Radio frequency and terahertz signals generated by passively mode-locked semiconductor lasers

There are several different approaches to generating periodic signals using semiconductor lasers, for example: Q-switching, gain switching or mode-locking schemes. In general the active or passive mode-locking techniques require the use of a modulator or a saturable absorber in order to achieve the phase synchronisation. The laser diodes studied in this thesis, are demonstrated to operate in the mode-locked regime, while not requiring any direct or external modulation, nor the saturable absorbtion element in order to achieve the phase synchronisation. It has been demonstrated previously, that in a multimode semiconductor laser, the third order nonlinearities of a gain medium resulting in the four-wave-mixing effects, are responsible for the phase synchronisation and lead to phase locking. The repetition rate of the generated signal is fixed by the free-spectral range of the longitudinal spectrum. Therefore, with a passively mode-locked laser (PMLL) it is possible to cover a wide range of frequencies from the Radio-Frequency (RF) to the TeraHertz (THz) domain. Radio frequency signals generated by semiconductor lasers have many applications in optical communications, such as radio-over-fibre, or all-optical clock extraction. Terahertz signals are the focus of many research bodies nowadays, due to their interaction with matter. They have potential applications in areas like: industry, pharmacy, security (military), telecommunication and medicine. With continuous improvement of materials processing and technology, new ways of generation and detection of such types of signals have appeared. The key advantage of the optical RF or THz generation is that this type of device is direct current biased and operates at room temperature. In this thesis, a comprehensive study of various PMLLs, from distributed Bragg reflector bulk laser to quantum dashed Fabry-Perot lasers is given, demonstrating the origin of the phase synchronisation in these structures and some applications for these lasers such as all-optical clock recovery or THz signal generation

The Fifth National Technology Transfer Conference and Exposition

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NASA Tech Briefs, Spring 1985

Topic include: NASA TU Services; New Product Ideas; Electronic Components and Circuits; Electronic Systems; Physical Sciences; Materials; Life Sciences; Mechanics; Machinery; Fabrication Technology; Mathematics and Information Sciences

Mu2e Technical Design Report

The Mu2e experiment at Fermilab will search for charged lepton flavor violation via the coherent conversion process mu- N --> e- N with a sensitivity approximately four orders of magnitude better than the current world's best limits for this process. The experiment's sensitivity offers discovery potential over a wide array of new physics models and probes mass scales well beyond the reach of the LHC. We describe herein the preliminary design of the proposed Mu2e experiment. This document was created in partial fulfillment of the requirements necessary to obtain DOE CD-2 approval.Comment: compressed file, 888 pages, 621 figures, 126 tables; full resolution available at http://mu2e.fnal.gov; corrected typo in background summary, Table 3.

Development of quality assurance procedures and methods for the CBM Silicon Tracking System

The Compressed Baryonic Matter (CBM) experiment at the future Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research (FAIR) aims to study the properties of nuclear matter at high net-baryon densities and moderate temperatures. It is expected that, utilizing ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions, a phase transition from hadronic matter to QCD matter will be probed. Among the key objectives are the determination of the nature and order of the transition (deconfinement and/or chiral) and the observation of a critical end-point. To measure and determine the physics phenomena occurring in these collisions, appropriate detectors are required. The Silicon Tracking System (STS) is the key detector to reconstruct charged particle tracks created in heavy-ion collisions. In order to assure the necessary detector performance, about 900 silicon microstrip sensors must be checked and tested for their quality. For these tasks highly efficient and highly automated procedures and methods have to be developed. The first part of this dissertation reports on a novel automated inspection system developed for the optical quality control of silicon microstrip sensors. Proposed methods and procedures allow to scan along the individual sensors to recognize and classify sensor defects. Examples of these defects are: surface scratches, implant defects, metalization layer lithography defects and others. In order to separate and classify these defects various image-processing algorithms based on machine vision are used. The silicon sensors are also characterized geometrically to ensure the mechanical precision targeted for the detector assembly procedures. Since the STS detector will be operated in a high radiation environment with a total non-ionizing radiation dose up to 1x10^14 n_eq/cm^2 over 6 years of operation, the silicon sensors need to be kept in the temperature range of -5 to -10 °C at all times to minimize reverse annealing effects and to avoid thermal runaway. The second part of this work is devoted to the development and optimization of the design of cooling bodies, which remove the thermal energy of overall more than 40 kW produced by the front-end readout electronics. In particular, thermodynamical models were developed to estimate the cooling regimes and thermal simulations of the cooling bodies were carried out. Based on the performed calculations an innovative bi-phase CO2 cooling system of up to 200 W cooling power was built and allowed to verify the simulated cooling body designs experimentally.In der geplanten Experimentieranlage für Antiprotonen- und Ionenforschung (Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research, FAIR) wird das Compressed Baryonic Matter Experiment (CBM) nukleare Materie bei hoher Baryonendichte und moderaten Temperaturen untersuchen. Der Phasenübergang zwischen hadronischer und QCD-Materie kann mithilfe von ultrarelativistischen Schwerionenkollisionen untersucht werden. Die wichtigsten Ziele sind die Bestimmung der Art des Übergangs (Deconfinement- und/oder chiraler Phasenübergang) und die Untersuchung des kritischen Endpunktes im Phasendiagramm. Um diese Phänomene zu untersuchen, sind geeignete Detektorsysteme notwendig. Das Silicon Tracking System (STS) ist der zentrale Detektor, mit Hilfe dessen die Spuren der in den Schwerionenkollisionen erzeugten geladenen Teilchen rekonstruiert werden. Um die volle Funktionsfähigkeit des STS sicherzustellen, müssen die mehr als 900 Siliziumstreifensensoren vor dem Zusammenbau überprüft und getestet werden. Hierfür müssen die hocheffiziente und automatisierte Prozeduren und Methoden entwickelt werden. In erstem Teil dieser Dissertation wird über ein automatisiertes optisches Inspektionssystem berichtet. Das System erlaubt es, die einzelnen Siliziumsensoren auf potentielle vorhandene Oberflächendefekte zu untersuchen und sie zu klassifizieren. Beispiele hierfür sind: Kratzer auf der Oberfläche, Implantierungsdefekte oder Lithographiedefekte der Metallisierungsschicht. Für das Erkennen dieser Defekte werden mehrere “Machine Vision” Bildbearbeitungsalgorithmen benutzt. Außerdem werden die geometrischen Parameter der Sensoren, die für den Zusammenbau des STS wichtig sind, optisch kontrolliert. Der STS Detektor wird bei extrem hohen Kollisionsraten betrieben. Innerhalb einer Betriebsbszeit von 6 Jahren wird eine Strahlungsdosis von bis zu 1x10^14 n_eq/cm^2 akkumuliert, was zu einer deutlichen Erhöhung des Dunkelstrom führt und letztlich des “end-of-life” Kriterium darstellt. Die Siliziumsensoren müssen deswegen auf -5 bis -10 °C gekühlt werden, um “reverse Annealing” Effekte zu minimieren und das “Thermal Runaway” Phänomen zu verzögern. Durch die Ausleselektronik werden andererseits mehr als 40 kW an thermischer Energie nahe der Sensoren produziert, die deshalb mit Kühlkörpern komplett abgeleitet werden muß. Das zweite Teil dieser Dissertation wurde der Optimierung von Kühlkörpern gewidmet. Dafür wurden thermodynamische Modelle implementiert und entsprechende thermische Simulationen durchgeführt. Im Rahmen der Arbeit wurde ein 200 W CO2 Kühlungssystem gebaut, das es erlaubt, die Modellberechnungen und Simulationen einer Kühlung mit 2-phasigem CO2 zu überprüfen

