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All-fibered high-quality 1.5–2 THz femtosecond pulse sources
2009
Generation of high-quality ultra-high repetition rate optical pulse trains around 1.55µm has become increasingly interesting for many scientific applications such as optical sampling, ultra-high capacity transmission systems, component testing or nonlinear phenomena studies. Unfortunately, the current bandwidth limitations of optoelectronic devices do not enable the direct generation of pulses with repetition rate higher than 80GHz and a temporal width below a few ps.
Diffractive optics for quasi-direct space-to-time pulse shaping.
2008
The strong chromatic behavior associated with a conventional diffractive lens is fully exploited to propose a novel optical device for pulse shaping in the femtosecond regime. This device consists of two optical elements: a spatially patterned circularly symmetric mask and a kinoform diffractive lens, which are facing each other. The system performs a mapping between the spatial position of the masking function expressed in the squared radial coordinate and the temporal position in the output waveform. This space-to-time conversion occurs at the chromatic focus of the diffractive lens, and makes it possible to tailor the output central wavelength along the axial location of the output point…
Formation of ultrashort triangular pulses in optical fibers
2014
Specialty shape ultrashort optical pulses, and triangular pulses in particular, are of great interest in optical signal processing. Compact fiber-based techniques for producing the special pulse waveforms from Gaussian or secant pulses delivered by modern ultrafast lasers are in demand in telecommunications. Using the nonlinear Schr¨odinger equation in an extended form the transformation of ultrashort pulses in a fiber towards triangular shape is characterized by the misfit parameter under variety of incident pulse shapes, energies, and chirps. It is shown that short (1-2 m) conventional single mode fiber can be used for triangular pulse formation in the steady-state regime without any pre-…
All-fiber processing of terahertz-bandwidth signals based on cascaded tapered fibers
2013
Tapered single-mode fibers are employed to perform dynamic pulse shaping in a bandwidth of several terahertz. The transfer function of cascaded biconical tapers is controlled by introducing a phase shift into one of them through mechanical stretching. It is a simple and low-cost technique with potential to process signals with bandwidths as large as those allocated by standard optical fiber while introducing little degradation. Femtosecond pulses are shaped to prove the concept. (C) 2013 Optical Society of America
Femtosecond parabolic pulse shaping in normally dispersive optical fibers
2013
Formation of parabolic pulses at femtosecond time scale by means of passive nonlinear reshaping in normally dispersive optical fibers is analyzed. Two approaches are examined and compared: the parabolic waveform formation in transient propagation regime and parabolic waveform formation in the steady-state propagation regime. It is found that both approaches could produce parabolic pulses as short as few hundred femtoseconds applying commercially available fibers, specially designed all-normal dispersion photonic crystal fiber and modern femtosecond lasers for pumping. The ranges of parameters providing parabolic pulse formation at the femtosecond time scale are found depending on the initia…
More restrictive Gray codes for some classes of pattern avoiding permutations
2009
In a recent article [W.M.B. Dukes, M.F. Flanagan, T. Mansour, V. Vajnovszki, Combinatorial Gray codes for classes of pattern avoiding permutations, Theoret. Comput. Sci. 396 (2008) 35-49], Dukes, Flanagan, Mansour and Vajnovszki present Gray codes for several families of pattern avoiding permutations. In their Gray codes two consecutive objects differ in at most four or five positions, which is not optimal. In this paper, we present a unified construction in order to refine their results (or to find other Gray codes). In particular, we obtain more restrictive Gray codes for the two Wilf classes of Catalan permutations of length n; two consecutive objects differ in at most two or three posit…
Multi-frequency orthogonality sampling for inverse obstacle scattering problems
2011
We discuss a simple non-iterative method to reconstruct the support of a collection of obstacles from the measurements of far-field patterns of acoustic or electromagnetic waves corresponding to plane-wave incident fields with one or few incident directions at several frequencies. The method is a variant of the orthogonality sampling algorithm recently studied by Potthast (2010 Inverse Problems 26 074015). Our theoretical analysis of the algorithm relies on an asymptotic expansion of the far-field pattern of the scattered field as the size of the scatterers tends to zero with respect to the wavelength of the incident field that holds not only at a single frequency, but also across appropria…
Crystal field calculations of energy levels of the Ni2+ ions in MgO
2013
Abstract The electronic energy levels of six-fold coordinated Ni 2+ ion in magnesium oxide MgO were calculated using the exchange charge model of crystal field theory. The calculated energetic positions of the Ni 2+ levels match well the experimental spectrum. Inclusion of the spin-orbit (SO) interaction is compulsory to account for the first excited 3 T 2g state fine structure; however, it does not explain why out of four levels arising from the 3 T 2g state, only two are seen in the experimental spectra. One possible explanation to this fact can be advanced by invoking the Jahn–Teller effect.
Valorisation de machines frigorifiques a adsorption sur zeolithes
1991
Abstract The regeneration stage using intermittent thermodynamical cycles based on zeolite adsorption (zeolite 13X-H2O) has been studied. This point is of particular interest for understanding of systems of energy storage and cooling. This paper examines the use of microwave energy sources for analysing the regeneration problem. The method proposed allows a considerable decrease in the regeneration time without an increase of the temperature of the material. The energy yields are high and the adsorption-desorption time cycles are short if the microwave field is well tuned. This last is a function of time and of the filling coefficient. The results obtained using microwave irradiation are co…
Testing the X-IFU calibration requirements: an example for quantum efficiency and energy resolution
2018
With its array of 3840 Transition Edge Sensors (TESs) operated at 90 mK, the X-Ray Integral Field Unit (X-IFU) on board the ESA L2 mission Athena will provide spatially resolved high-resolution spectroscopy (2.5 eV FWHM up to 7 keV) over the 0.2 to 12 keV bandpass. The in-flight performance of the X-IFU will be strongly affected by the calibration of the instrument. Uncertainties in the knowledge of the overall system, from the filter transmission to the energy scale, may introduce systematic errors in the data, which could potentially compromise science objectives - notably those involving line characterisation e.g. turbulence velocity measurements - if not properly accounted for. Defining…