We present results of detailed investigations of light emission from semiconductor multiple quantum wells at low temperatures and high magnetic fields excited by intense femtosecond laser pulses. The intensity and lin...
We present results of detailed investigations of light emission from semiconductor multiple quantum wells at low temperatures and high magnetic fields excited by intense femtosecond laser pulses. The intensity and linewidth as well as the directional and statistical properties of photoemission strongly depended on the magnetic field strength and pump laser fluence. We also investigated the effects of spot size, temperature, excitation geometry, and excitation pulse width on the emission properties. The results suggest that the initially incoherent photoexcited electron-hole pairs spontaneously form a macroscopic coherent state upon relaxation into the low-lying magnetoexcitonic states, followed by the emission of a superfluorescent burst of radiation. We have developed a theoretical model for superfluorescent emission from semiconductor quantum wells, which successfully explained the observed characteristics.
Decoy states have been proven to be a very useful method for significantly enhancing the performance of quantum key distribution systems with practical light sources. Although active modulation of the intensity of the...
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Decoy states have been proven to be a very useful method for significantly enhancing the performance of quantum key distribution systems with practical light sources. Although active modulation of the intensity of the laser pulses is an effective way of preparing decoy states in principle, in practice passive preparation might be desirable in some scenarios. Typical passive schemes involve parametric down-conversion. More recently, it has been shown that phase-randomized weak coherent pulses (WCP) can also be used for the same purpose [M. Curty et al., Opt. Lett. 34, 3238 (2009).] This proposal requires only linear optics together with a simple threshold photon detector, which shows the practical feasibility of the method. Most importantly, the resulting secret key rate is comparable to the one delivered by an active decoy-state setup with an infinite number of decoy settings. In this article we extend these results, now showing specifically the analysis for other practical scenarios with different light sources and photodetectors. In particular, we consider sources emitting thermal states, phase-randomized WCP, and strong coherent light in combination with several types of photodetectors, like, for instance, threshold photon detectors, photon number resolving detectors, and classical photodetectors. Our analysis includes as well the effect that detection inefficiencies and noise in the form of dark counts shown by current threshold detectors might have on the final secret key rate. Moreover, we provide estimations on the effects that statistical fluctuations due to a finite data size can have in practical implementations.
In the last decade, moving horizon estimation (MHE) has emerged as a powerful technique for tackling the problem of estimating the state of a dynamic system in the presence of nonlinearities and disturbances. MHE is b...
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In the last decade, moving horizon estimation (MHE) has emerged as a powerful technique for tackling the problem of estimating the state of a dynamic system in the presence of nonlinearities and disturbances. MHE is based on the idea of minimizing an estimation cost function defined on a sliding window composed of a finite number of time stages. The cost function is usually made up of two contributions: a prediction error computed on a recent batch of inputs and outputs;an arrival cost that serves the purpose of summarizing the past data. However, the diffusion of such techniques has been hampered by: i) the difficulty in choosing the arrival cost so as to ensure stability of the overall estimation scheme;ii) the request of an adequate computational effort on line. In this paper, both problems are addressed and possible solutions are proposed. First, by means of a novel stability analysis, it is constructively shown that under very general observability conditions a quadratic arrival cost is sufficient to ensure the stability of the estimation error provided that the weight matrix is adequately chosen. Second, a novel approximate MHE algorithm is proposed that is based on nonlinear programming sensitivity calculations. The approximate MHE algorithm has the same stability properties of the optimal one which make the overall approach suitable to be applied in real settings. Preliminary simulation results confirm the effectiveness of proposed method.
The main objective of this experience lies on the development of positive learning aptitudes on engineering students. The experience presented in this paper has been carried out with the help of the problembased learn...
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This work introduces a didactic framework for electronic teaching and learning based on a hypermedia tool which integrates the principles of the learning theories from a cognitive point of view. It exhibits a great de...
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This letter investigates the issues on joint application of STBC systems and RAKE receivers in a CDMA system. We show the advantages of using STBC-RAKE receivers in multipath Rayleigh fading channels via error probabi...
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In this paper, diversity analysis of bit-interleaved coded multiple beamforming (BICMB) is extended to the case of general spatial interleavers, removing a condition on their previously known design criteria and quant...
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To support fast and efficient handovers in mobile WiMAX, we propose Fast Intra-Network and Cross-layer Handover (FINCH) for intradomain (intra-CSN) mobility management. FINCH is a complementary protocol to Mobile IP (...
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Orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) is a promising scheme for multicarrier (MC) transmission. The combination of OFDM and code-division multiple access (CDMA) which is referred to as OFDM-CDMA, has recen...
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