简介:TheperformancesofnonlinearWDMsystemswithdifferentdutycyclearecomparedbymeansofnumericalsimulation.Thenumericalresultsshowthattheopticalpulsewithdutycycleof0.5issuperiortotheconventionalNRZmodulationschene.Theconclusionisdifferentfromthatofsomereferences.Thereasonisthatintersymbolinterferenceisnotincludedinsomereferences.Infact,intersymbolinterferenceplaysanimportantroleinmonlinearWDMsystem.Althoughthelargerthedutycycleis,thestrongertheeffectofthecross-phasemodulationandself-phasemodulationonnonlinearWDMishowever,thelargerthedutycycleis,thestrongertheintersymbolinterferenceis.
简介:Anovelandsimplefibergratingsensorbasedonhigh-duty-cyclesamplefiberBragggratingisproposedanddemonstratedexperimentally.Thistypeofsensorcanmeasurestrainandtemperaturesimultaneouslywithmeritsoflowcost,highsensitivityandimmunitytoelectro-magneticinterference.Thesensorhasanaccuracyof20μεand0.8℃overastrainrangeof500~1500μεandatemperaturerangeof5~36℃underexperimentalconditions.
简介:Low-duty-cyclemechanismscanreducetheenergyconsumptionsignificantlyinwirelesssensornetworks(WSNs).Sensorsstaydormantmostofthetimetosavetheirenergyandwakeupbasedontheirneeds.However,suchatechnique,whileprolongingthenetworklifetime,setsexcessivechallengesforreducingtheend-to-end(E2E)delaywithinthenetwork.Inthispaper,thecentralizedcluster-basedlocationfinding(CCLF)algorithmisproposedtoreducethehighlatencyinlow-duty-cycleWSNsbyfindingasuitablepositionforthesink.Thealgorithmismainlycomposedofthreesteps:a)theclusterconstruction,b)thefastlook-uptable(FLU-table)construction,andc)thesinklocationdecision.ThesimulationresultsshowthattheperformanceoftheCCLFalgorithmissignificantlysimilartothatoftheoptimalalgorithm.Moreover,theCCLFalgorithmrequireslessoperationtimecomparedwiththeoptimalalgorithm.