201 results about "Group velocity" patented technology

A free electron laser for generating a Smith-Purcell radiation. In one embodiment, the free electron laser includes a grating having a grating surface, an electron emitter for generating a beam of electrons, and a guiding member positioned therebetween the electron emitter and the grating for directing the beam of electrons along a path extending over the grating surface of the grating with a focal point so that in operation a Smith-Purcell radiation and an evanescent wave are generated by interaction of the beam of electrons with the grating. In operation, the beam current of the beam of electrons is equal to or greater than a threshold current and the group velocity of the evanescent wave is substantially close to zero or negative so that the evanescent wave travels backward to allow electrons in the beam of electrons are bunched by interaction with the evanescent wave to substantially enhance the Smith-Purcell radiation over the range of wavelengths.

Methods and systems for determining a geophysical position of an object in an underwater channel are provided. Acoustic signals from at least two sources are received by a receiver of the object. The acoustic signals have a frequency corresponding to at least one waveguide mode associated with the underwater channel, where the acoustic signals are transmitted at predetermined transmission times. An arrival time for the at least one waveguide mode is determined from the received signals, based on the predetermined transmission times. The geophysical position is determined based on the arrival time and a modal group velocity for the at least one waveguide mode.

A method and system of locating discontinuities, measuring distances, locating unknown sources, and measuring the thickness of multimode dispersive medium includes sensing a multimode dispersive acoustic guided wave and frequency decomposing that wave using spectral temporal analysis; selecting a frequency which identifies a group delay of the guided wave for each mode occurring at that frequency; selecting a mode from the group delays of the selected mode, determining the group velocity from the dispersion curves and computing the desired parameter.

An apparatus for gauging the level of a liquid, above which a gas having a dielectric constant within a predetermined dielectric constant range exists, comprises a transmitter for transmitting a microwave signal in a propagation mode in a tube through the gas towards the liquid surface; a receiver for receiving the microwave signal reflected against the liquid surface and propagating back through the tube; and a processing device for calculating from the propagation time of the transmitted and reflected microwave signal the level of the liquid. In order to essentially avoid the influence on the calculated level by the dielectric constant of the gas above the liquid, the transmitter is adapted to transmit the microwave signal in a frequency band, at which the group velocity of the microwave signal in the propagation mode in the tube is, within the predetermined dielectric constant range, essentially independent of the dielectric constant.

Electromagnetic radiation sources operating in the Terahertz (THz) region capable of overcoming the Manley-Rowe limits of known optical schemes by achieving phase matching between a THz wave and optical pulse in a nonlinear waveguide, or by achieving both phase and group velocity matching between a THz wave and optical pulse in a nonlinear waveguide to yield even higher efficiencies in converting optical power to the THz region.

Nanophononic metamaterials and methods for reducing thermal conductivity in at least partially crystalline base material are provided, such as for thermoelectric energy conversion. In one implementation, a method for reducing thermal conductivity through an at least partially crystalline base material is provided. In another implementation, a nanophononic metamaterial structure is provided. The nanophononic metamaterial structure in this implementation includes: an at least partially crystalline base material configured to allow a plurality of phonons to move to provide thermal conduction through the base material; and at least one nanoscale locally resonant oscillator coupled to the at least partially crystalline base material. The at least one nanoscale locally resonant oscillator is configured to generate at least one vibration mode to interact with the plurality of phonons moving within the base material and slowing group velocities of at least a portion of the interacting phonons and reduce thermal conductivity through the base material.

Cross-well electromagnetic (EM) imaging is performed using high-power pulsed magnetic field sources, time-domain signal acquisition, low-noise magnetic field sensors, spatial oversampling and super-resolution image enhancement and injected contrast fluids. The contrast fluids increase the electromagnetic character of the formation and fluids, either the magnetic permeability or the dielectric permittivity. The acquired signals are processed and inter-well images are generated mapping electromagnetic (EM) signal speed (group velocity) rather than conductivity maps. EM velocity maps with improved resolution for both native and injected fluids are provided.

Cross-well electromagnetic (EM) imaging is performed using high-power pulsed magnetic field sources, time-domain signal acquisition, low-noise magnetic field sensors, spatial oversampling and super-resolution image enhancement and injected magnetic nanofluids. Inter-well images are generated mapping electromagnetic (EM) signal speed (group velocity) rather than conductivity maps. EM velocity maps with improved resolution for both native and injected fluids are provided.

