Orientador: Alexandre Augusto Zaia / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Odontologia de Piracicaba / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-08T12:23:42Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Moreira_DannaMota_M.pdf: 5878321 bytes, checksum: 4089eb0ec4e19d31fd9966e0b4a6b16f (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007 / Resumo: O objetivo desse trabalho foi avaliar a ocorrência de alterações na estrutura e organização do colágeno presente na matriz orgânica da parede dentinária do canal radicular de incisivos bovinos bem como, avaliar a topografia da matriz inorgânica desta estrutura após irrigação com hipoclorito de sódio 5,25%, EDTA 17% e clorexidina gel 2%. Foram utilizados 60 dentes bovinos divididos aleatoriamente em seis grupos com 10 dentes cada: G1 - Hipoclorito de sódio (NaOCl) 5,25% e EDTA 17%; G2 - Clorexidina gel 2%; G3 - NaOCl 5,25%; G4 - EDTA 17%; G5 - Clorexidina gel 2% e EDTA 17%; G6 - Solução de cloreto de sódio 0,9% (Controle). Uma análise paralela foi realizada em 10 dentes onde nenhum tipo de procedimento foi realizado, sendo possível a obtenção dos parâmetros da birrefringência característica de incisivos bovinos sem instrumentação. As amostras experimentais foram submetidas à instrumentação e irrigação com as diferentes substâncias químicas auxiliares e em seguida, segmentadas em dois fragmentos. Um fragmento foi processado histologicamente utilizando o corante pricrosirius e em seguida, seu retardo óptico foi mensurado por meio de microscopia de polarização. O outro segmento foi preparado e avaliado por meio de microscopia eletrônica de varredura. Os resultados das mensurações dos retardos ópticos foram submetidos à análise estatística por meio do teste de Dunnet. Os resultados demonstraram que os grupos tratados com a clorexidina gel 2% e EDTA 17%, associados ou não, não obtiveram diferença estatisticamente significante em relação ao grupo controle. Nos grupos tratados com NaOCl 5,25%, associado ou não ao EDTA 17%, as médias dos retardos ópticos foram estatisticamente diferentes ao grupo controle. Concluindo que o NaOCl 5,25% provoca alterações na organização macromolecular do colágeno presente na matriz orgânica da dentina radicular de dentes bovinos. A análise realizada por meio da MEV demonstrou alterações estruturais na matriz inorgânica em todos os grupos em que o EDTA 17% foi utilizado / Abstract: The aim of this study was to evaluate the change in collagen structure and organization present in the organic matrix of the dentine wall of the root canals of bovine inferior incisors as well as the topography of the inorganic matrix after irrigation with 5.25% sodium hypochlorite, 17% EDTA and 2% chlorexidine gel. Sixty bovine incisors were randomly divided into six groups of 10: G1 - 5.25% Sodium Hypochlorite (NaOCl) and 17% EDTA; G2 - 2% Chlorexidine gel; G3 - 5.25% NaOCl; G4 - 17% EDTA; G5 - 2% Chlorexidine gel and 17% EDTA; G6 (Control) - 0.9% Sodium chloride. A parallel analysis was performed with 10 teeth which had not been submitted to any treatment. Hence, it was possible to obtain parameters for the birefringence characteristic of non-instrumented inferior bovine incisors. Experimental samples were submitted to instrumentation and irrigation with different auxiliary chemical substances and then segmented in two. One fragment was histologically processed using picrosirius pigment. Its optical retardations were measured through polarization microscopy. The second fragment was prepared to be evaluated through scanning electron microscopy. The optic retardation measurement data were submitted to statistical analysis using Dunnet?s test. Results revealed that the groups that associated or not 2% chlorexidine gel and 17% EDTA were not statistically different in relation to the control group. For the groups which 5.25% NaOCl was used, associated or not to 17% EDTA, the average optic retardations were statistically different to the control group. Therefore, 5.25% sodium hypochlorite proved to cause alterations to the molecular organization of collagen present in the organic matrix of root dentine of bovine teeth. Scanning electron microscopy showed structural alterations of the inorganic matrix of all groups tested with 17% EDTA / Mestrado / Endodontia / Mestre em Clínica Odontológica

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Many commercial and laboratory applications of fiber optics require an ability to manipulate, change and control the state of polarization of light. This is usually accomplished with bulk-optic wave plates which are inherently narrowband, bulky, and often require careful manual tuning and adjustments. H.C. Huang has recently proposed that a variably spun birefringent fiber with spin rate slowly varying from zero to very fast (or vice versa) will transform the state of polarization (SOP) from linear to circular (and vice versa). The most remarkable feature of a Huang fiber is that the transformation from linear to circular polarization is independent of wavelength over entire single mode range of the fiber. In this thesis, using simulations and experiments we explore the properties of such a fiber element and investigate its similarities and differences as compared to a bulk-optic quarter-wave plate. In the simulations, we modeled the Huang fiber as a stack of birefringent waveplates and used this model verify the theoretically predicted polarization transformation behavior and the wideband nature of the Huang fiber. We analyzed the dependence of the polarization transformation by this device on various structural parameters and showed that while the fiber has loose tolerances with respect to the fiber length and the spin variation, it has a strong dependence on the maximum spin rate at the high-spun end. We investigated the PMD characteristics of the Huang fiber for short pulse applications. Using simulations we also verified that two such quarter wave-transforming fibers can be appropriately cascaded to obtain half-wave and full-wave transformation, analogous to bulk optics half wave and full wave plate respectively. In the experiments we studied the polarization transformation behavior of a Huang fiber sample when it is excited by different input states of polarization both from the un-spun end and the high-spun end. We found that the results from the experiments strongly support the simulation results. The experiment was performed at 1310 nm and 1550 nm to verify the wideband nature of the Huang fiber sample. We found that the Huang fiber indeed performs the prescribed state of polarization transformation over a wide band. / Master of Science

