{"title":"Light Pressure on a Chiral Spherical Particle in an Evanescent Field: Analytical Solution","authors":"D. V. Guzatov","doi":"10.3103/S1068335626600737","DOIUrl":"10.3103/S1068335626600737","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Analytical expressions are derived for calculating the light pressure force acting on a chiral spherical particle of arbitrary size relative to the wavelength in an evanescent field generated by total internal reflection of an electromagnetic wave incident at a planar interface between two dielectric media, while neglecting reflection of the particle-scattered field from the interface. The expressions are used to analyze the Cartesian components of the light pressure force as functions of particle size and the angle of incidence at the interface between right- and left-handed circularly polarized waves interacting with chiral spheres composed of dielectric materials and a negative-index metamaterials. In the context of the solved problem, it is demonstrated that the force of light pressure may differ significantly for incident waves of opposite circular polarizations, especially under force resonance conditions, which can be used to sort chiral particles in corresponding evanescent fields.</p>","PeriodicalId":503,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of the Lebedev Physics Institute","volume":"53 1","pages":"S36 - S55"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2026-08-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148752277","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. L. Koromyslov, V. F. Pevtsov, K. V. Prokhorchuk, I. M. Tupitsyn, E. A. Cheshev
{"title":"Laser Beam Narrowing outside the Degenerate Cavity","authors":"A. L. Koromyslov, V. F. Pevtsov, K. V. Prokhorchuk, I. M. Tupitsyn, E. A. Cheshev","doi":"10.3103/S1068335626600348","DOIUrl":"10.3103/S1068335626600348","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We report an experimental study of the spatial distribution of radiation from an Nd:YLF laser operating under conditions of nonuniform longitudinal diode pumping and frequency degeneracy of the cavity modes. The laser beam behind the cavity output mirror is narrowed to the size of a narrow pump beam, allowing the formation of a beam with a radius significantly smaller than that of the cavity zero mode without additional optical elements. By focusing a frequency-degenerate beam using a lens, multiple focusing regions can be achieved.</p>","PeriodicalId":503,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of the Lebedev Physics Institute","volume":"53 1","pages":"S4 - S11"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2026-08-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148752234","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ya. S. Lebedeva, P. A. Smirnov, I. A. Budagovsky, A. V. Romashkin, K. G. Nikitin, I. V. Sagunova, V. B. Pestova, A. A. Sherchenkov, P. I. Lazarenko, M. P. Smayev
{"title":"Photoinduced Crystallization of Amorphous GeTe and Sb2Te3 Films by Laser Beams of Different Structures","authors":"Ya. S. Lebedeva, P. A. Smirnov, I. A. Budagovsky, A. V. Romashkin, K. G. Nikitin, I. V. Sagunova, V. B. Pestova, A. A. Sherchenkov, P. I. Lazarenko, M. P. Smayev","doi":"10.3103/S1068335625604261","DOIUrl":"10.3103/S1068335625604261","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Phase-change materials are widely employed in nanotechnology and microelectronics due to their ability to reversibly switch between amorphous and crystalline states, thereby altering their electrical and optical properties. The ternary compound Ge<sub>2</sub>Sb<sub>2</sub>Te<sub>5</sub>, the most studied and widely used phase-change material, consists of two binary tellurides, GeTe and Sb<sub>2</sub>Te<sub>3</sub>, each of which is itself a promising phase-change compound. This paper investigates the modification of thin amorphous GeTe and Sb<sub>2</sub>Te<sub>3</sub> films by continuous-wave laser beams with different spatial structures, including Hermite–Gaussian modes HG<sub>00</sub> and HG<sub>01</sub>, vector beams, and an optical vortex. The irradiated regions are analyzed based on brightness assessments of optical images and Raman spectroscopy, making it possible to conclude that beams with an annular intensity profile are promising for forming an optimal heating profile and achieving more uniform crystallization compared with HG<sub>00</sub>. For all beam types, laser-induced structural transformation significantly manifested in the Raman spectra, are accompanied by a pronounced change in optical contrast (reflectivity) for germanium telluride, whereas considerably smaller changes are abserved for antimony telluride.</p>","PeriodicalId":503,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of the Lebedev Physics Institute","volume":"53 1","pages":"S65 - S76"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2026-08-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148752337","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Polarization-Luminescence Analysis of Orientation Order in Mechanically Stressed Polyurethane","authors":"V. V. Kesaev, V. A. Barbashov","doi":"10.3103/S1068335625604662","DOIUrl":"10.3103/S1068335625604662","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper investigates the polarized photoluminescence and orientation order of luminescent centers in mechanically stressed polyurethane containing a fluorescent dye. The azimuthal dependence of the recorded luminescence intensity is expanded over the polarization azimuth as part of a dipole model. The observed modulation is shown to be described by a sum of a finite number of Fourier harmonics. This formulation enables the introduction of a minimal “4 + 2” experimental setup sufficient to calculate the degree of linear polarization (DoLP) and to extract the scalar order parameter (S) and the director orientation field. To quantitatively correlate the optical maps with the mechanical stress field, a local Landau-type relationship is proposed, wherein the deviatoric part of the stress tensor determines the order parameter.