We analyze optical phased arrays with aperiodic pitch and element-to-element spacing greater than one wavelength at channel counts exceeding hundreds of elements. We optimize the spacing between waveguides for highest side-mode suppression providing grating lobe free steering in full visible space while preserving the narrow beamwidth. Optimum waveguide placement strategies are derived and desi...

this paper presents a low-cost compact planar microstrip-fed monopole antenna and its four-element array design for ultra-wideband (uwb) wireless communication and target detection applications, respectively, operating in the frequency span of 3 ghz to 11 ghz. a prototype was fabricated and then measured based on optimal parameters. the results of reflection coefficient (s11) and radiation patt...

Ultra Wideband Antenna Array Processing Under Spatial Aliasing. (August 2007) Alireza Shapoury, B.S., Shahid Beheshti University of Iran; M.S., Iran University of Science and Technology Chair of Advisory Committee: Dr. Erchin Serpedin Given a certain transmission frequency, Shannon spatial sampling limit defines an upper bound for the antenna element spacing. Beyond this bound, the exceeded amb...

Dissection of the light-responsive element (LRE) located between -166 and -50 of rbcS-3A from pea has revealed critical spacing requirements between the two GT-1 binding sites for light-responsive transcription. An increase in spacing between the two sites by as little as 2 bp reduces dramatically the rbcS-3A transcript levels in vivo. Mutation of the 10 bp between the binding sites leads to sl...

The location of imperfections or heterogeneities in shapes and contours often correlates with points of interest in a visual scene. Investigating the detection of such heterogeneities provides clues as to the mechanisms processing simple shapes and contours. We determined set-size effects (e.g., sensitivity to single target detection as distractor number increases) for sampled contours to inves...

In typically developing children, crowding decreases with increasing age. The influence of target-distractor similarity with respect to orientation and element spacing on visual search performance was investigated in 29 school-age children with normal vision (4- to 6-year-olds [N = 16], 7- to 8-year-olds [N = 13]). Children were instructed to search for a target E among distractor Es (feature s...