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Even though the sleep apnea breathing occurs during the sleep,but it also affects the daytime's physiological status.Since sleep apnea breathing increases the risk of getting cardiovascular diseases,sleep disordered breathing has attracted significant amount attention.Conventional diagnosis processes for sleep disorder breathing is complex and time-consuming,therefore many efforts have been made in developing simplified physiological signal feature to detect sleep disorder breathing.To simplify the process of diagnosis,this study uses the ECG signals to differentiate patients and healthy subjects.In addition to traditional HRV features,this study also test a newly proposed ECG feature called degree of spectrum concentration which characterizes the degree of periodicity of the ECG waveform. Our experimental results show that sleep apnea patients have higher degree of spectrum concentration than healthy subjects.This work also tests the mutliscale entropy of this degree of spectrum concentration signal.The results demonstrate that complexity of the degree of spectrum concentration signal of the patients is higher than that of the healthy subjects.Finally,our results also detect differences between different age groups.

Recently, ¡§Pyrene¡¨ is a well-known substitutive group because the rigid structure and hole-injection ability of pyrene units can improve the thermal and electronic properties of blue OLED materials. The aromatic ring of pyrene not only improves the thermal and hole-injection ability of derivatives, but also provides high photoluminescence (PL) efficiency and high carrier mobility. Through these characteristics we can understand that the electron-rich pyrene derivatives can enhance the properties of OLED device. In this study, we developed low-molecular-weight structures with spiro-type molecules based on 9,9-spirobifluorene and fabricated the OLED device with the structure of ITO(170 nm)/PEDOT:PSS(50 nm)/PVK:TPSBF (40%)(90 mm)/BPhen (30 nm)/ LiF(1 nm)/Al(200 nm). It exhibited a maximum luminance at 500 mA/cm2 of 4130 cd/m2 with the Commission Internationale de l'Eclairage (CIE) of (0.16 , 0.16), and the maximum current and power efficiency were 1.9 cd/A and 0.9 lm/W, respectively. We concluded that TPSBF has good emission efficiency according to device performances. The PL maximum of the thick film of TPSBF, prepared by vacuum vapor deposition appears broadband spectrum, that resulted from the aggregation of the pyrene moieties. From Atomatic Force Microscopy (AFM) results, we propose three emission mechanisms. 1. Intramolecular spectrum ¡÷ 450 nm 2. Molecular aggregation spectrum ¡÷ 500 nm 3. Longer conjugation spectrum of intermolecular ¡÷ 550 nm We could fabricate the organic white light emitting device with a single and thicker emitting layer TPSBF and the more broadband emitting spectrum can be obtained. Finally, we fabricated the organic white light emitting device with a structure of ITO(170 nm)/2T-NATA(15 nm)/NPB(65 nm)/TPSBF(50 nm)/Alq3(30 nm)/LiF(0.8 nm)/Al(200 nm). It exhibited a maximum luminance at 1300 mA/cm2 of 57680 cd/m2, the maximum current and power efficiency were 6.51 cd/A and 4.07 lm/W, respectively, and with good CIE coordinate of (0.29 , 0.36).

Conventionally, the free distance is taken as the principle criterion for computing the error of convolutional and linear block codes. In other words, a larger free distance implies a better correction ability for the error correction codes. Distance spectrum is also an important factor for Maximum likelihood decoding. In this thesis, distance spectrum for different convolutional codes and CPM systems are investigated by us. Experiments results has demonstrate that a better correction ability of a shorter free distance does exist in some cases if they have a better distance spectrum. We also improve the fast algorithm for computing the distance spectrum developed by M. Cedervall and R. Johannesson. Their success is based upon the strategy of a traveling along the coding tree to find the distance spectrum. However, they need a new traveling for ever new distance computation. In contrast, we compute all the distance spectrum just in one travel by taking the advantage of the storing nodes of previous distance computation.

Combined coding with modulation is an important topic. It is verified in this thesis that a combined decoder and demodulation Viterbi receiver has a better error probability than a cascade of two separate Viterbi decoder and demodulator. Conventionally, the free distance is taken as the principle criterion for computing the error probability for coding or modulation. In many cases, distance spectrum needs to be provided for analyze the Maximum likelihood decoding. However, it is difficult for computing the distance spectrum for a combined coding with modulation because of a nonlinear structure inside. In this thesis, we first build an augmented trellis for the combined coding with modulation. Applying the concept of difference by exclusive OR and regular subtraction to the augmented trellis, we build an improved virtual trellis. As a consequence the distance spectrum for our problem can be computed because of the linear structure of the virtual trellis. The distance spectrum for different convolutional codes and CPM systems are investigated by us. Experiments results have demonstrate that a better distance spectrum implies a better error ability.

