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Definition, analysis and development of an optical data distribution network for integrated avionics and control systems. Part 2: Component development and system integration
Fiber optic transmission is emerging as an attractive concept in data distribution onboard civil aircraft. Development of an Optical Data Distribution Network for Integrated Avionics and Control Systems for commercial aircraft will provide a data distribution network that gives freedom from EMI-RFI and ground loop problems, eliminates crosstalk and short circuits, provides protection and immunity from lightning induced transients and give a large bandwidth data transmission capability. In addition there is a potential for significantly reducing the weight and increasing the reliability over conventional data distribution networks. Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) is a candidate method for data communication between the various avionic subsystems. With WDM all systems could conceptually communicate with each other without time sharing and requiring complicated coding schemes for each computer and subsystem to recognize a message. However, the state of the art of optical technology limits the application of fiber optics in advanced integrated avionics and control systems. Therefore, it is necessary to address the architecture for a fiber optics data distribution system for integrated avionics and control systems as well as develop prototype components and systems
Room-temperature operation of GaAs Bragg-mirror lasers
Room-temperature operation of GaAs distributed Bragg reflector lasers is reported. The diodes are fabricated from conventional double heterostructures involving only a single step of liquid-phase epitaxy. For gratings with a period of 3700 Å, the diodes lased at 8770 Å, which corresponds to the high-absorption side of the spontaneous emission spectrum. Thresholds as low as 6 kA/cm^2 have been realized
Effects of dynamic aeroelasticity on handling qualities and pilot rating
Pilot performance parameters, such as pilot ratings, tracking errors, and pilot comments were determined for a longitudinal pitch tracking task using a large, flexible bomber with parametric variations in the undamped natural frequencies of the two lowest frequency symmetric elastic modes. This pitch tracking task was programmed on a fixed base simulator with an electronic attitude-director display of pitch command, pitch angle, and pitch error. Low frequency structural flexibility significantly affects the handling qualities and pilot ratings in the task evaluated
Correlation of the orbach relaxation coefficient with optical linewidths- laf3-er3 plus
Correlation of Orbach coefficient of spin-lattice relaxation with optical transition linewidths for trivalent erbium in lanthanum fluorid
Studies of (GaAI)As injection lasers operating with an optical fiber resonator
The characteristics of an optical fiber external resonator in conjunction with (GaAl)As stripe geometry lasers are described. We have observed a 6–10% reduction in the threshold current and have obtained 150 ps pulses at gigahertz repetition rates. The fiber resonator has also been used to quench self‐pulsations in a (GaAl)As injection laser. In order to explain many of our results we have used a model that uses the conventional semiconductor rate equations modified by the addition of saturable electron traps and the effects of the external cavity. Our results predict many of the self‐locking effects observed in injection lasers operating in an external cavity. Furthermore, the degree of self‐locking will be a strong function of the external cavity length and the density of saturable absorbers
HFR Code: A Flexible Replication Scheme for Cloud Storage Systems
Fractional repetition (FR) codes are a family of repair-efficient storage
codes that provide exact and uncoded node repair at the minimum bandwidth
regenerating point. The advantageous repair properties are achieved by a
tailor-made two-layer encoding scheme which concatenates an outer
maximum-distance-separable (MDS) code and an inner repetition code. In this
paper, we generalize the application of FR codes and propose heterogeneous
fractional repetition (HFR) code, which is adaptable to the scenario where the
repetition degrees of coded packets are different. We provide explicit code
constructions by utilizing group divisible designs, which allow the design of
HFR codes over a large range of parameters. The constructed codes achieve the
system storage capacity under random access repair and have multiple repair
alternatives for node failures. Further, we take advantage of the systematic
feature of MDS codes and present a novel design framework of HFR codes, in
which storage nodes can be wisely partitioned into clusters such that data
reconstruction time can be reduced when contacting nodes in the same cluster.Comment: Accepted for publication in IET Communications, Jul. 201
Gait Verification using Knee Acceleration Signals
A novel gait recognition method for biometric applications is proposed. The approach has the following distinct features. First, gait patterns are determined via knee acceleration signals, circumventing difficulties associated with conventional vision-based gait recognition methods. Second, an automatic procedure to extract gait features from acceleration signals is developed that employs a multiple-template classification method. Consequently, the proposed approach can adjust the sensitivity and specificity of the gait recognition system with great flexibility. Experimental results from 35 subjects demonstrate the potential of the approach for successful recognition. By setting sensitivity to be 0.95 and 0.90, the resulting specificity ranges from 1 to 0.783 and 1.00 to 0.945, respectively
SPAR demonstration problems
A series of examples are presented to indicate some of the principal functions of the SPAR system and to illustrate SPAR's control card-data card structure. Information in the following categories is given: (1) a description of the problem and, in most cases, comparisons with analytical solutions; (2) a list of the input cards; (3) a printout of the table of contents of the direct access library into which all SPAR output was directed; and (4) a few representative plots
QCD Viscosity to Entropy Density Ratio in the Hadronic Phase
Shear viscosity (eta) of QCD in the hadronic phase is computed by the coupled
Boltzmann equations of pions and nucleons in low temperatures and low baryon
number densities. The eta to entropy density ratio eta/s maps out the nuclear
gas-liquid phase transition by forming a valley tracing the phase transition
line in the temperature-chemical potential plane. When the phase transition
turns into a crossover, the eta/s valley gradually disappears. We suspect the
general feature for a first-order phase transition is that eta/s has a
discontinuity in the bottom of the eta/s valley. The discontinuity coincides
with the phase transition line and ends at the critical point. Beyond the
critical point, a smooth eta/s valley is seen. However, the valley could
disappear further away from the critical point. The eta/s measurements might
provide an alternative to identify the critical points.Comment: 16 pages, 4 figures. Minor typos corrected and references adde
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