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Electron Emission Following The Interaction Of Slow Highly Charged Ions With Solids, Joseph W. Mcdonald
Electron Emission Following The Interaction Of Slow Highly Charged Ions With Solids, Joseph W. Mcdonald
Dissertations
The interaction of highly-charged ions with surfaces involves many excitation processes of the surface atoms and the bulk material. One such process, the emission of electrons from surfaces due to the potential energy of the incident ions has been studied. The experimental results presented here confirm that the majority of electrons emitted as a result of highly-charged ions interacting with a solid surface have energies of about 20 eV. Auger processes contribute a smaller fraction of the total emitted electrons with increasing Z o f the projectile. This contribution to the total electron emission yield is found to be less …
The Effects Of Fabry-Perot Fringing On The Sensitivity Of A Wavelength Modulation Experiment, Patrick C. Shea
The Effects Of Fabry-Perot Fringing On The Sensitivity Of A Wavelength Modulation Experiment, Patrick C. Shea
Electrical & Computer Engineering Theses & Dissertations
Parasitic Fabry-Perot etaloning plagues many experiments which use wavelength modulation spectroscopy. This fringing, which is an artifact that almost always appears in such experiments, arises from multiple reflections in the optical elements in the experimental apparatus. The etaloning plays a detrimental role and limits the ultimate sensitivity of wavelength modulation spectroscopy experiments. The research described in this thesis investigates this phenomenon. Experimental results are presented which show that when the Q-factor of the parasitic etalon is smaller that that of the absorption line being measured, significant improvement in the Signal to Fringe Noise Ratio can be obtained through the use …
Optical Physics Of Microcavity Surface Emitting Lasers, Michael J. Noble
Optical Physics Of Microcavity Surface Emitting Lasers, Michael J. Noble
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This dissertation consists of an in-depth theoretical analysis of the optical impact of transverse index confinement on the lasing modes of microcavity surface emitting lasers. Two different variational techniques were employed to calculate the relevant optical laser parameters: (1) modal resonance, field profile, (2) confinement factor, and (3) threshold gain. Through a semianalytic field analysis, two new confinement related effects were discovered: (1) a polarization dependent change in mirror reflectance with aperture radius, and (2) a mode dependent blueshift. Through a numerical field analysis, the physical mechanisms governing diffraction were ascertained. These are: (1) the transverse confinement of the optical …