Computer Optics

476-483

Authors: V.A. Saleev, A.V. Shipilova

We study optical properties of lowest-energy carbon allotropes in the infrared, visible and ultraviolet spectral ranges in the general gradient approximation of the density functional theory. In our calculations we use an all-electron approach as well as a pseudo-potential approximation. In the infrared range, complex dielectric functions, infrared and Raman spectra have been calculated using a CRYSTAL14 program. Electronic properties and energy-dependent dielectric functions in the visible and ultraviolet spectral ranges are calculated using a VASP program. We describe with good accuracy the experimentally known optical properties of a cubic diamond crystal. Using the obtained set of relevant calculation parameters, we predict the optical constants, dielectric functions and Raman spectra of the lowest-energy hypothetical carbon allotropes and lonsdaleite.

489-493

Authors: V.A. Burdin, A.V. Bourdine

Modern telecommunication networks approach the capacity crunch, which is associated with the so-called nonlinear Shannon limit. So, the passage to fiber optic links with few-mode optical fibers is considered as an alternative solution of the described problem concerned with high nonlinearity of conventional commercial single-mode optical fibers. Presently, various designs of few-mode optical fibers have been known, with the recently published works presenting experimental results demonstrating their potentialities for long-haul fiber optic links. A lot of models of long-haul fiber optic links with few-mode optical fibers have been developed based on which features of a few-mode optical fiber transport network were numerically simulated. This work presents the results of simulation of a 6000-km long-haul fiber optic link with a two-mode optical fiber and 100-km-per-span Erbium doped fiber optic amplifiers system under 100 Gbps DP-DQPSK data transmission. We studied the use of particular linearly polarized modes and optical vortices for signal transmission. The computation results were compared with the simulation of the same fiber optic link with a single-mode optical fiber under the identical conditions.

499-503

Authors: A. Rogozhin, M. Bruk, E. Zhikharev, F. Sidorov

A wide range of structures for nanophotonics and optoelectronics can be formed by dry e-beam etching of the resist (DEBER). High resist sensitivity due to chain depolymerization reaction provides efficient etching with high throughput of the method. The structures obtained by the DEBER in this research are well-rounded diffraction gratings, binary gratings and staircase profiles. The major disadvantage of DEBER is poor lateral resolution, which may be caused by different physical mechanisms. Four groups of possible mechanisms leading to the resolution limitation are determined and the influence of some mechanisms is estimated.

510-514

Authors: A.V. Gavrilov, V.S. Pavelyev

A transverse mode converter based on a binary microrelief implemented directly on the end-face of a few-mode fiber was numerically investigated. The results of numerical simulation demonstrated the converter to form LP-11 and LP-21 modes with high efficiency, providing a more-than 92 % mode purity. Transformations of modes excited by a fiber microbending were also numerically investigated. The excited beams were shown to save their mode purity even in a strong bending as the arising parasitical modes were mostly unguided by the fiber. The resulting beam power and mode content were also demonstrated to depend on the beam and bending mutual orientation for beams with strong rotational symmetry.

521-527

Authors: I.S. Zaqout

Hair occlusion in dermoscopy images affects the diagnostic operation of the skin lesion. Segmentation and classification of skin lesions are two major steps of the diagnostic operation required by dermatologists. We propose a new algorithm for hair removal in dermoscopy images that includes two main stages: hair detection and inpainting. In hair detection, a morphological bottom-hat operation is implemented on Y-channel image of YIQ color space followed by a binarization operation. In inpainting, the repaired Y-channel is partitioned into 256 non-overlapped blocks and for each block, white pixels are replaced by locating the highest peak, using a histogram function and a morphological close operation. The proposed algorithm reports a true positive rate (sensitivity) of 97.36 %, a false positive rate (fall-out) of 4.25 %, and a true negative rate (specificity) of 95.75 %. The diagnostic accuracy achieved is recorded at a high level of 95.78 %.

535-544

Authors: A.V. Gorevoy, A.S. Machikhin

Modern videoendoscopes are capable of performing precise three-dimensional (3D) measurements of hard-to-reach elements. An attachable prism-based stereo adapter allows one to register images from two different viewpoints using a single sensor and apply stereoscopic methods. The key condition for achieving high measurement accuracy is the optimal choice of a mathematical model for calibration and 3D reconstruction procedures. In this paper, the conventional pinhole camera models with polynomial distortion approximation were analyzed and compared to the ray tracing model based on the vector form of Snell’s law. We, first, conducted a series of experiments using an industrial videoendoscope and utilized the criteria based on the measurement error of a segment length to evaluate the mathematical models considered. The experimental results confirmed a theoretical conclusion that the ray tracing model outperforms the pinhole models in a wide range of working distances. The results may be useful for the development of new stereoscopic measurement tools and algorithms for remote visual inspection in industrial and medical applications.