Energy Efficient Cooperative Mobile Sensor Network

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Abstracts on Radio Direction Finding (1899 - 1995)

The files on this record represent the various databases that originally composed the CD-ROM issue of "Abstracts on Radio Direction Finding" database, which is now part of the Dudley Knox Library's Abstracts and Selected Full Text Documents on Radio Direction Finding (1899 - 1995) Collection. (See Calhoun record https://calhoun.nps.edu/handle/10945/57364 for further information on this collection and the bibliography). Due to issues of technological obsolescence preventing current and future audiences from accessing the bibliography, DKL exported and converted into the three files on this record the various databases contained in the CD-ROM. The contents of these files are: 1) RDFA_CompleteBibliography_xls.zip [RDFA_CompleteBibliography.xls: Metadata for the complete bibliography, in Excel 97-2003 Workbook format; RDFA_Glossary.xls: Glossary of terms, in Excel 97-2003 Workbookformat; RDFA_Biographies.xls: Biographies of leading figures, in Excel 97-2003 Workbook format]; 2) RDFA_CompleteBibliography_csv.zip [RDFA_CompleteBibliography.TXT: Metadata for the complete bibliography, in CSV format; RDFA_Glossary.TXT: Glossary of terms, in CSV format; RDFA_Biographies.TXT: Biographies of leading figures, in CSV format]; 3) RDFA_CompleteBibliography.pdf: A human readable display of the bibliographic data, as a means of double-checking any possible deviations due to conversion

Particle Physics Reference Library

This third open access volume of the handbook series deals with accelerator physics, design, technology and operations, as well as with beam optics, dynamics and diagnostics. A joint CERN-Springer initiative, the “Particle Physics Reference Library” provides revised and updated contributions based on previously published material in the well-known Landolt-Boernstein series on particle physics, accelerators and detectors (volumes 21A,B1,B2,C), which took stock of the field approximately one decade ago. Central to this new initiative is publication under full open acces

Aeronautical engineering: A continuing bibliography with indexes (supplement 237)

This bibliography lists 572 reports, articles, and other documents introduced into the NASA scientific and technical information system in February, 1989. Subject coverage includes: design, construction and testing of aircraft and aircraft engines; aircraft components, equipment and systems; ground support systems; and theoretical and applied aspects of aerodynamics and general fluid dynamics

Wings in Orbit: Scientific and Engineering Legacies of the Space Shuttle, 1971-2010

The Space Shuttle is an engineering marvel perhaps only exceeded by the station itself. The shuttle was based on the technology of the 1960s and early 1970s. It had to overcome significant challenges to make it reusable. Perhaps the greatest challenges were the main engines and the Thermal Protection System. The program has seen terrible tragedy in its 3 decades of operation, yet it has also seen marvelous success. One of the most notable successes is the Hubble Space Telescope, a program that would have been a failure without the shuttle's capability to rendezvous, capture, repair, as well as upgrade. Now Hubble is a shining example of success admired by people around the world. As the program comes to a close, it is important to capture the legacy of the shuttle for future generations. That is what "Wings In Orbit" does for space fans, students, engineers, and scientists. This book, written by the men and women who made the program possible, will serve as an excellent reference for building future space vehicles. We are proud to have played a small part in making it happen. Our journey to document the scientific and engineering accomplishments of this magnificent winged vehicle began with an audacious proposal: to capture the passion of those who devoted their energies to its success while answering the question "What are the most significant accomplishments?" of the longestoperating human spaceflight program in our nation s history. This is intended to be an honest, accurate, and easily understandable account of the research and innovation accomplished during the era