Abstract Free-spectral-range (FSR)-free optical filters have always been a critical challenge for photonic integrated circuits. A high-performance FSR-free filter is highly desired communication, spectroscopy, and sensing applications. Despite significant progress in filters, the with tunable narrow-band, high out-of-band rejection, large fabrication tolerance has rarely demonstrated. In this p...

---------------------------------------------------------------------***--------------------------------------------------------------------Abstract Large scale sensor networks are applied in various applications and the information which they collect are used in decision making for complicated infrastructure. Information combined from various sources through intermediate nodes that aggregate d...

At the Power Systems Development Facility (PSDF), a variety of filter elements and failsafes are being tested for the cleanup of coal-generated syngas from the Kellogg Brown and Root (KBR) Transport Gasifier. Through 2007, the maximum accumulated syngas exposure for each element type was: 9,959 hours for iron aluminide sintered metal powder elements; 8,249 hours for HR-160 sintered metal fiber ...

Numerical simulations of combustion in aircraft engines is quite complex, as it requires an adequate description of liquid fuel injection, liquid fuel atomization, drop breakup, drop dynamics, and evaporation, large-scale turbulent fuel air mixing, small scale molecular fuel air mixing, chemical reactions, and turbulence/chemistry interactions. In the present paper, we have identified three of ...

We report here a polarization-independent drop filter (PIDF) based on a photonic crystal self-collimation ring resonator (SCRR). Despite of the large birefringence associated with the polarization-dependent dispersion properties, we demonstrate a PIDF based on multiple-beam interference theory and polarization peak matching (PPM) technique. The PIDF performance was also investigated based on fi...

In this paper, we have proposed a new design of two dimensional (2D) photonic crystal (PhC) Tunable channel drop filter (CDF) using ring resonators. The increasing interest in photonic integrated circuits (PIC's) and the increasing use of all-optical fiber networks as backbones for global communication systems have been based in large part on the extremely wide optical transmission bandwid...

We report here several particle membrane filters (8 × 8 mm) with circular, hexagonal and rectangular through holes. By varying hole dimensions from 6 to 12 μm, opening factors from 4 to 45 % are achieved. In order to improve the filter robustness, a composite silicon nitride/Parylene membrane technology is developed. More importantly, fluid dynamic performance of the filters is also studied by ...