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The shortage of freshwater is a global problem, however, the gel that can be used for atmospheric water harvesting (AWH) in recent years studying, suffer from salt leakage, agglomeration, and slow water evaporation efficiency. Herein, a solar-driven atmospheric water harvesting (SAWH) aerogel is prepared by UV polymerization and freeze-drying technique, using poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) (PNIPAm), hydroxypropyl cellulose (HPC), ethanolamine-decorate LiCl (E-LiCl) and polyaniline (PANI) as raw materials. The PNIPAm and HPC formed aerogel networks makes the E-LiCl stably and efficiently loaded, improving the water adsorption-desorption kinetics, and PANI achieves rapid water vapor evaporation. The aerogel has low density ≈0.12-0.15 g cm-3, but can sustain a weight of 1000 times of its own weight. The synergist of elements and structure gives the aerogel has 0.46-2.95 g g-1 water uptake capability at 30-90% relative humidity, and evaporation rate reaches 1.98 kg m-2 h-1 under 1 sun illumination. In outdoor experiments, 88% of the water is harvesting under natural light irradiation, and an average water harvesting rate of 0.80 gwater gsorbent -1 day-1. Therefore, the aerogel can be used in arid and semi-arid areas to collect water for plants and animals.
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Transition metal sulfides are investigation hotspots of anode material for sodium-ion batteries (SIBs) due to their structural diversity and high storage capacity. However, they are still plagued by inevitable volume expansion during sodiation/desodiation and an unclear energy storage mechanism. Herein, a one-step sulfidation-carbonization strategy is proposed for in situ confined growth of Cu1.96S nanoparticles in nitrogen-doped carbon (Cu1.96S@NC) using octahedral metal-organic framework (Cu-BTC) as a precursor and investigate the driving effect of Cu current collector on its sodium storage. The generation of SâC bonds in Cu1.96S@NC avoids the volume change and structural collapse of Cu1.96S nanoparticles during the cycling process and improves the adsorption and transport capacity of the material for Na+. More exciting, the Cu species in the Cu current collector are self-induced forming Cu2S quantum dots to enter the original anode material during the initial few charging and discharging cycles, which unique small-size effect and abundant edge-active sites enhance the energy storage capacity of Cu1.96S. Thus, the Cu1.96S@NC exhibits a superior first discharge capacity of 608.56 mAh g-1 at 0.2 A g-1 with an initial Coulomb efficiency (ICE) of 75.4%, as well as provides excellent rate performance and long cycle durability up to 2000 cycles.
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Covalent organic frameworks (COFs) are a class of porous crystalline polymeric materials constructed by linking organic small molecules through covalent bonds. COFs have the advantages of strong covalent bond network, adjustable pore structure, large specific surface area and excellent thermal stability, and have broad application prospects in various fields. Based on these advantages, rational COFs design strategies such as the introduction of active sites, construction of conjugated structures, and carbon material composite, etc. can effectively improve the conductivity and stability of the electrode materials in the field of batteries. This paper introduces the latest research results of high-performance COFs electrode materials in alkali metal-ion batteries (LIBs, SIBs, PIBs and LSBs) and other advanced batteries. The current challenges and future design directions of COFs-based electrode are discussed. It provides useful insights for the design of novel COFs structures and the development of high-performance alkali metal-ion batteries.
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In this work, we present a monolithic single-frequency, single-mode and polarization maintaining Yb-doped fiber (YDF) amplifier delivering up to 6.9 W at 972â nm with a high efficiency of 53.6%. Core pumping at 915â nm and elevated temperature of 300 °C were applied to suppress the unwanted 977â nm and 1030â nm ASE in YDF, so as to improve the 972â nm laser efficiency. In addition, the amplifier was further used to generate a single-frequency 486â nm blue laser with 590â mW of output power by single-pass frequency doubling.
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Restricted by the narrow gain bandwidth of Yb3+ near 980â nm, it is challenging to generate dispersion-managed (DM) solitons at this wavelength. In this work, we demonstrate the generation of DM solitons at 978â nm in a polarization-maintaining (PM) figure-of-9 fiber laser. Highly coherent pulses with 14.4â nm spectral bandwidth and 175 fs pulse duration are experimentally obtained. To the best of our knowledge, this is the shortest â¼980â nm pulse ever reported in an Yb-doped mode-locked fiber laser. Numerical simulations are performed to reveal the DM solitons' temporal and spectral evolution inside the figure-of-9 cavity under the condition of a narrow gain bandwidth. This robust and cost-effective 978â nm femtosecond laser is a promising light source for applications such as underwater communication and biophotonics.
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Nonlinear optical gain modulation (NOGM) is a simple and effective approach to generate highly coherent ultrafast pulses with a flexible wavelength. In this work, we demonstrate 34 nJ, 170 fs pulse generation at 1319â nm through a piece of phosphorus-doped fiber by two-stage cascaded NOGM with a 1064â nm pulsed pump. Beyond the experiment, numerical results show that 668 nJ, 391 fs pulses at 1.3â µm can be produced with up to 67% conversion efficiency by increasing the pump pulse energy and optimizing the pump pulse duration. This would offer an efficient method to obtain high-energy sub-picosecond laser sources for applications such as multiphoton microscopy.
