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Loredo-Trejo A, Díez A, Silvestre E, Andrés MV. Broadband tuning of polarization modulation instability in microstructured optical fibers. Opt Lett 2020; 45:4891-4894. [PMID: 32870884 DOI: 10.1364/ol.400039] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/11/2020] [Accepted: 08/04/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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The wideband tuning of strong bands generated through polarization modulation instability (PMI) in microstructured optical fibers (MOFs) is reported. Tunability is achieved by exploiting the dependence of the phase-matching condition on the fiber's chromatic dispersion and birefringence, which is particularly sensitive when the fiber is pumped near the zero-dispersion wavelength. MOFs designed to accomplish PMI phase-matching when they are infiltrated with ethanol and pumped at 1064 nm were designed and fabricated. Taking advantage of the large thermo-optic coefficient of ethanol, both chromatic dispersion and birefringence were varied through temperature. Wavelength shifts from 937 nm to 863 nm (anti-Stokes) and from 1231 nm to 1387 nm (Stokes) are demonstrated. Such a tuning range corresponds to a frequency shift between the pump and a PMI sideband ranging from 1274cm-1 to 2189cm-1.
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Longo M, Carù F, Lamparelli D, Russo M, Silvestre E. New technique for intrathecal administration in the dog: Assessment of systemic and neurological endpoints. Toxicol Lett 2015. [DOI: 10.1016/j.toxlet.2015.08.748] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Gonzalez J, Lopez J, Azinovic I, Forastero C, Casal M, Silvestre E, Osuna P, Rua C, Rodríguez-palacios J, Jaen J. Systematic and random patient set-up errors in a single-radiation center. Rep Pract Oncol Radiother 2013. [DOI: 10.1016/j.rpor.2013.03.398] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022] Open
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Schwarb M, Acuña D, Konzelmann T, Rohrer M, Salzmann N, Serpa Lopez B, Silvestre E. A data portal for regional climatic trend analysis in a Peruvian High Andes region. Adv Sci Res 2011. [DOI: 10.5194/asr-6-219-2011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022] Open
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Abstract. In the frame of a Swiss-Peruvian climate change adaptation initiative (PACC), operational and historical data series of more than 100 stations of the Peruvian Meteorological and Hydrological Service (SENAMHI) are now accessible in a dedicated data portal. The data portal allows for example the comparison of data series or the interpolation of spatial fields as well as download of data in various data formats. It is thus a valuable tool supporting the process of data homogenisation and generation of a regional baseline climatology for a sound development of adequate climate change adaptation measures. The procedure to homogenize air-temperature and precipitation data series near Cusco city is outlined and followed by an exemplary trend analysis. Local air temperature trends are found to be in line with global mean trends.
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Monsoriu JA, Depine RA, Martínez-Ricci ML, Silvestre E, Andrés P. m-bonacci metamaterial multilayers: location of the zero-average index bandgap edges. Opt Lett 2009; 34:3172-3174. [PMID: 19838263 DOI: 10.1364/ol.34.003172] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
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We examine quasiperiodic multilayers arranged in m-bonacci sequences, which combine ordinary positive-index materials and dispersive metamaterials with negative index in a certain frequency range. When the volume-averaged refractive index of the nonperiodic multilayer equals zero, the structure does not propagate light radiation and exhibits a forbidden band. We identify some analytical expressions to determine the upper and lower limits of the above zero-average refractive-index bandgap. We recognize that these limits are not explicitly dependent on the geometrical parameters of the stack of layers.
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- J A Monsoriu
- Centro de Tecnologías Físicas, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, E-46022 Valencia, Spain.
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We theoretically identify some photonic-crystal-fiber structures, made up of soft glass, that generate ultrawide (over an octave) and very smooth supercontinuum spectra when illuminated with femtosecond pulsed light. The design of the fiber geometry in order to reach a nearly ultraflattened normal dispersion behavior is crucial to accomplish the above goal. Our numerical simulations reveal that these supercontinuum sources show high stability and no significant changes are detected even for fairly large variations of the incident pulse.
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- J J Miret
- Departamento de Optica, Universidad de Alicante, 08080 Alicante, Spain.
