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Liquid hydrogen film cooled pressure transducers
Liquid hydrogen film cooled pressure transducer for flush mounting in rocket combustion chambe
Pressure switch for detection of thruster operation of lunar excursion module reaction control system Final report
Design and test data of pressure switch for thrustor operation detection of lunar excursion module reaction control syste
Harvesting, coupling and control of single exciton coherences in photonic waveguide antennas
We perform coherent non-linear spectroscopy of individual excitons strongly
confined in single InAs quantum dots (QDs). The retrieval of their
intrinsically weak four-wave mixing (FWM) response is enabled by a
one-dimensional dielectric waveguide antenna. Compared to a similar QD embedded
in bulk media, the FWM detection sensitivity is enhanced by up to four orders
of magnitude, over a broad operation bandwidth. Three-beam FWM is employed to
investigate coherence and population dynamics within individual QD transitions.
We retrieve their homogenous dephasing in a presence of spectral wandering.
Two-dimensional FWM reveals off-resonant F\"orster coupling between a pair of
distinct QDs embedded in the antenna. We also detect a higher order QD
non-linearity (six-wave mixing) and use it to coherently control the FWM
transient. Waveguide antennas enable to conceive multi-color coherent
manipulation schemes of individual emitters.Comment: 7 pages, 8 Figure
Antireflective photonic structure for coherent nonlinear spectroscopy of single magnetic quantum dots
This work presents epitaxial growth and optical spectroscopy of CdTe quantum
dots (QDs) in (Cd,Zn,Mg)Te barriers placed on the top of (Cd,Zn,Mg)Te
distributed Bragg reflector. The formed photonic mode in our half-cavity
structure permits to enhance the local excitation intensity and extraction
efficiency of the QD photoluminescence, while suppressing the reflectance
within the spectral range covering the QD transitions. This allows to perform
coherent, nonlinear, resonant spectroscopy of individual QDs. The coherence
dynamics of a charged exciton is measured via four-wave mixing, with the
estimated dephasing time ps. The same structure contains
QDs doped with single Mn ions, as detected in photoluminescence spectra.
Our work therefore paves the way toward investigating and controlling an
exciton coherence coupled, via ,- exchange interaction, with an
individual spin of a magnetic dopant.Comment: 6 pages, 5 figure
Automatic detection of modality with ITGETARUNS
In this paper we present a system for modality detection which is then used for Subjectivity and Factuality evaluation. The system has been tested lately on a task for Subjectivity and Irony detection in Italian tweets (http:// www.di.unito.it/~tutreeb/sentipolc-evalita14/index.html), where the performance was 10th and 4th, respectively, over 27 participants overall. We will focus our paper on an internal evaluation where we considered three national newspapers Il Corriere, Repubblica, Libero. This task was prompted by a project on the evaluation of press stylistic features in political discourse. The project used newspaper articles from the same sources over a period of three months, thus including latest political 2013 governmental crisis. We intended to produce a similar experiment and evaluate results in comparison with previous 2011 crisis. In this evaluation, we focused on Subjectivity, Polarity and Factuality which include Modality evaluation. Final graphs at the end of the paper will show results confirming our previous findings about differences in style, with Il Corriere emerging as the most atypicalIn this paper we present a system for modality detection which is then used for Subjectivity and Factuality evaluation. The system has been tested lately on a task for Subjectivity and Irony detection in Italian tweets (http:// www.di.unito.it/~tutreeb/sentipolc-evalita14/index.html), where the performance was 10th and 4th, respectively, over 27 participants overall. We will focus our paper on an internal evaluation where we considered three national newspapers Il Corriere, Repubblica, Libero. This task was prompted by a project on the evaluation of press stylistic features in political discourse. The project used newspaper articles from the same sources over a period of three months, thus including latest political 2013 governmental crisis. We intended to produce a similar experiment and evaluate results in comparison with previous 2011 crisis. In this evaluation, we focused on Subjectivity, Polarity and Factuality which include Modality evaluation. Final graphs at the end of the paper will show results confirming our previous findings about differences in style, with Il Corriere emerging as the most atypica
Linguistically-based Reranking of Google’s Snippets with GReG
We present an experiment evaluating the contribution of a system called GReG for reranking the snippets returned by Google’s search engine in the 10 best links presented to the user and captured by the use of Google’s API. The evaluation aims at establishing whether or not the introduction of deep linguistic information may improve the accuracy of Google or rather it is the opposite case as maintained by the majority of people working in Information Retrieval and using a Bag Of Words approach. We used 900 questions and answers taken from TREC 8 and 9 competitions and execute three different types of evaluation: one without any linguistic aid; a second one with tagging and syntactic constituency contribution; another run with what we call Partial Logical Form. Even though GReG is still work in progress, it is possible to draw clearcut conclusions: adding linguistic information to the evaluation process of the best snippet that can answer a question improves enormously the performance. In another experiment we used the actual texts associated to the Q/A pairs distributed by one of TREC’s participant and got even higher accuracy
Measurement of Carbon-Carbon Electrical Conductivity During Pyrolysis
The eddy current sensor described below is one of several sensors that is currently being used to monitor the pyrolysis of carbon-carbon materials. It is part of a larger system that is being developed for the closed loop control of the carbon-carbon manufacturing process [1]. The eddy current sensor is being used to monitor changes in the electrical conductivity of the specimen.</p
A computational approach to implicit entities and events in text and discourse
In this paper we will focus on the notion of “implicit”
or lexically unexpressed linguistic elements that are
nonetheless necessary for a complete semantic interpretation
of a text. We refer to “entities” and “events” because
the recovery of the implicit material may affect all the modules
of a system for semantic processing, from the grammatically
guided components to the inferential and reasoning
ones. Reference to the system GETARUNS offers one possible
implementation of the algorithms and procedures needed
to cope with the problem and enables us to deal with all the
spectrum of phenomena. The paper will address at first the
following three types of “implicit” entities and events:
– the grammatical ones, as suggested by a linguistic theories
like LFG or similar generative theories;
– the semantic ones suggested in the FrameNet project, i.e.
CNI, DNI, INI;
– the pragmatic ones: here we will present a theory and an
implementation for the recovery of implicit entities and
events of (non-) standard implicatures.
In particular we will show how the use of commonsense
knowledge may fruitfully contribute to find relevant implied
meanings. Last Implicit Entity only touched on, though for
lack of space, is the Subject of Point of View, which is computed
by Semantic Informational Structure and contributes
the intended entity from whose point of view a given subjective
statement is expressed
Impact of phonons on dephasing of individual excitons in deterministic quantum dot microlenses
Optimized light-matter coupling in semiconductor nanostructures is a key to
understand their optical properties and can be enabled by advanced fabrication
techniques. Using in-situ electron beam lithography combined with a
low-temperature cathodoluminescence imaging, we deterministically fabricate
microlenses above selected InAs quantum dots (QDs) achieving their efficient
coupling to the external light field. This enables to perform four-wave mixing
micro-spectroscopy of single QD excitons, revealing the exciton population and
coherence dynamics. We infer the temperature dependence of the dephasing in
order to address the impact of phonons on the decoherence of confined excitons.
The loss of the coherence over the first picoseconds is associated with the
emission of a phonon wave packet, also governing the phonon background in
photoluminescence (PL) spectra. Using theory based on the independent boson
model, we consistently explain the initial coherence decay, the zero-phonon
line fraction, and the lineshape of the phonon-assisted PL using realistic
quantum dot geometries
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