简介：Metasurfaceshavebecomeanewphotonicstructureforprovidingpotentialapplicationstodevelopintegrateddeviceswithsmallthickness,becausetheycanintroduceanabruptphasechangebyarraysofscatterers.Tobeappliedmorewidely,activemetasurfacedevicesarehighlydesired.Here,atunableterahertzmeta-leuswhosefocallengthisabletobeelectricallytunedby-4.45λisdemonstratedexperimentally.Thelensconsistsofametallicmetasurfaceandamonolayergraphene.Duetothedependenceoftheabruptphasechangeofthemeta-surfaceonthegraphenechemicalpotential,whichcanbemodulatedusinganappliedgatevoltage,thefocallengthischangedfrom10.46to12.24mmwhenthegatevoltageincreasesfrom0to2.0V.Experimentalresultsareingoodagreementwiththetheoreticalhypothesis.Thistypeofelectricallycontrolledmeta-lenscouldwidentheapplicationofterahertztechnology.

简介：LinuxbasednetworkedPCsclustersarereplacingboththeVMEnonuniformdirectmemoryaccesssystemsandSMPsharedmemorysystemsusedpreviouslyfortheonlineeventfilteringandreconstrucion.ToallowanoptimaluseofthedistributedresourcesofPCclustersanopensoftwareframeworkispresentlybeingdevelopedbasedonadataflowparadigmforeventprocessing.Thisframeworkallowsforthedistributionofthedataofphysicseventsandassociatedcalibrationdatatomultiplecomputersfrommultipleinputsourcesforprocessingandthesubsequentcollectionoftheprocessedeventsatmultipleoutputs.Thebasisofthesystemistheeventrepository,basicallyafirst-infirst-outeventstorewhichmaybereadandwritteninamannersimilartosequentialfileaccess.Eventsarestoredinandtransferredbetweenrepositoriesassuitablylargesequencestoenablehighthroughput.Multiplereaderscanreadsimultaneouslyfromasinglerepositorytoreceiveeventsequencesandmultiplewriterscaninserteventsequencestoarepository,Hencerepositoriesareusedforeventdistributionandcollection.Tosupportsynchronisationoftheeventfolowtherepositoryimplementsbaaiers.Abarriermustbewrittenbyallthewritersofarepositorybeforeanyreadercanreadthebarrier,Areadermustreadabarrierbeforeitmayreceivedatafrombehindit.Onlyafterallreadershavereadthebarrieristhebarrieremovedfromtherepository.Abarriermayalsohaveattacheddata,Inthiswaycalibrationdatacanbedistributedtoallproessuingunits.Therepositoriesareimplementedasmulti-threadedCORBAobjectsinC++andCORMAisusedforalldatatransfers,JobsetupscriptsarewritteninpythonandinteractivestatusandhistogramdisplayisprovidedbyaJavaprogram.JobsrununderthePBSbatchsystemprovidingshareduseofresourcesforonlinetriggering,offlinemassreporcessinganduseranalysisjobs.

简介：Polarizationmanipulationisasignificantissueforartificialmodulationoftheelectromagnetic(EM)wave,butgeneralmechanismsallsuffertherestrictionofinherentsymmetricpropertiesbetweenoppositehandedness.Herein,astrategytoindependentlyandarbitrarilymanipulatetheEMwavewithorthogonalcircularpolarizationsbasedonametasurfaceisproposed,whicheffectuallybreaksthroughtraditionalsymmetricalcharacteristicsbetweenorthogonalhandedness.Bysynthesizingthepropagationphaseandgeometricphase,theappropriateJonesmatrixiscalculatedtoobtainindependentwavefrontmanipulationofEMwaveswithoppositecircularpolarizations.Twotransmissiveultra-thinmeta-deflectorsareproposedtodemonstratetheasymmetricalrefractionoftransmittedcircularlypolarizedwavesinthemicrowaveregion.Simulatedtransmittedphasefrontandmeasuredfar-fieldintensitydistributionsareinexcellentagreement,indicatingthatthetransmittedwavewithdifferentpolarizationscanberefractedintoarbitraryandindependentdirectionswithinawidefrequencyband(relativebandwidthof25%).TheresultspresentedinthispaperprovidemorefreedomforthemanipulationofEMwaves,andmotivatetherealizationsofvariouspolarization-independentpropertiesforallfrequencyspectra.