The invention discloses a group sound velocity real-time adjustable ultrasound diagnostic equipment and a wave beam synthesis method thereof, which relates to the technical field of medicinal ultrasound diagnostic equipment. The equipment uses changeable group sound velocity to accurately calculate wave beam synthesis, and through the combination between the equipment and a pre-value storage device, a doctor can select examination positions to automatically load the most matched group sound velocity for imaging and to permit the real-time adjustment and imaging of the group sound velocity. Theinvention changes the traditional wave beam synthesis method so as to improve the imaging quality of the ultrasound diagnostic equipment, reduce imaging error caused by using fixed group sound velocity and increase the accuracy of measuring results simultaneously.

Compensating for polarization mode dispersion in a birefringent optical transmission fibre is achieved by controlling the birefringence of the fibre. The difference in group velocity of the orthogonal polarization states of an optical signal transmitted over the fibre is monitored to generate an error signal representing the difference. The birefringence of the fibre is adjusted accordingly to minimize the difference and thereby provide dynamic compensation. Birefringence control may be achieved by a non-linear fibre grating written into the fibre to impose a differential time delay. The fibre may be a side hole fibre (SHF), a holey fibre (HF), a photonic crystal fibre (PCF), or any other suitable microstructure fibre. The fibre may have stressing rods, may be tapered along its length and may be controlled electrically, mechanically, acoustically or thermally by spaced heating elements.

The invention relates to high-order longitudinal guided-wave measurement method for steel strand prestress, belonging to non-destructive test field. High-order longitudinal mode of which group velocity is maximum at a frequency is selected for measuring the prestress loaded by the steel strand. At the frequency, the group velocity of the high-order longitudinal mode monotonically increases or reduces along with the tensile stress in the elastic deformation range of steel strand, and when the steel strand bears different prestress in the elastic deformation range of steel strand, the deviation value between the frequency value on the maximum value of high-order longitudinal mode group velocity and the initial frequency value of the longitudinal mode in free state is not more than 1%, and the error between the prestress value measured by the high-order longitudinal guided-wave and the actual value is not more than 1%. The invention solves the problems that the prestress applied to the steel strand can not be rapidly, precisely, and online measured.

The invention concretely relates to an ultrasonic Lamb wave-based butt weld nondestructive testing method and belongs to the ultrasonic guided-wave nondestructive testing field. An excitation source is loaded at the end of a weld joint. Two piezoelectric patches are pasted on the upper surface and the lower surface of a plate symmetrically and excited. The generated weld joint guided-wave mode propagating along the weld joint has high energy and slow attenuation, and the long-distance testing problem can be solved. The testing system is shown in the figure, and composed of a function generator (1), a power amplifier (2), piezoelectric patches (3), an oblique incidence-type piezoelectric ultrasonic sensor (4), an oscilloscope (5) and a computer (6). By utilizing the testing system, when the ultrasonic Lamb wave encounters flaws of the weld joint, flaw echoes are generated. According to the time difference between the excitation waveforms and the waveforms of flaw echoes and the group velocity of the weld joint guided-wave mode, the distance from the flaws to the excitation source can be obtained, and therefore the effective locating of weld joint flaws can be achieved.

The invention provides a photonic crystal slow light waveguide based on a honeycomb structure. The photonic crystal slow light waveguide based on the honeycomb structure comprises a topology mediocrestructure and a topology non-mediocre structure, and the other part is composed of crystal cells which are arranged and have topology non-mediocre property. A relatively mild energy band appears in afirst Brillouin zone in an energy band structure, and transmission group velocity of light at the frequency is close to 0, so that slow light transmission is realized. An elliptical dielectric cylinder is made from a common dielectric material silicon, and production cost is low.

An embodiment of the invention provides a coupled waveguide photo detector device. Optically, the device includes an input waveguide. An output waveguide is coupled to the input waveguide with a nonuniform coupling coefficient in a coupling section. An absorber is included in the coupling section to convert an absorbed portion of optical radiation into photo current. The location of absorber and the optical radiation intensity pattern in the coupling section are set to control the maximum intensity of output power absorbed by the output waveguide to be within a predetermined limit that avoids saturation. The absorber is also part of a transmission line collector which has a phase and group velocity to match those of the optical wave in the coupling section such that currents collected by the transmission line collector add in phase as the optical wave propagates in the output waveguide.

An optical modulator according to the present invention includes an optical waveguide 2a to 2d made of a material with an electro-optic effect and a modulating electrode 3 for applying a modulating electric signal to light propagating through the optical waveguide 2a to 2d. The modulator further includes a periodic structure, of which the equivalent refractive index changes periodically in a light propagation direction and which can reduce the group velocity of the light propagating through the optical waveguide 2a, 2b.

