We present here a self-starting passively mode-locked fiber ring laser with a novel cavity configuration using a four-port optical circulator. Our special ring cavity design enables highly stable mode-locked operation between 25 and 60 degrees C to be maintained without the need for any polarization-adjusting devices. The pulse width and the integrated timing jitter from 10 Hz to 10 MHz of our ...

Before I came to Powick I had a very wrong impression of a mental hospital, expecting many more of the raving, violent type of patient. In itself this is a measure of the progress which has been made in the field of mental health through the work still to be done is absolutely enormous. It is hard to imagine that even in the 1950's patients in Powick were still wearing locked canvas dresses or ...

1. The house of a suspect in a murder inquiry is searched. In a locked room, and a locked chest within that room, a bloodied knife is found that has the DNA of a murder victim on its blade. The room and the chest were securely locked, the owner of the house being the only one with a key that he never left out of his sight. There is no sign that either lock was tampered with, or that anyone othe...

CW injection locking of mode-locked semiconductor lasers has been experimentally demonstrated. The phases of the mode-locked frequency comb are shown to be coherent with that of the master CW laser. The pulsewidth of the mode-locked laser remains almost unchanged (<2 ps) for a broad range of injection power ( 28 to 12 dBm). Pulling of the entire modelocked frequency comb by 400 MHz has been dem...

The analysis of organotin compounds is becoming increasingly important in both environmental analysis and in food and consumer product analysis. This application note describes a retention time locked (RTL) gas chromatography/mass spectrometry (GC/MS) method for the analysis of derivatized organotin compounds. Three retention time locked libraries are made available, corresponding to three diff...

Nonrotating ("locked") magnetic islands often lead to complete losses of confinement in tokamak plasmas, called major disruptions. Here locked islands were suppressed for the first time, by a combination of applied three-dimensional magnetic fields and injected millimeter waves. The applied fields were used to control the phase of locking and so align the island O point with the region where th...

Background: Chronic locked anterior shoulder dislocation is a difficult clinical problem for patients and surgeons. Prior studies have proposed a variety of surgical techniques to address this problem; however, the failure rate is high. To our knowledge, there have been no previously published studies on the clinical outcome of the Latarjet procedure for the treatment of chronic locked anterior...

PLL Basics A phase-locked loop is a feedback system combining a voltagecontrolled oscillator and a phase comparator so connected that the oscillator frequency (or phase) accurately tracks that of an applied frequencyor phase-modulated signal. Phase-locked loops can be used, for example, to generate stable output frequency signals from a fixed low-frequency signal. The first phase-locked loops w...

We present a novel method for the generation of synchronized short pulses at high repetition rates from Erdoped silica fiber lasers. The method employs coupling of an optical pulse train to a passively mode-locked fiber laser. The injected signal repetition rate is slightly detuned from the modal spacing of the fiber laser, such that a subset of the latter modes is injection locked, yielding a ...

This paper presents a low-complexity real-time single-tone phase and frequency estimation technique based on zero-crossing detection and linear regression. The proposed zerocrossing phase and frequency estimator fills a gap between lowcomplexity phase locked loop estimation and high-performance maximum likelihood estimation. Similar to a phase locked loop, the zero-crossing phase and frequency ...