in this article our objective is to obtain steady state characteristics of shunt, series, and separately excited dc motors coupled with a centrifugal water pump supplied through a step-up, step-down, and cuk converter from photovoltaic generator. we assume that there are no storage batteries and, of course, the system must operate on maximum utilization i.e. maximum water must be pumped. it is ...

In this paper a hybrid active DC line conditioner for fluctuations and ripples reduction in voltage and current of DC power systems is proposed. Malfunctions in operation of equipments and systems which are supplied by low quality distribution power systems are one of the main effects of DC voltage ripple. In the proposed configuration a hybrid system including series and shunt active line ...

We reported a record high power (>250 mW) and compact near-infrared fiber-optic femtosecond Cherenkov radiation source and its new application on nonlinear light microscopy for the first time (to our best knowledge). The high power femtosecond Cherenkov radiation was generated by 1.03 μm femtosecond pulses from a portable diode-pumped laser and a photonic crystal fiber as a compact, flexible, a...

Introduction The widespread use of battery operated portable devices such as cell phones and laptops has created the need for DC to DC conversion power supplies such as switched mode power supplies. According to an Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) study [1], the amount of electricity that flowed through switched mode power supplies in 2004 was “6% of the national electric bill”. The pro...

High power and high voltage gain DC-DC converters are key to high-voltage DC (HVDC) power transmission for offshore wind power. This paper presents an isolated ultra-high step-up DC-DC converter in matrix transformer configuration. A flyback-forward converter is adopted as the power cell and the secondary side matrix connection is introduced to increase the power level and to improve fault tole...

input pump, which is much smaller than individual SOA polarization dependence. Secondly, the worst contrast ratio still yields -6.5 dB for an input contrast ratio 10 dB, which is still larger than the contrast ratio of the TE input for a single SOA. The residual 1.1-dB polarization dependence is attributed to the two SOAs not being perfect matched. Figure 3(a) shows the polarization dependence ...