The resonant power conversion having many advantages over conventionally adopted pulse width modulation that includes a high efficiency, low electromagnetic interference, small volume, low switching losses, and light weight of components due to a high switching frequency, and low reverse recovery losses in diodes owing to a low di/dt at switching instant. This paper presents the doubly loaded r...

A 22× reduction in laser pump threshold and a 23× enhancement in energy conversion have been demonstrated on a second order distributed feedback (DFB) laser using a resonant optical pumping (ROP) technique. The ROP scheme couples the excitation light into a distinct resonant mode of the laser cavity through the illuminating at a specific resonant incident angle. Coupling excitation light into t...

Among the many advantages that resonant power conversion has over conventionally adopted pulsewidth modulation include a low electromagnetic interference, low switching losses, small volume, and light weight of components due to a high switching frequency, high efficiency, and low reverse recovery losses in diodes owing to a low di/dt at switching instant. This work presents a novel loaded-reso...

Resonant mode conversion techniques are used nowadays to improve pulse width modulated dcdc converters. Moreover the quest for ever smaller 50 to 500 watts dc-dc switching supplies has led to the development of circuits that operates in 500 KHz -1 MHz range and above. Since the parasitic elements that normally present in a power circuit can be very significant at this frequency, most of the wor...

The plasmoelectric effect: optically induced electrochemical potentials in resonant metallic structures Matthew T. Sheldon and Harry A. Atwater Thomas J. Watson Laboratories of Applied Physics, California Institute of Technology, MC 128-95, Pasadena, California 91125, USA We describe a strategy for conversion of optical power into DC electrical power using resonant absorption in plasmonic nanos...