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Nonlinear optical gain modulation (NOGM) is a method to generate high performance ultrafast pulses with wavelength versatility. Here we demonstrate coherent femtosecond Raman pulse generation through cascaded NOGM process experimentally. Two single-frequency seed lasers (1121 and 1178 nm) are gain-modulated by 117 nJ 1064 nm picosecond pulses in a Raman fiber amplifier. Second-order (1178 nm) Stokes pulses are generated, which have a pulse energy of 76 nJ (corresponding to an optical conversion efficiency of 65%) with a pulse duration of 621 fs (after compression). Dynamic evolution of both pump and cascaded Stokes pulses within the Raman amplifier are investigated by numerical simulations. The influences of pump pulse duration and energy are studied in detail numerically. Moreover, the simulations reveal that NOGM pulses with higher energy and shorter pulse duration could be obtained by limiting the impact of walk-off effect between pump and Raman pulses. This approach can offer a high energy and wavelength-agile ultrafast source for various applications such as optical metrology and biomedical imagining.
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A robust 20-W continuous-wave single frequency 589 nm laser is developed to aim for sodium guide star in astronomy. The source is based on applying π-depth binary phase modulation to a single frequency seed laser along with 3 steps of strain in the gain fiber to suppress the stimulated Brillouin scattering in the high power 1178 nm amplifier and realizing the recovery of single frequency after frequency doubling in a periodically poled LiTaO3 crystal. The efficiency of frequency doubling reaches up to 41.6%. To the best of our knowledge, it is the highest power reported for continuous-wave 589 nm laser generation by single-pass frequency doubling. The approach significantly simplifies the sodium guide star laser design and improves robustness.
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Nonlinear optical gain modulation (NOGM) in a Raman fiber amplifier is numerically simulated with the generalized nonlinear Schrödinger equation. In the NOGM setup, a single frequency continuous wave seed laser is gain modulated into femtosecond pulses by an ultrafast pump, which can induce strong stimulated Raman scattering in a piece of single mode optical fiber. Different parameters regarding seed, pump and nonlinear gain medium (Raman fiber) are investigated in detail to find the best condition for higher Raman conversion efficiency. Simulated results reveal that the walk-off between pump and Raman pulses due to dispersion is one of the most important factors affecting the NOGM pulse's performance. Only when the speed of walk-off matches with the one of Raman conversion process can the conversion efficiency be optimized. This work offers a guild-line for the design of a fiber-based NOGM laser, which is able to produce wavelength-agile, femtosecond laser pulses with µJ-level pulse energy under more than 85% efficiency.
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In second harmonic generation, the phase of the optical field is doubled, which has important implications. Here, the phase-doubling effect is utilized to solve a long-standing challenge in the power scaling of single-frequency laser. (-π/2, π/2) binary phase modulation is applied to a single-frequency seed laser to broaden the spectrum and suppress the stimulated Brillouin scattering in a high-power fiber amplifier. The second harmonic of the phase-modulated laser returns to single frequency because the (-π/2, π/2) modulation is doubled to (-π, π) for the second harmonic. A compression-to-single-frequency rate as high as 95% is demonstrated in experiments limited by the electronic bandwidth of the setup. Such phase manipulation in wave-mixing processes may open up a new field of development in nonlinear optics and laser technology.
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Spectral and relative intensity noise (RIN) characteristics of a single-frequency Raman fiber amplifier co-pumped by amplified spontaneous emission (ASE) sources are investigated experimentally. Due to the relatively lower intensity noise of ASE sources compared to usual fiber laser pumps, the full width at half maximum (FWHM) linewidth of the signal laser increases negligibly. But there is significant increase in RIN and spectral wings due to the noise transfer at high frequency from the ASE source during the Raman amplification. The deterioration can be suppressed to some extent with ASE of broader linewidth, which has lower intensity noise.
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Resonant frequency doubling of periodically phase-modulated single-frequency fiber laser is investigated as a method for power scaling of visible fiber lasers. Sinusoidal phase modulation is applied to generate few-frequency lasers at 1064 nm in the proof of principle experiments. By adjusting the modulation frequency to match the free spectral range of a doubling cavity, a resonant enhancement condition can be achieved and a near 30 W 532 nm laser is generated with a maximum conversion efficiency above 80%. The indistinguishable conversion efficiencies between the single-frequency and few-frequency cases prove the feasibility of the approach. Interesting spectral evolvement of the phase-modulated laser in second-harmonic generation is analyzed theoretically and observed in the experiment.
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We demonstrate a 21.2 W continuous-wave single frequency 780 nm laser by utilizing single-pass frequency doubling of a 49.8 W 1560â nm fiber amplifier in a periodically-poled magnesium-oxide-doped lithium niobate (MgO: PPLN) crystal. The conversion efficiency of the frequency doubling reaches up to 42.6%. The high power 1560 nm Erbium-doped fiber amplifier (EDFA) is in-band pumped by a 1480 nm Raman fiber laser. Maximum output power of 49.8 W is obtained at an incident 1480â nm laser of 60.6 W, corresponding to an amplification efficiency of 79.7%. To the best of our knowledge, this is the highest reported continuous-wave single frequency 780â nm laser, which is developed for advanced quantum technology with Rb cold atoms.