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Delgado-Pinar M, Díez A, Torres-Peiró S, Andrés MV, Pinheiro-Ortega T, Silvestre E. Waveguiding properties of a photonic crystal fiber with a solid core surrounded by four large air holes. Opt Express 2009; 17:6931-6938. [PMID: 19399065 DOI: 10.1364/oe.17.006931] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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The polarization-dependent guiding properties of a hexagonal-lattice photonic crystal fiber with a solid-core surrounded by four large air holes are investigated. The appearance of a polarization dependent cutoff frequency, together with several parameters as the birefringence, the modal effective area, the group velocity dispersion and the polarization dependent loss are analyzed. A collection of fibers with different structural parameters were fabricated and characterized. An effective anti-guide structure from at least 450 nm to 1750 nm, a polarizing fiber with a polarization dependent loss of 16 dB/m at 1550 nm, and an endlessly singlemode polarization-maintaining fiber with group birefringence of 2.1x10(-3) at 1550 nm are reported. Experimental results are compared with accurate numerical modeling of the fibers.
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- M Delgado-Pinar
- Departamento de Física Aplicada-ICMUV, Universidad de Valencia, Burjasot, Spain
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Lloveras E, Pérez C, Solé F, Zamora L, Lladonosa A, Espinet B, Silvestre E, Serra J, Vendrell T, Fernández B, Salido M, Plaja A. Two cases of tetrasomy 9p syndrome with tissue limited mosaicism. Am J Med Genet A 2004; 124A:402-6. [PMID: 14735590 DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.a.20447] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Tetrasomy of short arm of chromosome 9 constitutes a clinically recognizable chromosomal syndrome. Isochromosome 9p shows a strong propensity to tissue-limited mosaicism. It occurs predominantly in peripheral blood cultures, often at a lower frequency or even absent in skin, amniotic fluid or chorionic villous cell cultures. Tissue-limited nature of mosaicism may render prenatal detection of this condition very difficult. Herein, we report two new cases of mosaic tetrasomy 9p. Conventional cytogenetics (CC) and FISH studies demonstrated a differential expression of the mosaicism in several tissues. We review the literature and discuss the implications of these findings in cytogenetic prenatal diagnosis.
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- Elisabet Lloveras
- Departament de Citogenética, General Lab-Laboratoris d'Anàlisis, C/Londres no. 45, 08036 Barcelona, Spain.
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Ferrando A, Silvestre E, Andres P, Miret J, Andres M. Designing the properties of dispersion-flattened photonic crystal fibers. Opt Express 2001; 9:687-697. [PMID: 19424309 DOI: 10.1364/oe.9.000687] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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We present a systematic study of group-velocity-dispersion properties in photonic crystal fibers (PCF's). This analysis includes a thorough description of the dependence of the fiber geometrical dispersion on the structural parameters of a PCF. The interplay between material dispersion and geometrical dispersion allows us to established a well-defined procedure to design specific predetermined dispersion profiles. We focus on flattened, or even ultraflattened, dispersion behaviors both in the telecommunication window (around 1.55 microm) and in the Ti-Za laser wavelength range (around 0.8 microm}. We show the different possibilities of obtaining normal, anomalous, and zero dispersion curves in the above frequency domains and discuss the limits for the existence of the above dispersion profiles.
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Pottage JM, Silvestre E, Russell PS. Vertical-cavity surface-emitting resonances in photonic crystal films. J Opt Soc Am A Opt Image Sci Vis 2001; 18:442-447. [PMID: 11205992 DOI: 10.1364/josaa.18.000442] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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It is shown that thin films of dielectric, etched through with a suitably chosen lattice of holes, can support surface-emitting vertical resonances with very-high-cavity Q factors (approximately 10(5) in the case of Al(x)GaAs(1-x) on oxidized AlyGaAs1-y). A Bloch-wave expansion is used to develop a complete vector-field analysis of these resonances and to reveal their underlying physics. Since they do not require multilayer mirrors, such resonators are a practical and simple replacement for conventional vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser structures. Other applications include wavelength-division-multiplexing components and highly sensitive gas detectors.
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- J M Pottage
- Department of Physics, University of Bath, United Kingdom
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Ferrando A, Silvestre E, Miret JJ, Andrãs P, Andrãs MV. Donor and acceptor guided modes in photonic crystal fibers. Opt Lett 2000; 25:1328-1330. [PMID: 18066206 DOI: 10.1364/ol.25.001328] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/25/2023]
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We present a triangular photonic-crystal-fiber structure that exhibits guided modes simultaneously above and below the first conduction band. We achieve this configuration by decreasing the size of one of the airholes (the defect) in a specific triangular lattice. More generally, we analyze the behavior of guided modes that depends on the size of the defect. Defects generated by decreasing or increasing the size of one of the holes produce donor or acceptor guided modes, respectively, in analogy with impurity levels in solid-state crystals. We conclude that the guiding mechanism for both donor and acceptor modes is produced by a unique phenomenon of multiple interference by a periodic structure.
