Submitted by Renata Lopes (renatasil82@gmail.com) on 2017-10-02T19:31:50Z No. of bitstreams: 1 felipedesouzadelgado.pdf: 2621698 bytes, checksum: f2d2c40acc8fdf80a70c9f39aabc0cc9 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Adriana Oliveira (adriana.oliveira@ufjf.edu.br) on 2017-10-09T19:46:37Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 felipedesouzadelgado.pdf: 2621698 bytes, checksum: f2d2c40acc8fdf80a70c9f39aabc0cc9 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-10-09T19:46:37Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 felipedesouzadelgado.pdf: 2621698 bytes, checksum: f2d2c40acc8fdf80a70c9f39aabc0cc9 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-08-24 / CAPES - Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / Esta dissertação apresenta a produção de redes de período longo em fibras ópticas por descargas de arcos elétricos e o seu uso em aplicações de sensoriamento de corrente em veículos aéreos não tripulados. Os aspectos teóricos fundamentais para o entendimento das redes de período longo são apresentados. Além disso, discutiu-se os diferentes tipos de acoplamentos de energia que podem ocorrer em uma rede de período longo e também, os mecanismos responsáveis pela formação dessas redes produzidas por descargas de arco elétrico. A fabricação de redes de período longo utilizando a técnica de arco elétrico foi descrita e o comportamento da perda dependente da polarização das redes produzidas foi investigado. Além disso, é apresentado um novo método para a produção de redes de período longo com perda dependente da polarização reduzida. Constatou-se que por meio de alterações no ângulo de incidência das descargas elétricas na fibra óptica em relação à um ponto de referência, é possível promediar os efeitos induzidos pontualmente por cada descarga de arco elétrico e assim, reduzir a perda dependente da polarização intrínseca dessas redes. Por fim, é apresentada a aplicação de uma rede produzida por arco elétrico combinada a um ímã de neodímio, compondo um novo dispositivo de sensoriamento para medir a corrente elétrica exigida pelos motores elétricos de um veículo aéreo não tripulado. / This dissertation presents the fabrication of long-period fiber gratings through electric arc discharges and their application in current sensing in unmanned aerial vehicles. The theoretical aspects of long-period gratings are presented. Besides, we discussed the different types of coupling that could occur in a long-period fiber grating, as well as the mechanisms responsible for the formation of the gratings produced by electric arc discharges. The manufacture process of the long-period gratings using the electric arc technique was described and the behavior of the polarization dependent loss of these gratings was investigated. In addition, a new method for the production of long period gratings with reduced polarization dependent loss is introduced. It has been found that by changing the incidence angle of the electric discharges in the optical fiber in relation to a reference point, it is possible to average the effects induced by each electric arc discharge and, therefore, reducing the intrinsic polarization dependent loss of these gratings. Finally, the application of a grating produced by electric arc combined with a neodymium permanent magnet is presented. This combination allows us to measure the electric current required by a motor of an unmanned aerial vehicle.

The electrostatic layer-by-layer (LbL) self-assembly of polyelectrolyte’s has shown applications in thin film coatings, micro patterning, nano-bioreactors and capsules for drug delivery. The film architecture can be precisely designed and controlled to nanometer scale precision with a range from 5 nm to a few microns. Both in vitro and in vivo studies indicate potential applications in biology, pharmaceutics, medicine, and other biomedical areas. This thesis work focused on the design and development of protocols to fabricate polyelectrolyte multi-layer patterns on a variety of substrates such as glass, metals and plastics such as acrylic and polycarbonate. The micro-scale polyelectrolyte patterns have applications in the creation of DNA, protein or cell based microarrays. This work also demonstrated the use of polyelectrolyte multi-layers in the enhancement of fluorescence signals from fluorophore-tagged molecules captured within the multi-layers. In-situ measurements using Fiber Bragg Gratings were carried out to study the kinetics of adsorption and desorption of polyelectrolytes participating in the layer buildup process under different process environmental conditions.

