The reflection and diffraction of a planar shock wave around a circular cylinder are a typical problem of the complex nonlinear shock wave phenomena in literature.It has long been studied experimentally,analytically a...The reflection and diffraction of a planar shock wave around a circular cylinder are a typical problem of the complex nonlinear shock wave phenomena in literature.It has long been studied experimentally,analytically as well as numerically.Takayama in 1987 obtained clear experimental pictures ofisopycnics in shock tube under the condi- tion that the impinging shock wave propagates as far as 3 diameters away from the cylinder.To know more complete- ly the whole unsteady process,it is desirable to get experimental results in a region which is more than 10 diameters away from the cylinder.This is what has been done in this paper by using the pulsed laser holographic interferometry for several shock Mach numbers of the impinging shock. Results for several moments are shown,giving more know- ledge about the whole unsteady flow field.This is useful for a reliable and complete understanding of the changing force acting on the cylinder,and provides interesting data to check the performance of many recently developed high resolution numerical methods for unsteady shock wave calculation.展开更多
The effects of gain narrowing and high order dispersions on the pulse duration in our kilohertz chirpedpulse amplification system have been compensated experimentally. Using an acousto-optic programmable dispersive fi...The effects of gain narrowing and high order dispersions on the pulse duration in our kilohertz chirpedpulse amplification system have been compensated experimentally. Using an acousto-optic programmable dispersive filter (AOPDF), the spectral full-width at half-maximum (FWHM) is expanded from 30 to 50 nm. Stable laser pulses with the duration of 30 fs (FWHM), which is 1.07 times Fourier-transformlimitation, have been acquired by pre-compensating the high order phase distortions using the phase measured by spectral phase interferometry for direct electric-field reconstruction (SPIDER).展开更多
Ultrafast electromagnetic waves radiated from semiconductor material under high electric fields and photoexcited by femtosecond laser pulses have been recorded by using terahertz time domain spectroscopy (THz-TDS).T...Ultrafast electromagnetic waves radiated from semiconductor material under high electric fields and photoexcited by femtosecond laser pulses have been recorded by using terahertz time domain spectroscopy (THz-TDS).The waveforms of these electromagnetic waves reflect the dynamics of the photoexcited carriers in the semiconductor material,thus,THz-TDS provides a unique opportunity to observe directly the temporal and spatial evolutions of non-equilibrium transport of carriers within sub-picosecond time scale.We report on the observed THz emission waveforms emitted from GaAs by using a novel technology,the time domain THz electro-optic (EO) sampling,which has a bipolar feature,i.e.,an initial positive peak and a subsequent negative dip that arises from its velocity overshoot.The initial positive peak has been interpreted as electron acceleration in the bottom of Γ valley in GaAs,where electrons have a light effective mass.The subsequent negative dip has been attributed to intervalley transfer from Γ to X and L valleys.Furthermore,the power dissipation spectra of the bulk GaAs in THz range are also investigated by using the Fourier transformation of the time domain THz traces.From the power dissipation spectra,the cutoff frequency for negative power dissipation (i.e.,gain) under step electric field in the bulk GaAs can also be obtained.The cutoff frequency for the gain gradually increases with increasing electric fields up to 50 kV/cm and achieves saturation at approximately 1 THz at 300 K.Furthermore,based on the temperature dependence of the cutoff frequency,we find that this cutoff frequency is governed by the energy relaxation process of electrons from L to Γ valley via successive optical phonon emission.展开更多
基金The project suported partially by National Natural Science Foundation of China
文摘The reflection and diffraction of a planar shock wave around a circular cylinder are a typical problem of the complex nonlinear shock wave phenomena in literature.It has long been studied experimentally,analytically as well as numerically.Takayama in 1987 obtained clear experimental pictures ofisopycnics in shock tube under the condi- tion that the impinging shock wave propagates as far as 3 diameters away from the cylinder.To know more complete- ly the whole unsteady process,it is desirable to get experimental results in a region which is more than 10 diameters away from the cylinder.This is what has been done in this paper by using the pulsed laser holographic interferometry for several shock Mach numbers of the impinging shock. Results for several moments are shown,giving more know- ledge about the whole unsteady flow field.This is useful for a reliable and complete understanding of the changing force acting on the cylinder,and provides interesting data to check the performance of many recently developed high resolution numerical methods for unsteady shock wave calculation.
基金This work was supported by the National Key Basic Research Special Foundation of China under Grant No. G1999075201.
文摘The effects of gain narrowing and high order dispersions on the pulse duration in our kilohertz chirpedpulse amplification system have been compensated experimentally. Using an acousto-optic programmable dispersive filter (AOPDF), the spectral full-width at half-maximum (FWHM) is expanded from 30 to 50 nm. Stable laser pulses with the duration of 30 fs (FWHM), which is 1.07 times Fourier-transformlimitation, have been acquired by pre-compensating the high order phase distortions using the phase measured by spectral phase interferometry for direct electric-field reconstruction (SPIDER).
基金supported by the Nanotechnology Special Project of Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai (No. 1052nm07100)the Ministry of Education Doctoral Fund of New Teachers of China (No. 20093120120007)the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 61007059)
文摘Ultrafast electromagnetic waves radiated from semiconductor material under high electric fields and photoexcited by femtosecond laser pulses have been recorded by using terahertz time domain spectroscopy (THz-TDS).The waveforms of these electromagnetic waves reflect the dynamics of the photoexcited carriers in the semiconductor material,thus,THz-TDS provides a unique opportunity to observe directly the temporal and spatial evolutions of non-equilibrium transport of carriers within sub-picosecond time scale.We report on the observed THz emission waveforms emitted from GaAs by using a novel technology,the time domain THz electro-optic (EO) sampling,which has a bipolar feature,i.e.,an initial positive peak and a subsequent negative dip that arises from its velocity overshoot.The initial positive peak has been interpreted as electron acceleration in the bottom of Γ valley in GaAs,where electrons have a light effective mass.The subsequent negative dip has been attributed to intervalley transfer from Γ to X and L valleys.Furthermore,the power dissipation spectra of the bulk GaAs in THz range are also investigated by using the Fourier transformation of the time domain THz traces.From the power dissipation spectra,the cutoff frequency for negative power dissipation (i.e.,gain) under step electric field in the bulk GaAs can also be obtained.The cutoff frequency for the gain gradually increases with increasing electric fields up to 50 kV/cm and achieves saturation at approximately 1 THz at 300 K.Furthermore,based on the temperature dependence of the cutoff frequency,we find that this cutoff frequency is governed by the energy relaxation process of electrons from L to Γ valley via successive optical phonon emission.