In this work, we develop a new technique to determine the topological charge of a light beam with orbital angular momentum. Our technique is based on the diffraction by a triangular aperture. By performing numerical simulations, for Laguerre-Gaus beams and Bessel beams with different values of l, we found tha the diffraction pattern contains the signature of the topological charge of the beam. Our theoretical predictions for a triangular aperture were experimentally verifiel, demonstrating the the diffraction pattern reveals the topological charge of the light beam. / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico / Neste trabalho, desenvolvemos uma nova técnica para determinar a carga topológica de um feixe de luz com momento angular orbital. Nossa técnica é baseada na difração por uma abertura triangular. Através da realização de simulações numérica, para feixes Laguerre-Gauss e feixes Bessel com diferentes valores de l, descobrimos que o padrão de difração contém a assinatura da carga topológica do feixe. Nossas previsões teóricas para uma abertura triangular foram verificadas experimentalmente, demonstrando que o padrão de difração revela a carga topológica do feixe de luz. Esta técnica torna possível a determinação do módulo e do sinal da carga topológica de um feixe de luz de uma maneira simples e direta.

La miniaturisation de circuits intégrés, les hautes fréquences de fonctionnement, la baisse des potentiels d'alimentation, les fortes densités d'intégration rendent les signaux numériques propagés sur les interconnexions très susceptibles à la dégradation voire à la corruption. En vue d’évaluer la compatibilité électromagnétique et l’intégrité du signal il est nécessaire de disposer dès les premières phases de développement de modèles précis de ces interconnexions pour les insérer dans les simulateurs temporels. Nos travaux s'inscrivent dans ce contexte et concernent plus particulièrement la modélisation comportementale des buffers et drivers de ligne de transmission. Ils ont abouti à une approche originale de modélisation notamment basée sur les séries de Volterra-Laguerre. Les modèles boites noires développés disposent d’une implémentation SPICE assez simple autorisant ainsi une très bonne portabilité. Ils sont faciles à identifier et disposent d’une complexité paramétrique permettant un gain important de temps de simulation vis-à-vis des modèles transistors des drivers. En outre les méthodes développées permettent une modélisation dynamique non linéaire plus précise du port de sortie, et une gestion plus générale des entrées autorisant notamment une très bonne prise en compte du régime de sur-cadencement ce que par exemple ne fait pas le standard IBIS. / Integrated circuits miniaturization, high operating frequencies, lower supply voltages, high-density integration make digital signals propagating on interconnects highly vulnerable to degradation. Assessing EMC and signal integrity in the early stages of the design flow requires accurate interconnect models allowing for efficient time-domain simulations. In this context, our work addressed the issue of behavioral modeling of transmission line buffers, and particularly that of drivers. The main result is an original modeling approach partially based on Volterra-Laguerre series. The black box models we developed have a fairly simple implementation in SPICE thus allowing a very good portability. They are easy to identify and have a parametric complexity allowing a large gain in simulation time with respect to transistor driver models. In addition, the developed methods allow a more accurate output port nonlinear dynamics modeling, and a more general management of inputs. A very good reproduction of driver behaviour in overclocking conditions provides a significant advantage over standard IBIS models.

