Optoelectronic oscillators (OEOs) are hybrid RF-photonic devices that promise to be environmentally robust high-frequency RF sources with very low phase noise. Previously, we showed that Rayleigh-scattering-induced noise in optical fibers coupled with amplitude-to-phase noise conversion in photodetectors and amplifiers leads to fiber-length-dependent noise in OEOs. In this work, we report on tw...

Heating in nanoscale systems driven out of equilibrium is of fundamental importance, has ramifications for technological applications, and is a challenge to characterize experimentally. Prior experiments using nanoscale junctions have largely focused on heating of ionic degrees of freedom, while heating of the electrons has been mostly neglected. We report measurements in atomic-scale Au break ...

Power law noise plays an important role in the description of high performance oscillators. Commonly, five types of noise are considered to affect clocks and clock measurements: white phase, flicker phase, white frequency, flicker frequency and random walk frequency. These noise types are distinguished by the slopes of their spectral densities, S,@ =y (on a log-log scale). The noise is inherent...

Abstract: This paper puts forward a new method based on Hilbert-Huang Transform (HHT) and Wavelet denoising for extracting feature information of voltage flicker signal. Firstly, envelope signal could be extracted by using HHT from original signal containing noises. Then the noises and higher harmonic components of envelope signal could be removed by using Wavelet denoising. Finally, the noise-...

Image flicker, undesirable fluctuations in image intensity not originating from the original scene, is a common artifact in old film sequences. After describing possible causes for image flicker this paper models the effects of flicker as local phenomena. Unfortunately estimation of the model parameters from the degraded sequence is hampered due to presence of noise, dirt and motion. In the lat...

A flicker sensitivity test based on measuring modulation thresholds for light varying sinusoidally with time around two mean scotopic luminances was performed on 21 female patients heterozygous for X-linked retinitis pigmentosa and 22 normal observers. The patients required, on average, 1.5 times the normal modulation to detect flicker over the whole frequency range where thresholds could be me...