Beam combination (BC) of fiber amplifiers based on master-oscillator-power-amplifier configuration is an outstanding way to generate high power and high beam quality laser output, where the tip/tilt aberrations among beamlets are considered as a serious influence factor to BC effects. In this paper, a new tip/tilt control method based on adaptive power-in-the-bucket (PIB) cost function is proposed to solve the problem of restricted tip/tilt correcting value in current BC systems. Experimental setup of coherent BC of two-channel 2 W fiber amplifier array is established. Home-made piezoelectric-ring fiber-optic phase-modulator and adaptive fiber-optics collimator are employed to correct piston-and tip/tilt-type aberrations, respectively. The feasibility of proposed tip/tilt control method using adaptive-PIB is demonstrated and nice effect of coherent BC is achieved.

Based on laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy, a short pulse laser is used to excite Al₂O₃ (content of 99%) ceramic to produce ceramic plasma. The plasma emission spectrum is collected, and 33 spectral lines of AlO radical B²∑⁺–X²∑⁺ transition are obtained. The time-resolved AlO radical spectrum and its relationship with laser pulse energy are investigated. The results show that the emission spectrum of AlO radical appears later and lasts longer than those of Al atom and Al ion. With the increase of the laser pulse energy, the spectral intensity of AlO radical decreases and the time when the maximum spectral intensity appears moves backward. Finally, the ceramic plasma produced in air is compared with that produced in Ar environment. The results prove that the formation of AlO radical spectrum has an important relationship with O₂ in air.

Based on the Landau-de Gennes theory, the diffusion of order reconstruction induced by –1/2 wedge disclination in a thin hybrid cell is investigated by the relaxation iterative method. The core structure, the biaxial structure, and the diffusion of order reconstruction as the cell thickness decreases, are explored. The defect structure and the range of order reconstruction do not change when the cell thickness is larger than 15ξ. As the thickness decreases from 15ξ, the defect range broadens along the substrate direction, and the biaxial region as well as the range of order reconstruction also enlarges. When the thickness further decreases to below the critical value of 10ξ, the biaxial region and the order reconstruction range merge into an entire cell, where the planar orientation is abruptly converted into the perpendicular one across the biaxial wall. The results obtained in this paper are important for further studying the regulating effect of topological defect on submicron colloidal particles in nematics.

For single-wall carbon nanotubes filled with gold nanowires, a kind of carbon nanotube cable type composite material, its thermal conductivity is simulated by non-equilibrium molecular dynamics method. The Tersoff potential is employed for C-C bonding interactions, the Lennard-Jones potential for C-Au interactions and the embedded atom method potential for Au-Au interactions. It turns out that the electronic thermal conductivity (ETC) of gold nanowire is much lower than that of the composite with the same size, so the ETC of metal nanowire could be ignored. The carbon atoms tend to vibrate along the axial direction of the tube because of the interaction between gold and carbon atoms. Furthermore, the umklapp scatterings among phonons are reduced and the phonon mean free path is increased. Therefore, the thermal conductivity of the composite is 20%–45% higher than the bare carbon nanotubes in a temperature range of 100–500 K, but the growth rate decreases with the rise of temperature. The thermal conductivity of the composite rises with the increasing of length but in a sharper rate, and decreases with the increasing of diameter in the same rate, which is similar to the bare carbon nanotubes.

Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) are persistent organic pollutant, and 2, 2’, 5, 5’-tetrachlorobiphenyl is generally used as a model molecule of PCBs in some studies. PCB52 molecule is degraded under external electric fields. The molecular structure of PCB ground state is optimized by density functional theory (B3LYP) method with 6-311+g(d) basis sets. The effects of electric fields ranging from-0.04 a.u. to 0.04 a.u. are investigated on structural parameters, total energy, dipole moment and charges distribution. The transition wavelengths, oscillator strengths and excitation energies of the first six excited states under external electric fields are calculated by the time dependent density functional theory method. The result shows that the bond lengths of 1C–21Cl and 14C–20Cl increase with external electric field increasing. The dihedral angle of two benzene rings of PCB52 molecule increases under the electric fields, and the PCB52 molecule reduces toxicity. PCB52 molecule energy gaps decrease, leading to the fact that the molecule is susceptible to excitation to an excited state and reductive dechlorination reaction. As the increase of the applied electric field, the excitation energies rapidly decrease, absorption wavelengths are red-shifted toward longer wavelength and oscillator strength is no longer zero, which indicates that the PCB52 molecule is easily excited and dissociated.

The high resolution spectrum of ultracold Cs₂ pure long range 0_g^- state is experimentally measured using modulated trap loss spectroscopic technology. Based on Double photoassociation spectroscopic technique, precise frequency difference reference signals are constructed to accurately calibrate the resonant frequency intervals of the ro-vibrational levels, thus obtaining the relationship between the frequency interval of rotational level and the rotational quantum number. The experimental data are fitted by the non-rigid rotational model, and the molecular rotational constants corresponding to different vibrational levels in the ultracold Cs₂ pure long range 0_g^- state are acquired. The experimental results demonstrate a linear decrease of the rotational constant with the increase of vibrational quantum number, and the linear decreasing rate is -0.41m MHz±0.01 MHz.