Influence of the bias current on the output characteristics of a mode-locked fiber ring laser consisting of two SOAs

In this paper, after obtaining the mode-locked pulse shape with self-reproduction theory, the influence of the bias current on the output characteristics of a backward-optical-injection harmonic mode-locked fiber ring laser consisting of two semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOAs) has been numerically investigated. The results show that the mode-locked pulse with high peak power and narrow width can be obtained through reasonably adjusting the bias currents of the two SOAs.     

Studying the Mode－Spectra Characteristics of An Above－Threshold Biased Semiconductor Laser

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ToF-SIMS analysis of a fluorocarbon-grafted PET with a gold cluster ion source

Cluster ions have been recognized as a superb primary species in time of flight secondary ion mass spectroscopy (ToF-SIMS) compared with monatomic primary ions, as they significantly enhance the secondary ion yields from bulk samples. Self-assembled monolayers provide an important system for studying the fundamental mechanism involved in the yield enhancement.We used a gold cluster ion source to analyze a new type of self-assembled monolayer: a fluorocarbon-grafted polyethylene terephthalate. In addition to the structure details, which helped to understand the grafting mechanism, ToF-SIMS analysis revealed that fluorocarbon secondary ion yield enhancements by cluster ions were due to the enhanced sputter efficiency. A larger information depth may also be expected from the enhancement. Both mathematical definitions of damage cross-section and disappearance cross-section were revisited under a new context. Another cross-section parameter, sputter cross-section, was introduced to differentiate the beam induced sputter process from damage process.     

Influence of synthesis methods on ettringite dehydration

Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry - Ettringite is an important cement hydration product and has a significant effect on cement performance. H-ettringite (synthesized by hydration...     

Identification and Characterization of a Novel Endo-β-1,4-Xylanase from Streptomyces sp. T7 and Its Application in Xylo-Oligosaccharide Production

A xylanase-producing strain, identified as Streptomyces sp. T7, was isolated from soil by our lab. The endo-β-1,4-xylanase (xynST7) gene was found in the genome sequence of strain T7, which was cloned and expressed in Escherichia coli. XynST7 belonged to the glycoside hydrolase family 10, with a molecular mass of approximately 47 kDa. The optimum pH and temperature of XynST7 were pH 6.0 and 60 °C, respectively, and it showed wide pH and temperature adaptability and stability, retaining more than half of its enzyme activity between pH 5.0 and 11.0 below 80 °C. XynST7 showed only endo-β-1,4-xylanase activity without cellulase- or β-xylosidase activity, and it showed maximal hydrolysis for corncob xylan in all the test substrates. Then, XynST7 was used for the production of xylo-oligosaccharides (XOSs) by hydrolyzing xylan extracted from raw corncobs. The maximum yield of the XOS was 8.61 ± 0.13 mg/mL using 15 U/mL of XynST7 and 1.5% corncob xylan after 10 h of incubation at 60 °C. The resulting hydrolysate products mainly consisted of xylobiose and xylotriose. These data indicated that XynST7 might by a promising tool for various industrial applications.     

Transmission of a Gaussian beam after incidenting nonnormally on a Fabry–Perot etalon: a nonresonant case

Under the nonresonant case where the carrier frequency of a Gaussian beam deviates from the resonant frequency of a Fabry–Perot etalon, the transmission of a Gaussian beam after incidenting nonnormally on a Fabry–Perot etalon has been investigated. The results show that under the nonresonant case, variations of the peak intensity, the position of the peak intensity and the spot size of the transmitted beam with the input angle behave differently and even with a reversed tendency compared with those obtained under the resonant case.     

Variation of Lasing Wavelength of Fiber Grating Semiconductor Laser with Temperature for Different External Cavity Lengths

For different external cavity lengths, lasing wavelength variation of fiber grating external cavity semiconductor laser (FGECSL) with ambient temperature has been investigated theoretically, and the theoretical results are in agreement with reported experimental observations.     

Grafting onto poly(ethylene terephthalate) driven by 172 nm UV light

The reactivity of the surface of poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET) film under 172 nm UV irradiation (xenon excimer lamp) towards nitrogen-borne 1-octene, n-nonane and heptafluorodecene vapor was investigated. Materials receiving from 0 to 24 J/cm² of UV were examined by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), time of flight secondary ion mass spectroscopy (ToF/SIMS), water and mineral oil contact angle measurement and atomic force microscopy (AFM). A uniform nanoscale layer developed on PET surface attributed to the grafting reaction between photolytically-produced polymer radicals and vapor phase molecules.     

Transmitted characteristics for a Gaussian beam passing through a misaligned Fabry-Perot interferometer

After deriving the expression of the intensity of the transmitted beam for a Gaussian beam passing through a misaligned FPI, the influence of the nonparallelism in FPI mirrors alignment on the transmission of a Gaussian beam has been investigated numerically. The results show that the energy profile of the total transmitted beam appears multiple sub-peaks structure; with the increase of the nonparallelism in FPI mirrors alignment, the number of the sub-peaks raises, the peak intensity of the transmitted beam has a declining tendency, and the peak intensity position of the total transmitted beam is shifted.     

A priori bounds and existence of positive solutions of an elliptic system of Kirchhoff type in three or four space dimensions

Let \(\Omega \subseteq \mathbb {R}^n(n\ge 3)\) be a bounded and smooth domain. Assuming that \(\alpha ,a,b>0\), \(p,q>0\), we consider the following elliptic problem of Kirchhoff type

$$\begin{aligned} \left\{ \begin{array}{llll} -(a+b\Vert \nabla u_1\Vert ^{2\alpha }_2)\Delta u_1= u_2^{p}+h_1(x, u_1, u_2, \nabla u_1, \nabla u_2) &{} \quad \text{ in }&{}\quad \Omega , \\ -\Delta u_2= u_1^{q}+h_2(x, u_1, u_2, \nabla u_1, \nabla u_2) &{}\quad \text{ in } &{}\quad \Omega , \\ u_1,u_2>0 &{} \quad \text{ in } &{}\quad \Omega , \\ u_1=u_2=0 &{} \quad \text{ on }&{}\quad \partial \Omega . \end{array} \right. \end{aligned}$$

(0.1)

Under some assumptions of \(h_i(x, u_1, u_2, \nabla u_1, \nabla u_2)(i=1, 2)\), we get a priori bounds of the positive solutions to the problem (0.1) when \(n=3,4\) and p, q satisfy \(p,q>1\), \(pq>2\alpha +1\) and \(\frac{1}{p+1}+\frac{1}{q+1}>\frac{n-2}{n}\). By these estimates and the method of continuity, we get the existence for the positive solutions to the problem (0.1). Moreover, the effect of the term \(b\Vert \nabla u_1\Vert ^{2\alpha }_2\) on the solution set of the problem (0.1) also can be given in section 2.