445 research outputs found
Analysis of overall and internal performance of variable-geometry one-stage and two-stage axial-flow turbines
Overall and internal performance of variable geometry single stage and two-stage axial turbine
Operating an Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler aboard a Container Vessel
Since October 1992 an acoustic Doppler current profiler (ADCP) has been in near-continuous operation on board a 118-m-long container vessel, the container motor vessel Oleander, which operates on a weekly schedule between Port Elizabeth, New Jersey, and Hamilton, Bermuda. The ADCP collects information on currents from the surface to depths as great as 404 m depending on zooplankton concentrations, ship’s speed, sea state conditions, and the ship’s load factor. The southbound transits provide more and better data because the ship is loaded and rides deeper resulting in less bubble formation and entrainment underneath the vessel.
Installation and operation of an ADCP on a cargo ship has involved a number of factors not typical of research vessels. Providing a data acquisition system that could operate on its own without assistance from the ship’s officers and that could recover from problems was the first issue. Isolating and removing electrical transients from the ship’s electrical system was extremely challenging. The presence of bubbles underneath the vessel due to variable draft and in heavy weather conditions significantly limits the performance of the ADCP. These difficulties not withstanding, the system is working well and is delivering good data on the southbound legs in most weather conditions and on the northbound legs under more favorable weather conditions. Starting in 1995, differential and attitudinal global positioning system enhancements have made significant improvements to navigational accuracy and ship’s heading data
Fast Purcell-enhanced single photon source in 1,550-nm telecom band from a resonant quantum dot-cavity coupling
High-bit-rate nanocavity-based single photon sources in the 1,550-nm telecom
band are challenges facing the development of fibre-based long-haul quantum
communication networks. Here we report a very fast single photon source in the
1,550-nm telecom band, which is achieved by a large Purcell enhancement that
results from the coupling of a single InAs quantum dot and an InP photonic
crystal nanocavity. At a resonance, the spontaneous emission rate was enhanced
by a factor of 5 resulting a record fast emission lifetime of 0.2 ns at 1,550
nm. We also demonstrate that this emission exhibits an enhanced anti-bunching
dip. This is the first realization of nanocavity-enhanced single photon
emitters in the 1,550-nm telecom band. This coupled quantum dot cavity system
in the telecom band thus provides a bright high-bit-rate non-classical single
photon source that offers appealing novel opportunities for the development of
a long-haul quantum telecommunication system via optical fibres.Comment: 16 pages, 4 figure
Hydration of a side-chain-free n-type semiconducting ladder polymer driven by electrochemical doping
We study the organic electrochemical transistors (OECTs) performance of the
ladder polymer, poly(benzimidazobenzophenanthroline) (BBL) in an attempt to
better understand how an apparently hydrophobic side-chain-free polymer is able
to operate as an OECT with favorable redox kinetics in an aqueous environment.
We examine two BBLs of different molecular masses from different sources. Both
BBLs show significant film swelling during the initial reduction step. By
combining electrochemical quartz crystal microbalance (eQCM) gravimetry,
in-operando atomic force microscopy (AFM), and both ex-situ and in-operando
grazing incidence wide-angle x-ray scattering (GIWAXS), we provide a detailed
structural picture of the electrochemical charge injection process in BBL in
the absence of any hydrophilic side-chains. Compared with ex-situ measurements,
in-operando GIWAXS shows both more swelling upon electrochemical doping than
has previously been recognized, and less contraction upon dedoping. The data
show that BBL films undergo an irreversible hydration driven by the initial
electrochemical doping cycle with significant water retention and lamellar
expansion that persists across subsequent oxidation/reduction cycles. This
swelling creates a hydrophilic environment that facilitates the subsequent fast
hydrated ion transport in the absence of the hydrophilic side-chains used in
many other polymer systems. Due to its rigid ladder backbone and absence of
hydrophilic side-chains, the primary BBL water uptake does not significantly
degrade the crystalline order, and the original dehydrated, unswelled state can
be recovered after drying. The combination of doping induced hydrophilicity and
robust crystalline order leads to efficient ionic transport and good stability.Comment: 24 pages, 5 figure
Non-resonant dot-cavity coupling and its applications in resonant quantum dot spectroscopy
We present experimental investigations on the non-resonant dot-cavity
coupling of a single quantum dot inside a micro-pillar where the dot has been
resonantly excited in the s-shell, thereby avoiding the generation of
additional charges in the QD and its surrounding. As a direct proof of the pure
single dot-cavity system, strong photon anti-bunching is consistently observed
in the autocorrelation functions of the QD and the mode emission, as well as in
the cross-correlation function between the dot and mode signals. Strong Stokes
and anti-Stokes-like emission is observed for energetic QD-mode detunings of up
to ~100 times the QD linewidth. Furthermore, we demonstrate that non-resonant
dot-cavity coupling can be utilized to directly monitor and study relevant QD
s-shell properties like fine-structure splittings, emission saturation and
power broadening, as well as photon statistics with negligible background
contributions. Our results open a new perspective on the understanding and
implementation of dot-cavity systems for single-photon sources, single and
multiple quantum dot lasers, semiconductor cavity quantum electrodynamics, and
their implementation, e.g. in quantum information technology.Comment: 17 pages, 4 figure
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Coherently Controlled Quantum Emitters In Cavities
Semiconductor nanostructures such as quantum dots (QDs) have offered unique opportunities to investigate quantum optical effects in solid-state systems. These include quantum interference, Rabi oscillations, as well as photon antibunching, and were previously observable only in isolated atoms or ions. In addition, QDs can be integrated into optical microcavities, making them attractive for applications in quantum information processing and high efficiency quantum light sources. Despite much progress towards these goals, one area that was little explored is coherent control of such solid-state quantum emitters in cavities. The main technical hurdle lies in overcoming the laser background scattering. By using a sample structure in which QDs are embedded in a planar Fabry-Perot cavity and by using an orthogonal excitation geometry, we have achieved a nearly complete elimination of laser background scattering. This in turn allows us to show resonantly controlled light emission of quantum dots in the cavity including (a) Rabi flopping using pulse control, (b) direct observation of Mollow triplets in the frequency domain, and (c) simultaneously measured first-order and second order photon-photon correlations.Physic
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