Abstract The paper presents a journal version of the Design Report on Optical Stochastic Cooling experiment to be carried out at IOTA ring in Fermilab later this year. It discusses theory which is based on, beam parameters, major requirements storage systems and technical details implementation.

The goal of this presented study was to determine the optimum parameters of secondary optical elements (SOEs) for concentrated photovoltaic (CPV) units with flat Fresnel lenses. Three types of SOEs are under consideration in the design process, including kaleidoscope with equal optical path design (KOD), kaleidoscope with flat top surface (KFTS), and open-truncated tetrahedral pyramid with spec...

To meet the needs for large-scale, high-quality learning contents, needless to say, we have to sharpen authoring tools. Authoring process can be roughly divided into two phases, a composing phase and a verification phase. A great deal of effort has been made on the support in the former phase. What seems to be lacking, however, is that in the latter. An ontology-aware authoring tool we have bee...

"Five years ago, I wasn't thinking about working on wireless," says Gee-Kung Chang, a professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology's School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. But after 15 years of work on optical-network technologies, Chang and a team of researchers are now crafting a network design that's a unique hybrid delivering high-speed wired and wireless services from the same ...

At the Institute of Silviculture at the University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna, students learn to cross-link ecological, socio-economic and technical knowledge of maintaining, regenerating, tending and utilizing forests in a sustainable way. They learn complex concepts and processes most successfully when they are actively engaged in the learning process. Therefore, t...

Planar InP/InGaAs avalanche photodiodes are widely used for high-speed optical receivers in optical fiber communication systems. Even though these avalanche photodiodes offer the excellent characteristics in high-speed operation, the performance metrics are affected by manufacturing parameter variations considerably. In this paper, the effects of manufacturing variations on the device performan...

In this work, a number of optical switching testbeds and demonstrators are studied and analyzed. The used methodology is as follows: firstly, the principal figures of merit (FOM) of optical networks are presented, both at the high (protocol) level and at low (physical layer) level. Secondly, a framework for the classification of the several kinds of optical networks and optical switching techno...