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The Influence Of The Unlocked Characteristics Of A Self-Pulsating Laser Diode On Synchronisation, Gerald Farrell, P. Phelan, Joe Hegarty Jan 1993

The Influence Of The Unlocked Characteristics Of A Self-Pulsating Laser Diode On Synchronisation, Gerald Farrell, P. Phelan, Joe Hegarty

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All-optical synchronization and timing extraction based on self-pulsating twin section lasers has been demonstrated. We investigate the variation of the unlocked full-width at- half-maximum of the fundamental of the RF spectrum of a self-pulsating laser diode. We show for the first time that the value of the unlocked FWHM has a direct influence on the power required to maintain synchronization. We also show that the variation of the FWHM with frequency is dependent on the slope of the absorber bias versus self-pulsation frequency characteristic. The results have important implications for the design and selection of self-pulsating laser diodes for synchronization …


Irreversibility And The Law: The Size Of Firms And Other Organizations, Saul Levmore Jan 1993

Irreversibility And The Law: The Size Of Firms And Other Organizations, Saul Levmore

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The Man Who Once Was Whizzer White, Dennis J. Hutchinson Jan 1993

The Man Who Once Was Whizzer White, Dennis J. Hutchinson

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A False Sense Of Social Reality: A Response To Erwin Chemerinsky, Richard A. Epstein Jan 1993

A False Sense Of Social Reality: A Response To Erwin Chemerinsky, Richard A. Epstein

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Some Reflections On The Gender Gap In Employment, Richard A. Epstein Jan 1993

Some Reflections On The Gender Gap In Employment, Richard A. Epstein

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Drafting A Constitution: A Friendly Warning To South Africa, Richard A. Epstein Jan 1993

Drafting A Constitution: A Friendly Warning To South Africa, Richard A. Epstein

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Marriage, Divorce, And The Family: A Cautionary Tale, Judith T. Younger Jan 1993

Marriage, Divorce, And The Family: A Cautionary Tale, Judith T. Younger

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"The Door That Never Opens"?: Capital Punishment And Post-Conviction Review Of Death Sentences In The United States And Japan, Daniel H. Foote Jan 1993

"The Door That Never Opens"?: Capital Punishment And Post-Conviction Review Of Death Sentences In The United States And Japan, Daniel H. Foote

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The capital punishment system and current standards for collateral review of capital sentences appear quite similar in the United States and Japan. On a deeper level, though, the systems are moving in very different directions. Given. the extensive literature on capital punishment and capital habeas in the United States, this article focuses chiefly on Japan, examining the process by which the standards governing postconviction review have been relaxed and the impact of that change. Japan's Supreme Court bears the image of being a highly conservative, passive institution resistant to dramatic .change of any sort. Yet this examination reveals that, in …


All-Optical Timing Extraction With Frequency Division Using A Twin-Section Laser Diode, Gerald Farrell, Paul Phelan, Joe Hegarty, J. Shields Jan 1993

All-Optical Timing Extraction With Frequency Division Using A Twin-Section Laser Diode, Gerald Farrell, Paul Phelan, Joe Hegarty, J. Shields

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All-optical timing extraction from a coded line signal with division of the extracted clock frequency is demonstrated using a single twin-section self-pulsating laser diode. Either the bit-rate clock or a submultiple of the bit-rate clock can be extracted, depending only on the DC biases applied to the self-pulsating laser diode. Timing extraction is carried out for the first time without optical injection locking of the self-pulsating laser diode by the optical data source


Rodrigo's Third Chronicle: Care, Competition, And The Redemptive Tragedy Of Race Review Dialogue, Richard Delgado Jan 1993

Rodrigo's Third Chronicle: Care, Competition, And The Redemptive Tragedy Of Race Review Dialogue, Richard Delgado

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Scorn, Richard Delgado, Jean Stefancic Jan 1993

Scorn, Richard Delgado, Jean Stefancic

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This article reviews examples of scornful contemptuous belittling or sarcastic language by judges addressing litigants who are poor marginalized or seeking to redress unfamiliar injuries Often courts employ language of this sort when dismissing cases that strike them as offthewall or when imposing Rule 11 sanctions for claims that seem to them frivolous The authors develop a theory to understand and limit sarcasm and satire to situations that genuinely call for them


