Photonics

In recent years, several New England projects have promoted professional development and curriculum design in optics and photonics. Funded in part by the Advanced Technological Education (ATE) program of the National Science Foundation (NSF), these projects have prepared middle and high school teachers, college faculty and career counselors from more than 100 New England institutions to introduce fiber optics, telecommunications and photonics technology education. Four of these projects will be discussed here: (1) The New England Board of Higher Education's (NEBHE) Fiber Optics Technology Education Project, (FOTEP) was designed to teach fiber optics theory and to provide laboratory experiences at the secondary and postsecondary levels. (2) Springfield Technical Community College's Northeast Center for Telecommunications Technologies (NCTT) is developing curricula and instructional materials in lightwave, networking and wireless telecommunications technologies. (3) The Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics project ComTech developed a 12-week, hands-on curriculum and teaching strategies for middle and high school science and technology teachers in telecommunications and focused on optical communication (fiber optics). (4) NEBHE's project PHOTON is preparing middle, secondary and postsecondary instructors to introduce theory and laboratory experiences in photonics, including geometric and wave optics as well as principles of lasers and photonics applications.

The paper is a concise digest of works presented during the XIth Symposium
on Laser Technology (SLT 2016) [1]. The Symposium is organized
since 1984 every three years [2–8]. SLT 2016 was organized by
the Institute of Optoelectronics, Military University of Technology (IOE
WAT) [9], Warsaw, in cooperation with Warsaw University of Technology
(WUT) [10], Warsaw University [11], and Wrocław University of
Technology [12] in Jastarnia on 27-30 September 2016. Symposium
is a representative portrait of the laser technology research in Poland.
Symposium Proceedings are traditionally published by SPIE [13–21].
The meeting has gathered around 150 participants who presented around
120 research and technical papers. The Symposium, organized
every 3 years, is a reliable image of laser technology and laser applications
development in Poland at university laboratories, governmental
institutes, company R&D laboratories, etc. The SLT also presents the
current technical projects under realization by the national research,
development and industrial teams. The works of the Symposium, traditionally
are divided in two large areas – sources and applications.
The main topics of SLT were: laser sources in near and medium infrared,
picosecond and femtosecond lasers, optical fiber lasers and
amplifiers, semiconductor lasers, high power and high energy lasers
and their applications, new materials and components for laser technology,
applications of laser technology in mea surements, metrology and
science, military applications of laser technology, laser applications in
environment protection and remote detection of trace substances, laser
applications in medicine and biomedical engineering, laser applications
in industry, technologies and material engineering.

A wavelength multiplexing procedure for color transmission volume holograms of diffusing objects recorded in Bayfol® HX200 photopolymer is proposed. For the recording, three lasers of 442 nm, 532 nm and 633 nm, and a Spectralon® diffusing object were used for monochromatic and polychromatic calibration. Monochromatic calibration shows that the maximum index modulation obtained for each wavelength was not enough to give 100% efficiency, although the efficiency values achieved in the case of monochromatic recordings with diffusing objects were high, at around 90% for 633 nm and 532 nm recordings, and 60% for 442 nm. The efficiency values obtained for multiplexed holograms were 19.1% for the 442 nm hologram, 25.9% for the 532 nm hologram and 15.2% for the 633 nm.

A  base-4  leading  zero  detector  (LZD)  design  is  proposed  in  this  paper.  The  design  is  similar  to  the
approach  originally  proposed  by  V.G.  Oklobdzija  with  a  different  technique.  The  circuit  modules  used  in
the  base-4  LZD  approach  are  designed  and  several  N-bit  LZD  circuits  are  implemented  with  a  standard-
cell  realization  in  the  Taiwan  Semiconductor  Manufacturing  Company  (TSMC)  0.65um  CMOS  process.
The  performance  and  layout  area  of  the  base-4  LZD  realization  is  compared  for  implementations  that
contain only 4-to-1 and 2-to-1 multiplexers

Renewed technology has created a demand for foods which are natural in taste, minimally processed, and safe for consumption. Although thermal processing, such as pasteurization and sterilization, effectively limits pathogenic bacteria, it alters the aroma, flavor, and structural properties of milk and milk products. Nonthermal technologies have been used as an alternative to traditional thermal processing technology and have the ability to provide safe and healthy dairy products without affecting their nutritional composition and organoleptic properties. Other than nonthermal technologies, infrared spectroscopy is a nondestructive technique and may also be used for predicting the shelf life and microbial loads in milk. This review explains the role of pascalization or nonthermal techniques such as high-pressure processing (HPP), pulsed electric field (PEF), ultrasound (US), ultraviolet (UV), cold plasma treatment, membrane filtration, micro fluidization, and infrared spectroscopy in...

