As a beam of light traverses through a non-uniform index-of-refraction field, adjacent light rays become advanced or retarded with respect to one another. This in turn creates an aberrated line of constant phase known as an aberrated optical wavefront. Such phase distortions significantly degrade the beam’s far-field intensity pattern resulting in a loss of system performance. Aberrations induc...

Stimulated Brillouin Scattering (SBS) is one of the nonlinear process that can occur in optical fiber if the input power at low level [1,2]. It is a natural scattering process associate to the propagation of light in a medium. Due to the interaction of light with the propagation medium, different scattering components are generated: Rayleigh, Brillouin and Raman component. The resulting scatter...

We give a full description of a state-of-the-art femtosecond transient spectrometer. The setup has been put together under full consideration of all technical and conceptual developments that became available in the last few years. Particular care was taken to avoid any unneeded components and modules. The spectrometer is operated at 1 kHz and based on a commercial Ti:sapphire amplifier. A nonc...

A design strategy for minimizing a feedback amplifier’s step-response settling time is introduced. Central to this approach is the clear identification of the independent design parameters characterizing the amplifier and the introduction of a figure of merit for assessing the settling performance of an amplifier that is independent of power, supply voltage and capacitive loading. With this app...

Linear optical networks are devices that turn classical incident modes by a linear transformation into outgoing ones. In general, the quantum version of such transformations may mix annihilation and creation operators. We derive a simple formula for an effective Hamiltonian generating the scattering operator of a general linear quantum network. Our formula shows how to compute the effective Ham...

The design of a CMOS operational mirrored amplifier (OMA) suitable for high frequency applications is proposed. The CMOS operational mirrored amplifier is developed using class AB operational amplifier and two current mirrors. To obtain a wide bandwidth and high stability, HF feedforward techniques have been used. These techniques made the proposed circuit suitable for continuous – time analog ...

Performance of sense amplifier has considerable impact on the speed of caches used in microprocessors. The small difference in voltage level of bit lines of memory cell is amplified by sense amplifier. voltage mode sense amplifier reduces the power dissipation during read and increases the speed also. This paper describes voltage mode sense amplifier and current mode sense amplifier and compare...

This paper presents a predictable fixed gain instrumentation amplifier using switched capacitor instead of resistor to improve the accuracy of the gain as 10. This instrumentation amplifier builds up by two operational amplifiers which connect by switched capacitor. These switched capacitors are used to stable the whole circuit, fix the gain of total instrumentation amplifier. Using two operati...

Abstract A fiber Bragg grating (FBG) sensor system using a fiber ring laser with a hybrid amplifier is proposed and demonstrated. The hybrid amplifier comprises an erbium doped waveguide amplifier and a semiconductor optical amplifier. The experiment shows that such the hybrid amplifier has a high amplifier spontaneous emission power and gain spectrum. Moreover, this fiber ring laser can provid...

A novel class-AB transconductance amplifier, suitable for the input stage of high slew rate CMOS operational amplifier is proposed. The proposed class-AB transconductor is realized from a differential pair of mixed translinear common-drain push-pull circuit. A high speed operational amplifier employing the proposed input stage and a complementary common –source high gain stage is presented. HSP...