In x-ray dark-field imaging using dual phase grating interferometer,multi-contrast signals are extracted from a set of acquired phase-stepping data by using the least-squares fitting algorithm.The extracted mean inten...In x-ray dark-field imaging using dual phase grating interferometer,multi-contrast signals are extracted from a set of acquired phase-stepping data by using the least-squares fitting algorithm.The extracted mean intensity,amplitude and visibility signals may be intrinsically biased.However,it is still unclear how large these biases are and how the data acquisition parameters influence the biases in the extracted signals.This work set out to address these questions.Analytical expressions of the biases of the extracted signals were theoretically derived by using a second-order Taylor series expansion.Extensive numerical simulations were performed to validate the theoretical results.It is illustrated that while the estimated mean intensity signal is always unbiased,the estimated amplitude and visibility signals are both positively biased.While the biases of the estimated amplitude signals are proportional to the inverse of the total number of phase steps,the biases of the estimated visibility signals are inversely proportional to the product of the total number of phase steps and the mean number of photons counted per phase step.Meanwhile,it is demonstrated that the dependence of the biases on the mean visibility is quite different from that of Talbot-Lau interferometer due to the difference in the intensity model.We expect that these results can be useful for data acquisition optimizations and interpretation of x-ray dark-field images.展开更多
Dual-phase and three-phase grating x-ray interference is a promising new technique for grating-based x-ray differential phase contrast imaging.Dual-phase grating interferometers have been relatively completely studied...Dual-phase and three-phase grating x-ray interference is a promising new technique for grating-based x-ray differential phase contrast imaging.Dual-phase grating interferometers have been relatively completely studied and discussed.In this paper,the corresponding imaging fringe formula of the three-phase grating interferometer is provided.At the same time,the similarities and differences between the three-phase grating interferometer and the dual-phase grating interferometer are investigated and verified,and that the three-phase grating interferometer can produce large-period moiréfringes without using the analyzing grating is demonstrated experimentally.Finally,a simple method of designing three-phase grating and multi-grating imaging systems from geometric optics based on the thin-lens theory of gratings is presented.These theoretical formulas and experimental results provide optimization tools for designing three-phase grating interferometer systems.展开更多
Quasi-bound state in the continuum(QBIC)resonance is gradually attracting attention and being applied in Goos-Hänchen(GH)shift enhancement due to its high quality(Q)factor and superior optical confinement.Current...Quasi-bound state in the continuum(QBIC)resonance is gradually attracting attention and being applied in Goos-Hänchen(GH)shift enhancement due to its high quality(Q)factor and superior optical confinement.Currently,symmetry-protected QBIC resonance is often achieved by breaking the geometric symmetry,but few cases are achieved by breaking the material symmetry.This paper proposes a dielectric compound grating to achieve a high Q factor and high-reflection symmetry-protectede QBIC resonance based on material asymmetry.Theoretical calculations show that the symmetry-protected QBIC resonance achieved by material asymmetry can significantly increase the GH shift up to-980 times the resonance wavelength,and the maximum GH shift is located at the reflection peak with unity reflectance.This paper provides a theoretical basis for designing and fabricating high-performance GH shift tunable metasurfaces/dielectric gratings in the future.展开更多
Distributed fiber gratings exhibit outstanding capabilities in achieving a wide spectral response through the superimposition of gratings with different periods in the fiber core.This significantly broadens the design...Distributed fiber gratings exhibit outstanding capabilities in achieving a wide spectral response through the superimposition of gratings with different periods in the fiber core.This significantly broadens the design flexibility and potential applications of fiber gratings.However,as photons pass through gratings with varying periods in sequence,which not only inevitably existing signal crosstalk but also poses challenges for integrating.In this study,a three-dimensional(3D)four-channel filter is proposed and realized in fiber-compatible materials using femtosecond laser writing.The filter consists of a 3D beam splitter and four parallel different-period Bragg waveguide gratings(WGs).By designing grating periods in each path,parallel filtering and reflection at multiple designed wavelengths are achieved compactly with 50 nm spectrum spacing within 1450-1600 nm wavelengths.The four-channel filter entire measures 15.5 mm×1 mm×1 mm(the highest integration of distributed fiber gratings reported so far).Our technique will augment the laser fabrication technology for 3D integrated photonic devices and serve as a powerful and generalized solution for highly integrated in-situ measurement and multi-parameter decoupled sensing.展开更多
