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In the last few years I have used several MSDos & Windows based software systems for downloading weatherfaxes. The first entries required modulators of one sort of another but the new generation of programs work just as well and better using the laptop soundcard.
For my money, the hands down winner of the new crop of multi-purpose programs which include: FAX, RTTY / SYNOP / NAVTEX and SSTV features for Windows 95, 98, 2000, NT 4.0 and XP is JVCOMM, written by Eberhard Backeshoff. You can download it free at: http://jvcomm.de/index_e.html
The only difference between the demo copy and the full blown copy is the word DEMO which appears from time to time on your output screen and printouts.
After you use it short while you will no doubt come to the same conclusion that I did as to its worth, and send the author his well deserved fee of $60 or so, the exact amount escapes me as it was a couple of years ago and the cost is tied to the Euro dollar. Besides we are fortunate to have these exceptional freeware authors and they deserve our support or they will disappear into never never land.
Once you pay the fee, Eberhard will email you a character key which entered into the appropriate field will turn on the whole shebang and also eliminate the word ''demo'' from the display. BTW, let me add the disclaimer that I have no financial or commercial ties to this program or its author in any way. I am just a very happy camper using it on most of my more recent Atlantic passages.
I am not familiar with the Sony radio you mentioned but it will need a clarifier or real tight tuning ability so that you can tune off the published frequency by 1.9 Khz. Dont know why they don''t publish it that way but whatever frequency you see in print in Reeds Almanac or other publications is actually 1.9 Khz higher than what you will have to tune to get a crisp fax.
Another suggestion if I might. Set yourself up at home so that you can get the system working no brainer like before you ever take it to the boat. Fortunately your reception will be much improved when out to sea over what you will . I have a little Radio Shack portable made by Sangean that I use at home to tune in the Halifax, Nova Scotia station almost every week just for the fun of it so that it is always second nature on the boat where I use a larger and more powerful SEA-325 SSB Transceiver.
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A system and methods for quickly entering information non-invasively for photographs stored in computer, for retrieving, displaying such information and photographs on computers and for distributing such information and photographs on digital media or through the Internet. The present invention includes computer programs, graphic user interfaces and relational databases for organizing digital collections (10) of photograph files as contents of tables in an albums relational database (16) and using simple mouse clicks to enter information about these files into tables of an arrangement relational database (31). The contents of the arrangement database and associated photograph files can be selectively retrieved for viewing using simple mouse clicks on the computer where the original digital collections reside or placed partially or in its entirety in a folder to be distributed to another computer via digital media like CD or DVD. A single photograph file together with its information can also be placed in a single steganographic file and distributed as an attachment file through any Internet email system. The present invention allows a recipient to decode the received steganographic file to view the photograph and its information. The present invention also provides method for entering master data in tables of the arrangement relational database as a prerequisite prior to entering information about photograph files. Each new entry of master data must be related to an existing master data entry.
1. A method for organizing digital collections comprised of photograph files into tables of a relational database known as albums
2. A method for quickly adding background and item data non-invasively using only mouse clicks for said digital collections into tables of a relational database known as arrangement.
3. A method for selectively retrieving subsets of said digital collections and corresponding data from said databases for display using only mouse clicks.
4. A method for creating and maintaining master data in tables of arrangement database to facilitate quick entry of item data.
5. A method for automatically creating master data in tables of arrangement database to facilitate quick entry of background data.
6. A method for maintaining tables of digital collections described in
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8. A method for transferring all or part of said digital collections, associated background and item data saved in said databases and corresponding programs into a separate folder for burning onto a CD, DVD or other such digital media.
9. A method for merging a singular photograph file in said digital collections, its associated background and item data and a message into a steganographically composed file for transmission to an recipient through the Internet via normal email as an attachment file.
10. A method for decomposing said steganographically composed file to display the original photograph file, associated background and item data and the said message.
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This specification is based on an previously-filed provisional utility patent application 60/481657, filed on Nov. 18, 2003.
Many individuals, families, corporations and institutions hold large amount of photographic files which were either indirectly acquired by scanning traditionally printed photographs or directly captured by digital cameras or similar devices (for example cell phones with digital camera functions).
Many such collections of photographic files, saved as JPEG or other graphical file formats, lack accompanying background and item data about each photograph in said collections.
Background data are information about the time, period, location, occasion and other bits of information that shed light about a photograph.
Item data are identities of people, animal and inanimate objects on a photograph.
Together, background and item(s) data should provide a viewer with a complete frame of reference for the photograph being viewed.
Unfortunately, inputting background and item data for large collection of photograph files is a daunting task.
There are software available, for example Microsoft Photo Editor, Adobe Photoshop, for inputting said data through annotating or tagging of photograph files.
These state of the art products still exhibit the following drawbacks:
1. Annotating requires keyboard input. For large collections, such method is very time-consuming. In addition, annotation may alter the photographic image by putting text or other graphical representations on said image.
2. Tagging is better than annotating. It involves in the pre-building of master data i.e. a set of tag for names of people who might appear in a photograph collection. User can use mouse to drag tags to a photograph display for those people who appear in the said photograph.
