aqueous polyurethane dispersions (puds) have recently emerged as important alternatives to their solvent-based counterparts for various applications due to increasing health and environmental awareness (green chemistry). anionic polyester-polyurethane dispersions were synthesized by three steps. in the first step, macromonomer diisocyanate having carboxylic acid was prepared by isophorone diiso...

The generation of broadband supercontinua (SC) in air-silica microstructured fibers results from a delicate balance of dispersion and nonlinearity. We analyze two models aimed at better understanding SC. In the first one, we characterize linear dispersion in the Fourier domain from the calculated group velocity dispersion (GVD) without using a Taylor approximation for the propagation constant. ...

We experimentally investigate the dispersion relation of silicon-on-insulator waveguides in the 1.5 microm wavelength range by using a technique based on far-field Fourier-space imaging. The phase information of the propagating modes is transferred into the far field either by linear probe gratings positioned 1 microm away from the waveguide core or by residual gratings located on the sidewalls...

At the filling factor ν=2, the bilayer quantum Hall system has three phases, the spin-ferromagnet phase, the spin singlet phase and the canted antiferromagnet (CAF) phase, depending on the relative strength between the Zeeman energy and interlayer tunneling energy. We present a systematic method to derive the effective Hamiltonian for the Goldstone modes in these three phases. We then investiga...

A nonlinear coefficient of 3.6-4.1  W-1  km-1 and group velocity dispersion of -20  ps2/km of a commercial core-pumped thulium-doped fiber have been evaluated using degenerate four-wave mixing at 2 μm. The anomalous dispersion behavior of the fiber has been confirmed by linear measurements with an all-fiber Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI). Additionally, no pum...

The hysteresis area as a function of frequency of the time-varying external electric field—hysteresis dispersion—for ferroelectric Pb~Zr0.52Ti0.48!O3 is measured, and the Monte-Carlo simulation on the hysteresis dispersion for a model ferroelectric lattice is performed too. We demonstrate the scaling behavior of the single-peaked hysteresis dispersion for the two ferroelectric systems, predicti...

This research develops an algorithm which provides excellent localization of Lamb wave dispersion curves while eliminating spurious components. This result is achieved by combining a differential reassignment procedure with non-linear anisotropic diffusion. This study examines the reassignment and diffusion components individually, before developing a combined algorithm. This combined algorithm...

We derive an exact dispersion relation for the surface plasmon polaritons of a nonlinear plasmonic waveguide using exact field decomposition of TM waves. Our approach generalizes the known linear dispersion relations to the case of a medium nonlinearity of the form εNL = εL + α|E|2n. We apply the unique dispersion relation to a plasmonic waveguide with a Kerr-type nonlinearity (n = 1) and show ...

Spectral algorithms offer very high spatial resolution for a wide range of nonlinear wave equations on periodic domains, including well-known cases such as the Korteweg–de Vries and nonlinear Schrödinger equations. For the best computational efficiency, one needs also to use high-order methods in time while somehow bypassing the usual severe stability restrictions. We use linearly implicit mult...