Femtosecond laser direct inscription is a technique especially useful for prototyping purposes due to its distinctive advantages such as high fabrication accuracy,true 3D processing flexibility,and no need for mold or...Femtosecond laser direct inscription is a technique especially useful for prototyping purposes due to its distinctive advantages such as high fabrication accuracy,true 3D processing flexibility,and no need for mold or photomask.In this paper,we demonstrate the design and fabrication of a planar lightwave circuit(PLC)power splitter encoded with waveguide Bragg gratings(WBG)using a femtosecond laser inscription technique for passive optical network(PON)fault localization application.Both the reflected wavelengths and intervals of WBGs can be conveniently tuned.In the experiment,we succeeded in directly inscribing WBGs in 1×4 PLC splitter chips with a wavelength interval of about 4 nm and an adjustable reflectivity of up to 70% in the C-band.The proposed method is suitable for the prototyping of a PLC splitter encoded with WBG for PON fault localization applications.展开更多
The two-phase detection method for directional discrimination in laser Doppler measurements is discussed.The diffraction efficiency of a sin- gle period rectangular phase grating is analysed and a kind of back-scatter...The two-phase detection method for directional discrimination in laser Doppler measurements is discussed.The diffraction efficiency of a sin- gle period rectangular phase grating is analysed and a kind of back-scattered laser Doppler vibrometer without directional ambiguity using the single peri- od rectangular phase grating as the beam-combiner described.The principles of this kind of vibrometer are explained in detail,and some experimental re- sults are given.In this kind of vibrometer,the rectangular phase grating, without the zero diffracted order and even orders,is used to eliminate use- less stray light and to combine the useful signal light.Differential electronics is employed to reject signal noise.Therefore,the signal-to-noise ratio of Doppler signals and the measurement accuracy of the instrument are im- proved and the range of application is expanded.展开更多
基金Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.U1532113,11475170,11905041)Anhui Provincial Natural Science Foundation(Grant No.2208085MA18)Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(Grant No.JZ2022HGTB0244)。
文摘In x-ray dark-field imaging using dual phase grating interferometer,multi-contrast signals are extracted from a set of acquired phase-stepping data by using the least-squares fitting algorithm.The extracted mean intensity,amplitude and visibility signals may be intrinsically biased.However,it is still unclear how large these biases are and how the data acquisition parameters influence the biases in the extracted signals.This work set out to address these questions.Analytical expressions of the biases of the extracted signals were theoretically derived by using a second-order Taylor series expansion.Extensive numerical simulations were performed to validate the theoretical results.It is illustrated that while the estimated mean intensity signal is always unbiased,the estimated amplitude and visibility signals are both positively biased.While the biases of the estimated amplitude signals are proportional to the inverse of the total number of phase steps,the biases of the estimated visibility signals are inversely proportional to the product of the total number of phase steps and the mean number of photons counted per phase step.Meanwhile,it is demonstrated that the dependence of the biases on the mean visibility is quite different from that of Talbot-Lau interferometer due to the difference in the intensity model.We expect that these results can be useful for data acquisition optimizations and interpretation of x-ray dark-field images.
基金Project supported by LingChuang Research Project of China National Nuclear Corporationthe National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.12027812)。
文摘Dual-phase and three-phase grating x-ray interference is a promising new technique for grating-based x-ray differential phase contrast imaging.Dual-phase grating interferometers have been relatively completely studied and discussed.In this paper,the corresponding imaging fringe formula of the three-phase grating interferometer is provided.At the same time,the similarities and differences between the three-phase grating interferometer and the dual-phase grating interferometer are investigated and verified,and that the three-phase grating interferometer can produce large-period moiréfringes without using the analyzing grating is demonstrated experimentally.Finally,a simple method of designing three-phase grating and multi-grating imaging systems from geometric optics based on the thin-lens theory of gratings is presented.These theoretical formulas and experimental results provide optimization tools for designing three-phase grating interferometer systems.