552-558

Authors: M.S. Boori, K. Choudhary, R.A. Paringer, M. Evers

The central dry zone of Myanmar is the most water stressed and also one of the most food insecure regions in the country. In the Dry Zone, the total population is 10.1 million people in 54 townships, in which approximately 43 % of people live below the poverty line and 40 – 50 % of the rural population is landless. Agriculture is the most important economic sector in Myanmar as it is essential for the national food security and a major source of livelihood of the people. In this region the adverse effects of climate change such as a late or early onset of the monsoon season, longer dry spells, erratic rainfall, increasing temperatures, heavy rains, stronger typhoons, extreme spatial-temporal variability of rainfall, high intensities, limited rainfall events in the growing season, heat stress, drought, flooding, sea water intrusion, land degradation, desertification, deforestation, and other natural disasters are believed to be major constraints to food security. Theses extreme climatic events are likely to increase in frequency and magnitude, leading to serious drought periods and extreme floods. Food insecurity is an important thing that must be reviewed because it affects the lives of many people. For food vulnerability, we use the following indicators: slope, precipitation, vegetation, soil, erosion, land degradation and harvest failure in ArcGIS software. The erosion is influenced by rainfall and slope, while land degradation is directly related to vegetation, drainage and soil. In the meantime, the harvest failure can be generated by rainfall and flood potential zones. The results show that around 45 % of the area studied comes under a very high erosion danger level, 70 % are in the average harvest failure zone, 59 % are in the intermediate land degradation area, and overall around 45 % of the studied area comes under the insecure food vulnerability zone. Our analysis shows that an increase in the alluvial farming by 1745.33 km2 since 1988 has helped reduce the insecure food vulnerability. The food vulnerability map is also relevant to increased population and low income areas. This paper is helpful for identifying the areas of food needs in central dry zone of Myanmar.

564-572

Authors: E.V. Myasnikov

Unsupervised segmentation of hyperspectral satellite images is a challenging task due to the nature of such images. In this paper, we address this task using the following three-step procedure. First, we reduce the dimensionality of the hyperspectral images. Then, we apply one of classical segmentation algorithms (segmentation via clustering, region growing, or watershed transform). Finally, to overcome the problem of over-segmentation, we use a region merging procedure based on priority queues. To find the parameters of the algorithms and to compare the segmentation approaches, we use known measures of the segmentation quality (global consistency error and rand index) and well-known hyperspectral images.

577-580

Authors: V.A. Tkachenko, A.S. Tsipotan, A.S. Aleksandrovsky, V.V. Slabko

This study considered a process of quantum dots' self-assembly into nanostructure arrays with predefined geometry, which proceeds in the external resonant laser field. We considered the simplest case of assembling a stable structure of two particles. The problem was solved numerically using a three-dimensional model of Brownian dynamics. The idea of the method is that the attraction of the dots occurs due to the interaction of resonantly induced dipole moments, with the dots being then captured by the Van der Waals force. Finally, a three-dimensional model was considered; the average nanoparticle aggregation time as a function of the laser radiation wavelength was calculated; the probability of such structures' being formed was estimated for the calculated average aggregation time and for the laser pulse duration used in the experiment. The wavelength of the maximum probability was found to be shifted from the single particle resonance wavelength of 525 nm to the red area of 535 nm, which is in qualitative agreement with the redshift of the resonance wavelength of interacting particles.

585-587

Authors: N.S. Kravtsova, R.A. Paringer, A.V. Kupriyanov

This paper proposes a parallel implementation of the image informative segments extraction method. The images are segmented in the spatial spectrum domain. The median energy in each selected segment is viewed upon as an area. For purposes of time savings, a parallel implementation of the algorithm for calculating the areas is developed. The developed approach to the parallel algorithm implementation is tested on a high performance multicore computing system. The experiments have shown that the parallel implementation of the method allows us to obtain a three-fold speedup, which is a good result.

592

Authors: S.S. Stafeev

Inclusion of the journal Computer Optics in the Emerging Sources Citation Index database is described in this editorial.