[pt] Este trabalho apresenta um sistema de interrogação de sensores a rede de Bragg em fibras ópticas, baseado em reflectometria no domínio do tempo e filtros fixos a rede de Bragg. Utilizando uma fonte de luz pulsada, a posição espectral do sensor é relacionada à razão da intensidade dos pulsos, tornando a detecção independente de variações de intensidade. São abordados aspectos teóricos e experimentais referentes aos princípios de funcionamento desta técnica. Uma vez que a filtragem é feita com redes de Bragg, apenas um circuito de fotodetecção é utilizado e um número reduzido de acopladores/circuladores ópticos é necessário, o sistema possibilita reduzir consideravelmente o custo para a interrogação de um conjunto de sensores. A utilização de apenas um circuito de fotodetecção apresenta a vantagem de manter as mesmas características para todos os pulsos, minimizando influências externas neste circuito como, por exemplo, variações da temperatura ambiente. Foi montada uma bancada de testes para a interrogação de seis sensores. Comparações entre os resultados experimentais e simulados mostram boa concordância. Extrapolações indicam que seria possível interrogar sensores com uma variação espectral de 2 nanômetros, com incertezas menores que 10 picometros, o que é adequado para sensores de temperatura. Análises de interferência entre dois canais adjacentes mostram pouca influência entre eles e são apresentadas opções para diminuir essa interferência. / [en] This work presents a system for the interrogation of fiber- optic Bragg grating sensors based on time domain reflectometry and Bragg grating fixed filters. Using a pulsed light source, the spectral position of the sensor is related to the ratio of two pulses intensities, making detection independent of intensity variations. Theoretical and experimental aspects regarding the working principles of this technique are discussed. Since filtering is accomplished with Bragg grating so that only one photodetection circuit is used and a reduced number of optic couplers/circulators are needed, the system provides a considerable reduction in the cost of interrogation for a set of sensors. Using only one photodetection circuit also has the advantage of maintaining the same characteristics for all pulses, thus minimizing external influences in this circuit, such as variations in the environment temperature. A test stand was assembled for the interrogation of six sensors. Comparisons between experimental and simulated results show a good agreement. Extrapolations indicate that it would be possible to interrogate sensors with a spectral variation of 2 nanometers, with uncertainties lower than 10 pm, which is adequate for temperature sensors. Cross talk analyses between two adjacent channels show small influence between them, and approaches to reduce this interference are presented.

Purpose of this engineer thesis is project of machine grating with hydraulic driving clearing. Diplom thesis includes construction solution of hydraulic cleaner-machine and koncept of hydraulic circuit. A part of this work is design of possible hydraulic driving and working stuffing. All hydraulic components are choosen from catalogue of appropriate companies.

This dissertation documents works on two projects, which are broadly related to photonic integration using III-V semiconductor platform for fiber-based optical communication. Our principal project aims to demonstrate continuous variable quantum key distribution (CV-QKD) with InP-based photonic integrated cir cuit at the 1550 nanometer of optical wavelength. CV QKD protocols, in which the key is encoded in the quadrature variables of light, has generated immense interest over the years because of its compatibility with the existing telecom infrastructure. In this thesis, we have proposed a design of a photonic inte grated circuit potentially capable of realizing this protocol with coherent states of light. From the practical perspective, we have basically designed an optical transmitter and an optical receiver capable of carrying out coherent communi cation via the optical fiber. Initially, we established a mathematical model of the transceiver system based on the optical transfer matrix of the foundry spe cific (Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute-Germany) building blocks. We have shown that our chip design is versatile in the sense that it can support multiple modulation schemes. Based on the mathematical model, we estimated the link budget to assess the feasibility of on-chip implementation of our protocol. Then we ran a circuit level simulation using the process design kit provided by our foundry to put our analysis on a better footing. The encouraging result from this step prompted us to generate the mask layout for our transceiver chips, which we eventually submitted to the foundry. The other project in the thesis grew out of a collaboration with one of our industry partners. The goal of the project is to enhance the performance of a distributed feedback laser emitting at the 1310 nanometer of optical wavelength by optimizing its design. To that end, we first derived the expression for transmission and reflection spectrum for the laser cavity. Those expressions contained parameters which needed to be obtained from the transverse and the longitudinal mode analysis of the laser. We performed the transverse mode analysis and the longitudinal mode analysis with commercially available numerical solvers. Those mode profiles critically depend on the grating physical parameters. Therefore by tweaking grating dimensions one can control the transmission characteristics of the laser.

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La génération d’harmoniques d’ordre élevé est un processus d’interaction lumière-matière hautement non-linéaire permettant la synthèse d’impulsions sub-femtosecondes, dites attosecondes (1 as = 10⁻¹⁸ s). Mes travaux de thèse portent sur l’étude du transfert de moment angulaire lors de ce processus, afin de contrôler les caractéristiques spatiales et de polarisation du rayonnement émis dans l’extrême ultraviolet. Comme pour la matière, le moment angulaire de la lumière peut être séparé en une composante de spin, associée à l’état de polarisation du faisceau, et une composante orbitale, reliée à la forme du front d’onde. La maitrise complète du moment angulaire des harmoniques nécessite de recourir à des schémas de génération à deux faisceaux non-colinéaires, créant un réseau de diffraction dans le milieu générateur. Nous avons montré que, bien que les règles de transfert obéissent à des lois de conservation du moment angulaire, la description fine du phénomène requiert une analyse précise du champ laser dans le milieu de génération. Ces travaux ouvrent des perspectives de mise en forme avancée des impulsions attosecondes. / High-order harmonic generation is a highly nonlinear laser-matter interaction process which allows the synthesis of sub-femtosecond pulses, also called attosecond (1 as = 10⁻¹⁸ s) pulses. My PhD is centered around the study of angular momentum transfer during this process, in order to control spatial and polarization features of the radiation which is emitted in the extreme ultraviolet. As for matter, the angular momentum of light can be divided into a spin component, associated with the beam’s polarization, and an orbital component, related to the shape of the wavefront. The control of high harmonics’ angular momentum requires generating schemes involving two crossing beams, thus creating a diffraction grating in the generating medium.We have shown that, although the transfer rules obey conservation laws of the angular momentum, the fine description of the phenomenon requires an accurate analysis of the laser field in the generation medium. This work opens the road for advanced shaping of attosecond pulses.

