简介:Areviewontheprogressofpowerful2μmsilicafibersourcesinpastdecadesispresented.Wereviewthestate-of-the-artrecordsandrepresentativeachievementsof2μmhigh-average-powercontinuouswave,pulsedfiberlasersandamplifiers,andpowerfulsuperfluorescentsources.Challengeswhichlimitthefurtherpowerscalingof2μmsilicafibersourcesarediscussed,includingpumpingbrightnesslimitation,thermalproblem,andnonlineareffects.Potentialandpromisingroadmapstogobeyondtheselimitations,liketandempumpingandbeamcombining,arediscussed.Prospectsofpowerful2μmsilicafibersourcesarealsopresentedintheendofpaper.
简介:Globalpositioningsystem(GPS)forvehicleapplicationsintheurbanareaischallengedbylowsignalintensity.ThecarrierloopbasedonfastFouriertransform(FFT)canobtainahighsignaltonoiseratio(SNR)gainbyincreasingtheobservationtime.However,thisleadstoamajorproblemthattheaccelerationcannotbeignored.TheperformanceoftheFFT-basedloopwilldeclinewiththeaccelerationincreasing.ThispaperdiscussestheeffectofthedynamiconFFTfirst.ThenahighperformancecarriertrackingloopforweakGPSL5signalsisproposed.Itcombinesdiscretechirp-Fouriertransform(DCFT)andthephasefittingmethodtoestimateDopplerfrequencyandDopplerratesimultaneously.First,asequenceofintegrationresultsisusedtoperformDCFTtoestimatecoarseDopplerfrequencyandDopplerrate.Second,thephaseofthesequenceiscalculatedandusedtoperformlinearfitting.Bythephasefittingmethod,thefineDopplerfrequencyandDopplerratecanbeestimated.ThecomputationcostissmallbecausetheintegrationresultsareusedandthephasefittingmethodneedsonlycoarseestimatesofDopplerfrequencyandDopplerrate.ComparedwithFFTandDCFT,theprecisionofthephasefittingmethodisnotlimitedbytheresolution.Thustheproposedloopcangethighprecisionandlowcarriertonoiseratio(C/N0)trackingthreshold.Simulationresultsshowthisloophasagreatimprovementthanconventionalloopsforurbanweak-signalapplications.
简介:TheopticalabsorbanceinnearUVwavelengthregioninSnO2nanoclustersinanexternalelectricfieldisdeterminedatroomtemperature.Theabsorbancespectraasapplicedfieldandtheabsorbancevariationswiththeappliedfieldareobtained.Therelationbetweenabsorbancechangeandappliedfieldisnon-linear.andissaturatedathighfieldregion.
简介:VO2thinfilmswithgoodswitchingpropertieswerepreparedbycontrollingtheannealingtimeandtheannealingtemperatureinavacuumsystem.Thestructural,opticalandelectricalpropertiesofthesampleswerecharacterizedbyusingXRD、XPS、UV-VISandelectricalmeasurements.TheswitchingparametersofVO2thinfilmwereinvestigatedtoo.TheresultsindicatethatbeforeandafterphasetransitiontheresistanceofVO2thinfilmschangesaboutthreeordersofmagnitude,thevariationoffilmtransmittanceof40%hasbeencarriedoutwiththeabsorptivityswitchingvelocityofabout0.2607/minat900nm.Thestructuralpropertyofsampleshasbeenimprovedbutthephase-transitionpropertieshavebeendecreasedbyincreasingtheannealingtimeandannealingtemperature.ThevalenceofVionsandthestructureofsampleshavegreateffectonphasetransitionpropertiesofVO2thinfilms.Discussionontheeffectsofannealingtimeandannealingtemperatureonthephase-transitiontemperatureandhysteresiswidthshowsthatthebestreasonableannealingtimeandannealingtemperaturecanbeachieved.
简介:Analternativemethodisproposedinthisletterfordescribingthearbitraryshapeandsizeforgranulesin2Dimage.Afterimagebinarization,theedgepointsoncontouraredetected,bywhichthecentroidoftheshapeinquestionissoughtusingthemomentcalculation.UsingPrincipalComponentAnalysis(PCA),themajorandminordiametersarecomputed.Basedonthesignaturecurve-fitting,thefirst-orderderivativeistakensoastoseekallthecharacteristicvertices.Byconnectingtheverticesfound,thesimplifiedpolygonisformedandutilizedforshapeandsizedescriptivepurposes.Thedevelopedalgorithmisrunontwogivenrealparticleimages,andtheexecutionresultsindicatethatthecomputedparameterscantechnicallywelldescribetheshapeandsizefortheoriginalparticles,beingabletoprovideaready-to-usedatabaseformachinevisionsystemtoperformrelateddataprocessingtasks.
简介:Theletterproposesathree-layermanageablemediadistributionnetworksystemarchi-tecturecalledMSPnet,whichisbasedonSessionInitiationProtocol[1]andPeertoPeer(SIPP2P)technology.MSPnetperformsapplication-levelstructuredDHTroutingandresourcelocationamongdomainsandunstructuredonesindomain.Exceptformediadistribution,itcanbeusedtosupportavarietyofP2Papplications,includingvideobroadcasting,videoondemand,VoIP,etc.MSPnetiscomposedofthreelayers,namely,thesignalcontrollayer,themanagementlayer,andthemediatransportationlayer.TheMSPnetprototypeconsistsoftheSIPserver,themanagementserver,themediaserver,andthenodeUserAgent(UA).Resultsfromaprototypeexperimentinalarge-scaleInternetenvironmentshowthatMSPnetisfeasible,scalableandmanageable.
简介:在中国产业发展的历史上,"大步向前"和"产能过剩"始终如影随形,即将在未来10年投入5万亿元倾力发展的新兴能源产业莫不如此。在国家经济转型结构调整、发展低碳环境友好型产业的背景下,新能源产业的前景被一致看好。不过,如何平衡"速度"与"质量"之间的关系,也一直是一道难题。
简介:AnewcompactopticalFanofiltersuitableforbiologicalsensingisproposed,whichpatternsphotoncrystalinsinglecrystallinesiliconnanomembranes(SiNMs)andtransferringontotransparentglasssubstrates.Theeffectsofairholesizeandsiliconthicknessonthetransmissioncharacteristicsofnewfilterarenumericallyinvestigatedbyusingthree-dimensionalfinite-differencetime-domain(FDTD)technique,thespectralresponseisalsostudiedbyback-fillingbioliquid.Theresultsshowthatthedipwavelengthwillshifttowardlongerwavelengthbyeitherreducingairholeradiusorfillingbio-liquid.Thenumberofdipswillincreasewiththeincreaseofsiliconthickness.Thesizeofproposedfiltercanbelessthan1mm2.
简介:Videoobjectextractionisakeytechnologyincontent-basedvideocoding.AnovelvideoobjectextractingalgorithmbytwoDimensional(2-D)mesh-basedmotionanalysisisproposedinthispaper.Firstly,a2-Dmeshfittingtheoriginalframeimageisobtainedviafeaturedetectionalgorithm.Then,higherorderstatisticsmotionanalysisisappliedonthe2-Dmeshrepresentationtogetaninitialmotiondetectionmask.Afterpost-processing,thefinalsegmentingmaskisquicklyobtained.Andhencethevideoobjectiseffectivelyextracted.Experimentalresultsshowthattheproposedalgorithmcombinesthemeritsofmesh-basedsegmentingalgorithmsandpixel-basedsegmentingalgorithms,andherebyachievessatisfactorysubjectiveandobjectiveperformancewhiledramaticallyincreasingthesegmentingspeed.