Foreword: Rethinking The Colorblindness Model Lead Article, Bryan K. Fair Jan 1993

Foreword: Rethinking The Colorblindness Model Lead Article, Bryan K. Fair

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Some Stroboscopic Spinoffs In Photographic Technology, Andrew Davidhazy Jan 1993

Some Stroboscopic Spinoffs In Photographic Technology, Andrew Davidhazy

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The potential of the high speed electronic flash and the stroboscope to significantly contribute to the fields of science and technology cannot be overemphasized. Important applications for these instruments and applied techniques have been described by Dr. Harold Edgerton and elaborated upon by numerous other workers. This paper presents a summary of some of these projects. They are presented here to not only gratefully acknowledge the direct connection to Dr. Edgerton's pioneering work but also to re-emphasize the usefulness of specific electronic flash and stroboscopic analysis techniques.


Hysteresis And Anchoring Energy In Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals, Yuri Panarin Jan 1993

Hysteresis And Anchoring Energy In Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals, Yuri Panarin

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The frequency dispersion of the coercive force of Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals (FLC) cells has been detected and examined in the range of infralow (lower than 0.1 Hz) frequencies. To clarify the low-frequency dispersion, the model has been suggested, based on the arrangement of free charges and well describing the experimental curves. The method for determination of the energy of FLC anchoring at the surface, developed on the basis of the static hysteresis loop, has been proposed. The dependence of bistability and the anchoring energy upon the orientant layer thickness has experimentally been investigated.


Gathering Danger: The Urgent Need To Regulate Toxic Substances That Can Bioaccumulate, Richard L. Williamson Jr. Jan 1993

Gathering Danger: The Urgent Need To Regulate Toxic Substances That Can Bioaccumulate, Richard L. Williamson Jr.

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Self-Regulation, Normative Choice, And The Structure Of Corporate Fiduciary Law, William Wilson Bratton Jan 1993

Self-Regulation, Normative Choice, And The Structure Of Corporate Fiduciary Law, William Wilson Bratton

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Infrared Photography, Andrew Davidhazy Jan 1993

Infrared Photography, Andrew Davidhazy

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Infrared photography is of interest to the amateur and commercial photographer and to scientists and technologists because it produces images that are not possible with conventional photographic films. In its practice there is not much difference between infrared and normal photography. The same cameras and light sources can usually be used, together with the same processing solutions. Infrared photography, however, is usually only attempted by skilled photographers, scientists, and technicians with a particular purpose in mind.


Social Justice And Fundamental Law: A Comment On Sager's Constitution, Terrance Sandalow Jan 1993

Social Justice And Fundamental Law: A Comment On Sager's Constitution, Terrance Sandalow

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Professor Sager begins his very interesting paper by identifying what he considers a puzzling phenomenon: the Constitution, as interpreted by courts, is not coextensive with "political justice." "This moral shortfall," as he refers to it, represents not merely a failure of achievement, but a failure of aspiration: as customarily interpreted, the Constitution does not even address the full range of issues that are the subject of political justice. Sager regards that failure as surprising-so surprising that, in his words, it "begs for explanation."'


Are Laws Against Assisted Suicide Unconstitutional?, Yale Kamisar Jan 1993

Are Laws Against Assisted Suicide Unconstitutional?, Yale Kamisar

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On 15 February of this year, shortly after the number of people Dr. Jack Kevorkian had helped to commit suicide swelled to fifteen, the Michigan legislature passed a law, effective that very day, making assisted suicide a felony punishable by up to four years in prison. The law, which is automatically repealed six months after a newly established commission on death and dying recommends permanent legislation, prohibits anyone with knowledge that another person intends to commit suicide from "intentionally providing the physical means" by which the other person does so or from "intentionally participat[ing] in a physical act" by which …


Magnetic Tuning Of A Microstrip Patch Antenna Fabricated On A Ferrite Film, P. J. Rainville, F. J. Harackiewicz Dec 1992

Magnetic Tuning Of A Microstrip Patch Antenna Fabricated On A Ferrite Film, P. J. Rainville, F. J. Harackiewicz

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A square, single-feed patch, fabricated on a ferrite film, that produced orthogonally polarized, well-formed radiation patterns is described. The application of a small in-plane magnetic field tuned the frequency, and hence phase, of one polarization only. Prior work on patch antennas fabricated on bulk ferrite substrates demonstrated magnetic tuning, but only linear polarization was obtained. The results indicate that 1) thin ferrite films, which are monolithically integrable, may be useful for a magnetically tunable antenna, and 2) the radiation polarization of the patch can be varied by the application of a small in-plane magnetic bias field.


