Publications by authors named "YuXiong Xue"

Nanostructured transition metal sulfides are promising anode materials for lithium-ion batteries. Nevertheless, it is still a great challenge to prepare capacity-improved electrodes without reducing their rate capability and cycle stability. In this paper, we present a C/CoS@SnS composite material by loading SnS nanocrystals onto MOF-derived C/CoS nanostructures.

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Generation of vectorial optical fields with arbitrary polarization distribution is of great interest in plenty of applications. In this work, we propose and experimentally demonstrate the generation of a second-order full Poincaré (FP) beam and its application in two-dimensional (2D) flattop beam shaping with spatially variant polarization under a high numerical aperture focusing condition. In addition, the force mechanism of the focal field with 2D flattop beam profile is numerically studied, demonstrating the feasibility to trap a dielectric Rayleigh particle in three-dimensional space.

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We generate a new kind of azimuthal-variant vector field with a distribution of states of polarization (SoPs) described by the square of the azimuthal angle. Owing to asymmetrical SoPs distribution of this localized linearly polarized vector field, the tightly focused field exhibits a double half-moon shaped pattern with the localized elliptical polarization in the cross section of field at the focal plane. Moreover, we study the three-dimensional distributions of spin and orbital linear and angular momenta in the focal region.

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A fast neutron detection system based on a scintillating plastic fiber array and multiplexer was designed to measure the spectrum of fast neutrons ranged 10 MeV-100 MeV. With the method of nuclear recoil, the energy of incident neutron was determined by measuring the recoil proton track and deposited energy in scintillating plastic fibers. The detection system was composed of a scintillating plastic fiber array, 6 position sensitive photomultiplier tubes, and a high-density readout electronics based on the multiplexer.

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The nonlinear ellipse rotation usually occurs when an elliptically polarized beam propagates through an isotropic nonlinear medium owing to the existence of χ1221(3). Here we report the radial-variant nonlinear ellipse rotation of a vector beam with structured elliptical polarization through isotropic Kerr nonlinearities. Due to the interaction of elliptically polarized vector beams (EPVBs) with isotropic nonlinear media, the distributions of both the orientation angle and the ellipticity angle of beams at the far-field observational plane exhibit multiple concentric ring structures with the circularly symmetry.

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Structured intense laser interacting with matter will result in a variety of novel nonlinear optical effects, modulate the light propagation behavior, and change the structural property of a material. In this work, we theoretically investigate the spatial self-phase modulation (SSPM) effect, nonlinear ellipse rotation, and spin angular momentum (SAM) flux redistribution of hybridly polarized vector beams through isotropic Kerr nonlinearities. Experimentally, we observe the SSPM effect of the femtosecond-pulsed hybridly polarized vector beam in carbon disulfide at 800 nm, which is in agreement with the theoretical predictions.

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Light fields with structured polarization distribution interacting with structured media will result in many novel optical effects in both the linear and nonlinear regimes. In this work, we report a theoretical investigation of both vectorial self-diffraction behaviors and polarization evolution characteristics of a radially polarized beam induced by anisotropic Kerr nonlinearity. By taking the polarization-orientation dependence of the third-order refractive nonlinearity, we study the far-field vectorial self-diffraction patterns of the radially polarized beam using the vectorial Rayleigh-Sommerfeld formulas.

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