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Silver micro drop structured twice around the earth
Meluzín, Petr ; Tryhuk, V. ; Horáček, Miroslav ; Knápek, Alexandr ; Krátký, Stanislav ; Matějka, Milan ; Kolařík, Vladimír
Planar micro structuring of thin metallic layers allows to achieve required surface properties of metallic layers covering bulk materials. Recently, the arrangement of micro holes or pillars placed around the primary spiral according to a phyllotactic model was presented. This deterministically aperiodic planar arrangement was used for benchmarking purposes of the e-beam writer patterning. This arrangement based on single primary spiral and a variety of derived secondary spirals has several interesting properties. One of them is a very low ratio between the area populated by individual micro elements and the length of the primary phyllotactic spiral. This paper presents analysis of the phyllotactic spiral length and the rising gradient at the spiral outer edge. The practical part of the presented work deals with the patterning of a thin silver layer deposited on the silicon or glass substrates using e-beam pattern generation, lithography techniques and related technologies. An interesting impact of the mentioned spiral properties on the e-beam writing strategies and the exposure ordering strategy are also discussed.
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Interferometric System for Length Calibration on a Metre Scale
Jedlička, Petr ; Mikel, Břetislav ; Řeřucha, Šimon ; Matěj, Z. ; Herman, O. ; Holá, Miroslava ; Jelínek, Michal ; Pavelka, Jan ; Číp, Ondřej ; Lazar, Josef
Interferometric system is designed to calibrate the measurement frame, used for periodic assessment of the inner geometry of the reactor active zone chassis. Calibration lenght is up to 3300mm.
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Comparison of frequency stability of laser wavelength standards over photonic networks
Pravdová, Lenka ; Hrabina, Jan ; Čížek, Martin ; Lazar, Josef ; Číp, Ondřej
In our work we present a metrological ampaign in which the stability of the 1540 nm normal laser located at the CESNET workplace in Prague was compared with the wavelength of the supercoherent laser transmitted from the ÚPT workplace in Brno via the 306 km phase-coherent transfer line Brno - Prague. The assembled acetylene standard was transferred to the CESNET workplace and a unit receiving coherent wave from the supercoherent laser stabilized by the optical frequency comb and the H-maser at the ISI workplace in Brno was put into operation. The optical frequency mixer with a photodetector recorded a frequency response between the acetylene optical frequency normal and the supercoherent laser distributed over the photonic network whose stability is given by the H-maser in the 15th order. We have verified that the laser normal meets the requirements of the BIMP Recommendation for the Practical Implementation of the Meter Standard.
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Utilization of hydrogen cyanide as an absorption media for laser spectroscopy
Hošek, Martin ; Řeřucha, Šimon ; Pravdová, Lenka ; Čížek, Martin ; Hrabina, Jan ; Číp, Ondřej
The main goal of our investigation is the use of hydrogen cyanide (concretely isotope H13C14N) as absorption medium for realisation of etalon of optical frequency. The advantage of HCN over typically used acetylene (isotopes 13C2H2 and 12C2H2) is the better availability and also the wider absorption spectrum in the 1550 nm wavelength band (telecommunication band). The hyperfine transitions in HCN were investigated in the 90‘, but because of technological limitations the measured data are not as precise as the data for C2H2. We aim on use of more developed methods (saturated absorption spectroscopy, optical frequency lock, beat-note against the optical frequency comb) for the measurement of more precise data of absorption lines of HCN. Our other goals will be to obtain the data enough precise to allow the use of them in Mise en pratique.
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Laser ablation of calcium atoms for laser cooling experiment
Grim, Jakub ; Pham, Minh Tuan ; Číp, Ondřej
Our work describes two most common methods of generating neutral atoms needed for experiments with trapped and cooled ions. The easiest but not most effective way of the neutral atoms generating is to use a heated oven. A better method allowing a fine control of generating atoms is to use a pulsed laser ablation. A vacuum chamber with Ca atoms source and necessary optics was assembled. Detection of generated particles was achieved by laser-induced fluorescence and sensitive camera. The paper consists of measurement of both method of generating the atoms.
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Stable optical frequency transfer between ISI and CESNET workplaces
Čížek, Martin ; Pravdová, Lenka ; Hucl, Václav ; Jelínek, Michal ; Hrabina, Jan ; Řeřucha, Šimon ; Mikel, Břetislav ; Lazar, Josef ; Číp, Ondřej ; Smotlacha, V. ; Havliš, O. ; Vojtěch, J.