Ce travail de thèse porte sur les mécanismes d’amorçage en détonation par choc des explosifs solides de type coulé-fondu. Les explosifs solides sont des matériaux hétérogènes constitués de grains de matière énergétique dans un liant pouvant être lui-même énergétique. Si l’existence des points chauds, sites préférentiels d’initiation des réactions chimiques à l’échelle locale, est largement reconnue, la topologie de la croissance des réactions, et l’influence de la microstructure sur cette dernière n’est que peu étudiée dans les explosifs coulés-fondus. Deux familles d’explosifs ont été retenues pour cette étude : les hexolites, mélanges de grains d’hexogène (RDX) et d’un liant trinitrotoluène (TNT) et les ontalites, composées d’oxynitrotriazole (ONTA) et de TNT. Les recherches se sont orientées autour du triptyque : caractérisation – expérimentations – modélisation.Un important travail de compilation et de ré-exploitation de données issues de la littérature, associé à une modélisation des équations d’état des explosifs purs, ont permis de définir des lois permettant de calculer le comportement de ces derniers sous choc. Ces lois ont ensuite été validées par une méthode de mélange sur différentes compositions coulées-fondues et composites. Parallèlement, la microstructure des compositions d’étude a également été caractérisée via des mesures de granulométrie et de microtomographie, inédites sur ce type d’explosif.Des expérimentations d’impact plan soutenu ont été réalisées afin d’établir les diagrammes de marche des ondes de choc réactives, permettant de relier la profondeur de transition à la détonation à la pression de sollicitation. Elles ont permis de mettre en lumière l’influence de la microstructure sur la sensibilité au choc de deux hexolites et d’acquérir des données sur deux ontalites. L’utilisation de deux métrologies innovantes, la radio-interférométrie à 94 GHz et les fibres optiques à réseau de Bragg, a permis de mesurer la transition choc – détonation (TCD) de façon continue avec une résolution inédite. Enfin des essais d’impact plan non soutenu ont été réalisés à des fins de validation.Un modèle de TCD est proposé. Ce dernier, basé sur une approche de germination-croissance des fronts de déflagration à l’échelle locale, permet de prendre en compte la microstructure des explosifs. Ces travaux semblent mettre en évidence l’influence de la fracturation des grains d’explosif sous choc, qu’il conviendra d’étudier dans le futur. Enfin, une étape de terminaison des réactions lors de la TCD, associée à des calculs thermocinétiques détaillés, a été étudiée. / This study deals with the detonation initiation by shock of condensed melt-cast high explosives. Solid explosives are heterogeneous materials, made of energetic material grains in a binder, which can be energetic itself. If the existence of hot-spots, preferred initiation sites for chemical reaction at the local scale, is widely recognized, the reaction growth topology, and the microstructure influence, are poorly known for melt-cast explosives. We study here two melt-cast explosive families: hexolites, a mix of hexogen (RDX) grains and trinitrotoluene (TNT) binder, and ontalites made of nitrotriazolone (NTO) and TNT. This study has been focused on the triptyque: characterization - experimentations - modeling.An important work of compilation and re-exploitation of literature data, combined with pure explosives’ equation of state modeling, allowed us to define laws to calculate the explosives’ comportment under a shock solicitation. These ones have been validated, thanks to a mixing method, on different melt-cast and cast-curd plastic bonded explosives. At the same time, the compositions’ microstructure has been also characterized via granulometry measurements and microtomographies, never published for this type of explosive.Plate impact tests have been performed in order to establish the reactive shock trajectory of these compositions, allowing us to determine the relation between the run-distance of detonation and the input pressure. It brought the microstructure influence on hexolite shock sensitivity to light, and gave us some first results for ontalites. The use of continuous and innovative measurements, as microwave interferometry and chirped fiber Bragg gratings, allowed us to study the shock to detonation transition (SDT) with a resolution never seen before. Finally, non-sustained plate impact test have been performed for a validation purpose.A SDT model is proposed. Based on a germination-growth approach of deflagration fronts at the local scale, it takes into account the explosive’s microstructure. This work seems to show the grain fragmentation under shock influence, point we will have to study in the future. Finally, a completion step of reactions, associated with chemical kinetics calculations, has been studied.

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