Bandwidth expansion and pulse shape optimized for 10 PW laser design via spectral shaping

We demonstrated a scheme of bandwidth expansion and pulse shape optimized to afford 10 PW laser design via spec-tral shaping,which uses the existing Nd:glass amplifier chain of the SG PW laser.Compared to the amplified pulse with a gain-narrowing effect,the required parameters of injected pulse energy,spectral bandwidth,and shape are analyzed,to-gether with their influence on the system B-integral,energy output capability,and temporal intensity contrast.A bandwidth expansion to 7 nm by using LiNbO_(3) birefringent spectral shaping resulted in an output energy of 2 kJ in a proof-of-principle experiment.The results are consistent with the theoretical prediction which suggests that the amplifier chain of SG PW laser is capable of achieving 6 kJ at the bandwidth of 7 nm and the B-integral<π.This will support a 10 PW laser with a compressed pulse energy of 4.8 kJ(efficiency=80%)at 480 fs.

Development of fragility curves by incorporating new spectral shape indicators and a weighted damage index:case study of steel braced frames in the city of Mashhad,Iran

In this study, strong ground motion record （SGMR） selection based on Eta （~/） as a spectral shape indicator has been investigated as applied to steel braced flame structures. A probabilistic seismic hazard disaggregation analysis for the definition of the target Epsilon （ε） and the target Eta （η） values at different hazard levels is presented, taking into account appropriately selected SGMR＇s. Fragility curves are developed for different limit states corresponding to three representative models of typical steel braced frames having significant irregularities in plan, by means of a weighted damage index. The results show that spectral shape indicators have an important effect on the predicted median structural capacities, and also that the parameter r/is a more robust predictor of damage than searching for records with appropriate c values.

Nonlinear coded nonuniform superposition QAM by trellis-coding for MISO system in visible light communication

In this paper,we propose a 36-quadrature amplitude modulation(QAM)superposition modulation technique that is featured with uneven symbol probability by nonlinear precoding,named nonlinear coded nonuniform superposition(NCNS)QAM.Its aim is to alleviate the nonlinearity effect caused by high instantaneous power in multi-input single-output(MISO)visible light communication(VLC)system,with an uneven probabilistic-shaped constellation.The transmitter includes two LEDs to send signals independently,and the receiver uses a photo detector to receive the superposed QAM signal.The experiment results show that NCNS has a better robustness against nonlinearity than pulse amplitude modulation 4,approximately gaining a 16% increase in maximum usable peak-to-peak voltage and a 33% enlargement in dynamic range area.It is a simple but effective approach to solve the bandwidth limits related to signal power and hopefully be applied in large power VLC systems such as underwater VLC,or to improve the robustness against power fluctuation.

High power Yb-fiber laser amplifier based on nonlinear chirped-pulse amplification at a repetition rate of 1 MHz

We report a high power fiber amplifier based on nonlinear chirped-pulse amplification(NCPA).To manage the nonlinearity,pulse shaping is introduced by self-phase modulation in the fiber stretcher with the help of spectral filtering.The third-order dispersion is compensated for by the nonlinear phase shift in the NCPA.With optimization,the system can output 382 fs pulse duration with 20 W average power at 1 MHz repetition rate.The long-term average power fluctuation is measured to be 0.5%in 24 h,and the beam quality factor(M2)is 1.25.

A subband excitation substitute based scheme for narrowband speech watermarking

We propose a new narrowband speech watermarking scheme by replacing part of the speech with a scaled and spectrally shaped hidden signal. Theoretically, it is proved that if a small amount of host speech is modified, then not only an ideal channel model for hidden communication can be established, but also high imperceptibility and good intelligibility can be achieved. Furthermore, a practical system implementation is proposed. At the embedder, the power normalization criterion is first imposed on a passband watermark signal by forcing its power level to be the same as the original passband excitation of the cover speech, and a synthesis filter is then used to spectrally shape the scaled watermark signal. At the extractor, a bandpass filter is first used to get rid of the out-of-band signal, and an analysis filter is then employed to compensate for the distortion introduced by the synthesis filter. Experimental results show that the data rate is as high as 400 bits/s with better bandwidth efficiency, and good imperceptibility is achieved. Moreover, this method is robust against various attacks existing in real applications.