The Enhanced Photoluminescence Properties of Carbon Dots Derived from Glucose: The Effect of Natural Oxidation.

The investigation of the fluorescence mechanism of carbon dots (CDs) has attracted significant attention, particularly the role of the oxygen-containing groups. Dual-CDs exhibiting blue and green emissions are synthesized from glucose via a simple ultrasonic treatment, and the oxidation degree of the CDs is softly modified through a slow natural oxidation approach, which is in stark contrast to that aggressively altering CDs' surface configurations through chemical oxidation methods. It is interesting to find that the intensity of the blue fluorescence gradually increases, eventually becoming the dominant emission after prolonging the oxidation periods, with the quantum yield (QY) of the CDs being enhanced from ~0.61% to ~4.26%. Combining the microstructure characterizations, optical measurements, and ultrafiltration experiments, we hypothesize that the blue emission could be ascribed to the surface states induced by the C-O and C=O groups, while the green luminescence may originate from the deep energy levels associated with the O-C=O groups. The distinct emission states and energy distributions could result in the blue and the green luminescence exhibiting distinct excitation and emission behaviors. Our findings could provide new insights into the fluorescence mechanism of CDs.

Effect of the incident polarization on in-plane and out-of-plane spin splitting near the critical angle.

To reveal the effect of the incident polarization on the spin splitting of the photonic spin Hall effect (that is, the spatial and angular in-plane and out-of-plane spin splitting), we systematically study the phenomena and characteristics of these four spin splitting generated when the beam with arbitrary linear polarization is reflected from the non-absorbing medium interface and the absorbing medium interface. Several features of the relationship between the incident polarization and the four kinds of spin splitting are found. In addition, It is also found that the in-plane angular and spatial shifts are significantly enhanced near the critical angle, even reaching their theoretical upper limit. However, the out-of-plane shifts are not enhanced. The research in this paper will contribute to a deeper understanding of PSHE. These findings can also provide new ideas and methods for precision metrology, photonic manipulation, and photonic device fabrication.

[Selection of digital filtering in the escaping ammonia monitoring with TDLAS].

Tunable diode laser absorption spectroscopy technology (TDLAS), with its advantages of high selectivity and accuracy, provides a reliable approach to the on-line detection of escaping ammonia. Firstly, the present paper introduces the TDLAS principle, experimental system and the analyses of system noise. Then with the concentration of 90 x 10(-6) and 30 x 10(-6) NH3 for example, we used TDLAS system to collect their second harmonic original spectrum with all kinds of noise interference. To improve the signal spectrum, five types of digital filtering methods were respectively used to filter the original spectrum. Finally we did the NH3 experiments of concentration gradient and the long time monitoring: NH3 experiment of 20 x 10(-6). The analysis indicated that the averaging-wavelet filtering is validated to be more accurate than the other filtering methods in the noise reduction, which can improve the precision of the monitoring system from 10 x 10(-6) to 1.25 x 10(-6) and the SNR also increases by 14 times. It provides an effective pretreatment during the monitoring of escaping ammonia of extremely low concentration.

[Comparison of quasi-continuous and continuous tunable diode laser absorption spectroscopy for gas detection].

The theoretical analysis of the direct absorption spectroscopy, the continuous modulation spectroscopy and the quasi-continuous modulation spectroscopy was shown and the corresponding experiments were carried out in order to choose the adequate scheme of the laser modulation spectroscopy to satisfy different requirements of the detection. CO2 gas with different concentrations was detected under the same experimental conditions by using the three different modulation techniques with the same laser. Technical characteristics, signal features and detection limits were compared respectively. Results showed that the detection limit of the quasi-continuous modulation spectroscopy was approaching to that of the continuous modulation spectroscopy. However the linear distortion of the detection signal was obvious, because of the effects of laser energy intermittent and parasitic amplitude modulation on the line shape. Therefore the quasi-continuous modulation spectroscopy is not suitable for the pressure and flow measurements, which closely depend on the line shape. This work has provided reference for selections of the laser modulation spectroscopy.

[Multi-harmonic analysis of quasi-continuous-wave laser modulation absorption spectroscopy].

Numerous harmonic components such as multiple frequency, sum frequency and difference frequency of multiple modulation signals were found in quasi-continuous-wave (QCW) diode laser modulation absorption spectroscopy. Then, the authors analyzed these harmonic components' existence in terms of non-linear interactions of laser and gas absorption line. And the signals' characteristics were studied experimentally. The results shows that there are some sum frequency and difference frequency components that have larger amplitudes compared to the second harmonic wavelength modulation spectroscopy signal (2f-WMS) commonly used in tunable diode laser spectroscopy (TDLAS), and it may improve the detection sensitivity of QCW modulation spectroscopy.

[Application of NIR spectroscopy to multiple gas components identification].

Multiple gas components monitoring in situ by near infrared (NIR) spectroscopy is of great significance in the environmental monitoring. In the present paper, the apectral characteristics of the three types of the volatile organic compounds (VOCs)-propane, propylene and methylbenzene were analyzed, the linear relationship of propylene between concentration and absorbance was considered, and the NIR spectra from 1620 to 1750 nm including the characteristic absorption of the three VOCs were acquired, A linear regression model of chemical metrology was created by partial least-squares method and it predicted the concentration of propane and isobutene in the validation set. The results of the experiment indicated that NIR spectroscopy could easily, accurately and quantitatively determine the content of the multiple gas components, and can be used for monitoring the multiple components of the VOCs in situ.