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Cascaded Mach-Zehnder architectures for photonic integrated delay lines
Full text linkA continuously tunable integrated optical delay line architecture with large bandwidth and bandwidth-delay product is proposed and demonstrated. The non-resonant delay line is based on cascaded Mach-Zehnder interferometers with tunable couplers. The device is operated with a single control signal and outperforms the common ring-resonator-based delay lines in terms of bandwidth-delay product. A device with a delay tuning range of 124 ps is experimentally demonstrated over a transmission bandwidth of 4.5 GHz
Performance Variability Analysis of Photonic Circuits with Many Correlated Parameters
Full text linkWe propose a method to analyze the performance variability caused by fabrication uncertainty in photonic circuits with a large number of correlated parameters. By combining a sparse polynomial chaos expansion model with dimensionality reduction in the form of Karhunen-Loève transform and principal component analysis, we demonstrate the stochastic analysis of the transfer function of cascaded Mach-Zehnder interferometers with up to 38 correlated uncertain parameters
On-chip continuously tunable optical delay line based on cascaded Mach-Zehnder interferometers
Full text linkWe propose a novel integrated optical delay line based on cascaded Mach-Zehnder interferometers. It allows a continuous delay tuning, can achieve wideband operation and is experimentally demonstrated with a delay up to 125 ps.Peer reviewed: YesNRC publication: Ye
Uncertainty quantification and stochastic modelling of photonic device from experimental data through polynomial chaos expansion
No full textUnavoidable statistical variations in fabrication processes have a strong effect on the functionality of fabricated photonic circuits and on fabrication yield. It is hence essential to measure and consider these uncertainties during the design in order to predict the statistical behavior of the realized circuits. Also, during the mass production of photonic integrated circuits, the experimental evaluation of circuits' desired quantity of interest in the presence of fabrication error can be crucial. In this paper we proposed the use of generalized polynomial chaos method to estimate the statistical properties of a circuit from a reduced number of experimental data whilst achieving good accuracy comparable to those obtained by Monte Carlo
Genetic algorithm and polynomial chaos modelling for performance optimization of photonic circuits under manufacturing variability
Full text linkWe propose an efficient technique based on polynomial chaos expansion and genetic algorithms to enable constrained optimization of photonic integrated circuits subject to fabrication tolerances. Simulations on a realistic SOI design confirm its effectiveness
Wideband continuously tunable integrated delay line based on cascaded Mach-Zehnder
Full text linkA novel continuously tunable integrated optical delay line architecture with a record large bandwidth and bandwidth-delay product is proposed and demonstrated. The proposed delay line is based on single and cascaded integrated optical Mach-Zehnder interferometers with tunable couplers. The device can be operated with a single control signal and outper-form the common ring-resonator based delay line. Continuosly tunable true-time delay from zero to 124 ps is achieved over a bandwidth of 4.5 GHz
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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