Advanced Optical Network

The following article describes an advanced dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) Optical Network developed by L-3 Photonics. The network, configured as an amplified optical bus, carries traffic simultaneously in both directions, using multiple wavelengths. As a result, data distribution is of the form peer-to-multi-peer, it is protocol independent, and it is scalable. The network leverages the rapid growth in commercial optical technologies, including wavelength division multiplexing (WDM), and when applied to military and commercial platforms such as aircraft, ships, unmanned and other vehicles, provides a cost-effective, low-weight, high-speed, and high noise-immune data distribution system.     

强脉冲电磁场对金属凝固组织影响的研究

提出了用强脉冲磁场和电流细化金属凝固组织的新工艺.与未经磁场或电流处理的凝固样品相比,强脉冲电磁场能够显著地改善LY12铝合金的凝固组织,使晶粒明显细化、球化;电磁场的强度愈强,这种改善效果愈明显.对该新工艺的细化机理进行了理论分析,同时,指出了实验中的新现象和新问题. 关键词：     

Measures of periodicity for time series analysis of threshold-crossing events

Large-amplitude climate shifts, the so-called Dansgaard-Oeschger events, repeatedly occurred throughout the last ice age. These events, which are apparently threshold-crossing events, show a reported tendency to recur preferably in near multiples of about 1470 years. Several non-linear resonance mechanisms were proposed to explain this recurrence pattern in response to noise and/or periodic forcing. Standard methods of linear time series analysis are not sufficient to distinguish between these hypotheses, owing to the threshold-crossing dynamics of the events. Recently, new approaches were made by means of null-hypothesis testing with Monte Carlo methods. A major hurdle in this approach is the need of efficient, but yet simple measures of regularity that allow to distinguish between the proposed resonance mechanisms. By means of surrogate time series (i.e. by using a large ensemble of Dansgaard-Oeschger events as simulated with a very simple two-state model) I here test the ability of three standard measures of periodicity to distinguish between a scenario of solely noise-induced events and a ghost stochastic resonance scenario. Only one measure is found to be applicable for that purpose. The choice of adequate measures, which is not trivial, should be given more attention in future studies that focus on the question what triggered threshold-crossing events such as Dansgaard-Oeschger events.     

Odderon with a running coupling constant

The running coupling is introduced into the equation for the odderon via the bootstrap relation. It is shown that the previously found odderon state with a maximal intercept, which is constructed from an antisymmetric pomeron wave function, continues to exist in the running coupling case. Its intercept is found to remain equal to unity independent of the behaviour assumed for the running coupling at low momenta.     

Atomic-scale structure of dislocations revealed by scanning tunneling microscopy and molecular dynamics

The intersection between dislocations and a Ag(111) surface has been studied using an interplay of scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) and molecular dynamics. Whereas the STM provides atomically resolved information about the surface structure and Burgers vectors of the dislocations, the simulations can be used to determine dislocation structure and orientation in the near-surface region. In a similar way, the subsurface structure of other extended defects can be studied. The simulations show dislocations to reorient the partials in the surface region leading to an increased splitting width at the surface, in agreement with the STM observations. Implications for surface-induced cross slip are discussed.     

New oxidative transformations of phenolic and indolic oxazolines: an avenue to useful azaspirocyclic building blocks

The oxidative cyclization of a phenolic amide to a spirolactam has long been regarded as an "impossible" reaction, because exposure of the substrates to a variety of oxidants results in formation of spirolactones with consequent loss of the amine segment. We recently communicated that this heretofore unknown transformation may be achieved by oxidation of oxazoline analogues of phenolic and indolic amides. Herein, we provide full details of our work.     

Nickel-Assisted Carbon-Fluorine Bond Activation of 2,4,6-Trifluoropyrimidine: Synthesis of New Pyrimidine and Pyrimidinone Derivatives

Rapid and regioselective activation of the C-F bond of 2,4,6-trifluoropyrimidine occurs on reaction with [Ni(cod)(2)] (cod=1,5-cyclooctadiene) in the presence of PEt(3) to give 1, which can be converted into complex 2, containing a further N(3)-metalated pyrimidin-4-one unit. The novel pyrimidin-4-one 3 is released on protonation of 2.     

Spectral properties of dissipative chaotic quantum maps

I examine spectral properties of a dissipative chaotic quantum map with the help of a recently discovered semiclassical trace formula. I show that in the presence of a small amount of dissipation the traces of any finite power of the propagator of the reduced density matrix, and traces of its classical counterpart, the Frobenius-Perron operator, are identical in the limit of variant Planck's over 2pi -->0. Numerically I find that even for finite variant Planck's over 2pi the agreement can be very good. This holds in particular if the classical phase space contains a strange attractor, as long as one stays clear of bifurcations. Traces of the quantum propagator for iterations of the map agree well with the corresponding traces of the Frobenius-Perron operator if the classical dynamics is dominated by a strong point attractor. (c) 1999 American Institute of Physics.