Teicoplanin (TCP) is a multiple drug-resistant lipoglycopeptide antibiotic produced by fermenting Actinoplanes teichomyceticus. In this study, a mixture of TCP with the Tris-HCl buffer (TCP-TrisHCl) was used to simulate TCP fermentation broth. The reagent-free, rapid and simultaneous quantitative analysis models for TCP and Tris in the TCP-Tris-HCl mixtures were established by nearinfrared (NIR...

The introduction of a glass prism in a ring dye laser is shown to provide simultaneous wavelength selection and pulse compression.

This paper is written in response to many inquiries about 10 μ Free-Space Optics (FSO) performance compared to shorter wavelengths. The increasing interest in better understanding FSO weather effects is the result of carrier requests as well as recent progress in analyzing fog effects on FSO signal propagation. Extensive studies in modeling fog and simulating FSO attenuations revealed the compl...

Spectroscopic photoacoustic imaging has the potential to become a powerful tool that can estimate distributions of optically absorbing chromophores in the body. We have developed an algorithm to select imaging wavelengths for spectroscopic photoacoustics given the spectra of expected chromophores. The algorithm uses the smallest singular value of a matrix constructed from the absorption spectra...

Sand ripples formed by waves have a uniformwavelength while at equilibrium and develop defects while adjusting to changes in the flow. These patterns arise from the interaction of the flow with the bed topography, but the specific mechanisms have not been fully explained. We use numerical flow models and laboratory wave tank experiments to explore the origins of these patterns. The wavelength o...

Multi-spectral near infrared tomographic imaging has the potential to provide information about patho-physiological function of soft tissue. However, the specific choice of wavelengths used is crucial for the accurate separation of such parameters. Determination of a set of optimized bands of wavelengths is presented and tested using experimental data. The optimization method achieves images as...

The important step of data preprocessing of data mining is feature selection. Feature selection is used to improve the performance of data mining algorithms by removing the irrelevant and redundant features. By positional cross-identification, the multi-wavelength data of 1656 active galactic nuclei (AGNs), 3718 stars, and 173 galaxies are obtained from optical (USNO-A2.0), X-ray (ROSAT), and i...

We report increased wavelength options from Raman lasers for Raman media having two Raman modes of similar gain coefficient. For an external-cavity potassium gadolinium tungstate Raman laser pumped at 532 nm, we show that two sets of Stokes orders are generated simultaneously by appropriate orientation of the Raman crystal, and also wavelengths that correspond to sums of the two Raman modes. Up...

We demonstrate electrically pumped large-area edge-emitting InGaAsP/InP two-dimensional photonic crystal lasers with angled facets at room temperature. The laser uses a weak index perturbation surface photonic crystal structure to control optical modes in the wafer plane. Measurements of the laser spectra show that the modal selection is due to satisfying the Bragg resonance conditions in both ...

We report the design criteria and performance of Si ring resonators for passive athermal applications in wavelength division multiplexing (WDM). The waveguide design rules address i) positive-negative thermo-optic (TO) composite structures, ii) resonant wavelength dependent geometry to achieve constant confinement factor (Gamma), and iii) observation of small residual second order effects. We d...