Zhan-Long Li

Forward stimulated Raman scattering in pure water and H₂O₂–H₂O mixture solutions are investigated under different pump laser energies. Three characteristic peaks are observed in mixture solutions due to the enhancement of hydrogen bonds (H‐bonds) structure of water molecules by H₂O₂. Simultaneously, stimulated Raman scattering lines indicate that high‐pressure ice‐phase is formed in mixture solutions, which is attributed to the reduction of the laser breakdown threshold of liquid water by H₂O₂, resulting in a strong dynamic high pressure.

Liquid water is a complex system consisting of ice‐like and quartz‐like structure based on the classic two‐state model. Although lots of theoretical work have been developed about this model, the experimental evidences are still needed. Herein, a 355‐nm pulse laser is employed to excite stimulated Raman scattering (SRS) of liquid water both in bulk and on surface, with the generation of shockwave‐induced dynamic high pressure. Two characteristic features Raman peaks of both spontaneous Raman and SRS indicate the coexistence of two structures in localized water area. The ice‐like structure corresponds to ice Ih phase under the presented conditions, because the pressure dependence behavior of Raman shift agree well with the anomaly of diffusion coefficient of ice Ih phase, when the shock wave‐induced dynamic high pressure forms. Two structures show different pressure‐dependent behaviors based on the SRS results; meanwhile, the distribution of two structures is different in bulk and on surface water.

Stimulated Raman scattering (SRS) in H₂O₂–H₂O mixture solutions are obtained in forward and backward directions. Characteristic features peaks related to OH stretching vibrations of water are the appearance of three enhancement peaks in both directions. Simultaneously, the low‐wavenumber SRS peaks in water at 840 and 1,700 cm⁻¹ are enhanced. The mechanism of enhancement is attributed to excess electron‐enhanced Raman scattering. The electron‐enhanced process is also discussed.

Stimulated Raman scattering (SRS) spectra of the OH stretching vibrations of pure water and 2‐nm Si quantum dots (Si QDs) water solution have been investigated under different pump laser energies. Simultaneously, we have studied the spontaneous Raman spectra of pure water and Si QDs water solution at room temperature and atmospheric pressure. The results show that SRS intensity of Si QDs water solution is an order of magnitude higher than that of pure water at the same laser energy, which indicates that Si QDs enhance the SRS intensity of water molecules. The QDs enhancement SRS mechanism is attributed to the increase of third‐order nonlinear Raman susceptibility from the electric fields induced by the exciton effect of Si QDs.

Stimulated Raman scattering was studied in water and heavy water using pulse laser at the wavelength of 532nm, not only obtaining the stimulated Raman of O-H and O-D stretching vibration, but also obtaining the stimulated Raman lattice vibration. When the laser energy was 130 mJ, the low frequency Stokes and anti-Stokes 313 cm(-1) line of water could be observed; When the laser energy was 160 mJ, the low frequnecy Stokes and anti-Stokes 280 cm(-1) line of heavy water could be observed. The results were explained by physics mechanism of laser induced plasma.

The competition between the stimulated resonance Raman scattering(SRRS) of Rhodamine B(RhB) and the stimulated Raman scattering(SRS) of ethanol(C2H5OH) is observed at the RhB in C2H5OH solution.For different concentrations of the solution,the peak wavelengths of the SRRS,the amplified spontaneous emission(ASE),the fluorescence and the absorption of RhB are different.The SRRS of RhB and the SRS of C2H5OH are simultaneously generated when the concentration of the solution is 10 5 mol/L and the energy of the excitation laser is 20.4 mJ.Otherwise,only either the SRRS of RhB or the SRS of C2H5OH is generated.The SRRS can be amplified by the ASE gain when the SRRS is near the peak of the ASE,and the peak wavelength of the SRRS coincides with the wavelength of the maximal intensity ASE.

Raman spectrum is an important and effective method for the study of biological molecules in water. Measuring the Raman spectra for biological molecules in water, however, is very difficult because of the small Raman scattering cross section and the high electronic excitation energy of water molecules. In the present paper, the authors applied both technologies of liquid-core optical fiber and the resonance Raman spectra, then the intensity of Raman spectra was enhanced to a great extent. In this experiment, we chose the laser wavelength 514.5 of Ar+ ion laser as excitation laser, because we could obtain the maximal intensity of resonance Raman spectra at this wavelength. The experiment results show that, for the trace inspecting study of beta-carotene biological molecules in water, the concentration in the range of 10(-7)-10(-9) mol x L(-1) can be detected by quartz liquid-core optical fiber and the concentration in the range of 10(-9)-10(-10) mol x L(-1) by Teflon liquid-core optical fiber. The detecting utmost will be further reduced if improving the quality of optical fiber.