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利用laser散斑测量具有$10^{-9}$分辨率的气体refractive index的变化

Measurement of variations in gas refractive index with $10^{-9}$ resolution using laser speckle

Morgan Facchin, Graham David Bruce, Kishan Dholakia

摘要:

折射率的高分辨率测定在从生物传感到激光测距的各个领域都至关重要。众所周知,激光散斑是光和环境特性的敏感探针,但迄今为止,基于散斑的折射率测量仅限于$10^{-6}$分辨率。在这项工作中,我们确定了一种策略,以优化的敏感性散斑折射率的变化,即通过最大化的宽度分布的光路长度在介质中。我们表明,这可以通过实验实现封装在一个积分球内的介质的兴趣。我们证明,空气的折射率的变化小到$4.5\times10^{-9}$可以解决与$7\times10^{-10}$的不确定性。这是一个三个数量级的改进时,与以前的基于斑点的方法相比。

英文摘要:

Highly-resolved determination of refractive index is vital in fields ranging from biosensing through to laser range-finding. Laser speckle is known to be a sensitive probe of the properties of the light and the environment, but to date speckle-based refractive index measurements have been restricted to $10^{-6}$ resolution. In this work we identify a strategy to optimise the sensitivity of speckle to refractive index changes, namely by maximising the width of the distribution of optical path lengths in the medium. We show that this can be realised experimentally by encapsulating the medium of interest within an integrating sphere. We demonstrate that variations of the refractive index of air as small as $4.5\times10^{-9}$ can be resolved with an uncertainty of $7\times10^{-10}$. This is an improvement of three orders of magnitude when compared to previous speckle-based methods.

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