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A Semiconductor Under Insulator Technology in Indium Phosphide
This Letter introduces a Semiconductor-Under-Insulator (SUI) technology in
InP for designing strip waveguides that interface InP photonic crystal membrane
structures. Strip waveguides in InP-SUI are supported under an atomic layer
deposited insulator layer in contrast to strip waveguides in silicon supported
on insulator. We show a substantial improvement in optical transmission when
using InP-SUI strip waveguides interfaced with localized photonic crystal
membrane structures when compared with extended photonic crystal waveguide
membranes. Furthermore, SUI makes available various fiber-coupling techniques
used in SOI, such as sub-micron coupling, for planar membrane III-V systems
A Communication Model for Large Intelligent Surfaces
The purpose of this paper is to introduce a communication model for Large
Intelligent Surfaces (LIS). A LIS is modelled as a collection of tiny closely
spaced antenna elements. Due to the proximity of the elements, mutual coupling
arises. An optimal transmitter design depends on the mutual coupling matrix.
For single user communication, the optimal transmitter uses the inverse of the
mutual coupling matrix in a filter matched to the channel vector. We give the
expression of the mutual coupling for two types of planar arrays. The
conditioning number of the mutual coupling matrix is unbounded as the antenna
element density increases, so only the dominant values can be inverted within
reasonable computation. The directivity is partial but still significant
compared to the conventional gain. When the spacing between elements becomes
small (smaller than half a wavelength), the directivity surpasses the
conventional directivity equal to the number of antennas, as well as the gain
obtained when modelling the surface as continuous. The gain is theoretically
unbounded as the element density increases for a constant aperture.Comment: 6 pages, 7 figures; typos correcte
The therapeutic effects of the physician-older patient relationship: Effective communication with vulnerable older patients
There is growing evidence that the outcomes of health care for seniors are dependent not only upon patients’ physical health status and the administration of care for their biomedical needs, but also upon care for patients’ psychosocial needs and attention to their social, economic, cultural, and psychological vulnerabilities. Even when older patients have appropriate access to medical services, they also need effective and empathic communication as an essential part of their treatment. Older patients who are socially isolated, emotionally vulnerable, and economically disadvantaged are particularly in need of the social, emotional, and practical support that sensitive provider-patient communication can provide. In this review paper, we examine the complexities of communication between physicians and their older patients, and consider some of the particular challenges that manifest in providers’ interactions with their older patients, particularly those who are socially isolated, suffering from depression, or of minority status or low income. This review offers guidelines for improved physician-older patient communication in medical practice, and examines interventions to coordinate care for older patients on multiple dimensions of a biopsychosocial model of health care
All-optical conditional logic with a nonlinear photonic crystal nanocavity
We demonstrate tunable frequency-converted light mediated by a chi-(2)
nonlinear photonic crystal nanocavity. The wavelength-scale InP-based cavity
supports two closely-spaced localized modes near 1550 nm which are resonantly
excited by a 130 fs laser pulse. The cavity is simultaneously irradiated with a
non-resonant probe beam, giving rise to rich second-order scattering spectra
reflecting nonlinear mixing of the different resonant and non-resonant
components. In particular, we highlight the radiation at the sum frequencies of
the probe beam and the respective cavity modes. This would be a useful,
minimally-invasive monitor of the joint occupancy state of multiple cavities in
an integrated optical circuit.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figure
Second-Order Nonlinear Mixing of Two Modes in a Planar Photonic Crystal Microcavity
Polarization-resolved second-harmonic spectra are obtained from the resonant
modes of a two-dimensional planar photonic crystal microcavity patterned in a
free-standing InP slab. The photonic crystal microcavity is comprised of a
single missing-hole defect in a hexagonal photonic crystal host formed with
elliptically-shaped holes. The cavity supports two orthogonally-polarized
resonant modes split by 60 wavenumbers. Sum-frequency data are reported from
the nonlinear interaction of the two coherently excited modes, and the
polarization dependence is explained in terms of the nonlinear susceptibility
tensor of the host InP.Comment: 7 pages, 8 Postscript figures, to be presented at Photonics West Jan.
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