Le laser Mégajoule, dédié à l’interaction laser-matière pour la physique des hautes énergies est composé de modules pré-amplificateurs (MPA) devant respecter une qualité de faisceau exigeante. Les MPA actuels utilisent des matériaux verre phosphate dopé au Néodyme pour un fonctionnement à 1053 nm. Leur cadence de tir est cependant limitée à 1 tir / 5 min à cause de leur faible conductivité thermique. Il serait intéressant d’augmenter cette cadence pour optimiser le temps alignement des optiques ou réaliser des diagnostics sur l’installation laser. Pour augmenter la cadence de tir des MPA, nous proposons de changer le matériau actuel par du Nd :Lu :CaF2 de conductivité thermique dix fois plus élevée en vue d’atteindre une cadence de répétition de 10 Hz. Dans ce travail de thèse, nous présentons une étude des effets thermomécaniques induits par un pompage diode inhomogène et transverse, de fluence 13 J/cm2. Nous présentons les mesures de biréfringence résolues spatialement avec un montage en polariseur-analyseur croisés. La distribution des contraintes thermomécaniques associées est reconstruite par un modèle de simulation avec le logiciel COMSOL®. Enfin, une étude de l’influence de l’orientation cristalline du Nd :Lu :CaF2 est développée afin d’expliquer la disparité de biréfringence induite mesurée entre les échantillon de Nd :Lu :CaF2. / Laser facility such as the Megajoule Laser dedicated to laser-matter interaction including inertial fusion need pre-amplifier modules (PAM) which must respect a high beam quality. The current PAM use Phosphate glass doped with Neodymium material to work at 1053 nm with a repetition rate of 1 shot / 5 min limited by a low thermal diffusion. However, it would be interesting to increase the shot rate for alignment or diagnostic purposes. Therefore, we propose to change this amplification material by crystal Nd :Lu :CaF2 with a thermal diffusion ten times higher in view of achieving a repetition rate of 10 Hz. In this PhD work, we report a characterization of the thermal induced effects under a diode inhomogeneous and transverse pump with an energy density of 13 J/cm2. We begin by studying the spatially resolved induced birefringence with a cross polarizer-analyzer setup. We reconstruct the stress pattern of our samples by simulating the global setup with COMSOL® software which includes the thermal and mechanic Multiphysics interaction. This model allows us first to compare with experimental results and then to entirely simulate the mechanical behavior of this new material. A detailed study of the influence of the crystal orientation on the induced birefringence is presented to explain the disparity observed on the different samples Nd :Lu :CaF2 measurements

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The Daniel K Inouye Solar Telescope (DKIST), when completed in 2019 will be the largest solar telescope built to date. DKIST will have a suite of first light polarimetric instrumentation requiring broadband polarization modulation and calibration optical elements. Compound crystalline retarders meet the design requirements for efficient modulators and achromatic calibration retarders. These retarders are the only possible large diameter optic that can survive the high flux, 5 arc minute field, and ultraviolet intense environment of a large aperture solar telescope at Gregorian focus. This dissertation presents work performed for the project. First, I measured birefringence of the candidate materials necessary to complete designs. Then, I modeled the polarization effects with three-dimensional ray-tracing codes as a function of angle of incidence and field of view. Through this analysis I learned that due to the incident converging F/13 beam on the calibration retarders, the previously assumed linear retarder model fails to account for effects above the project polarization specifications. I discuss modeling strategies such as Mueller matrix decompositions and simplifications of those strategies while still meeting fit error requirements. Finally, I present characterization techniques and how these were applied to prototype components.

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Novel theoretical formulations and efficient simulation methods for polarization-mode dispersion (PMD) and polarization-dependent loss (PDL) that are directly applicable to optical network design are developed. In particular, a formalism based upon the Magnus expansion is advanced for the determination of the frequency evolution of the Mueller matrix in terms of increasing orders of PMD and PDL. Several previous models of polarization evolution are shown to be specializations of this more general formalism. A least-squares algorithm that extracts PMD and PDL coefficients from repeated measurements of the output Stokes vector of an optical system for a random set of input polarization states is introduced and subsequently applied to the rapid experimental determination of the probability density of the differential group delay of a fiber-squeezer based PMD emulator. The applicability of Clifford algebra and Pade-approximant techniques to the efficient simulation of the wavelength dependence of PMD and PDL is also discussed.