During the 1980s, electronic power conversion became commonplace in industrial, commercial, and institutional networks. These new loads, known as power converters, impact all electrical networks, usually in a negative manner. Power converters tend to be disruptive to the utility network and sometimes to other consumers. When power electronic loads are present, attempts to correct power factor i...

An analysis of multimode waveguides where several modes are coupled via quasiperiodic perturbations is presented. The supermodes (or eigenmodes) of the structure are derived and orthonormality considerations are discussed. In addition, a new type of mode converter between copropagating modes is proposed, where mode conversion is mediated by a backwardpropagating mode. Adiabatic and nonadiabatic...

This paper presents a method of enhancing the performance of a four-phase switched reluctance motor by using capacitors to produce additional supply voltage during the rise and fall periods of a motor phase current. The voltage rating of the inverter components increases and extra capacitor/diode combinations are needed. The operation and analysis of a series voltage boost circuit are detailed ...

We describe power-dependent dynamics of conversion of the guided modes of various guiding structures due to nearly resonant longitudinal modulation of the nonlinear coefficient of the medium. It is shown that the control of the energy exchange integrals, as well as of the input weights of the interacting modes, is especially crucial for efficient mode conversion in the setting considered here. ...

Each year, about six million tons of lactose are generated from liquid whey as industrial byproduct, and optimally this large carbohydrate waste should be used for the production of value-added products. Trametes multicolor pyranose 2-oxidase (TmP2O) catalyzes the oxidation of various monosaccharides to the corresponding 2-keto sugars. Thus, a potential use of TmP2O is to convert the products f...

A high-efficiency silicon strip waveguide to plasmonic slot waveguide converter based on the hybrid silicon-gold taper is proposed and optimized. Through investigating the mode matching, the effective index matching, and the metallic absorption loss considerations, the hybrid silicon-gold taper with an overall length of 1.7 μm having a very high conversion efficiency of 93.3% at 1550nm is achie...