The contribution reports on the current state of a 306km long experimental line for transfering stable optical frequency from a telecommunication band laser standard between ISI CAS (Brno) and CESNET (Prague). The bidirectional link uses a telecommunication fiber with a dedicated DWDM window of 1540-1546 nm.1540-1546 nm. In the Czech rep. this technology can be utilized currently in two fields: remote comparisons of optical frequency standards and remote callibration of instruments (optical spectral analyzers) in industrial applications that do not allow transporting the device to a specialized laboratory. The stability of the optical frequency transfer was evaluated. A long-term measurement of transport delay was conducted. \n
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Imaging via multimode optical fiber: recovery of a transmission matrix using internal references
Šiler, Martin ; Jákl, Petr ; Traegaardh, Johanna ; Ježek, Jan ; Uhlířová, Hana ; Tučková, Tereza ; Zemánek, Pavel ; Čižmár, Tomáš
Current research of life shows a great desire to study the mechanics of biological processes\ndirectly within the complexity of living organisms. However, majority of practical techniques\nused nowadays for tissue visualization can only reach depths of a few tens of micrometres as\nthe issue obscures deep imaging due to the random light scattering. Several imaging\ntechniques deal with this problems from different angels, such as optical coherence\ntomography, light sheet microscopy or structured light illumination A different and promising strategy to overcome the turbid nature of scattering tissues is to employ multimode optical fibers (MMF) as minimally invasive light guides or endoscopes to provide optical access inside. Although the theoretical description of light propagation through such fibers has been developed a long time ago it is frequently considered inadequate to describe real MMF. The inherent randomization of light propagating through MMFs is typically attributed to undetectable deviations from the ideal fiber structure. It is a commonly believed that this\nadditional chaos is unpredictable and that its influence grows with the length of the fiber.\nDespite this, light transport through MMFs remains deterministic and can be characterized by a transmission matrix (TM) which connects the intensity and phase patterns on the fiber input and output facets. Once the TM is known it can be used to create focus in any desired 3D\ncoordinates beyond the distal fiber facet, see figure 1, and perform e.g. fluorescence based\nlaser scanning microscopy or optical trapping.
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Grazing incidence interferometer for form measurement of hollow cylinders
Šarbort, Martin ; Řeřucha, Šimon ; Holá, Miroslava ; Lazar, Josef
Optical metrology of cylindrical specimens represents an interesting task in scientific and\nindustrial practice. The most precise measurement methods use principles of laser\ninterferometry where the phase difference between the reference wave and the object wave reflected from the tested surface is detected. The form measurement of hollow cylindrical tubes can be advantageously realized by an object wave with conical wavefronts generated by an axicon lens or an equivalent diffractive optical element. An axicon characterized by large apex angle forms a conical wave that fulfills the conditions of the grazing incidence, which results in suppression of the speckle noise. The previous experimental setups were relatively complex since they involved a pair of mutually reversed axicons or a pair of diffractive optical elements that transform the object wave from planar to conical and vice\nversa.
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Orbital motion from optical spin: the extraordinary momentum of circularly polarized light beams
Svak, Vojtěch ; Brzobohatý, Oto ; Šiler, Martin ; Jákl, Petr ; Zemánek, Pavel ; Simpson, Stephen Hugh
We provide a vivid demonstration of the mechanical effect of transverse spin momentum in an\noptical beam in free space. This component of the Poynting momentum was previously thought\nto be virtual, and unmeasurable. Here, its effect is revealed in the inertial motion of a probe\nparticle in a circularly polarized Gaussian trap, in vacuum. Transverse spin forces combine with\nthermal fluctuations to induce a striking range of non-equilibrium phenomena. With increasing\nbeam power we observe (i) growing departures from energy equipartition, (ii) the formation of\ncoherent, thermally excited orbits and, ultimately, (iii) the ejection of the particle from the trap.\nOur results complement and corroborate recent measurements of spin momentum in evanescent\nwaves, and extend them to a new geometry, in free space. In doing so, we exhibit fundamental,\ngeneric features of the mechanical interaction of circularly polarized light with matter. The work\nalso shows how observations of the under-damped motion of probe particles can provide detailed\ninformation about the nature and morphology of momentum flows in arbitrarily structured light\nfields as well as providing a test bed for elementary non-equilibrium statistical mechanics.
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