Tagging, however, only works at the photograph file level instead of item level.
For example, if Susan and Mary appear in a photograph, the photograph file will be associated with the "Susan" and "Mary" tag, but there is no way to tell which of the 5 people on the photograph is Susan or Mary.
Tagging technique, as it stands today, does not provide relationship information.
In a family, corporation or institution collection, viewer may be also interested in the relationship between people, animal or inanimate objects, in addition to their names.
For example, if Dorothy and Toto both appear in a photograph, viewer may appreciate that Toto is Dorothy's dog or, as in the previous example, Mary is Susan's mother.
The present invention resolves drawbacks associated with current state of art in processing large digital collections by utilizing relational database to store the associated background and item data.
Entry of narrative captions on a keyboard is replaced by successive mouse clicks to select pre-built masterdata which are records of tables in a relational database.
Some of these master data possess additional relationship information, thus allowing for the generation of reports that can draw inference about the organization structure of the family, organization or institution that owns the digital collection.
The source of such digital collections could be digital cameras or physical collections of photographs.
The present invention allows an user to organize a digital collection by assigning a name to a folder.
The name, the folder's full path and all the photograph files in the folder are stored in a table known as an album.
Each photograph file is also assigned an unique image number in the said album.
To add background information to a photograph file, user selects an photograph from an unprocessed album and enter data such as time, location, period, occasion and other background data on a Windows (or other GUI) screen.
Initially, an user may have to use keyboard to type in these data which will be saved as master data.
During subsequent data entry, the field's drop-down list will include the master data.
Background data are saved in background data table of a relational database known as an arrangement.
Each photograph is uniquely identified in the said table by a photo number.
Also saved is the album name and the image number.
The present invention allows an user to enter item data by mouse-clicking an item, be it a person, an animal or an inanimate object.
The item's name and its position on the photograph will be saved in an item data table which contains all items of an arrangement.
An item's name has to be pre-built and saved in a master data table to appear as an selectable option in a drop-down list. Relationship data must also be entered to allow user viewing, report and caption generation.
To view the entered background and item data, an user first makes use of a filter, made up of background data and any item name, to focus on a target group of photographs to view.
The targeted photographs are shown as a list and an user can mouse-click any entry in the list to view a photograph and its background data.
To view item data, an user can either use the left mouse button (sequential viewing) or the right mouse button (random viewing).
Once a digital collection has been completely processed, an user might export all or part of the arrangement to another party.
The present invention proposes two methods of export: batch export through CD or DVD and singular export through email.
When exporting a single photograph, the present invention combines both photograph and its background and item data into one file with a special file extension.
The recipient, with a thin client properly installed, can simply double click the received file to open it for viewing, similar to double clicking on an PDF file to bring up the Acrobat Reader.
The received file can also be merged into an existing arrangement on the recipient's computer.
Glossary of terms and acronyms.
Album. A table in an album database. Each record in an album contains an unique image number and the name of a photograph file. Other information regarding the photograph file may also be stored in the record e.g. indicator if it has been added to an arrangement, indicator if its color or black/white etc.
Albums. An relational database that contains albums and an album list. Each album is uniquely named and has a corresponding entry in the album list.
Album list. A table in an album database. Each record in an album list contains the name of an album and the full path of a folder that holds photograph files.
Arrangement. A relational database that holds tables for background data, item data and master data.
Background Data. A table in an arrangement. Each record in a background data contains an unique photo number, album, image number and fields for period, location, occasion etc.
Digital Collection. Folders on a computer containing JPEG or other graphical format files are collectively known as a digital collection.
Item Data. A table in an arrangement. Each record in an item data contains an photo number, an item number and fields for storing the coordinates of the item in the photograph.
Master Data. A table in an arrangement. There could be multiple tables for master data, each table containing one type of master data. For example, people, location, animal, periods are all associated with a data. Each master data record contains at least an unique name. Some master data table requires additional relationship data.
Physical Collection. Photographs stored in physical albums, envelopes, desk drawers etc. in a family, corporation or institution are collectively known as a physical collection.
The present invention resolves drawbacks associated with current state of art in processing digital collections with large amount of photographic files by utilizing relational database to store the associated background and item data for said files.
Time-consuming entry of narrative captions on a keyboard is replaced by successive mouse clicks to select pre-built or build-as-you-go master data from drop-down lists which are fields of tables in a relational database.
Normally a digital collection of photographs 10 exist on a computer as one or more folders 11 containing JPEG or other graphical format files 12, shown in
The division of files into folders may be arbitrary or based on simple rules of thumb. For example, scanned photograph files may be placed in the same folder if they originated from the same physical album. For photograph files captured by digital cameras, photograph files in a folder may come from the same upload batch.
The present invention allows an user to organize a digital collection by assigning a name to a folder.
The name 13, the folder's full path 14 are stored in an album list table 15 of an relational database known as albums 16.
All the photograph files 17 in the folder are stored in an album table 18 of the albums database.
