This chapter reviews the first ten years of interactive electro-holographic displays from its first instance in 1990 through innovations in computational approaches and optical modulation schemes. The enormous bandwidths required to image three-dimensional (3-D) holographic images interactively are examined, along with descriptions of techniques used to overcome the limitations placed upon frin...

Electro-optic modulators provide the electrical control of intensity, frequency, and phase an optical signal. They became indispensable part our telecommunication network largely dictate achievable data bandwidths. Novel active material platforms recent advantages in fabrication processing techniques enabled next generation electro-optic featuring significantly improved performance relevant dev...

Using optical modulation spectroscopy, we report the direct observation of absorption lines from excitons localized in GaAs single quantum dot potentials. The data provide a measurement of the linewidth, resonance energy, and oscillator strength of the transitions, and show that states which decay primarily by nonradiative processes can be directly probed using this technique. The experiments e...

Numerical calculations are employed to study the modulation of light by surface acoustic waves (SAWs) in photonic band gap (PBG) structures. The on/off contrast ratio in a PBG switch based on an optical cavity is determined as a function of the SAW-induced dielectric modulation. We show that these structures exhibit high contrast ratios even for moderate acousto-optic coupling. PACS: 42.79.Ta, ...

A theoretical study of a high repetition rate laser source based on a novel mode locking technique is presented. This technique relies on the fast saturation and recovery of a semiconductor optical amplifier induced by an external optical pulse and has been used to obtain 4.3 ps pulses at 20 GHz. A numerical model of the fiber ring laser has been developed describing the mode locking process in...

We present the timing analysis results for our observations of the x-ray dip source X1916-053 conducted with RXTE between February and October of 1996. Our goal was to finally measure the binary period-as either the x-ray dip period or ∼1% longer optical modulation period, thereby establishing if the binary has a precessing disk (SU UMa model) or a third star (triple model). Combined with histo...

The quantum Zeno effect (QZE) is the striking prediction that the decay of any unstable quan­ tum state can be inhibited by sufficiently frequent observations (measurements). The consensus opinion has upheld the QZE as a general feature of quantum mechanics which should lead to the inhibition of any decay. The claim of QZE generality hinges on the assumption that successive observations can in ...

This paper examines linear- k terms in the gamma(8) valence-band Hamiltonian for heterostructures of zinc-blende-type semiconductors. In bulk crystals such terms are known to be extremely small, due to their origin as relativistic perturbations from d and f orbitals. However, in heterostructures there is a nonvanishing contribution from p orbitals. This contribution is an order of magnitude lar...

Silicate glass has been used for long time because of its advantages from material's viewpoint. In this paper, we report the observation of Pockels effect by Mach-Zehnder interferometer in polycrystalline ceramics made from a ternary silicate glass via crystallization due to heat-treatment, i.e., glass-ceramics. Since the silicate system is employed as the precursor, merits of glass material ar...