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De nos jours, les éoliennes contribuent à une large partie de production d'énergie dans le monde. En 2013, 2,7% de la production d'électricité mondiale était éolienne, avec un objectif d'atteindre 14% de la demande d'électricité totale en 2020. Pour satisfaire ces exigences, la taille standard de la turbine éolienne tend à grandir. Les éoliennes de tailles des mégawatts sont très coûteuses, et leur rendement devrait être optimisé pour maximiser l'énergie produite et protéger les équipements de toute dégradation pour optimiser leur durée de vie.Dans ce projet de thèse, la commande prédictive à base de modèle (MPC) est utilisée pour la commande et la commande tolérante aux défauts de l'éolienne. Afin d'optimiser le temps de calcul de la commande MPC, qui peut rendre son implémentation en ligne irréalisable, les entrées de la commande ont été paramétrées par les fonctions de Laguerre (LMPC) ou les fonctions de Kautz (KMPC). Ceci a permis de réduire le temps de calcul d'un tiers. La commande MPC robuste par approche min-max a également été considérée dans l'objectif de rendre la stratégie de commande robuste aux incertitudes paramétriques, et à l'apparition de défauts. Ces différentes stratégies ont état évaluées sur un modèle de l'éolienne à deux masses, avec une commande multi entrée/multi avec contraintes sur les entrées et les sorties.Dans le chapitre V, la commande MPC paramétrée par les fonctions de Laguerre ou de Kautz a été reformulée dans l'unique objectif de compenser le défaut. En effet, sur une éolienne en fonctionnement stable et possédant des lois de commande qui ne s'accommode pas aux défauts, il est possible de calculer la correction nécessaire à considérer par les lois existantes afin de compenser le défaut, si le défaut est bien détecté et estimé. Cette stratégie est recherchée si l'industriel ne souhaite pas changer les lois de commande établies sur l'éolienne, car les stratégies de commande MPC discutées peuvent faire l'ensemble de travail : poursuite de la trajectoire désirée et l'accommodation aux défauts / Nowadays, wind turbines contribute to a large part of energy production in the world. In 2013, 2.7% of global electricity production was based on wind power, with a goal of reaching 14% of total electricity demand in 2020. The progression was remarkable in the last years, namely in France where the wind power generation increased from 2.5 TWh (terawatt-hour) in 2013 to 21.1 TWh in 2015.In order to satisfy these objectives, the standard size of the wind turbine tends to grow. However, the megawatt size wind turbines are very expensive and thus their efficiency has to be optimized in order to maximize the produced energy. Furthermore, it is aimed to protect the equipment from damage and maximize the service life of wind turbines, which is usually 20 years.In this thesis, model predictive control (MPC) is used to control the wind turbine and to identify the faults that could occur. Since the computation time in the MPC strategy is high, its use in real time fast systems may become unfeasable. To overcome this difficulty, the MPC control inputs are parametrized by Laguerre functions (LMPC) or Kautz functions (KMPC). This allowed decreasing the computation time by 33% compared to non-parametrized MPC. The min-max MPC approach is also considered in order to render the control strategy robust to parametric uncertainties and faults scenarios.These control strategies are evaluated on a wind turbine model with a multi-input (pitch angle and generator torque) / multi- output (generator power and generator speed) control, with constraints on inputs and outputs. These results are discussed in Chapter IV.In Chapter V, the Laguerre or Kautz parameterized MPC is reformulated with the objective of faults compensations. Indeed, if the faults are detected and estimated then it is possible to calculate the correction required to compensate these faults. This strategy becomes interesting from a wind turbine is operated with a controller that is not aimed to be changed for security or cost reasons, and the objective of the operator is only to compensate actuator or sensor faults. In these simulations, an available benchmark was used with the controller implemented in it.The thesis also contains a bibliographic and three introductory chapters discussing the state of the art of the turbine model, its control, fault detection and the MPC strategies used in this work

We characterise the higher order Riesz transforms on the Heisenberg group and also show that they satisfy dimension-free bounds under some assumptions on the multipliers. We also prove the boundedness of the higher order Riesz transforms associated to the Hermite operator. Using transference theorems, we deduce boundedness theorems for Riesz transforms on the reduced Heisenberg group and hence also for the Riesz transforms associated to special Hermite and Laguerre expansions. Next we study the Riesz transforms associated to the Grushin operator G = - Δ - |x|2@t2 on Rn+1. We prove that both the first order and higher order Riesz transforms are bounded on Lp(Rn+1): We also prove that norms of the first order Riesz transforms are independent of the dimension n.

We investigate the famous Laguerre–Pólya class of entire functions and its subclass, the Laguerre–Pólya class of type I. The functions from these classes can be expressed in terms of the Hadamard Canonical Factorization (see Chapter 1, Definition 1.2 and 1.3). The prominent theorem by E. Laguerre and G. Pólya gives a complete description of the Laguerre–Pólya class and the Laguerre–Pólya class of type I, showing that these classes are the respective closures in the topology of uniform convergence on compact sets of the set of real polynomials having only real zeros (that is, the set of so-called hyperbolic polynomials) and the set of real polynomials having only real negative zeros. Both the Laguerre–Pólya class and the Laguerre–Pólya class of type I play an essential role in complex analysis. For the properties and characterizations of these classes, see, for example, [31] by A. Eremenko, [40] by I.I. Hirschman and D.V. Widder, [43] by S. Karlin, [57] by B.Ja. Levin, [66, Chapter 2] by N. Obreschkov, and [74] by G. Pólya and G. Szegö. In the thesis, we study entire functions with positive coefficients and with the monotonic sequence of their second quotients of Taylor coefficients. We find necessary and sufficient conditions under which such functions belong to the Laguerre–Pólya class (or the Laguerre–Pólya class of type I).:List of symbols Introduction 1 Background of research 1 1.1 The Laguerre–Pólya class .................... 1 1.2 The quotients of Taylor coefficients ............... 3 1.3 Hutchinson’s constant ...................... 4 1.4 Multiplier sequences ....................... 4 1.5 Apolar polynomials........................ 8 1.6 The partial theta function .................... 10 1.7 Decreasing second quotients ................... 13 1.8 Increasing second quotients ................... 14 2 A necessary condition for an entire function with the increasing second quotients of Taylor coefficients to belong to the Laguerre–Pólya class 15 2.1 Proof of Theorem 2.1....................... 16 2.2 The q-Kummer function ..................... 29 2.3 Proof of Theorem 2.10 ...................... 31 2.4 Proof of Theorem 2.11 ...................... 43 3 Closest to zero roots and the second quotients of Taylor coefficients of entire functions from the Laguerre–Pólya I class 49 3.1 Proof of Statement 3.1 ...................... 50 3.2 Proof of Theorem 3.2....................... 53 3.3 Proof of Theorem 3.4....................... 61 3.4 Proof of Theorem 3.6....................... 66 4 Entire functions from the Laguerre–Pólya I class having the increasing second quotients of Taylor coefficients 69 4.1 Proof of Theorem 4.1....................... 70 4.2 Proof of Theorem 4.3....................... 76 5 Number of real zeros of real entire functions with a non-decreasing sequence of the second quotients of Taylor coefficients 81 5.1 Proof of Theorem 5.1....................... 82 5.2 Proof of Corollary 5.2....................... 88 5.3 Proof of Theorem 5.4....................... 88 6 Further questions 95 Acknowledgements 97 Selbständigkeitserklärung 101 Curriculum Vitae 103 Bibliography 107

