In this Letter we fabricate and characterize suspended silicon (Si) waveguides and ring resonators for mid-infrared wavelength range. Both tunable laser and thermal tuning are used to cover wavelength ranges near 5.2 and 3.4 μm. The loaded quality factors are estimated at 2700 at 5.2 μm and 7900 at 3.4 μm. Heat induced spectrum distortion is observed. Absorption loss is analyzed based on the sp...

This paper presents an effective method of linearizing the electrostatic transfer characteristics of micromachined two–dimensional (2-D) scanners. The orthogonal scan angles of surface micromachined polysilicon scanner are controlled by using quadrant electrodes for electrostatic actuation. By using a pair of differential voltages over a bias voltage, we could improve the distortion of projecte...

tracheobronchopathia osteochondroplastica (to) is a rare and usually benign disorder affecting the trachea and occasionally the bronchi. a case of to was diagnosed in a 61 year old male farmer presenting with pulmonary infections and prolonged productive cough. a bronchoscopy revealed multiple nodular excrescences aong the anterolateral wall of the trachea and main bronchi. ct scans showed mode...

Experimental validation of a distortion removal technique for multi-chip free-space optical shuffle interconnections is presented. The free-space fabric links dense two-dimensional arrays of vertical cavity surface emitting laser(s) (VCSEL)(s) and detectors and must achieve full field registration on the order of 10 microns across the entire array. The new hybrid micro-macro optical concept rea...

Using first-principles density-functional calculations, we explore the possibility of magnetic order at the rebonded DB step of the Si(001) surface. The rebonded DB step containing threefold coordinated Si atoms can be treated as a one-dimensional dangling-bond (DB) wire along the step edge. We find that Si atoms composing the step edge are displaced up and down alternatively due to Jahn-Teller...

We describe and analyze laser trapping of small colloidal particles in a nematic liquid crystal, where the index of refraction of colloids is smaller compared to the indices of the liquid crystal. Two mechanisms are identified that are responsible for this anomalous trapping: (i) surface-induced distortion of the birefringent media around the particle, creating a high-index ”cloud” around the c...

Perspective distortion occurs due to the perspective projection of 3D scene on a 2D surface. Correcting the distortion of a single image without losing any desired information is one of the challenging task in the field of Computer Vision. We consider the problem of estimating perspective distortion from a single still image of an unstructured environment and to make perspective correction whic...

Surface mesh parameterization is a fundamental tool in computer graphics, required for applications like e.g. texture mapping, remeshing and morphing. Linear parameterization methods are of particular interest. Their simplicity, efficiency and robustness, enables the processing of detailed, large meshes. In practice, however, the current linear schemes are limited to producing (quasi-)conformal...

In this paper, we propose an eÆcient geometry cmpression method well-adapted to densely sampled semiregular triangular meshes. Based on multiresolution analysis performed by wavelet transform, it includes a low complexity model-based bit allocation across wavelet subbands. The main contribution of this paper is the resolution of the sub-optimal bit allocation problem related to biorthogonal wav...

A hybrid micro-macro-optical shuffle interconnection approach is described. The new concept minimizes distortion in multichip smart-pixel shuffle interconnection systems that use macro-optics to link dense arrays of vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) sources and matching arrays of detectors. The typical narrow-beam cones of VCSEL's are exploited by use of beam-deflecting micro-optic...