To improve the luminance and luminous efficiency of a surface-discharge alternate current plasma display panel (ac PDP), auxiliary voltage pulses were applied to the address electrode during a sustain-period. The luminance and luminous efficiency exhibited maximum values at an address voltage of 100 V and pulse width of 1 s. An improved luminance of 21.4% and luminous efficiency of 24% were sim...

A monolithic diamond Raman laser is reported. It utilizes a 13-mm radius of curvature lens etched onto the diamond surface and dielectric mirror coatings to form a stable resonator. The performance is compared to that of a monolithic diamond Raman laser operating in a plane-plane cavity. On pumping with a compact Q-switched laser at 532 nm (16 μJ pulse energy; 1.5 ns pulse duration; 10 kHz repe...

Adaptive transmission technique adopting rectangularlypulsed orthogonally multiplexed modulation (OMM) signals is studied for the flat Rayleigh fading channel. By choosing spectrally efficient OMM signals in accordance with channel status under an error rate constraint, constantpower adaptive OMM systems are shown to significantly outperform the conventional constant-power adaptive orthogonal f...

Besides atmospheric turbulence and pointing errors which cause the signal intensity fluctuation, background radiation also impairs the free-space optical intensity-modulation / directdetection link performance by introducing a noisy photocurrent component in the receiver. Methods such as adopting some specific optics systems, using pilot symbols or line codes to estimate the background informat...

The interest in multiphase drives has re-emerged in the last decade, being the asymmetrical dual threephase induction motor drive one of the most popular options. Predictive control techniques, already implemented in three-phase drives, have been recently adapted to the multiphase case. Schemes proposed so far have demonstrated high performance at the expenses of a higher degree of computationa...

Greater than 12 W of average output power has been generated from a diode-pumped Yb:YAG cladding-pumped planar waveguide laser. The laser radiation developed is linearly polarized and diffraction limited in the guiding dimension. A slope efficiency of 0.5 W/W with a peak optical-optical conversion efficiency of 0.31 W/W is achieved. In a related structure, greater than 8 W of Q -switched averag...

40-bit OOK, 80-bit QPSK and 120-bit 16-QAM packets are generated with spectral efficiencies of 1, 2 and 3 b/s/Hz, exploiting concepts from OAWG. Results demonstrate potential for a Tb/s OAWG based transmitter using GHz electronics. ©2009 Optical Society of America OCIS codes: (320.5540) Pulse Shaping; (060.1660) Coherent Communications; (320.7100) Ultrafast Measurements.