88 research outputs found
Space Division Multiplexing in Optical Fibres
Optical communications technology has made enormous and steady progress for
several decades, providing the key resource in our increasingly
information-driven society and economy. Much of this progress has been in
finding innovative ways to increase the data carrying capacity of a single
optical fibre. In this search, researchers have explored (and close to
maximally exploited) every available degree of freedom, and even commercial
systems now utilize multiplexing in time, wavelength, polarization, and phase
to speed more information through the fibre infrastructure. Conspicuously, one
potentially enormous source of improvement has however been left untapped in
these systems: fibres can easily support hundreds of spatial modes, but today's
commercial systems (single-mode or multi-mode) make no attempt to use these as
parallel channels for independent signals.Comment: to appear in Nature Photonic
Applications of three-dimensional (3D) printing for microswimmers and bio-hybrid robotics
EVALUATION OF MECHANICAL PERFORMANCE OF CORRODED REINFORCEMENT CONSIDERING THE SURFACE SHAPE
From nanohelices to magnetically actuated microdrills:a universal platform for some of the smallest untethered microrobotic systems for low Reynolds number and bio-logical environments
Lifetime seismic performance assessment for chloride-corroded reinforced concrete buildings
Non-visual Effects of the Color Temperature of Fluorescent Lamps on Physiological Aspects in Humans
Reliability-based service life assessment for deteriorating reinforced concrete buildings considering the effect of cumulative damage
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