基金Project supported by the Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.LQ23F040001)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.12204446)+1 种基金the Public Welfare Technology Research Project of Zhejiang Province(Grant No.LGC22E050006)the Quzhou Science and Technology Project of China(Grant No.2022K104).
文摘Quasi-bound state in the continuum(QBIC)resonance is gradually attracting attention and being applied in Goos-Hänchen(GH)shift enhancement due to its high quality(Q)factor and superior optical confinement.Currently,symmetry-protected QBIC resonance is often achieved by breaking the geometric symmetry,but few cases are achieved by breaking the material symmetry.This paper proposes a dielectric compound grating to achieve a high Q factor and high-reflection symmetry-protectede QBIC resonance based on material asymmetry.Theoretical calculations show that the symmetry-protected QBIC resonance achieved by material asymmetry can significantly increase the GH shift up to-980 times the resonance wavelength,and the maximum GH shift is located at the reflection peak with unity reflectance.This paper provides a theoretical basis for designing and fabricating high-performance GH shift tunable metasurfaces/dielectric gratings in the future.
基金supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No.62375103 and Grant No.62131018in part by the National Key Research and Development Program of China under Grant No.2021YFF0502700Innovation Program for Quantum Science and Technology(Grant No.2021ZD0300701).
文摘Distributed fiber gratings exhibit outstanding capabilities in achieving a wide spectral response through the superimposition of gratings with different periods in the fiber core.This significantly broadens the design flexibility and potential applications of fiber gratings.However,as photons pass through gratings with varying periods in sequence,which not only inevitably existing signal crosstalk but also poses challenges for integrating.In this study,a three-dimensional(3D)four-channel filter is proposed and realized in fiber-compatible materials using femtosecond laser writing.The filter consists of a 3D beam splitter and four parallel different-period Bragg waveguide gratings(WGs).By designing grating periods in each path,parallel filtering and reflection at multiple designed wavelengths are achieved compactly with 50 nm spectrum spacing within 1450-1600 nm wavelengths.The four-channel filter entire measures 15.5 mm×1 mm×1 mm(the highest integration of distributed fiber gratings reported so far).Our technique will augment the laser fabrication technology for 3D integrated photonic devices and serve as a powerful and generalized solution for highly integrated in-situ measurement and multi-parameter decoupled sensing.
基金supported by the ZTE Industry-University-Institute Fund Project under Grant No.IA20221202011。
文摘Femtosecond laser direct inscription is a technique especially useful for prototyping purposes due to its distinctive advantages such as high fabrication accuracy,true 3D processing flexibility,and no need for mold or photomask.In this paper,we demonstrate the design and fabrication of a planar lightwave circuit(PLC)power splitter encoded with waveguide Bragg gratings(WBG)using a femtosecond laser inscription technique for passive optical network(PON)fault localization application.Both the reflected wavelengths and intervals of WBGs can be conveniently tuned.In the experiment,we succeeded in directly inscribing WBGs in 1×4 PLC splitter chips with a wavelength interval of about 4 nm and an adjustable reflectivity of up to 70% in the C-band.The proposed method is suitable for the prototyping of a PLC splitter encoded with WBG for PON fault localization applications.
文摘The two-phase detection method for directional discrimination in laser Doppler measurements is discussed.The diffraction efficiency of a sin- gle period rectangular phase grating is analysed and a kind of back-scattered laser Doppler vibrometer without directional ambiguity using the single peri- od rectangular phase grating as the beam-combiner described.The principles of this kind of vibrometer are explained in detail,and some experimental re- sults are given.In this kind of vibrometer,the rectangular phase grating, without the zero diffracted order and even orders,is used to eliminate use- less stray light and to combine the useful signal light.Differential electronics is employed to reject signal noise.Therefore,the signal-to-noise ratio of Doppler signals and the measurement accuracy of the instrument are im- proved and the range of application is expanded.