We show numerically and experimentally that spatial trapping can be induced in quadratic media even if the pump pulse's duration is shorter than the group-delay mismatch between fundamental wave and second-harmonic components. The influence of phase mismatch and pulse power on the trapping effect is discussed. Spatial, temporal, and spectral behaviors that accompany self-trapped propagation are...

The development of photovoltaic (PV) energy throughout the world this last decade has brought to light the presence of module mismatch losses in most PV applications. Such power losses, mainly occasioned by partial shading of arrays and differences in PV modules, can be reduced by changing module interconnections of a solar array. This paper presents a novel method to forecast existing PV array...

This paper describes the jitter problem in DLL-based clock multipliers that arises due to stochastic mismatch in the delay cells that are used in the Voltage Controlled Delay Line of the DLL [1]. An analysis is presented that relates the stochastic spread of the delay of the cells to the output jitter of the clock multiplier. This analysis shows that relative time deviations are highest in the ...

The possibility to exploit the relatively high second order nonlinear coefficient available in III-V semiconductors is analyzed in the paper. It is shown that in bulk material too high phase mismatch makes technologically impossible to employ these semiconductors because of a necessary prohibitive threshold power. To bypass this problem, the use of a planar waveguide is proposed. It is shown th...

This paper addresses the issue of inertia mismatch from a theoretical and practical standpoint. Fundamentally, power transmission is optimized in a mechanical system if the load inertia matches the motor inertia. This may, or may not be practically implemented with gearing between motor and load. Gearing inertia, inefficiency, mechanical limits, and cost all factor into the decision as to wheth...

Portable digital systems tend to be not just low power but power efficient as they are powered by low batteries or energy harvesters. Energy harvesting systems tend to provide nondeterministic, rather than stable, power over time. Existing memory systems use delay elements to cope with the problems under different Vdds. However, this introduces huge penalties on performance, as the delay elemen...

background: a potential specific problem of patellar tendon graft in acl reconstruction is the possibility of graft-tunnel mismatch which could be more problematic with anatomic acl reconstruction where the femoral tunnel is placed low on the lateral wall of the lateral femoral condyle. the occasional occurrence of this mismatch raises the question that whether a correlation exists between pati...

Locked nucleic acids (LNA) show remarkable affinity and specificity against native DNA targets. Effects of LNA modifications on mismatch discrimination were studied as a function of sequence context and identity of the mismatch using ultraviolet (UV) melting experiments. A triplet of LNA residues centered on the mismatch was generally found to have the largest discriminatory power. An exception...