Dual polarization is becoming the standard for new weather radar systems. In contrast to conventional weather radars, where the reflectivity is measured in one polarization plane only, a dual polarization radar provides transmission in either horizontal, vertical, or both polarizations while receiving both the horizontal and vertical channels simultaneously. Since hydrometeors are often far fro...

We present a microscopic many-particle theory for the dephasing of coherent intersubband excitations in semiconductor quantum wells including carrier-carrier and carrier-phonon scattering and light propagation effects. The contributions of many-particle processes are nonadditive and thus cannot be treated separately. It is shown that due to nondiagonal correlation contributions, scattering rate...

A comparison between the fluorescence spectra of the Nd-doped vanadate crystals (Nd:YVO4, Nd:GdVO4, Nd:LuVO4) for the 4F3/2 → 4I11/2 transition is studied. We numerically analyze the condition of gain-to-loss balance via an uncoated intracavity etalon to achieve the dual-wavelength operation. We further experimentally demonstrate the orthogonally polarized dual-wavelength laser with a single Nd...

With all the benefits weather radar provides to a community, measuring the amount and location of precipitation is unequivocally the most important worldwide. It is generally accepted that dual polarization weather radar provides significant improvement over conventional radar in measuring actual rainfall and quality comparisons of data. What is less understood but becoming more apparent, is th...

Silicon photonic waveguides are promising in small-footprint low-cost monolithic photonic integrated circuits with capability of high-yield mass production using large-diameter wafers. Design, fabrication and performance characterization of a small-footprint monolithic dualpolarization quadrature phase-shift keying silicon-based optical modulator for digital coherent communication, which plays ...

We proposed and demonstrated pulsed fiber lasers Q-switched and mode-locked by using a large-angle tilted fiber grating, for the first time to our best knowledge. Owing to the unique polarization properties of the large-angle tilted fiber grating (LA-TFG), i.e. polarization-dependent loss and polarization-mode splitting, switchable dual-wavelength Q-switched and mode-locked pulses have been ach...

In order to compare the performances of three transmission schemes of keyinterest able to reach the maximum diversity order, guarantee of robust transmission, we used a dual-polarization channel model to take into account polarization diversity and transmit/receive correlation. These schemes under study were i)two systems using full channel state information (CSI) at the transmitter side (Tx-CS...