There could be multiple album tables in an albums database.
Each photograph file is also assigned an unique serial number in the said album, known as image number 19.
The association of a logical album with a physical folder allows implementation of the present invention to add and store background and item data for photograph files in an non-invasive manner i.e. the photograph files themselves are not altered.
To add background information to a photograph file, shown in
Each unprocessed photograph will be presented to the said user on the screen along with fields 21 to enter data such as time, location, period, occasion and other background data. Initially, an user may have to use keyboard to type in these data 22.
But once data is entered into a field, it will be saved as master data. When next photograph appears, the corresponding field will feature a drop-down list 23 which will include the previously keyed-in data.
This way, as an user progresses into the processing of a digital collection, less and less data will be keyed in as more master data would be built up and appear in drop-down lists, allowing an user to simply mouse-click a selection.
Once the background data is entered, an user can mouse-click the Save button 24 to save the said data in a background data table 30 in a relational database known as an arrangement 31, shown in
Each photograph is uniquely identified in the said table by a serial number known as photo number.
Also saved are the name of the album 33 that the photograph belongs and its image number 34.
Following the entry of background data, an user can immediately proceed to enter item data, shown in
The present invention allows an user to mouse-click once anywhere on an item, be it a person, an animal or an inanimate object 40.
A special icon 41 will appear on the spot where the mouse was clicked. Then the user can select a name 42 from an appropriate drop-down list 43.
The item's coordinate 36 will be saved, as shown in
For example, an user can move the cursor to Susan's face and then mouse-clicks at the spot. The user then clicks the drop-down list for people and selects Susan by mouse-clicking on the name Susan.
The inputting of item data is entirely through mouse-clicking.
To allow users to simply use mouse-click to enter item data requires an user to pre-build the master data for items.
The names of people, animals and inanimate objects are first entered by keyboard and stored in different master data tables 25 in an arrangement.
Each record in a master data table corresponds to one name 26. For example, the people table will have records for Susan, Mary, Dorothy etc. The animal master data will have records for Toto, Fido etc.
Along with names, the present invention also requires an user to enter relationship data for each record. For example, in the record for Mary, the user must indicate who is Mary related to (John) 27 and the relationship (wife) 28.
The present invention allows master data to be pre-built through screens with graphical user interfaces.
The "related to" field will also contain a drop-down list of people and the user can only select one name from the said list.
This means that when entering an new name, it must be related to an existing name. This requirement further means there is a "root" or the very first master data record where the "related to" field is impossible to fill. The present invention requires an implementation to hard-code this exception case.
To view the entered background and item data, the present invention allows an user, as shown in
The filter will let an user specify any album 45, any of the background data 46 and any item name 47 as selection criteria for data in an arrangement.
This allows an user to focus on a smaller set of photograph in a large arrangement.
Since the number of items on a photograph is variable, to select more than one item name in a category, for example people, the present invention uses an marking scheme to represent the ANDing and ORing of item names.
Once the filter is built, the present invention will present a filtered list 48 containing all photographs that meet the selection criteria.
Each line in a filtered list corresponds to a photograph and displays some summary information, for example, thumbnail image of a photograph 49, its location, period and names of items 50 on the photograph.
Hyperlinks will be placed on the thumbnail image field to allow user to view a full screen initially containing the selected photograph and all the background data fields.
The marking scheme allows an user to mark all items 51 in a filtered list instead of displaying it.
Use can then return to the filter screen and specify that the selection criteria to be built will be applied only to the filtered list (those that are marked) 52.
This time, user can select another item name. The resultant filtered list will be the ANDing of the first selection criteria and the second selection criteria. This process can repeated as many times as an user wishes, until the filtering of item names is completed.
Similarly, an user can also specify that the selection criteria to be built will be applied only to those photographs that are not marked 53.
The resultant filtered list will be the ORing of the first selection criteria and the second selection criteria.
To view item data, an user can either use the left mouse button or the right mouse button.
By clicking on the left mouse button, a special icon 55 will appear at the spot where the item data was originally entered. Item's name 56 will appear in a special field on the screen, along with its relationship data 57.
The name is hyperlinked to another screen where the master data associated with the name are presented.
Successive clicking of the left mouse will present additional items until all items data are presented.
This mode is appropriate when there are only a few items on a photograph.
In a large gathering like graduation photograph where many items may appear, the present invention allows an user to right mouse-clicks anywhere on the photograph and all item will be marked by special icons at the spots where their data were originally entered.
The user then moves the cursor to any of the icon and the associated item name will appear in a special field on the screen.
The name is similarly hyperlinked as in the case of the left mouse-click.
The present invention also allows an user to edit background and item data already entered for a photograph as shown in
An user would select the photograph or photographs to edit by using the filter 44 the same way as viewing.
Once the editing screen is presented, an user can alter any background data fields 58 by making another selection from the associated drop-down list or key in brand new data.
Editing item data also involves two modes: the left mouse button to add new item and the right mouse button to delete an existing item.
