Abslrad : Some practical methods --r implementing the sliding-mode control law to control the buck-type converters are introduced. The control equations are derived from the basic slidmg-mode control law to accommodate the conventional fiied-frequency pwm control method. As a result, the overall feedback control systems can be expressed under a form similar to state-feedback control where the v...

Multi-stage optical packet switching fabric based on the broadcast-and-select principle is considered to implement the shared-per-node wavelength conversion scheme. This approach fairly allows to combine contention resolution in the wavelength and space domains. A scheduling algorithm is proposed to control optical packet forwarding in synchronous context. The results aim at showing how the sha...

In this paper we discussed different switch architectures. We focus mainly on optical buffering. We investigate an all-optical buffer architecture comprising of cascaded stages of quantum-dot semiconductor optical amplifier-based tunable wavelength converters, at 160 Gb/s. We also propose the optical buffer with multi-wavelength converters based on quantum-dot semiconductor optical amplifiers. ...

Lightwave communication systems are predominantly used for handling high-speed data traffic. Long-distance ground-based systems particularly depend on optical fibers. Several business and research facilities employ direct fiber connections, and fiber to the home (FTTH) technology is foreseeable in the near future. These developments are driven particulary by the high demand for bandwidth necess...

In this contribution, research activities and trends in the field of RF and microwave power amplifiers design are discussed. Design strategies for high efficiency and linearity amplifiers are focused and the results attained in three years of TARGET NoE activities are presented, showing interesting and state-of-the-art power amplifier design, employing GaAs or GaN technologies. Introduction The...

High-speed all-optical switching is demonstrated by four-wave mixing (FWM) of picosecond pulses using semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOA). A light source for measurement and switching in the 1.5 μm region is produced using a normal group velocity dispersion fiber and optical parametric oscillator. The output supercontinuum (SC) optical pulses, with a spectral width of approximately 300 nm, a...

The DeeMe experiment to search for muon-to-electron conversions with a sensitivity 10–100 times better than those achieved by previous experiments is in preparation at the Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex. magnetic spectrometer used consists of an electromagnet and four multiwire proportional chambers (MWPCs). newly developed MWPCs are operated high voltage (HV) switching technique hav...

Low voltage op amps with complementary N–P input differential pairs are known to suffer from low common mode rejection ratio due to mismatch errors and the tail current switching between the N and P input stage. To understand the contribution of the systematic and the random common mode gains to the overall common mode rejection ratio (CMRR) we studied three op amp topologies, which use N–P com...