Chirp-based direct phase modulation of VCSELs for cost-effective transceivers

A 2.5Gb/s DPSK transmitter based on direct phase modulation of a VCSEL using its own chirp is proposed. The VCSEL, which wavelength is 1539.84nm, has been characterized both static and dynamically. The sensitivity of a single photodiode heterodyne receiver using the proposed 2.5Gb/sVCSEL transmitter is -39.5dBm. Thus, this transmitter is an extremely cost-effective solution for future access networks.Postprint (author's final draft

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From the moral lesson of nature to the invention of cinema in a book by Antonio Enríquez Gómez dedicated to Queen Isabel de Borbón

Este ensayo explora las imágenes de la naturaleza como lección moral en dos amplios pasajes del romance inédito de unos 4.000 versos compuesto por Antonio Enríquez y dedicado (junto con su glosa en prosa) a la muerte de la reina Isabel de Borbón, objeto de la tesis doctoral en marcha del autor. El artículo analiza una curiosa imagen, el "teatro que camina", que parece anunciar dos siglos y medio antes la invención del cinematógrafo a propósito del reflejo de la imagen de la reina en el agua de una fuente de su jardín.The present paper explores the images of Nature as moral lesson in two ample fragments of the long romance (more than 4.000 verses) dedicated by AEG, and never printed, to Queen Elizabeth of Borbon's death. The romance and the prose that follows it are the object of the author's doctoral thesis. The article analyzes an image (the walking theatre) that announces the movie invention of moving pictures two hundred and fifty years before the actual invention of cinema

Making Zines: Re-Reading European Trash Cinema (1988-1998)

Discussion of the horror film fanzine culture of the 1980s and early 1990s has been dominated by an emphasis on questions around the politics of taste, considerations of subcultural capital and cultism in fan writing, and processes of cultural distinction and the circulation of forms of capital. Sconce’s concept of ‘paracinema’ has come to shape the conceptual approach to fanzines. The aim of this article is to refocus attention on other areas of fanzine production, providing a more nuanced and richer historicisation of these publications and the ways they contributed to the circulation, reception and consumption of European horror film. Focusing on the fanzine European Trash Cinema I propose a return to the actual cultural object – the printed zine – examining the networks of producers converging around, and writing about, Euro horror films and related European trash cinematic forms, as well as the contents within the publication itself

Historicizing the Emergence of Comics Art Scholarship in Spain, 1965-1975

This article traces the formation of comics art scholarship in Spain during the period 1965 to 1975. This decade witnessed the beginning of the study of comics as a serious object of cultural analysis. Reading formations surrounding the medium, in particular historical and critical reading protocols, as well as a set of key critical debates, were concurrent with the establishment and the development of mass communication studies as an incipient field of research in Spain in the mid-1960s. The aim of the article is to provide a close examination of the first generation of critics participating in and writing about the scene in relation to hitherto overlooked local and transnational contexts that shaped the constitution of the Spanish field of comics