Wide wedge-shaped depletion region in thermally poled fiber with alloy electrodes

Characteristic Angles in the Wetting of a Wedge-Shaped Region

The shape of a liquid surface bounded by an acute or obtuse wedge is considered by using classical analysis methods. For acute wedges the two principal curvatures are of the order of the (fixed) mean curvature. But for obtuse wedges, the principal curvatures both diverge as the vertex is approached. The power-law divergence becomes stronger with increasing opening angle. Possible implications o...

Flexible fiber-shaped supercapacitors based on hierarchically nanostructured composite electrodes

Poled fiber devices

The topic of this thesis is the development of devices for telecom applications based on poled optical fibers. The focus is on a specific function, optical switching/modulation. Some of the most important results are summarized below. Optical switching at telecom wavelengths (1.55 μm) is demonstrated in an all-fiber switch based on a fiber with internal electrodes. The fiber is made electro-opt...

Characterization of thermally poled germanosilicate thin films.

We report measurements of the nonlinearity profile of thermally poled low-loss germanosilicate films deposited on fused-silica substrates by PECVD, of interest as potential electro-optic devices. The profiles of films grown and poled under various conditions all exhibit a sharp peak ~0.5 microm beneath the anode surface, followed by a weaker pedestal of approximately constant amplitude down to ...

Detecting Wedge Shaped Defects in Polarimetric Images of the Retinal Nerve Fiber Layer

Wedge shaped defects of the retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL) may occur in glaucoma. Currently, automatic detection of wedge shaped defects in Scanning Laser Polarimetry images of the retinal nerve fiber layer is unavailable; an automatic classification is currently based only on global parameters, thereby ignoring important local information. Our method works by a modified dynamic programming t...