Background and Objectives: Recently, photonic crystals have been considered as the basic structures for the realization of various optical devices for high speed optical communication. Methods: In this research, two dimensional photonic crystals are used for designing all optical logic gates. A photonic crystal structure with a triangular lattice is proposed for making NAND, XNOR, and OR optica...

David Hasenauer, CODE V Product Manager Introduction During the design of any optical system destined to be manufactured, it is critical to define a fabrication and assembly budget. This budget must consider any potential compensation that will be used during the manufacturing process to mitigate the performance degradation introduced by fabrication variations. It is important to specify the be...

Artificially engineered metamaterials have emerged with properties and functionalities previously unattainable in natural materials. The scientific breakthroughs made in this new class of electromagnetic materials are closely linked with progress in developing physics-driven design, novel fabrication and characterization methods. The intricate behavior of these novel metamaterials is interestin...

SABER, the South Arc Beam Experimental Region, is a proposed new beam line facility designed to replace the Final Focus Test Beam at SLAC. In this paper, we outline the optical design features and beam parameters now envisioned for SABER. A magnetic chicane to compress positron bunches for SABER and a bypass line that could transport electrons or positrons from the two-thirds point of the linac...

Ahstruct-An optical orthogonal code is a family of (0,l) sequences with good auto-and cross-correlation properties, i.e., the autocorrelation of each sequence exhibits the " thumbtack " shape and the cross correlation between any two sequences remains low throughout. The study of optical orthogonal codes has been motivated by an application in a code-division multiple-access fiber optic channel...

Emerging optical networks will provide very high bandwidth connections to users. However, improving provisioning times and restoration capabilities after a network failure are important issues in evolving the optical networks. The application of IP-based protocols to the optical network control plane has opened up new opportunities and challenges for network designers. Although much work has be...

The nature of electro-optical equipment in various industries and the pursuit of the goal of reducing costs demand high reliability on the part of electro-optical systems. In this respect, reliability improvement could be addressed through a reliability allocation problem. Subsystem reliability must be increased such that the requirements as well as defined requisite functions are ensured in ac...