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An up to 8th order cascaded Raman random fiber laser with high spectral purity is achieved with the pumping of a narrow linewidth amplified spontaneous emission source. The spectral purity is over 90% for all the 8 Stokes orders. The highest output power is 6.9 W at 1691.6 nm with an optical conversion efficiency of 21% from 1062.0 nm. As a comparison, with conventional FBG-based fiber oscillator as pump source, only 47% spectral purity is achieved at 8th order. The temporal stability of the pump laser is proved to play a key role, because the time fluctuation of pump laser is transferred directly to Raman outputs and results in power distribution among different Stokes orders.
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Magnetic resonance of sodium fluorescence is studied with varying laser intensity, duty cycle, and field strength. A magnetometer based on a sodium vapor cell filled with He buffer gas is demonstrated, using a single amplitude-modulated laser beam. With a 589 nm laser tuned at the D1 or D2 line, the magnetic field is inferred from the variation of fluorescence. A magnetic field sensitivity of 150 pT/Hz is achieved at the D1 line. The work is an important step toward sensitive remote magnetometry with mesospheric sodium.
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A single-frequency low-noise green laser at 509 nm is developed for the study of cesium Rydberg atoms. The laser is generated by single-pass second-harmonic generation of a Yb fiber amplifier seeded with an external cavity diode laser (ECDL) at 1018 nm in a periodically poled MgO-doped lithium-niobate crystal. An up to 2.03 W, 509 nm laser is obtained from a 10.04 W incident 1018 nm laser with a conversion efficiency of 20.2%. The linewidth of the 509 nm laser is estimated to be 40 kHz according to the measured linewidth of 20 kHz of the 1018 nm fundamental laser. The relative intensity noise is 0.038% rms integrated from 10 Hz to 10 MHz.
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589 nm lasers pulsed at Larmor frequency, several hundreds of kilohertz, can increase the brightness of a sodium guide star and are required in remote magnetometry with mesospheric sodium. By amplification of a continuous-wave single-frequency 1178 nm laser in a pulse-pumped Raman fiber amplifier and frequency doubling in an external cavity, high-power pulsed 589 nm laser at Larmor frequency is obtained for the first time, to the best of our knowledge. The pulse format is mainly determined by the 1120 nm Raman pump laser, whose pulse repetition rate and duty cycle are adjustable. Active pulse shaping is applied to minimize the relaxation spike at the leading edge of the pulses. A reduction in pulse width and conversion efficiency from 1120 to 1178 nm is observed in the backwardly pumped Raman fiber amplifier due to the pump pulse transition effect. A 589 nm laser pulsed at a 350 kHz repetition rate and 20% duty cycle with average power up to 17 W is demonstrated as an operation example intended for a geomagnetic field of 0.5 G.
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We correct an improper statement on the geomagnetic field of an astronomical telescope site in our original paper [Opt. Lett.42, 4351 (2017)OPLEDP0146-959210.1364/OL.42.004351].
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The teaching status of Molecular Pharmacognosy in 28 institutions in China was investigated by questionnaire and the survey data was analyzed by SPSS. Research contents included course beginning years, majors, class hours, characteristics of the course, teaching ways, the theory and practice contents, evaluation modes, selection of teaching material, teaching achievements, teachers and so on for undergraduates and graduates. Research results showed that with 20 years' development, Molecular Pharmacognosy had been offered for both undergraduate and graduate students in at least 20 colleges and universities and Molecular Pharmacognosy education in China showed good development momentum. At the same time, to promote the development of Molecular Pharmacognosy further, investment for it should be increased and practical teaching condition should be improved.
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Biologia Molecular/educação , Farmacognosia/educação , Plantas Medicinais/genética , China , Humanos , Biologia Molecular/métodos , Biologia Molecular/tendências , Farmacognosia/métodos , Farmacognosia/tendências , Plantas Medicinais/química , Inquéritos e Questionários , Ensino/métodos , Ensino/tendências , Recursos HumanosRESUMO
An integrated ytterbium-Raman fiber amplifier architecture is proposed for power scaling of a Raman fiber laser. It is an ytterbium (Yb) fiber amplifier seeded with a double or multiple wavelength laser and followed by a passive Raman fiber. The bluest wavelength light gets amplified in the Yb fiber and the power is transferred to redder wavelengths in the following Raman fiber. A proof of principle experiment demonstrates a 300 W all-fiber linearly polarized single mode amplifier at 1120 nm with an optical efficiency of 70%, limited only by available pump power. The amplifier consists of 4 m of Yb-doped fiber and 20 m of germanium-doped fiber, and seeded with a laser emitting at 1070 and 1120 nm. The power evolution of the 1070 and 1120 nm light inside the amplifier is investigated, both numerically and experimentally. The possibility of power scaling to over kilowatt levels is discussed.