A method of using ultrasonic guided wave to detect the length of grate column of half buried under different highway roadbed, belongs to nondestructive testing field. The method is to determine parameters of grate column before buried calculate group velocity dispersion curve of grate column before buried; select detection frequency from the curve and input the arbitrary function generator to form a single audio signal through the power amplifier module, switch modules, guided wave transceiver components, stimulate the vertical axisymmetric guided wave mode in the vertical column; the guided wave modal generate end echo when encounter the end of the column, the end echo is sent to oscilloscope through guided wave transceiver components and switch modules, determine the corresponding time of end echo, obtain the group velocity from the group velocity dispersion curve, multiple the group velocity with the echo time, divided by 2 to obtain the length of column. The present invention has the advantages of do not need to consider surrounding medium of column, high detection accuracy and of low cost.

Methods and apparatus for extracting the first arrival wave packet of an acoustic signal in a structural health monitoring (SHM) system include receiving an acoustic signal transmitted between two transducers thereof. Electromagnetic cross-talk is removed from the signal. Signal amplitude threshold values used for picking out the first arrival wave packet are chosen based on signal characteristics or chosen adaptively as the value that leads to the minimum variance of the group velocity estimates of all the actuation-sensing transducer pairs. The group velocity is estimated as the known actuator-sensor distance divided by the propagation time of the first wave packet of which the envelope exceeds a candidate threshold value. The first arrival wave packet is determined as the signal segment where the signal envelope first exceeds the chosen amplitude threshold and the segment length exceeds a specified threshold of time width.

A non-linear optical device is provided. The device comprises an optical disk or ring microresonator fabricated from a material that exhibits an optical nonlinearity able to produce degenerate four-wave mixing (FWM) in response to a pump beam having a pump frequency in a specified effective range. The microresonator is conformed to exhibit an angular group velocity minimum at a pump frequency within the specified effective range such that there is zero angular group velocity dispersion at the pump frequency. We refer to such a pump frequency as the “zero dispersion frequency”. In embodiments, excitation of the resonator by a pump beam of sufficient intensity at the zero-dispersion frequency causes the resonator to emit a frequency comb of entangled photon pairs wherein the respective frequencies in each pair are symmetrically placed about the zero-dispersion frequency.

The invention relates to a method for detecting the thickness of industrial boiler scale by utilizing an SH (Shear) wave which is sensitive to an attachment on the surface of a plate layer, belonging to the field of nondestructive inspection of ultrasonic guided waves. In the method, firstly, a dispersion curve with different scale thicknesses is drawn by utilizing a dispersion equation for SH wave propagation in a double-layer structure to obtain a variation curve of SH0 modal group velocity changing along with the increase of the thickness of the scale, and then a high detection frequency and a low detection frequency respectively corresponding to thinner scales and thicker scales are further obtained. A detection system is shown as the drawing and comprises a function generator (1), a power amplifier (2), a change-over switch (3), an EMAT (Electromagnetic-Acoustic Transducer) sensor (4), an oscillometer (5) and a computer (6). The group velocity of an SH0 modal in a structure formed by a boiler and scales can be measured by the system, and the thickness of the scale can be obtained according to the corresponding curve of the group velocity and the scale thickness by the calculation, thereby the online and nondestructive testing on the thickness of the industrial boiler scale is realized.

The invention relates to a bunting position and energy measurement method based on a wave propagation time and energy function. According to the method, a plurality of sensors are arranged below a touch equipment perception panel so as to response a blast wave signal generated by bunting; blast wave signal energy and arrival time therefore are detected; according to a principle that the blast wave group velocity is similarly equal in each direction on the aspects of isotropic or quasi-isotropic structure, the bunting position is analyzed and calculated; and according to the relationship that the bunting dynamics and the blast wave signal energy are in direct proportion, the blunting energy is analyzed and calculated. According to the bunting position and energy measurement method based on the wave propagation time and energy function, which is disclosed by the invention, the method in the prior art that a group sensor, such as an array sensor, needs to be arranged to sense the bunting dynamics is changed, and the amount of required sensors is reduced so as to reduce the total weight, the complexity and the energy consumption of the touch equipment, and the cost is greatly lowered. The bunting position and energy measurement method based on the wave propagation time and energy function can be used for electronic equipment with a propagation panel, such as a touch screen, a game control panel and a shooting target, and performs the functions of assisting or replacing the traditional positioning method based on the technology, such as resistance and capacitance.

Optical components including a laser based on a dielectric waveguide extending along a waveguide axis and having a refractive index cross-section perpendicular to the waveguide axis, the refractive index cross-section supporting an electromagnetic mode having a zero group velocity for a non-zero wavevector along the waveguide axis.