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Control of critical coupling in a ring resonator fiber configuration: application to wavelength-selective switching, modulation, amplification, and oscillation
By controlling the internal loss of a ring resonator near critical coupling, we demonstrate control of the transmitted power in a fiber that is coupled to the resonator. We also demonstrate wavelength-selective optical amplification and oscillation
Implications of Constraints on Mass Parameters in the Higgs Sector of the Nonlinear Supersymmetric SU(5) Model
The Higgs sector of the minimal nonlinear supersymmetric SU(5) model contains
three mass parameters. Although these mass parameters are essentially free at
the electroweak scale, they might have particular values if they evolve from a
particular constraints at the GUT scale through the RG equations. By assuming a
number of simple constraints on these mass parameters at the GUT scale, we
obtain their values at the electroweak scale through the RG equations in order
to investigate the phenomenological implications. Some of them are found to be
consistent with the present experimental data.Comment: 23 pages, 10 figure
A smart environment for biometric capture
The development of large scale biometric systems require experiments to be performed on large amounts of data. Existing capture systems are designed for fixed experiments and are not easily scalable. In this scenario even the addition of extra data is difficult. We developed a prototype biometric tunnel for the capture of non-contact biometrics. It is self contained and autonomous. Such a configuration is ideal for building access or deployment in secure environments. The tunnel captures cropped images of the subject's face and performs a 3D reconstruction of the person's motion which is used to extract gait information. Interaction between the various parts of the system is performed via the use of an agent framework. The design of this system is a trade-off between parallel and serial processing due to various hardware bottlenecks. When tested on a small population the extracted features have been shown to be potent for recognition. We currently achieve a moderate throughput of approximate 15 subjects an hour and hope to improve this in the future as the prototype becomes more complete
Management of an Accessory Bile Duct Leak Following Pancreaticoduodenectomy: A Novel Approach Utilizing a Percutaneous and Endoscopic Rendezvous.
Biliary leaks are uncommon but morbid complications of pancreaticoduodenectomies, which have historically been managed with percutaneous drainage, reoperation, or a combination of both. We report a de novo percutaneous-endoscopic hepaticojejunostomy from an anomalous right hepatic duct injured during pancreaticoduodenectomy to the afferent bowel limb. The percutaneous-endoscopic hepaticojejunostomy was stented to allow for tract formation with successful stent removal after 5.5 months. One year after the creation of the percutaneous-endoscopic hepaticojejunostomy, the patient remains clinically well without evidence of biliary leak or obstruction
Longitudinal Double Spin Asymmetry in Inclusive Jet Production at STAR
This contribution reports on the first measurement of the longitudinal
double-spin asymmetry for the inclusive production of jets in
polarized proton-proton collisions at . The data
were collected with STAR at RHIC in the years 2003 and 2004, and correspond to
a sampled integrated luminosity of with beam
polarizations up to 45%. The results on cover jet transverse momenta
and agree with perturbative QCD evaluations
based on deep-inelastic scattering parametrizations for the gluon polarization
in the proton. The results disfavor large positive gluon polarization in the
polarized proton.Comment: 5 pages, 1 figur
Convergence properties of fine structure constant measurements using quasar absorption systems
Searches for spacetime variations of fundamental constants have entered an
era of unprecedented precision. New, high quality quasar spectra require
increasingly refined analytic methods. In this article, a continuation in a
series to establish robust and unbiased methodologies, we explore how
convergence criteria in non-linear least squares optimisation impact on quasar
absorption system measurements of the fine structure constant alpha. Given
previous claims for high-precision constraints, we critically examine the
veracity of a so-called ``blinding'' approach, in which alpha is fixed at the
terrestrial value during the model building process, releasing it as a free
parameter only after the ``final'' absorption system kinematic structure has
been obtained. We show that this approach results in an extended flat canyon in
chi squared-alpha space, such that convergence is unlikely to be reached, even
after as many as 1000 iterations. The fix is straightforward: alpha must be
treated as a free parameter from the earliest possible stages of absorption
system model building. The implication of the results presented here is that
all previous measurements that have used initially-fixed alpha should be
reworked.Comment: 10 pages, 13 figures. Submitted for publicatio
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