The propagation of a light beam through a photo-sensitive photopolymer Polyvinyl Alcohol/Acrylamide (PVA/AA), and the creation of self-written waveguides (SWWs), has received much attention. Here we explore the manufacture and characterization of SWWs in PVA/AA for applications at near infrared communication wavelengths 850nm and 1300nm. The SWWs are fabricated using visible light at wavelength 532nm. The insertion and optical loss of the SWWs at different wavelengths will be interrogated. An optical loss and attenuation profile is to be built up for each of the three wavelengths as they propagate down the resulting SWWs.

Length Contraction is interpreted by human visual memory instead of Einstein's special relativity. The mechanism of an interactive observation by optical sensor or human eyes is studied. The concept "Same Time" in observation process is explained. As a result, in compliance with human visual memory, length contraction along the object can be recognized with different traveling speeds and angles. In addition, length expansion can also be observed along the direction away from the object.

We present a model of energy consumption in IP networks. Using this model, we identify energy ldquohotspotsrdquo and estimate how energy consumption will grow with increasing network capacity. Todaypsilas Internet uses less than 1% of the available electricity supply. However, network energy consumption could grow substantially as access rates increase.

The Photonics Explorer is an intra-curricular educational kit developed in a European project with a pan-European collaboration of over 35 teachers and science education professors. Unlike conventional educational outreach kits, the Photonics Explorer is specifically designed to integrate seamlessly in school curricula and enhance and complement the teaching and learning of science and optics in the classroom. The kit equips teachers with class sets of experimental components, provided within a supporting didactic framework and is designed for lower and upper secondary students (12‒18 years). The kit is provided completely free of charge to teachers in conjunction with teacher training courses. The workshop will provide an overview of the Photonics Explorer intra-curricular kit and give teachers the opportunity to work hands-on with the material and didactic content of two modules, ‘Light Signals’ (lower secondary) and ‘Diffraction and Interference’(upper secondary). We also aim to ...

Following the development and publication of the JCAMP-DX protocol 4.24 and its successful implementation in the field of infrared spectroscopy, data exchange without loss of information, between systems of different origin and internal format, has become a reality. The benefits of this system-independent data transfer standard have been recognized by workers in other areas who have expressed a wish for an equivalent, compatible standard in their own fields. This publication details a protocol for the exchange of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectral data without any loss of information and in a format that is compatible with all storage media and computer systems. The protocol detailed below is designed for spectral data transfer, and its use for NMR imaging data transfer has not as yet been investigated.

Artur Dybko, Światłowodowy czujnik do pomiaru stężenia jonów hydroniowych, Praca dyplomowa magisterska, Instytut Podstaw Elektroniki, Politechnika Warszawska, 1990  (okładka, spis treści, dedykacja)
Wstęp,
Przegląd konstrukcji pH-metrów światłowodowych,
Wybór metody pomiarowyej,
Wyniki prac doświadczalnych,
Sugestie dalszych prac,
Dodatek chemiczny
Literatura.

We foresee applications and interesting possibilities of incorporating the photonic crystals concept into superconducting electronics. In this paper, we present interesting features of the computed lower band structure of a nondissipative superconductor-dielectric superlattice using the two-fluid model and the transcendental equation [Pochi Yeh, Optical Waves in Layered Media, Wiley Series in Purl and Applied Optics (Wiley, New York, 1988)]. The necessary conditions for approximating the complex conductivity by an imaginary conductivity is derived and the feasibility of achieving the conditions are discussed. The superlattice dispersion obtained is similar to that of the phonon-polariton dispersion in ionic crystal. We found a nonlinear temperature-dependent "polariton gap" and a low-frequency (plasma) gap, and suggested the existence of a photon-superelectron hybrid around the polariton gap. The polariton gap may be observed in an infrared-microwave regime using a high-T-c, superconductor with sufficiently low normal-fluid relaxation time (approximate to 10(-15) s), and in an optical regime using lower penetration depth (approximate to 50 nm) and extremely low relaxation time (approximate to 10(-17) s).

New image processing methods and active photonics apparatus have made possible the development of relatively inexpensive optical systems for complex shape and object measurements. We present dynamic 360° scanning method for analysis of human lower body biomechanics, with an emphasis on the analysis of the knee joint. The anatomical structure (of high medical interest) that is possible to scan and