Sensory arrays made of coupled excitable elements can improve both their input sensitivity and dynamic range due to collective nonlinear wave properties. This mechanism is studied in a neural network of electrically coupled (e.g., via gap junctions) elements subject to a Poisson signal process. The network response interpolates between a Weber-Fechner logarithmic law, and a Stevens power law de...

We report on the fabrication and optical properties of etched highly nonlinear As(2)S(3) chalcogenide planar rib waveguides with lengths up to 22.5 cm and optical losses as low as 0.05 dB/cm at 1550 nm - the lowest ever reported. We demonstrate strong spectral broadening of 1.2 ps pulses, in good agreement with simulations, and find that the ratio of nonlinearity and dispersion linearizes the p...

This paper considers the identification problem of continuous-time systems with unknown time delay from sampled input-output data. By using a digital prefilter, an approximated discrete-time estimation model is first derived, in which the system parameters remain in their original form and the time delay need not be an integral multiple of the sampling period. Then an iterative separable nonlin...

New dispersed New dispersed-dot dot halftoning halftoning technique technique by elimination of unstable pixels by elimination of unstable pixels for for electrophotography electrophotography ‹ Problem about printing process of electrophotography – Analog unstableness • Stochastic reproduction of small dots • Degradation of image quality ‹ Proposal method – New dispersed-dot halftoning • Combin...

A type of nonlinearity in vibrational engineering systems emerges when the restoring force is a nonlinear function of displacement. The derivative of this function is known as stiffness. If the stiffness increases by increasing the value of displacement from the equilibrium position, then the system is known as hardening type oscillator and if the stiffness decreases by increasing the value of ...

A broad class of neural network (NN) applications dealing with the remote measurements of geophysical (physical, chemical, and biological) parameters of the oceans, atmosphere, and land surface is presented. In order to infer these parameters from remote sensing (RS) measurements, standard retrieval and variational techniques are applied. Both techniques require a data converter (transfer funct...

System identification often means the determination of linear models from input-output data. The behaviour of many systems can be described by an s-domain or z-domain transfer function model, at least for a given excitation amplitude range. The quality of the fit can be assessed by the analysis of the residuals, that is, of the difference between the measured data and the model. However, even s...

Coupled backward and forward wave amplitudes of an electromagnetic field propagating in a periodic and nonlinear medium at Bragg resonance are governed by the nonlinear coupled mode equations (NLCME). This system of PDEs, similar in structure to the Dirac equations, has gap soliton solutions that travel at any speed between 0 and the speed of light. A recently considered strategy for spatial tr...