The achievable off-chip bandwidth of digital IC's is a crucial and often limiting factor in the performance of digital systems. In intra-system interfaces where both latency and bandwidth are important, source-synchronous parallel channels have been adopted as the most effective solution. This work investigates receiver and clocking circuit design techniques for increasing the signalling rate a...

A monolithically integrated device combines 40 GHz dual mode-locked operation with the wide tuning range (>40nm) of sampled-grating DBR lasers, while further being integrated to an SOA and a potentially high-speed modulator. OCIS codes: (250.5300) Photonic integrated devices; (140.3600) Lasers, tunable; (140.4050) Mode-locked lasers

The dCache project provides open-source software deployed internationally to satisfy ever more demanding storage requirements. Its multifaceted approach an integrated way of supporting different use-cases with the same storage, from high throughput data ingest, sharing over wide area networks, efficient access HPC clusters and long term persistence on a tertiary storage. Though it was originall...

We originally present a novel tactic to accomplish a compact efficient dual-wavelength synchronously mode-locked laser by physically combining the Nd:YVO4 crystal to the Nd:GdVO4 crystal as a composite gain medium. With the developed method, the total output power at 1.06 μm could be effectually produced to reach 1.3 W under the optimally balanced two-color intensities. The corresponding mode-l...

We report a dual-band-swept, Fourier domain mode locking (FDML) laser with sweeping rate of 97.6 kHz. The laser uses a custom-designed dual-channel driver to achieve synchronization between two tunable filters. It is the first time to achieve simultaneous dual-band FDML laser. © 2012 Optical Society of America OCIS codes: (300.6360)Spectroscopy, laser; (140.4050) Mode-locked lasers

Dual-wavelength mode-locked lasers can be widely used in optical communication, pump-probe experiment, nonlinear frequency conversion, etc. In this paper, a dual-wavelength self-mode-locked semiconductor disk laser is reported for the first time, to best of our knowledge. A simple linear resonator formed by using high reflectivity distributed Bragg reflector at bottom gain chip, and an external...

Wireless sensor networks provide an effective tool for acquiring sensor measurements across a large area. Devices in a sensor field can automatically configure themselves into a working network, ready to collect data. The challenge is to collect that data in a timely and power-efficient manner. In some environments, a data collection device (sink) may need to travel periodically through the fie...