Combined coding with modulation is an important topic. Conventionally, the free distance is taken as the principle criterion for computing the error probability for coding or modulation. In many cases, distance spectrum needs to be provided for analyze the Maximum likelihood decoding. However, it is difficult for computing the distance spectrum for a combined coding with modulation because of a nonlinear structure inside. In this thesis, we study the order of distance spectrum members to find some limited number of members to present the whole distance spectrum. In our previous work, we have built an augmented trellis for the combined coding with modulation. Applying the concept of difference by exclusive OR and regular subtraction to the augmented trellis, we build an improved virtual trellis. In this thesis, we expend the concept of subtraction to a pair relation. Thus, this augmented trellis is first composed of paired states and transition lines. Then, we use a partition principle to group the states and lines. Finally, the complex trellis is reduced to a reasonable structure. We therefore can apply distance spectrum computing algorithm to find the distance spectrum. The distance spectrum for different convolution codes and CPM systems are investigated by us. Experiments results have demonstrate this distance spectrum is more accurate than before.

In this study, we have successfully demonstrated the use of laser scanning confocal microscopy in studying the fluorescence spectroscopy of Cr3+ and Cr4+ ions in Cr:YAG crystal fibers, double-clad crystal fibers, and glass fibers.

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In this thesis, we propose a potentially inexpensive light source for the mulit-channel wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) system applications. The spectrum-sliced incoherent light source (SILS) is alternative conventional laser source for the WDM system owing to its simplicity and flexibility. However, the spectrum-sliced source suffers from the intensity noise and spontaneous-spontaneous beat noise. Thus, it is necessary to increase the optical bandwidth or decrease the electrical bandwidth (by varying the bit rate ) to improve the signal to noise ratio (SNR). We used the intra-channel four wave mixing (IC-FWM device) before the receiver to suppresses the intensity noise of the light source, thus greatly expands the optical bandwidth of the received signal. We not only demonstrated the capability of an 8 ¡Ñ 2.5 Gb/s, DWDM with 200 GHz channel spacing transmission system by utilizing only one spectrum-sliced source, but also investigate the cross-talk issue of SILS in the fiber Bragg grating-based optical add/drop multiplexer (FBG-based OADM) and the Mach-Zehnder fiber Bragg grating-based optical add/drop multiplexer (MZ FBG-based OADM) systems.

In a multiuser DS-CDMA system with frequency selectivity, each user’s spreading sequence is transmitted through a different channel and the autocorrelation and the cross correlation properties of the received sequences will not be the same as that of the transmitted sequences. The best way of designing spreading sequences for frequency selective channels is to design them at the receiver exploiting the users’ channel characteristics. By doing so, we can show that the designed sequences outperform single user AWGN performance. In existing sequence design algorithms for frequency selective channels, the design is done in the time domain and the connection to frequency domain properties is not established. We approach the design of spreading sequences based on their frequency domain characteristics. Based on the frequency domain characteristics of the spreading sequences with unconstrained amplitudes and phases, we propose a reduced-rank sequence design algorithm that reduces the computational complexity, feedback bandwidth and improves the performance of some existing sequence design algorithms proposed for frequency selective channels. We propose several different approaches to design the spreading sequences with constrained amplitudes and phases for frequency selective channels. First, we use the frequency domain characteristics of the unconstrained spreading sequences to find a set of constrained amplitude sequences for a given set of channels. This is done either by carefully assigning an already existing set of sequences for a given set of users or by mapping unconstrained sequences onto a unit circle. Secondly, we use an information theoretic approach to design the spreading sequences by matching the spectrum of each user’s sequence to the water-filling spectrum of the user’s channel. Finally, the design of inner shaping codes for single-head and multi-head magnetic recoding channels is discussed. The shaping sequences are designed considering them as short spreading codes matched to the recoding channels. The outer channel code is matched to the inner shaping code using the extrinsic information transfer chart analysis. In this dissertation we introduce a new frequency domain approach to design spreading sequences for frequency selective channels. We also extend this proposed technique to design inner shaping codes for partial response channels.