We study the interaction of surface acoustic waves (SAWs) with a contact-based vibrational resonance of 1 μm silica microspheres forming a two-dimensional granular crystal adhered to a substrate. The laser-induced transient grating technique is used to excite SAWs and measure their dispersion. The measured dispersion curves exhibit "avoided crossing" behavior due to the hybridization of the SAW...

We report here on a series of tricyanovinylaniline chromophores for use as dopants in poled poly(methyl methacrylate)waveguides for anomalous dispersion phase-matched second harmonic generation. Second harmonic generation measurements as a function of mode index confirmed anomalous dispersion phase-matching efficiencies as large as 245%/Wcm over a propagation length of about 35 μm. The waveguid...

The NLC extraction line provides a secondary focal point with a low β function and 2 cm dispersion which can be used for measurement of the beam energy spectrum. In this study, tracking simulations were performed to transport the 0.5 TeV electron beam from the Interaction Point (IP) to the secondary focus (SF), “measure” the resultant transverse beam profile and reconstruct the disrupted IP ene...

We examine the similarities and differences between two widely used knowledge-based potentials, which are expressed as contact matrices (consisting of 210 elements) that gives a scale for interaction energies between the naturally occurring amino acid residues. These are the Miyazawa-Jernigan contact interaction matrix M and the potential matrix S derived by Skolnick J et al., 1997, Protein Sci...

Introduction Supercontinuum (SC) has attracted considerable attentions due to its versatility in many fields such as telecommunication [1], optical metrology [2] and medical science. The SC phenomenon originates from the third-order nonlinearity of the media. In nonlinear optical fibers, both chromatic dispersion and nonlinear effects determine the SC generation characteristics. Different dispe...