We report the extension of hollow-core fibre pulse compression to longer wavelengths. High-energy multi-cycle infrared pulses are generated via optical parametric amplification and subsequently broadened in the fibre. 2.5-cycle pulses at the Signal wavelength (1.4 μm) and 1.6-cycle pulses at the Idler wavelength (1.8 μm) in the sub-millijoule regime have been generated. New compression schemes ...

Laser-plasma particle accelerators could provide more compact sources of high-energy radiation than conventional accelerators. Moreover, because they deliver radiation in femtosecond pulses, they could improve the time resolution of X-ray absorption techniques. Here we show that we can measure and control the polarization of ultra-short, broad-band keV photon pulses emitted from a laser-plasma-...

Development of frontal impact airbag sensor algorithms/calibrations requires crash signals, which can be obtained from vehicle crash testing and/or CAE simulations. This paper presents the development of finite element sensor models to generate CAE simulated crash pulses/signals at the sensing location during frontal impacts. These signals will be evaluated for potential used in the airbag sens...

The majority of studies investigating responses of thalamocortical neurons to tactile stimuli have focused on the whisker representation of the rat thalamus: the ventral-posterior-medial nucleus (VPM). To test whether the basic properties of thalamocortical responses to tactile stimuli could be extended to the entire ventrobasal complex, we recorded single neurons from the whisker, forepaw and ...

Background Late Gadolinium Enhancement (LGE) allows imaging of infarction and cardiomyopathies by measuring the accumulation of contrast agent within the myocardium. The shortened T1 relaxation time compared to healthy myocardium is imaged by an inversion recovery (IR) prepared segmented fast gradient echo sequence in which pathology and fat show as bright signal. The fat signal can lead to mis...

P. E. Larson, D. G. Nishimura, J. M. Pauly Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States Introduction: Ultra-short echo time (UTE) imaging has recently become of interest for possible clinical applications [1,2]. Long-T2 species dominate UTE images if they are not suppressed. We introduce a new set of long-T2 suppression pulses designed with the Shinnar-Le Roux (SLR) ...

The response characteristics of olfactory receptor neurons (ORNs) and their corollary, the differential sensitivity and the resolving power, are fundamental to understand olfactory coding and the information extracted from a fluctuating olfactory signal. Previous work has focused on the temporal resolution of odor pulses presented for very brief periods at varying concentrations. The time cours...

in scpc-dama satellite networks, the baseband rrc pulse shaping is utilized to reduce the bandwidth and inter symbol interference (isi). but the variation in carrier's envelope, which expands the spectrum and ultimately increases the bandwidth, causes isi and quadrature channel crosstalk (qcc). the goal of this paper is to introduce a method to shape baseband rrc pulses, in order to make a near...

A digital-holography (DH) system is created in a heterodyne-pulsed configuration, meaning that the reference and signal pulses are nondeterministically correlated time. Using off-axis image plane recording geometry, two performance metrics measured: (1) total-system efficiency (2) ambiguity efficiency. These compared against same measured efficiencies for DH homodyne-pulsed which uses determini...