</p>","PeriodicalId":503,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of the Lebedev Physics Institute","volume":"53 6","pages":"238 - 245"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2026-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148553277","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yu. S. Gulina, J. Zhu, A. E. Rupasov, A. V. Bogatskaya, M. P. Verteletskaya, A. M. Popov, S. I. Kudryashov
{"title":"Experimental Study of Nonlinear Absorption of Ultrashort Laser Pulses in Fused Silica","authors":"Yu. S. Gulina, J. Zhu, A. E. Rupasov, A. V. Bogatskaya, M. P. Verteletskaya, A. M. Popov, S. I. Kudryashov","doi":"10.3103/S1068335626600531","DOIUrl":"10.3103/S1068335626600531","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The nonlinear absorption of femtosecond laser pulses (λ = 1030 and 515 nm, τ = 300 fs) in KU-1 (<i>E</i><sub>g</sub> = 7.6 eV) and KV (<i>E</i><sub>g</sub> = 4.6 eV) fused silica samples is studied using the open-aperture <i>Z</i>-scan method. The β<sub><i>n</i></sub> coefficients for 2-, 4-, and 7-photon absorption processes are determined within the framework of a model that takes into account multiphoton absorption and avalanche ionization. It is shown that the role of avalanche ionization increases with increasing order of the multiphoton process and is not manifested in two-photon absorption. The results are consistent with calculations based on the Keldysh theory.</p>","PeriodicalId":503,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of the Lebedev Physics Institute","volume":"53 6","pages":"231 - 237"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2026-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148553275","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Rilond Pattia Matital, D. A. Shcherbakov, D. A. Kolymagin, A. G. Vitukhnovsky, A. V. Gritsienko
{"title":"Geometric Characteristics of Polymer Refractive X-Ray Lenses Fabricated by Two-Photon Polymerization: A Confocal Laser Scanning Microscopy Study","authors":"Rilond Pattia Matital, D. A. Shcherbakov, D. A. Kolymagin, A. G. Vitukhnovsky, A. V. Gritsienko","doi":"10.3103/S1068335626600555","DOIUrl":"10.3103/S1068335626600555","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The geometric accuracy of refractive elements is crucial for the optimal focusing performance of compound refractive X-ray lenses. Achieving precise control of lens geometry during two-photon polymerization direct laser writing (TPP DLW) iremains challenging due to the complex dependence of the fabrication process on printing parameters and the limited availability of non-destructive methods for internal structural characterization. This work addresses the fabrication of arrays of three-dimensional polymer parabolic lenses with curvature radii at the apex of the parabola <i>R</i> = 2 and 5 μm from a PETA/4Met-BAC photocomposition at laser powers ranging from 4 to 9 mW, and the investigation of their morphology by confocal laser scanning microscopy (CLSM). It is shown that CLSM enables nondestructive three-dimensional analysis of the structures and accurate assessment of geometric deviations caused by polymer shrinkage. All structures exhibited isotropic shrinkage, the magnitude of which depended on both the design radius of curvature and the laser power. For lenses with <i>R</i> = 5 μm, the shrinkage ranged from 5.3 to 6.0%, whereas for lenses with <i>R</i> = 2 μm it increased to 8.0% at the lowest laser power. Reducing the laser printing power decreases the voxel size and significantly improved geometric fidelity: the relative deviation of the measured radius from the design value decreases from 34 to 18% (<i>R</i> = 5 μm). CLSM combined with quantitative image analysis is an effective tool for optimizing TPP-DLW fabrication parameters and for quality control of X-ray optical elements.</p>","PeriodicalId":503,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of the Lebedev Physics Institute","volume":"53 6","pages":"246 - 252"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2026-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148553278","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. I. Zvyagin, O. V. Ovchinnikov, M. S. Smirnov, I. G. Grevtseva, K. S. Chirkov, S. V. Aslanov
{"title":"Nonlinear Optical Properties of Thin-Film Composites of PbS Colloidal Quantum Dots and Poly(2-Dimethylamino)Ethyl Methacrylate","authors":"A. I. Zvyagin, O. V. Ovchinnikov, M. S. Smirnov, I. G. Grevtseva, K. S. Chirkov, S. V. Aslanov","doi":"10.3103/S106833562660021X","DOIUrl":"10.3103/S106833562660021X","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The nonlinear optical properties of thin (50 μm) films of composites of PbS colloidal quantum dots (3.5‒4.0 nm in size), passivated with oleylamine and oleic acid, and the polymer poly(2-dimethylamino)ethyl methacrylate (PbS) are studied using the <i>Z</i>-scan method in the field of 70 ps pulses of the first harmonic (1064 nm) of an Nd<sup>3+</sup>:YAG laser. Nonlinear absorption and refraction are observed upon transition from the colloidal solution to the polymer composite, along with as an increase in photostability. The observed features of the nonlinear optical response are explained by the interaction between the composite components and the formation of local structural defect states.</p>","PeriodicalId":503,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of the Lebedev Physics Institute","volume":"53 6","pages":"253 - 258"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2026-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148553276","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