When we want to solve electromagnetic problems, the Finite Difference Time Domain (FDTD) method is a very useful numerical simulation technique to solve these problems. However, the traditional FDTD method is an explicit finite-difference scheme, so the method is limited by the Courant-Friedrich-Levy (CFL) stability condition. In other words, the minimum cell size will limit the maximum time-step size in a computational domain. Therefore, while simulating structures of fine scale dimensions, it will relatively result in a prohibitively high computation time generated by the maximum time-step size. The WLP-FDTD is based on the Weighted Laguerre Polynomials technique and the traditional FDTD algorithm. It is an implicit finite-difference equations. Therefore, it can completely avoid the stability constraint, and then improve calculation time by choosing relatively large time-step. In this thesis, we incorporate non-uniform grid method into the WLP-FDTD. By using them to simulate the structures of fine scale dimensions can reduce the computation time and memory usage. Further, we extend this method from two-dimensional to three-dimensional and add loss media into original formulations that will make the application of this method more widely.

Time-resolved fluorescence spectroscopy (TRFS) is a powerful analytical tool for quantifying the biochemical composition of organic and inorganic materials. The potentials of TRFS as nondestructive clinical tool for tissue diagnosis have been recently demonstrated. To facilitate the translation of TRFS technology to the clinical arena, algorithms for online TRFS data analysis are of great need. A fast model-free TRFS deconvolution algorithm based on the Laguerre expansion method has been previously introduced, demonstrating faster performance than standard multiexponential methods, and the ability to estimate complex fluorescence decay without any a-priori assumption of its functional form. One limitation of this method, however, was the need to select, a priori, the Laguerre parameter a and the expansion order, which are crucial for accurate estimation of the fluorescence decay. In this thesis, a new implementation of the Laguerre deconvolution method is introduced, in which a nonlinear least-square optimization of the Laguerre parameter is performed, and the selection of optimal expansion order is attained based on a Minimum Description Length (MDL) criterion. In addition, estimation of the zero-time delay between the recorded instrument response and fluorescence decay is also performed based on a normalized means square error criterion. The method was fully validated on fluorescence lifetime, endogenous tissue fluorophores, and human tissue. The automated Laguerre deconvolution method is expected to facilitate online applications of TRFS, such as clinical real-time tissue diagnosis.

Weighted polynomial regression of degree d with weight function Exp(£\ x) on an interval is considered. The D-optimal designs £i_d^* are completely characterized via three differential equations. Some invariant properties of £i_d^* under affine transformation are derived. The design £i_d^* as d goes to 1, is shown to converge weakly to the arcsin distribution. Comparisons of £i_d^* with the arcsin distribution are also made.

The high-density integrated circuit (IC) gives rise to geometrically complex multiscale chip-package structures whose electromagnetic performance is difficult to predict. This motivates this dissertation to work on an efficient full-wave transient solver that is capable of capturing all the electromagnetic behaviors of such structures with high accuracy and reduced computational complexity compared to the existing methods. In this work, the unconditionally stable Laguerre-FDTD method is adopted as the core algorithm for the transient full-wave solver. As part of this research, skin-effect is rigorously incorporated into the solver which avoids dense meshing inside conductor structures and significantly increases computational efficiency. Moreover, as an alternative to typical planar interconnects for next generation high-speed ICs, substrate integrated waveguide, is investigated. Conductor surface roughness is efficiently modeled to accurately capture its high-frequency loss behavior. To further improve the computational performance of chip-package co-simulation, a novel transient non-conformal domain decomposition method has been proposed. Large-scale chip-package structure can be efficiently simulated by decomposing the computational domain into subdomains with independent meshing strategy. Numerical results demonstrate the capability, accuracy and efficiency of the proposed methods.