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Ferrando A, Silvestre E, Miret JJ, Andres P. Vector description of higher-order modes in photonic crystal fibers. J Opt Soc Am A Opt Image Sci Vis 2000; 17:1333-1340. [PMID: 10883987 DOI: 10.1364/josaa.17.001333] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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We extensively study the propagation features of higher-order modes in a photonic crystal fiber (PCF). Our analysis is based on a full-vector modal technique specially adapted to accurately describe light propagation in PCF's. Unlike conventional fibers, PCF's exhibit a somewhat unusual mechanism for the generation of higher-order modes. Accordingly, PCF's are characterized by the constancy of the number of modes below a wavelength threshold. An explicit verification of this property is given through a complete analysis of the dispersion relations of higher-order modes in terms of the structural parameters of this kind of fiber. The transverse irradiance distributions for some of these higher-order modes are also presented, showing an excellent agreement with recent experimental measurements. In the same way, the full-vector nature of our approach allows us to analyze the rich polarization structure of the PCF mode spectrum.
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- A Ferrando
- Departament d'Optica, Universitat de Valencia, Burjassot, Spain.
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Ferrando A, Silvestre E, Miret JJ, Andrés P. Nearly zero ultraflattened dispersion in photonic crystal fibers. Opt Lett 2000; 25:790-792. [PMID: 18064185 DOI: 10.1364/ol.25.000790] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/25/2023]
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We present a procedure for achieving photonic crystal fibers with nearly zero ultraflattened group-velocity dispersion. Systematic knowledge of the special guiding properties of these fibers permits the achievement of qualitatively novel dispersion curves. Unlike the behavior of conventional fibers, this new type of dispersion behavior permits remarkably improved suppression of third-order dispersion, particularly in the low-dispersion domain.
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Ferrando A, Silvestre E, Miret JJ, Andrés P, Andrés MV. Full-vector analysis of a realistic photonic crystal fiber. Opt Lett 1999; 24:276-278. [PMID: 18071478 DOI: 10.1364/ol.24.000276] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/25/2023]
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We analyze the guiding problem in a realistic photonic crystal fiber, using a novel full-vector modal technique. This is a biorthogonal modal method based on the non-self-adjoint character of the electromagnetic propagation in a fiber. Dispersion curves of guided modes for different fiber structural paremeters are calculated, along with the two-dimensional transverse intensity distribution of the fundamental mode. Our results match those achieved in recent experiments in which the feasibility of this type of fiber was shown.
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Furlan WD, Saavedra G, Silvestre E, Andrés P, Yzuel MJ. Polychromatic axial behavior of aberrated optical systems: Wigner distribution function approach. Appl Opt 1997; 36:9146-9151. [PMID: 18264472 DOI: 10.1364/ao.36.009146] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/25/2023]
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We propose a new method for the computation of the tristimuli values that correspond to the impulse response along the optical axis provided by an imaging optical system working under polychromatic illumination. We show that all the monochromatic irradiance distributions needed for this calculation can be obtained from the Wigner distribution function associated with a certain version of the pupil function of the system. The use of this single phase-space representation allows us to obtain the above merit function for aberrated systems with longitudinal chromatic aberration and primary spherical aberration. Some numerical examples are given to verify the accuracy of our proposal.
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Silvestre E, Cusí V, Borrás M, Antich J. Cytogenetic and morphologic findings in chorionic villi from spontaneous abortions. Birth Defects Orig Artic Ser 1996; 30:353-7. [PMID: 9125340] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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- E Silvestre
- Genetic Section, Hospital Sant Joan de Déu, Esplugues, Barcelona, Spain
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Taberner A, Castañera P, Silvestre E, Dopazo J. Estimation of the intrinsic rate of natural increase and its error by both algebraic and resampling approaches. Comput Appl Biosci 1993; 9:535-40. [PMID: 8293326 DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/9.5.535] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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The intrinsic rate of natural increase or Malthusian parameter plays a key role fields as diverse as ecology, genetics, demography and evolution. It characterizes the growth of a population in a determinate environment. Since its rigorous statistical estimation requires of intensive calculation, the use of a computer becomes essential. The two main approaches to the calculation of the Malthusian parameter, its error and confidence intervals have been implemented in a program and have been compared by means of an example.
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- A Taberner
- Unidad de Fitopatología, Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas (CSIC), Madrid, Spain
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