Fiber Optic-Based Pressure Sensing Surface for Skin Health Management in Prosthetic and Rehabilitation Interventions

Applied physic

Digital All-Optical Physical-Layer Network Coding

Network coding (NC) has recently attracted intense research focus for its potential to provide network throughput enhancements, security and reduced network congestions, improving in this way the overall network performance without requiring additional resources. In this chapter, the all-optical physical-layer network coding (AOPNC) technique is presented, focusing on digital encoding schemes that are based on optical XOR logical gates. It is also discussed how digital AOPNC can be implemented between sub-carrier-modulated (SCM) optical signals in radio-over-fiber (RoF) networks, circumventing the enhanced complexity arising by the use of SCM signals and the asynchrony that might exist between the data arriving at the encoding unit. AOPNC demonstrations are described for simple on/off keyed (OOK)-SCM data signals, as well as for more sophisticated higher-order phase modulation formats aiming to further improve spectrum efficiency and transmission capacity

Chapter Fiber Optic-Based Pressure Sensing Surface for Skin Health Management in Prosthetic and Rehabilitation Interventions

Applied physic

Chapter Digital All-Optical Physical-Layer Network Coding

Network coding (NC) has recently attracted intense research focus for its potential to provide network throughput enhancements, security and reduced network congestions, improving in this way the overall network performance without requiring additional resources. In this chapter, the all-optical physical-layer network coding (AOPNC) technique is presented, focusing on digital encoding schemes that are based on optical XOR logical gates. It is also discussed how digital AOPNC can be implemented between sub-carrier-modulated (SCM) optical signals in radio-over-fiber (RoF) networks, circumventing the enhanced complexity arising by the use of SCM signals and the asynchrony that might exist between the data arriving at the encoding unit. AOPNC demonstrations are described for simple on/off keyed (OOK)-SCM data signals, as well as for more sophisticated higher-order phase modulation formats aiming to further improve spectrum efficiency and transmission capacity

Dance North performance of Women's War Too, choreographed by Cheryl Stock, performed by Bradford Leeon and Bernadette Walong, 1992 [picture] /

Part of the collection: Papers of Cheryl Stock.; "Dance North 1992. Women's war too. Bradford Leeon & Bernadette Walong. Choreography: Cheryl Stock. Music: 40's medley. Design: Michael Pearce"--Verso.; Title devised by cataloguer.; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.ms-ms8354-0-4

Ultra-compact single-arm interferometric plasmonic sensor co-integrated on a TiO2 photonic waveguide platform

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Plasmonic Stripes in Aqueous Environment Co-Integrated With Si3N4 Photonics

International audienceWe demonstrate the design, fabrication, and the experimental characterization of gold-based plasmonic stripes butt-coupled with low-pressure-chemical-vapor-deposition (LPCVD)-based Si 3 N 4 waveguides for the excitation of surface-plasmon-polariton (SPP) modes in aqueous environment. Plasmonic gold stripes, in aqueous environment, with cross-sectional dimensions of 100 nm × 7 μm were interfaced with 360 nm × 800 nm Si 3 N 4 waveguides cladded with low-temperature-oxide, exploiting linear photonic tapers with appropriate vertical (VO) and longitudinal (LO) offsets between the plasmonic and photonic waveguide facets. An interface insertion loss of 2.3 ± 0.3 dB and a plasmonic propagation length (L spp) of 75 μm have been experimentally measured at 1.55 μm for a VO of 400 nm and an LO of 500 nm, with simulation results suggesting high tolerance to VO and LO misalignment errors. The proposed integration approach enables seamless co-integration of plasmonic stripes, in aqueous environment, with a low-loss and low-cost LPCVD-based Si 3 N 4 waveguide platform, revealing its strong potential for future employment in biochemical sensing applications