Special optical fibers for temperature and strain sensing using nonlinear effects ...
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Author(s): |
Ana Paula Dornelles de Alvarenga
Total Authors: 1
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Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
Press: | São Paulo. |
Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Instituto de Física (IF/SBI) |
Defense date: | 1993-12-17 |
Examining board members: |
Lia Queiroz do Amaral;
Fernando Cerdeira;
Marcos Hugo Grimsditch;
Lidério Citrângulo Ioriatti Júnior;
Jose Sanjurjo
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Advisor: | Aldo Felix Craievich |
Abstract | |
Raman and Brillouin scattering were used in the study of several systems which present open questions in their physical properties. under the effect of the temperature. Materials of geophysical interest were studied as rutile Ti02 and the spinel MgAh04. Results of Raman scattering from Rutile (Ti02) up to 1000 K show that the frequencies of the optical phonons decrease slowly with temperature, and do not show anomalies reported in previous work at lower. temperatures The absence of a soft mode at these high temperatures confirms the stability of stishovitte, a structural analog of Rutile (Ti02), wich exists in the Earth\'s mantle. The elastic constants of Spinel MgAh04 were measured using Brillouin scattering up to 2100 K: this is the highest temperature ever reported for a Brillouin scattering experiment. Parameters of geophysical importance were calculated, in an analog to y-Mg2Si04, believed to be the major constituent of the Earth\'s lower mantle. Raman scattering measurements on cubic boron nitride up to 1600 K, indicate that at high temperature this material retains its mechanical strength, and it is therefore suitable in applications where very high temperatures are involved. The vibrational properties of molten GaI3, GaBr3, AlBr3 and AlCI3. were determined by Raman scattering. The structure of these compounds in the molten state is a dimer represented by M2X6 consisting of two tetrahedra sharing a halide edge. In AlC13, the melting process leads to a drastic change in the structure. Using Brillouin scattering we have investigated the elastic properties of water under negative pressures. The samples were H20 liquid-vapor inclusions in -quartz which could be heated to their homogenization temperature; on cooling, negative pressures as high as 100 MPa were reached before a vapor bubble nucleated. The velocity of sound results obtained indicate that nucleation occurs long before reaching the mechanical instability region, where the bulk modulus is zero. Liquid Sulphur was studied by Brillouin scattering as a function of temperature trough the lambda transition. Mori-Zwanzig formalism was applied to fit the polarized spectra and they showed no evidence of a lambda transition. On the other hand the depolarized spectra exhibited marked changes near the lambda transition temperature. (AU) |