The Porcupine's Dilemma: Strategic And Psychological Uncertainty In The Face Of Global Warming, William H. Rodgers, Jr. Jul 1992

The Porcupine's Dilemma: Strategic And Psychological Uncertainty In The Face Of Global Warming, William H. Rodgers, Jr.

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A Selection And Estimation Test For Multiple Target Detection, R. Viswanathan, Abbas Eftekhari Apr 1992

A Selection And Estimation Test For Multiple Target Detection, R. Viswanathan, Abbas Eftekhari

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We apply a selection and estimation procedure for the detection of multiple targets in clutter. The selection and estimation (SE) test perfoms better than a fixed order statistic (OS) detector. The SE test has some similarity to a variable trimmed mean (VTM) test and has a slight performance advantage. Unlike the VTM, whose performance is evaluated only by simulation studies, the performance of the SE test, for Rayleigh fluctuating target model, can be evaluated analytically. Further improvement in the performance is possible if a better selection procedure can be found.


Fifth Amendment Takings Implications Of The 1990 Native American Graves Protection And Repatriation Act, Ralph W. Johnson, Sharon I. Haensly Apr 1992

Fifth Amendment Takings Implications Of The 1990 Native American Graves Protection And Repatriation Act, Ralph W. Johnson, Sharon I. Haensly

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In November 1990, Congress passed the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act ("NAGPRA"). NAGPRA provides for the protection and disposition of Native American cultural items discovered on federal or tribal lands after NAGPRA's effective date. NAGPRA also addresses disposition of those objects currently held or controlled by federal agencies and museums. NAGPRA represents Congress' attempt to resolve years of debate between tribes, archaeologists, and museums. Like any legislative pronouncement, however, Congress left key issues to agencies and courts to resolve. This article focuses upon one such area, namely, Fifth Amendment takings questions that may arise when tribes or individual …


All Optical Synchronisation With Frequency Division Using A Self Pulsating Laser Diode, Gerald Farrell, P. Phelan, Joe Hegarty Jan 1992

All Optical Synchronisation With Frequency Division Using A Self Pulsating Laser Diode, Gerald Farrell, P. Phelan, Joe Hegarty

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A master optical clock from a mode locked laser is distributed to two slave twin section lasers. One slave laser divides the optical modulation frequency by 2, the other slave laser multiplies the frequency by 2. It is also possible to vary the multiplication4ivision ratio in a slave laser using only DC control of the absorber of the twin section laser.


All-Optical Synchronisation And Multiplication Of The Frequency Of Mode-Locked Signals, P. Phelan, Gerald Farrell, Joe Hegarty Jan 1992

All-Optical Synchronisation And Multiplication Of The Frequency Of Mode-Locked Signals, P. Phelan, Gerald Farrell, Joe Hegarty

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We report all-optical synchronized multiplication by rational fractions of the modulation frequency of optical signals in self-pulsing two-section semiconductor laser diodes. The effect is based on the overlap of harmonics of the input signal with harmonics of the self-pulsation. We illustrate this new generic function with modelocked inputs rich in harmonics were fractions of 1,2, and 3 / 2 are generated, and we identify a number of applications for this effect.


Affirmative Action In Law Schools: The Uneasy Truce, Richard A. Epstein Jan 1992

Affirmative Action In Law Schools: The Uneasy Truce, Richard A. Epstein

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On Marshall's Conception Of Equality Tribute, Cass R. Sunstein Jan 1992

On Marshall's Conception Of Equality Tribute, Cass R. Sunstein

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The Bill Of Rights In The Next Two Hundred Years, Geoffrey R. Stone Jan 1992

The Bill Of Rights In The Next Two Hundred Years, Geoffrey R. Stone

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A New Regime For Expert Witnesses, Richard A. Epstein Jan 1992

A New Regime For Expert Witnesses, Richard A. Epstein

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Gender Is For Nouns, Richard A. Epstein Jan 1992

Gender Is For Nouns, Richard A. Epstein

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No abstract provided.