E. V. Ulturgasheva, P. A. Danilov, E. V. Kuzmin, A. A. Nastulyavichus, P. A. Chizhov, V. V. Bulgakova, A. A. Ushakov, S. P. Babina, S. I. Kudryashov
{"title":"Superalloying of Monocrystalline Silicon by Laser Induced Forward Transfer","authors":"E. V. Ulturgasheva, P. A. Danilov, E. V. Kuzmin, A. A. Nastulyavichus, P. A. Chizhov, V. V. Bulgakova, A. A. Ushakov, S. P. Babina, S. I. Kudryashov","doi":"10.3103/S1068335626600166","DOIUrl":"10.3103/S1068335626600166","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Doping semiconductors with metal atoms is widely employed in microelectronic devices. However, conventional techniques often require thermal or chemical postprocessing and are limited to a narrow range of compatible materials. This work demonstrates a flexible approach for laser-induced forward transfer (LIFT)-based superdoping of silicon using femtosecond laser pulses. Thin silver films are used to evaluate the doping level and spatial distribution of impurities, as well as the laser-induced structural modifications of the crystal lattice after multipulse irradiation. The samples are characterized by energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy, Raman spectroscopy, and a noninvasive optical pump‒terahertz probe technique for measuring the lifetime of nonequilibrium charge carriers. The proposed method is promising for the microalloying of multilayer substrates.</p>","PeriodicalId":503,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of the Lebedev Physics Institute","volume":"53 6","pages":"266 - 273"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2026-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148553185","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. V. Kopyev, A. S. Ilyin, V. A. Sirota, K. P. Zybin
{"title":"Space-Time Correlations in Developed Turbulence","authors":"A. V. Kopyev, A. S. Ilyin, V. A. Sirota, K. P. Zybin","doi":"10.3103/S1068335626600518","DOIUrl":"10.3103/S1068335626600518","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Anomalous behavior of pair spatiotemporal correlators of the velocity field in a stationary turbulent Navier‒Stokes flow generated numerically in a cubic domain with periodic boundary conditions has been discovered. It is shown that the temporal decay of the correlations at all scales (including viscous ones) decreases inversely proportional to the time shift, even at times much larger than the integral time, where exponential decay would normally be expected. If this dependence persists at even larger time shifts, beyond those achieved in the present simulations, the discovered anomaly implies that the correlation time diverges logarithmically and is therefore infinite. The correlation time calculated over a sufficiently large but finite observation time exhibits linear scaling associated with the so-called “sweeping effect.”</p>","PeriodicalId":503,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of the Lebedev Physics Institute","volume":"53 6","pages":"259 - 265"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2026-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148553279","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Qiuying Liang, Xunchao Zhang, Guanghui Yang, Qiong Yang, Fen Fu
{"title":"Study on Cu-64 Production Using Ni-64 and Zn-68 Targets","authors":"Qiuying Liang, Xunchao Zhang, Guanghui Yang, Qiong Yang, Fen Fu","doi":"10.3103/S1068335625603619","DOIUrl":"10.3103/S1068335625603619","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study employed the Monte Carlo method to simulate the production of <sup>64</sup>Cu using a low-energy proton cyclotron, which is essential for identifying cost-effective production strategies. Two target materials, <sup>64</sup>Ni and <sup>68</sup>Zn metals, were considered. The SRIM code was used to calculate the proton ranges in these two target materials. Based on the available experimental cross‑section data and the physical models embedded in PHITS, the effects of target material type, target thickness, and incident angle of the proton beam on the target surface on the production yield of <sup>64</sup>Cu and associated impurities were also analyzed using the PHITS software. The results indicated that proton-induced reactions on <sup>64</sup>Ni and <sup>68</sup>Zn targets can achieve desirable yields of <sup>64</sup>Cu within incident proton energy ranges of 12 → 9 MeV (for <sup>64</sup>Ni target) and 28 → 25 MeV (for <sup>68</sup>Zn target), respectively. Appropriately reducing the incident angle of the proton beam on the target surface can improve the utilization efficiency of the proton beam. Consequently, under the same target thickness, the yield of <sup>64</sup>Cu is increased while the impurity yields remain relatively stable. Furthermore, as the incident angle decreases, the optimal target thickness required to achieve the maximum <sup>64</sup>Cu yield is correspondingly reduced.</p>","PeriodicalId":503,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of the Lebedev Physics Institute","volume":"53 5","pages":"214 - 223"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2026-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148357782","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}