The left mouse button is used exactly the same way as entering new item data as previously described.
Clicking the right mouse button will have cause all items to be exposed with special icons 55.
By moving the cursor to an icon, the item associated with the icon is removed from the item data table.
Once a digital collection has been completely processed, an user might export all or part of the arrangement to another party.
The present invention proposes two methods of export: batch export and singular export.
Batch export is used for exporting large amount of photographs through CD or DVD or other storage medium, as shown in
In this mode, all selected photograph files 60, along with albums 61 and arrangement 62 databases , as well as the executable code 63 are copied to a specified folder which serves as a CD image.
Any commercially available CD or DVD burning program can then be used to copy and burn the data in the CD image onto a CD or DVD 64.
The authorized recipient of the said CD or DVD can then copy its content into a folder 65 on a compatible computer and start the viewing program and any other authorized activities.
The recipient will be able to view photograph files along with their associated background and item data by using the same method as previously described in viewing and other activities.
The batch export provides the recipient with a rich client where all the activities of the present invention are available, subject to authorization.
Sometimes, the recipient may only need to view photographs. For example, parents may occasionally send family photographs to children away in college. In such cases, the recipient only needs to install a thin client of the present invention with only the viewing activity available.
When exporting a single photograph file with its background and item data, the present invention, as shown in
Then the text file is either embedded in the photograph file 71 steganographically (refer to US Patent Application #20020051162 which deals with steganography applied to printed matter) or through other embedding or appending technique (refer to US Patent Application # 20030098877 which deals with attaching information by extending a JPEG file).
The resulting file, containing both the photograph file and the text file, is saved with a different extension. For example, the original DOCU0012.JPG file, once embedded with text data, is saved as DOCU0012.XYZ.
This file can then be sent to the recipient via normal email 73 as an attachment file.
Once the recipient receives the email and saves the attached file in a folder, he/she can simply double-click on the file to bring up the photograph screen along with all the background data.
Items data can then be shown using either the left mouse button or the right mouse button as previously described.
In addition, such singular export can have optional password and additional short secret message attached. The saved file 72 will have a different extension, for example DOCU0012.XZZ. The recipient will need to provide a password before the secret message is shown.
To enable double clicking an singularly exported photograph file for viewing 74, the recipient will have to install the thin client on his/her computer in such a way to associate the file extension (for example XYZ, XZZ) with the thin client. This is similar to double clicking on an PDF file to bring up the Acrobat Reader program.
If the recipient also has the rich client installed, either through batch export or because the recipient needs to process his/her own digital collections, the present invention allows the singularly exported file to be added to the recipient's arrangement.
The photograph file and the embedded background and item data will be added to the associated tables of the said arrangement.
The present invention allows an user to request reports based on the data present in an arrangement.
Since item names are related, user can request, for example, a family tree report based on the people data in a family arrangement.
In corporation or institution arrangements, user can request organizational or hierarchical reports, along with photographs of people in the hierarchy or organization.
Such reports can be based on static hierarchical definitions or can be derived ad hoc.
During printing of a photograph from an arrangement, caption can also be automatically synthesized by combining various background data fields based on certain grammatical rules.
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Low-loss planar optical waveguides fabricated from polycarbonate.
Polymer materials have great applications in the field of planar lightwave circuit in the past decade because of its merits of ease in fabrication and energy-saving property (e.g., large thermo-optic coefficient) (1), (2). A number of polymers such as acrylate polymer, perfluoropolymer, ultraviolet (UV) epoxy resin, and fluorinated polyimide (FPI) have so far been shown to demonstrate capability in a variety of demanding applications of optical waveguides (3). Furthermore, polymer materials have played an important role in surface plasmonics in recent years (4), (5). Materials such as benzocyclobutene (6), polymethylmethacrylate (7), and UV-curable polymer ZPU (ChemO-ptics Co.) (8) have been selected as the cladding materials for surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) waveguides.
In general, for polymers to be used for integrated optical and SPPs devices, three main characteristics are most critical: high thermal stability, low optical propagation loss, and good processability (such as coating, adhesion, and etching). It is well known that fluorinated polymers not only have low propagation loss but also show increased chemical stability (9), but this series of polymers have the drawback of poor adhesion because of their inert nature and low surface energies (10). Conventional polycarbonate is one type of excellent polymer materials in the visible wavebands (400-700 nm), but its application in optical communication devices is limited because of its high absorption loss characteristic in the infrared waveband (11). As shown from the previous reports, the lowest propagation loss of polycarbonate waveguide is 0.6 dB/cm at 1550 nm (3).
In this article, we proposed a novel polycarbonate that has high optical transparence at the communication wavelengths. The measured results show that this polycarbonate material exhibits several merits, including low propagation loss, high heat resistance, good film formation performance, ease processability, and excellent toughness property. The propagation losses of the slab waveguides measured from prism coupler are 0.197, 0.282, and 0.335 dB/cm at monitoring light of 632.8, 1310, and 1550 nm, respectively. The ridge waveguides and multimode interference (MMI) couplers based on polycarbonate were also fabricated successfully.
