoclinic system, space group P21, a = 9.8677（7）, b = 9.7737（7）, c=11.0204（8） A, β= 103.7820（10）°, V= 1032.25（13） A^3, Z = 2, Dc= 1.086 g/cm^3, 2（MoKα） = 0.071073 nm,μ= 0.071 mm^-1 and F（000） = 372. The structure was refined to R = 0.0328 and wR = 0.0864 for 4203 observed reflections （I 〉 2σ（I））. The crystallographic results of molecule 1 show that the functionalized N-cyclohexylamino group is linked in the 4-position of butyrolactone to form the novel chiral optically active compound.

Experimental Scheme of 633 nm and 1359 nm Good-Bad Cavity Dual-Wavelength Active Optical Frequency Standard

The experimental scheme of 633 nm and 1359 nm good-bad cavity dual-wavelength active optical frequency stan- dard is proposed, where He-Ne 633nm and Cs 1359nm stimulated emissions are working at good-cavity and bad-cavity regimes, respectively. The cavity length is stabilized by locking the 633nm output frequency to a super-cavity with the Pound Drever-Hall （PDH） technique. The frequency stability of 1359 nm bad-cavity stim- ulated emission output is then expected to be further improved by at least 1 order of magnitude than the 633nm PDH system due to the suppressed cavity pulling effect of active optical clock, and the quantum limited linewidth of 1359nm output is estimated to be 72.5 mHz.

NEW OPTICALLY ACTIVE AROMATIC POLYIMIDES Ⅱ: SYNTHESIS AND PROPERTIES OF OPTICALLY ACTIVE AROMATIC POLYIMIDE BASED ON (R)-(+)-2, 2′-BIS (2-TRIFLUORO-4-AMINOPHENOXY)-1, 1′-BINAPHTHYL

Optically active (R)-(+)-2, 2' -bis(2 -trifluoro-4 -aminophenoxy)- 1, 1' -binaphthyl was prepared from1, 1'-bi-2-naphthol. The optically active aromatic polyimide was also successfully synthesized. This newpolymer has good solubility, thermal stability etc. Its specific rotation was found to be +174°, and itschiroptical property was also studied.

Charge disturbance/excitation in the Raman virtual state revealed by ROA signal: A case study of pinane

The Raman mode intensities are used to extract the bond polarizabilities which are the indication of the charge disturbance/excitation of the Raman virtual state. A classical formula based on the electric and magnetic dipolar coupling among the charges on the atoms is developed which relates the charges and vibrational amplitudes of the atoms in a normal mode to the Raman optical activity(ROA) mode signatures. By fitting with the experimental ROA signatures, we are able to elucidate the scaling parameter which relates the bond polarizability to the electric charge. The result shows that around40% of the charges in pinane are involved in the Raman process under 532 nm laser excitation.

Convenient synthesis of some optically active 1,4-benzodiazepin-2,5-diones

Isatoic anhydride was reacted with several L-amino acids to give the corresponding （2S）-N-（o-aminobenzoyl）-2-alkylaminoacetic acids. The latter compounds were treated with phosphoryl chloride under reflux temperature to afford the cyclized products, （3S）-3-alkyl-3,4-dihydro- 1 H- 1,4-benzodiazepin-2,5-diones. 2007 M. Bakavoli. Published by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of Chinese Chemical Society. All rights reserved.