We report a femtosecond optical parametric oscillator based on a periodically poled KTiOPO(4) crystal for which quasi-phase matching is achieved with a 24-microm poling period. The singly resonant parametric oscillator, synchronously pumped by a Ti:sapphire laser at a wavelength of 758 nm, generates a signal at 1200 nm and an idler at 2060 nm. The maximum signal power conversion efficiency of t...

A three-phase dual-active-bridge (3p-DAB) converter is an attractive topology for bidirectional power conversion in high-power applications. However, conduction and switching losses are two main loss mechanisms that severely affect its efficiency performance, adoption of any single modulation scheme or cannot minimize these over a wide operating range. For this purpose, reconfigurable the 3p-DA...

Photonic crystal coupled with plasmonic nanoparticle arrays to form a periodic plasmonic architecture was prepared by loading Au nanoparticles inside the inverse opal TiO(2) film. The visible and near infrared light absorption was increased by 62% and the overall light-to-electricity conversion yield was thus increased by 41% compared with the control test.

This paper introduces a cutting-edge transformer technology – the piezoelectric transformer – currently considered as a potential candidate to replace magnetic transformers in resonant switching converters. Magnetic transformers are extensively used for providing step-up and step-down voltages while allowing input to output isolation in ac-dc and dc-dc converters. Even with the extensive use, t...

In this paper we report on a multi-resonant transducer that may be used to replace a traditional speech processor in cochlear implant applications. The transducer, made from an array of micro-machined polymer resonators, is capable of passively splitting sound into its frequency sub-bands without the need for analog-to-digital conversion and subsequent digital processing. Since all bands are me...

Induction heating is a fast, efficient, precise and repeatable non-contact method for heating metals or other electrically-conductive materials. Induction heating is a process which is used to bond, harden or soften metals or other conductive materials. For many modern manufacturing processes, induction heating offers an attractive combination of speed, consistency and control. The induction he...

In the past, resonant converters have generally been analyzed and characterized for constant output voltage power supplies. When applied to power supplies, in which output current is regulated, the topological requirements of a resonant converter differ. This means, a resonant converter topology not suitable for constant voltage power supplies may become attractive for constant current power su...

A test console is described for operation of both high power Hall-effect thrusters (HETs) and ion thrusters. The console utilizes three-phase resonant DC conversion power modules. It is believed that three phase resonant conversion (3PRC) of electrical power is ideally suited for EP power systems, and will soon become the premier converter for flight applications. These converters produce the l...

We show that neutrino oscillations in matter are always accompanied by collective forces on the medium. This effect may produce interesting consequences for the background and the neutrino oscillations themselves. The force is maximal in the case of resonant neutrino conversion in the adiabatic regime. We study here the forces driven by νe − νμ,τ and νe − νs MSW conversion and shortly discuss t...