We have repeated our earlier observations of the Infrared and submllllmeter background radiation. While the measured values of the infrared background radiation remain unchanged, we have failed to observe the high flux previously reported for the 0.4 to 1.3 mm range. This indicates that the flux cannot have been galactic or cosmic, but further observations are needed to rule out a solar cycle d...

Ultrashort pulses of intense, coherent, and tunable far-infrared (FIR) and mid-infrared (MIR) radiation, achievable with freeelectron lasers (FELs) and optical parametric amplifiers (OPAs), provide unique opportunities to investigate low energy dynamics in solids. This paper reviews our recent experiments on bulk and quantum-confined semiconductors using such radiation. These experiments includ...

We have repeated our earlier observations of the Infrared and submllllmeter background radiation. While the measured values of the infrared background radiation remain unchanged, we have failed to observe the high flux previously reported for the 0.4 to 1.3 mm range. This indicates that the flux cannot have been galactic or cosmic, but further observations are needed to rule out a solar cycle d...

We propose an approach for an efficient generation of optical Cherenkov radiation (OCR) in the near-infrared by tailoring the waveguide dispersion for a zero group-velocity mismatching between the radiation and the pump soliton. Based on an As(2)S(3) slot waveguide with subwavelength dimensions, dispersion profiles with four zero dispersion wavelengths are found to produce a phase-matching nonl...

An infrared beamline has been constructed at the 800 MeV electron storage ring, Aladdin. The beamline is located downstream of a short straight section, where it collects edge radiation produced by electrons exiting and entering the bending magnets at the ends of the straight section. Measurements at wavelengths of 1–5 μm suggest that the edge radiation is brighter than standard synchrotron rad...

The recent detection of gamma radiation from Mkn 501 at energies as high as ∼ 25 TeV suggests stringent upper bounds on the diffuse, far infrared, extragalactic radiation density. The production of electron-positron pairs through photon-photon collisions would prevent gamma photons of substantially higher energies from reaching us across distances of order 100Mpc. However, coherently arriving T...

Objective: Potato is the fourth important food crop after wheat, rice and maize. Shrinkage  of  food  materials  has  a negative  consequence  on  the  quality  of  the dehydrated product. The main objective pursued in this paper is to investigate the shrinkage amount of potato slices during drying process using vacuum-infrared method. Methods: In this work, the effect of the infrared radiation...

Building materials can release a wide range of pollutants, particularly the volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and formaldehyde, which can cause indoor air related health problems. Bake-out technology is a cost-efficient method to reduce emissions of toxic substance from building materials in residential housing units. The temperature rise and the bake-out performance of MDF panels were evaluate...

In this work, a method previously proposed in the literature (Sisto R, Pinto I, Stacchini N et al. Infrared radiation exposure in traditional glass factories. AIHAJ 2000; 61: 5-10) to evaluate the exposure to infrared (IR) radiation when the source can be approximated as a black body is implemented in a mathematical code developed in Matlab. Some practical situations are discussed. A comparison...

A two-stream description of the interaction of radiation with vegetation and soil is tested with experimental data for a corn canopy. The results indicate that the two parameters of the theory (reflectance of a dense canopy and the attenuation coe~cient for radiation in the canopy) can be estimated for the Thematic Mapper spectral bands. A collection of soil reflectance data is used to develop ...