Integrating a QPSK Quantum Key Distribution Link

We present the integration of the optical and electronic subsystems of a BB84-QKD fiber link. A highspeed FPGA MODEM generates the random QPSK sequences for a fiber-optic delayed self-homodyne scheme using APD detectors.Comment: 2 pages, 4 figures, European Conference on Optical Communication 200

Cost, power consumption and performance analysis in SDM ROADM architectures for uncoupled spatial channels

Currently optical networks are reaching their maximum transport capacity. Different solutions can be used to overcome this capacity limit, but we are going to study, in particular, space division multiplexing (SDM). To use SDM, the reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexers (ROADMs) need to be adapted to support this multiplexing. In this paper we analyze four switching strategies used in SDM ROADMs and the respective SDM ROADM architectures. These strategies are explained and analyzed, for uncoupled scenarios, in terms of cost and power consumption. The impact of the physical layer impairments (PLIs) amplified spontaneous emission noise, non-linear interference, passband narrowing due to optical filtering and in-band crosstalk is also assessed, considering a cascade of SDM ROADMs with spatial and spatial-wavelength switching granularities. The PLI inband crosstalk, has insignificant impact, in networks with a single spatial channel or in SDM networks with spatial granularity ROADM architecture, but in a SDM network with spatial wavelength granularity this PLI can lead to an OSNR penalty of around 2 dB, when the number of spatial channels is high. The other PLIs have similar impacts in all networks studied.info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersio

Qualidade de uvas e do mosto de videiras Syrah submetidas à adubação orgânica e fertirrigação potássica: 2º ciclo de produção.

Este trabalho teve como objetivo avaliar os efeitos da adubação orgânica e da fertirrigação potássica nas características de qualidade de uvas e do mosto de videiras Syrah cultivadas no Submédio Vale do São Francisco

Causal Effect Inference for Structured Treatments

We address the estimation of conditional average treatment effects (CATEs) for structured treatments (e.g., graphs, images, texts). Given a weak condition on the effect, we propose the generalized Robinson decomposition, which (i) isolates the causal estimand (reducing regularization bias), (ii) allows one to plug in arbitrary models for learning, and (iii) possesses a quasi-oracle convergence guarantee under mild assumptions. In experiments with small-world and molecular graphs we demonstrate that our approach outperforms prior work in CATE estimation

Production, breeding and potential of cowpea crop in Brazil.

About 50 years ago cowpea was reported as a relatively minor tropical legume. However, in the last years, it has been emerging as one of the most important food legume of the 21st century (SINGH, 2010). Brazil is not out of this panorama. Brazilian agriculture is undergoing major technological changes and, in addition, globalization in agribusiness has caused impacts on the production chain of several crops, particularly those heavily dependent on the use of a large volume of agricultural inputs, mainly fertilizers and pesticides. Such crops have had a higher production cost each year. On the other hand, this situation has brought new opportunities. Business farmers have sought new alternatives for their production arrangements. In this context cowpea constitutes one of the best options.bitstream/item/85620/1/Doc-216-Production.pd