Liu Shi-Lin

Experimental study on the chirped structure of the white-light continuum generation by femtosecond laser spectroscopy

The chirped structure of the white-light continuum generation (WLCG) pulse produced by focusing 800nm laser pulse with a pulse duration of 150fs (FWHM: full-width-at-half-maximum) onto a 2.4 mm thick sapphire plate was investigated by the optical Kerr gate technique with normal hexane as the optical Kerr gate medium. The observed WLCG was positively chirped, the measured anti-Stokes spectrum of WLCG ranges from 449 to 580nm with a temporal span of 2.56ps. When using metal reflecting mirrors to eliminate the group velocity dispersion (GVD) effect, we found that a span of 1.3ps still remained, indicating that the chirped pulse cannot be accounted for simply by GVD of the pulse propagation in the dispersive media. Our results suggest that the light-induced refractive index change due to the third-order nonlinear optical effect leads to an additional positive group velocity dispersion, which contributes to an important portion of the observed temporal broadening of the chirped WLCG. In addition to using reflective optical elements instead of dispersive optical elements, an effective way of reducing the chirp is to minimize the optical path length of the WLCG medium.

GAS DYNAMIC PROBLEMS CAUSED BY THE GENERATION OF THE RADICALS IN A SUPERSONIC JET

A simplified one-dimensional model was proposed to treat the gas dynamic problems in a supersonic jet, which was used to produce radicals cooled by supersonic expansion. Based on this model, the gas dynamic equations can be integrated directly to obtain the evolution of the translational temperature and the rotational temperature of free radicals as well as the molecule density. The results show that the heating position where the radicals are generated and the initial rotational temperature of radicals have little effect on the rotational temperature at the down stream detection point, if the heating position is close to the nozzle orifice.