In order to make any sea level dive table usable during high altitude diving, a new conversion factor is created. We introduce the standardized equivalent sea depth (SESD), which allows conversion of the actual lake diving depth (ALDD) to an equivalent sea dive depth. SESD is defined as the sea depth in meters or feet for a standardized sea dive, equivalent to a mountain lake dive at any altitu...

The hot Jupiter HD 189733bwas observed during its primary transit using the InfraredArray Camera on the Spitzer Space Telescope. The transit depths were measured simultaneously at 3.6 and 5.8 m. Our analysis yields values of 2:356% 0:019% and 2:436% 0:020% at 3.6 and 5.8 m, respectively, for a uniform source. We estimated the contribution of the limb-darkening and starspot effects on the final ...

Dynamically reconfigurable metasurfaces open up unprecedented opportunities in applications such as high capacity communications, dynamic beam shaping, hyperspectral imaging, and adaptive optics. The realization of high performance metasurface-based devices remains a great challenge due to very limited tuning ranges and modulation depths. Here we show that a widely tunable metasurface composed ...

In this thesis different acoustical and electrophysiological approaches for the objective audiological diagnostic are investigated. The utilized methods involve higher stages of the audiometric pathway and therefore allow the assessment of the state of hearing up to neural levels. It was shown that a different method to measure the acoustic reflex elicitation in conjunction with a new robust de...

Narrow optical dip solutions are investigated when, besides self-phase modulation and group velocity dispersion, also third-order dispersion, nonlinear dispersion, and stimulated Raman scattering are taken into account. By using the inverse scattering transform for the higher-order optical nonlinear Schrödinger (HNLS) equation under Hirota parameter conditions, the dark N-soliton solution is co...

Cochlear implants are prosthetic devices that seek to restore hearing in profoundly deaf patients by electrically stimulating the auditory-nerve (AN). With current implants, the representation of the sound waveform in temporal discharge patterns of the auditory nerve is severely distorted. The distortion is particularly significant at higher (>600 Hz) frequencies, for which the period of the el...

We report on photo-thermal modulation of thin film surface plasmon polaritons (SPP) excited at telecom wavelengths and traveling at a gold/air interface. By operating a modulated continuous-wave or a Q-switched nanosecond pump laser, we investigate the photo-thermally induced modulation of SPP propagation mediated by the temperature-dependent ohmic losses in the gold film. We use a fiber-to-fib...