Figure 1 shows the molecular structure of polycarbonate synthesized as references (12), (13). In general, both C--H and O--H overtones are highly absorptive in the communication windows (14), As it has been demonstrated that adhesion property can be enhanced by introducing polar functional groups, such as carbonate (--O--C (=O)--O--) (10), polycarbonate shows both high optical transparence and good adhesion properties via the replacement of O--H bonds with polar functional carbonate (--O--C (=O)--O--). The glass transition temperature is 293[degrees]C, showing higher heat resistance than bisphenol-A-polycarbonate (15), (16).
Optical Characteristics of Polycarbonate Film Waveguide
The polycarbonate was dissolved in 1,2-dichloroben-zene to form a viscous solution (8 wt%), then the solution was filtered by a 0.2-[micro]m Teflon glass syringe filter two times, and then spin-coated onto a glass substrate to form a slab waveguide. The thickness of the slab waveguide was controlled by changing the spin speed and the concentration of polymer solution. By choosing a proper fabrication condition, a 3.3-[micro]m smooth polymer film without dust, crack, and bubbles was achieved. To entirely remove the residue solvent and reduce the stress-induced scattering, a multistep thermal treatment on the polymer film was adopted. First, the film was baked at 135[degrees]C for 5-6 h, then heated at 120[degrees]C for 12 h in a vacuum oven, and finally slowly cooled to room temperature to get the high-quality polycarbonate slab waveguide.
For low-loss optical waveguides, a promising polymer must be almost apparent at the communication wavelength range. Thus, we measured the absorption spectrum of the fabricated polycarbonate film using spectrum analysis. The measured results can be seen from Fig. 2.
It demonstrates that the polycarbonate film has a very low absorption at the visible and communication wavelengths. Especially, the value of absorption coefficients at 1310 and 630 nm is generally the same. However, the absorption at 1550 nm is a little higher than at 1310 nm, the wavelengths of which are used in both optical telecommunications. Periodic modulation in the absorption curve demonstrates uniform film thickness of polycarbonate film. In a word, the data indicate that the novel polycarbonate has good optical transparence at the communication wavelengths.
To characterize the thermo-optic coefficient (dn/dT) at 1550 nm, film was measured by the Prism Coupler SPA4000, which is a precise temperature-controlling system. The result is shown in Fig. 3. The thermo-optic coefficient of polycarbonate is ~ - 1.06 X [10.sup.-4][degrees][C.sup.-1] at 1550 nm from a least-squares fit of the data, which is lower than alternative low-loss polymers, such as Norland Optical Adhesive 61 (NOA61) (-2.46 X [10.sup.-4] [degrees][C.sup.-1]) (17) and FPI (-1.3 X [10.sup.-4] [degrees][C.sup.-1]) (18). It shows that polycarbonate has a high thermal stability. Meanwhile, the refractive index of the polycarbonate was also measured to be 1.60 at 1550 nm.
Furthermore, the propagation loss of the fabricated polycarbonate slab waveguide was also measured by Prism-Coupler (SPA4000) for TE mode at 632.8, 1310, and 1550 nm, respectively. The light was coupled to slab waveguide by prism-coupling method, and an index matching liquid was used for optimum output coupling. The measured results of optical loss at 1310 and 632.8 nm are 0.282 and 0.197 dB/cm, respectively, as low as some commercial polymer materials (1), (11). Besides, at the communication wavelength of 1550 nm, the loss is 0.335 dB/cm, which is far less than the reported value of traditional polycarbonate (0.60 dB/cm at 1550 nm) (3). In general, many factors contribute to the propagation loss of optical waveguides, such as scattering and process-induced effect besides intrinsic absorption loss of material itself, caused by impurities of solution, uniformness of spin-coating step, and heat treatment of film (15). Both the absorption loss and process-induced scattering loss are very low when compared with the total loss. Thus, the major part of the measured loss at 1550 nm should be attributed to the loss induced by the impurities of solution. Therefore, by optimizing the filtering process, the propagation loss could be further reduced.
Figure 4 shows the transmission path of light of 632.8 nm in the waveguide. The image was captured by charge-coupled device (CCD) camera, demonstrating the excellent transmission characteristic.
In the fabrication of optical waveguide devices, the structure of waveguides on central part of substrate was used for testing, whereas the edge part was cut for polishing the facet. As to the prism-coupling method, the measured waveguide length was required to be 6-8 cm, and the B area (see Fig. 4) was taken to measure by immersing in the matching liquid. As is known, the quality of the margin part of film is poorer than the central part because of the spin-coating, leading to the high propagation loss as well. It can be observed from Fig. 4 that the attenuation degree of light is higher in the B area than A when light propagating from A to B.
