We report on the near- and far-field investigation of the slow Bloch modes associated with the G point of the Brillouin zone, for a honeycomb lattice photonic crystal, using near-field scanning optical microscopy (NSOM) ...

A review of recent advancements in photonic forces is presented. We discuss in detail the interaction of light and sub-wavelength particles on a substrate illuminated by total internal reflection, and we study the opticalforces ...

Building networks in rural areas is difficult because of the tough rural environments and low return to the service operators on investment Rural networking and their applications in education, health, community ...

The noise characteristics of gas cascade amplified electron signals in low vacuum scanning electron microscopy (LVSEM) are described and analyzed. We derive expressions for each component contributing to the total noise ...

We consider formulations for the Helmholtz operator for conically propagating modes on an array of high contrast ferromagnetic cylindrical inclusions in the limit when their wavelength outside the inclusions tends to infinity. ...

The paper deals with the robust non-fragile Hinfinity control problem for uncertain structural systems with additive controller gain variations. The parameter uncertainties for the mass, damping and stiffness of the structural ...

The performance of a quadrupole mass filter (QMF) generally degrades when using electrodes of circular cross section in place of mathematical ideal hyperbolic electrodes. The circular cross section of electrodes produces ...

Degenerate four-wave mixing (DFWM) is used to examine the nonlinear optical response of Ge nanocrystals in a silica matrix. The nanocrystals are formed by implanting 1.0 MeV Ge ions into silica to a dose of 3.0x10(17) Ge ...

Non-resonant bifurcations of codimension two may appear in the controlled van der Pol-Duffing oscillator when two critical time delays corresponding to a double Hopf bifurcation have the same value. With the aid of centre ...

We investigate numerically a non-reciprocal switching behavior in strongly modulated waveguide Bragg gratings (WBGs) having a longitudinally asymmetric stopband configuration. The minimum power predicted for a stable ...