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Mid-infrared transmission properties of step index and large mode area ZnSe microstructured optical fibers
ZnSe microstructured fibers have been designed and fabricated using silica capillaries and an air-silica photonic band-gap optical fiber as high-pressure microfluidic templates for semiconductor growth via chemical fluid deposition. We examine their transmission properties over a wide spectral range
X-ray image reconstruction from a diffraction pattern alone
A solution to the inversion problem of scattering would offer aberration-free
diffraction-limited 3D images without the resolution and depth-of-field
limitations of lens-based tomographic systems. Powerful algorithms are
increasingly being used to act as lenses to form such images. Current image
reconstruction methods, however, require the knowledge of the shape of the
object and the low spatial frequencies unavoidably lost in experiments.
Diffractive imaging has thus previously been used to increase the resolution of
images obtained by other means. We demonstrate experimentally here a new
inversion method, which reconstructs the image of the object without the need
for any such prior knowledge.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figures, improved figures and captions, changed titl
An Investigation on Cooling of CZT Co-Planar Grid Detectors
The effect of moderate cooling on CdZnTe semiconductor detectors has been
studied for the COBRA experiment. Improvements in energy resolution and low
energy threshold were observed and quantified as a function of temperature.
Leakage currents are found to contribute typically 5 keV to the widths of
photopeaks.Comment: 14 pages, 9 figures. Accepted for publication in Nuclear Inst. and
Methods in Physics Research,
Adhesion model of side contact for an extensible elastic fiber
AbstractFor accurately predicted adhesion laws of fibrillar structures contribute to the rational design of high-performance biomimetic adhesives, an adhesion model is proposed to study the directional adhesion behavior of an extensible elastic fiber that contacts a rigid smooth surface with its side surface under the coupling effect of normal and shear forces, based on the extensible Euler Bernoulli beam theory and the surface energy concept. The deformed configuration of the fiber is obtained analytically, and on the basis of this result, the detachment mode and the normal pull-off force of the fiber for a given shear force are predicted directly. It is also found that, due to the extensibility of the fiber, there exists a maximum normal pull-off force (MNPF) when an optimal shear force is applied. The MNPF will be enhanced by increasing the axial stiffness, and reduced by increasing the bending stiffness. In addition, generating an optimal pre-tension in the adhered part of the fiber will maximize the MNPF. The derived adhesion law is expected to contribute to the optimal design and applications of single-level fibrillar adhesives
Do you need experts in the crowd? A case study in image annotation for marine biology
Labeled data is a prerequisite for successfully applying machine learning techniques to a wide range of problems. Recently, crowd-sourcing has shown to provide effective solutions to many labeling tasks. However, tasks in specialist domains are difficult to map to Human Intelligence Tasks (or HITs) that can be solved adequately by "the crowd". The question addressed in this paper is whether these specialist tasks can be cast in such a way, that accurate results can still be obtained through crowd-sourcing. We study a case where the goal is to identify fish species in images extracted from videos taken by underwater cameras, a task that typically requires profound domain knowledge in marine biology and hence would be difficult, if not impossible, for the crowd. We show that by carefully converting the recognition task to a visual similarity comparison task, the crowd achieves agreement with the experts comparable to the agreement achieved among experts. Further, non-expert users can learn and improve their performance during the labeling process, e.g., from the system feedback
Contributions from SUSY-FCNC couplings to the interpretation of the HyperCP events for the decay \Sigma^+ \to p \mu^+ \mu^-
The observation of three events for the decay
with a dimuon invariant mass of MeV by the HyperCP collaboration
imply that a new particle X may be needed to explain the observed dimuon
invariant mass distribution. We show that there are regions in the SUSY-FCNC
parameter space where the in the NMSSM can be used to explain the
HyperCP events without contradicting all the existing constraints from the
measurements of the kaon decays, and the constraints from the
mixing are automatically satisfied once the constraints from kaon decays are
satisfied.Comment: 18 pages, 7 figure
Two-photon luminescence thermometry: towards 3D high-resolution thermal imaging of waveguides
We report on the use of the Erbium-based luminescence thermometry to realize high resolution, three dimensional (3D) thermal imaging of optical waveguides. Proof of concept is demonstrated in a 980-nm laser pumped ultrafast laser inscribed waveguide in Er:Yb phosphate glass. Multi-photon microscopy images revealed the existence of well confined intra-waveguide temperature increments as large as 200°C for moderate 980-nm pump powers of 120 mW. Numerical simulations and experimental data reveal that thermal loading can be substantially reduced if pump events are separated more than the characteristic thermal time that for the waveguides investigated is in the millisecond time scaleThis work has been supported by the Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad of Spain (MINECO) (FIS2013-44174-P, MAT2013-47395-C4-1-R) and National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) (11274203
Gamesourcing Expert Painting Annotations
Online collections provided by museums are increasingly opened for contributions from users outside the museum. These initiatives are mostly targeted at obtaining tags describing aspects of artworks that are common knowledge. This does not require the contributors to have specific skills or knowledge. Museums, however, are also interested in obtaining very specific information about the subject matter of their artworks. We present a game that can help to collect expert knowledge by enabling non-expert users to perform an expert annotation task. This is achieved by simplifying the expert task and providing a sufficient level of annotation support to the users. In a user study we could prove the usefulness of our approach
Measuring the Effectiveness of Gamesourcing Expert Oil Painting Annotations
Tasks that require users to have expert knowledge are diffi- cult to crowdsource. They are mostly too complex to be carried out by non-experts and the available expert
Landau Levels Analog to Electric Dipole
In this letter we study the quantum dyamics of a neutral particle in the
presence of an external magnetic field. We demonstrate in a specific
field-dipole configuration that we have a quantization similar to the Landau
Levels. We investigate this quantization motivated by the recent analysis of
Landau-Aharonov-Casher(LAC) quantization of Ericsson and Sj\"oqvist[Phys Rev. A
{\bf 65} 013607 (2001)]. The energy eigenfuction and eigenvalues are obtained.Comment: 7 pages, revte
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