To characterize the propagation properties of planar optical waveguides in the central part, CCD camera imaging method is introduced here to analyze the transmission property of the fabricated polycarbonate waveguide at 632.8 nm, which is a new method to characterize the propagation property of planar optical waveguides. This technique has the advantages of being nondestructive, requiring low guided power, independent of the coupling efficiency and facet reflectivity. When light travels along a thin film waveguide, the scattered light can be observed because of the light scattering. The scattered light is taken to be directly proportional to the intensity of the guided light inside the waveguide. Therefore, the variation of the scattered light along the light path can be viewed as the variation of coupled light intensity in the film waveguide (19).
The relation between scattered light intensity and propagation loss can be expressed as the following (20):
where [z.sub.1] and [z.sub.2] are any points along the propagation length. [MATHEMATICAL EXPRESSION NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] and [MATHEMATICAL EXPRESSION NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] are the intensity of the scattered light. The loss coefficient [alpha] can be deduced from formula (1)
Therefore, the propagation loss of the optical waveguide can be nondestructively measured by monitoring the intensity of the scattered light along the propagation direction and fitting this variation with a monoexponential formula. We used a CCD camera to take pictures of light beam in the waveguide and got the two-dimensional scattered light intensity distribution (see Fig. 4). The length of the light streak of A is 3.00 cm, and the relative intensity at each position along the propagation direction was obtained by the integration of the light intensity perpendicular to the propagation direction within the width of waveguide. The relative scattered light intensity versus the propagation position was then plotted as shown in Fig. 5.
From the linear least-square fit of this plot, the propagation loss coefficient for the central part of the slab waveguide was measured to be 0.07 dB/cm at 632.8 nm.
In combination with the above two methods, we evaluate the overall transmission performance of polycarbonate film. It indicates a relative low propagation loss in the area of spinning center of the film, which was generally chose for fabricating low-loss optical waveguides devices, whereas the input and output facets of the waveguide were cut for polishing.
Device Fabrication
On the basis of the film fabrication technique, we successfully fabricated the straight optical waveguides and MMI couplers on K9 glass substrate through conventional photolithographic patterning and reactive ion etching (RIE) processes. To define the waveguide patterns on the polycarbonate core layer, a positive RZJ-304 photoresist (available from Suzhou Ruihong electronic chemicals Co., China) was spin-coated on top of the 3.3-[micro]m polycarbonate films and prebaked for 90 s at 100[degrees]C on the hotplate. Next, photolithographic process was carried out to transfer the pattern of mask into photoresist layer, and the ridge pattern of core layer was then formed by RIE using oxygen. The width of straight optical waveguides and MMI couplers is shown in Fig. 6. It shows the electron microscope image of waveguides after core-etching processing, revealing smooth sides and excellent definition.
After the core layer was coated with NOA61 as over-cladding layer and a piece of microscope glass slide was bonded with NOA61 to form a protective cover at the same step, the sample was cured completely and then the end-faces were polished to a optical quality to allow for direct end-face coupling of light. Light from a He-Ne laser (632.8 nm) was coupled to a single-mode optical fiber using a microscope objective (12.5X) and directly to the ridge waveguides. Figure 6c and d is the light coupled in the straight waveguide and MMI coupler. One can see clearly that the incident light from the input waveguide splits into two parts at the end of the multimode section and each part then passes through one output waveguide. The scattering losses are mainly caused by the multimode transmission of light. Theoretically, the structures of our waveguides are designed for single-mode transmission at 1550 nm wavelength. So in our following study, optical waveguide for end-fire coupling testing of light at 1550 nm will be carried out. According to the theoretic layout of ridge waveguide, single-mode propagation of light can be achieved.
In this article, a novel polycarbonate material was used to fabricate optical waveguides. Characterizations of slab waveguides were studied in detail. The polymer exhibits high thermal stability, ease processability, good adhesion to substrate, excellent toughness properties, and low propagation loss in the visible and communication wavelengths. With these advantages, straight optical waveguide and MMI coupler were fabricated using photolithographic and RIE procedures. The experiment results show that the novel polycarbonate has great potentials in the field of integrated optical applications and surface plasmonics. However, lower losses are expected for further optimization of the waveguide fabrication process and the annealing treatment in making optical waveguides devices in our following study.
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Jian-guo Chen, (1) Tong Zhang, (1) Jin-song Zhu, (2) Xiao-yang Zhang, (1) Jing-lun Zhou, (2) Jiang-feng Fan, (2) Guo-hua Hu (1)
(1) School of Electronic Science and Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, China
(2) National Center for NanoScience and Technology (NCNST), Beijing 100080, China
Correspondence to: Tong Zhang; e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
Contract grant sponsor: Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China (Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University); contract grant number: NCET-05-0465.
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Avatar sets two Blu-ray records: most illegal downloads, most bought discs
April 28, 2010
It smashed Box Office records worldwide to become the highest grossing film in history, now James Cameron's Avatar is setting new benchmarks in the Blu-ray market. Around 1.5 million Blu-ray discs were snapped-up on the first day of release in the U.S. - more than previous record holder The Dark Knight - and that's just the 2D version, without special features. The Blu-ray release also triggered an avalanche of illegal downloads, with the sci-fi epic now well on its way to becoming the most pirated Blu-ray film ever.
