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Optimised design of fibre-based pulse compressor for gain-switched DFB laser pulses at 1.5 ”m
An optical-fibre based pulse compressor for gain-switched DFB laser pulses has been optimised using a systematic procedure based on the initial complete characterisation of the laser pulses, followed by numerical simulations of the pulse propagation in different types of fibre to determine the required lengths for optimum compression. Using both linear and nonlinear compression techniques, an optimum compression factor of 12 is achieved
Screening of Irish Fruit and Vegetable Germplasm for Novel Anti-tumour and Pesticidal Compounds
Conference paperPhytochemicals are a rich source of novel therapeutic and insecticidal agents (McLaughlin and Chang, 1999). Considerable research effort has been directed at
screening exotic and medicinal plants in the search for novel products. However, plants which have traditional food uses have been little explored. In addition the
range, type and level of individual bioactive compounds can vary significantly between different species, different cultivars of the same species and different
tissue types of the plant (Reilly, in press) Therefore, the
objective of this study was to screen a range of fruits and vegetables which can be grown in Ireland for novel bioactive compounds for use in food production and as bio-pesticides.The author wishes to acknowledge the financial support from the Dublin Institute of Technology through an ABBEST fellowshi
Ultra-sensitive all-optical sampling at 1.5 ÎŒm using waveguide two-photon absorption
We demonstrate a simple and ultra-sensitive all-optical sampling system suitable for the characterization of high capacity (> 100 Gbit/s) single channel systems operating around 1.5 ”m. The system is based on the nonlinear effect of two-photon-absorption in a commercial 1.3 ”m semiconductor laser and, using only direct detection of the unamplified two photon absorption photocurrent, we have achieved a temporal resolution of around 2 ps, and a sensitivity of less than 2 mWÂČ
Aspects of goal-oriented model-error estimation in convection-diffusion problems
For goal-oriented model adaptation a model-error estimator is required to drive the adaptation process. In recent years publications have appeared on the dual-weighted residual (DWR) method in the application of model-error estimation in output functionals. In this paper we study the application of the DWR method for convection-diffusion problems where hierarchical models are of different type. Omitting the diffusion operator often results in a singular perturbation problem considering the model residual in the limit of vanishing diffusion. This is caused by the change of mathematical type of the model equations and therefore the applied boundary conditions. In this work we show how a model error estimator is developed for steady and unsteady convection-diffusion problems. It is found that a weak formulation and weakly imposing boundary and initial conditions leads to a dual-weighted model-error estimator that also incorporates boundary residuals
Conserved Charges in the Principal Chiral Model on a Supergroup
The classical principal chiral model in 1+1 dimensions with target space a
compact Lie supergroup is investigated. It is shown how to construct a local
conserved charge given an invariant tensor of the Lie superalgebra. We
calculate the super-Poisson brackets of these currents and argue that they are
finitely generated. We show how to derive an infinite number of local charges
in involution. We demonstrate that these charges Poisson commute with the
non-local charges of the model
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