Downloads on BitTorrent reportedly reached 200,000 in the first four days after the Blu-ray release. TorrentFreak points out that countries where the Blu-ray release was later than the U.S. (U.K. and Australia) made up a relatively high proportion of the illegal downloads.
In stores, combined DVD and Blu-ray sales where estimated at more the 4 million units.
A second 2D release with bonus features is expected in November and the full box of chocolates - for those with 3D Blu-ray players - will arrive early in 2011.
Given its incredible success to date, the film certainly won't do any damage to the uptake of 3D in the home.
Via: ABC News.
Blech. Overhyped, awful film. I won\'t buy the Blu-ray and I wouldn\'t even download it for free. Just not worth watching. I\'d rather watch \"How to Train Your Dragon\" any day. That had a much better, less depressing story and characters you can care about.Gadgeteer
I agree with May of 76. Avatar was a three hour bag of crap.Ian MacEachern
Right: the biggest box-office hit of all time was a bag of crap. So were all the previous all-time movie hits. Moviegoers must be awfully stupid...
Or, maybe it\'s just you two-William Lanteigne
\"Moviegoers must be awfully stupid...\"
You said it, not me. It never occurred to you that much of the attraction was to the novelty of 3D for today\'s audiences? Nor that the high box office is at least in part due to the exorbitant ticket prices in the 3D theaters? Popularity is never a good indicator of quality. Most professional critics lambasted the film for its utterly unoriginal and predictable plot. For all of its 3D spectacle, the characters were completely two-dimensional. Without the 3D aspect, the CGI wasn\'t top notch, never looking truly realistic in terms of texture or motion. In a few years, when the novelty of 3D has worn off, people will admit that this really wasn\'t a good movie.Gadgeteer
Agreed, if you dont like somthing fair enough, there is no point bitching about it. I\'m sure your also aware that \'How to Train your Dragon\' is actually based on a book, I\'m sure the film is much better thoug....marshall91t
Well, by that token, what gives you the right to tell others to shut up? If you don\'t like their opinions, fair enough. But there is no point bitching about them. Maybe you would like to live in a world where you can worship James Cameron as God\'s gift to Hollywood, but reality is somewhat different.Gadgeteer
\"Without the 3D aspect, the CGI wasn\'t top notch, never looking truly realistic in terms of texture or motion. In a few years, when the novelty of 3D has worn off, people will admit that this really wasn\'t a good movie.\"
I haven\'t seen it in 3D yet. It was playing in 2D in the theater where we watched it. I didn\'t go to critique the movie, I went to have a good time with my son. We both enjoyed it, and I think it was worth the price of admission. We may go to see it again at the Imax theater the next time it plays there. I understand it spoils your intent, but I\'m sure we\'ll have a good time anyway.William Lanteigne
The higher the profile of the the film, the more people love to wag their tongues about its flaws. They sat through it didn't they?
Yeah, the story was simple and the characters were not deep and complex. But they were good enough. Because it's science fiction and meant to entertain not be high drama. Like Titanic the story is not great. I can skip the first half, but the portatrayal of the sinking is amazing.
And to suggest that the CGI was not anything but absolutely, cutting edge, state-of-the art is absurd. My gave me the collectors edition recently and to be honest, I postponed watching it because the story was not that strong but once I did, once again I absolutely dazzled by not only the quality of the special effects, the textures, the blades of grass blown in the downdraft of a helicopter, etc. but the artistry of creating such a convincing world.
I can watch it over and over again and speed it up and slow it down and go frame by frame and always see more amazing detail I hadn't seen before.
I can only imagine how much it will have improved by the next iteration.Jon Shurtleff
That is one of the problems with this movie.
It was supposed to be science fiction and there was practically no science fiction in it with very little about the futuristic technology that was supposed to exist.
Sure, it was supposed to be on another planet with new and different flora and fauna. And the indigenous sentient beings were not humans. But there was nothing about how the ship got there or what they used for fuel. All they showed was the ship at the planet and the humans landing in a shuttle craft.
James Cameron knows how to tell a story well, he did a fantastic job of telling this one.
But the story, while told quite well was garbage because it was nothing but an attack on the ideas of business and on the military with the message that both were evil, and run by greedy idiots.
If you like anti capitalist propaganda films then this one should be at the top of your list and plenty of people in the world love such tripe, which is why it did so well at the box office.
If you really like good science fiction then "A Sound of Thunder" was far better, even though it too was quite preachy about greedy capitalists misusing technology. At least it revolved far more around the technology itself and showed how science and technology and even capitalism, could be used for good. They were not made out to be inherently and irredeemably evil, in and of themselves.
If you don't care about how old a movie is, then another excellent film with a lot of actual science fiction in it, was Forbidden Planet. I have watched both of those movies multiple times and had my fill of Avatar after a single viewing: Despite my having purchased the DVD box set expanded edition, to do so.Fusiontek


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Versita Open has already attracted over 200 journals across numerous
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Hollow Boys embrace the dark on third album
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Dig the Pipettes' cute-as-a-button throwback girl-group stylings? Then go further back in time with this fellow U.K.-based trio, an Andrews Sisters-styled close-harmony act that frontlady Marcella Puppini (the only true Puppini of the bunch) formed with a pair of music-college pals after seeing Les Triplettes de Belleville a few years ago. The women tackle plenty of period material on Betcha Bottom Dollar, their effortlessly appealing debut, including "Mr. Sandman," Irving Berlin's "Sisters" (from White Christmas), and "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy," the Andrews Sisters' indelible World War II staple.
Yet the Puppinis also subject more contemporary material to their studiously old-school treatment here, an obvious sop to younger listeners that nonetheless yields real creative rewards. Highest novelty-pop points go to "I Will Survive," which they sap of any urgency but frost with a knowing sass. Blondie's "Heart of Glass" is fun, too, with the disc's nimblest vocal performances. But the Puppinis' most potent reading is their take on Kate Bush's "Wuthering Heights," where they flip the script on the doomed romance of Bush's original (and Emily Brontë's novel) with a peppy arrangement that makes the tune sound like it's being sung from Heathcliff's perspective, not Catherine's. As Bush covers go, it's up there with Maxwell's "This Woman's Work" and the Futureheads' "Hounds of Love."—Mikael Wood
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If the hose clams are snug then it is most likely a compression issue or crud between the carbon and stainless faces..
There are two set screw holes in the stainless rotor located at roughly 10:00 & 2:00. There should be two set screws in each hole, one on top of the other.
Remove the set screws and back the rotor off until it is just touching the carbon face but there is no compression in the bellows. Mark your shaft with electrical tape, at the forward edge of the stainless rotor, then slide the rotor towards the stern using the compression distance, for your dia, shaft from the PYI instructions.
If you don't REPLACE the set screws there is no guarantee they will bite the shaft as the volcano head gets rolled or flattened!
These are new:
You then REPLACE the set screws with new and re-tighten them at the newly measured compression distance from the tape you placed.
This is a photo where you can see the set screw holes in the stainless rotor..
I then place a 316 SS Ruland split collar behind the stainless rotor as added insurance to prevent the rotor from sliding forward. These are available from McMaster-Carr.
Ruland Split Collar installed on a v-drive boat. Note the white tape where the compression measurement was taken off.
P.S. could just be as simple as some junk caught between the face seals..
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Operator: Good day, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the Third Quarter 2013 Molex Incorporated Press Release Conference Call. My name is Gwynn and I'll be your operator for today. At this time, all participants are in listen-only mode. Later, we will conduct a question-and-answer session. As a reminder, this conference is being recorded for replay purposes.
I would now like to turn the conference over to your host for today, Mr. Steve Martens. Please proceed.
Steve Martens - VP, IR: Thank you, Gwynn. Good morning, everyone. I'm here this morning with Martin Slark, our Chief Executive Officer who will provide an overview of the quarter results and comments by market; and Dave Johnson, our CFO who will cover our financial results and guidance for the June quarter. During our prepared remarks, we will be referring to a small slide deck, which is available in the Investors Relations section of our website, molex.com. A replay of this call will also be available on the site.
Before we begin, I have a few comments regarding our Safe Harbor statements, which are on Slides 1 and 2 of the presentation. During the course of this presentation, we will be providing forward-looking information and referring to non-GAAP measures. Please read carefully the forward-looking statement section of our press release and Form 10-K for an understanding of the risks and uncertainties associated with forward-looking information and the reconciliation of non-GAAP measures to GAAP.
And now, I'll turn the call over to Martin.
Martin P. Slark - Vice Chairman and CEO: Thank you, Steve, and good morning, everybody, and welcome to our third quarter call. If you would, please turn to Page 3 now which is the first of the slides that actually provide some information on the quarter. I'll now give you a quick overview of what we think were the key items that occurred this quarter. First of all, after two years of litigation, we settled the lawsuit brought by Mizuho Bank over activities in our Japanese subsidiary as we explained to all of you occurred many years ago. We've been incurring ongoing legal fees to try and defend our position and we were facing significant potential interest penalties. Therefore, we decided to settle this case, so that we could focus on executing our business strategies. I have to tell you that we weren't happy with the final outcome of this case, but as we stated many times in Investor Meetings, we were a U.S. company fighting a Japanese bank in Japan.
Dave will explain the final charges and the cash impact of the settlement in a few minutes and hopefully we can then put this issue behind us.
Revenue was much weaker than we anticipated during the March quarter with significant sequential declines in components for mobile phones and tablets. The decreases were largely due to lower sales to one customer for new program that was introduced in the September and December quarters. Excluding this program, we would have experienced a normal seasonal revenue decline of about 4% sequentially.
Profitability was relatively strong, considering the weak demand environment. Margins were in line an SG&A was better than our guidance for the quarter. Consistent with our capital allocation priorities, the Board of Directors has approved a 9% increase to dividend effective in the September quarter. The new annual rate will be $0.96 per share. This reflects the Board's view that cash flows will continue to grow as we move forward.