Flexible Wearable Optical Sensor Based on Optical Microfiber Bragg Grating

Wearable sensing devices, which can find tremendous applications in healthcare and automation, are attracting great attention in recent years. Herein, we report a flexible wearable optical sensor (…

Ultrahigh Efficiency Four-Wave Mixing Wavelength Conversion in Packaged Silic…

Whispering-gallery-mode (WGM) resonator with high-quality factor ( Q ) is a key platform for a wide range of fields including nonlinear optics, biosensing and quantum photonics. In this work, a pac…

VPN++: Rethinking Video-Pose Embeddings for Understanding Activities of Daily…

Many attempts have been made towards combining RGB and 3D poses for the recognition of Activities of Daily Living (ADL). ADL may look very similar and often necessitate to model fine-grained detail…

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Learning Zero-Sum Simultaneous-Move Markov Games Using Function Approximation…

We develop provably efficient reinforcement learning algorithms for two-player zero-sum finite-horizon Markov games with simultaneous moves. To incorporate function approximation, we consider a fam…

Learning Zero-Sum Simultaneous-Move Markov Games Using Function Approximation…

We develop provably efficient reinforcement learning algorithms for two-player zero-sum finite-horizon Markov games with simultaneous moves. To incorporate function approximation, we consider a fam…

A Two-Timescale Stochastic Algorithm Framework for Bilevel Optimization: Comp…

This paper analyzes a two-timescale stochastic algorithm framework for bilevel optimization. Bilevel optimization is a class of problems which exhibits a two-level structure, and its goal is to min…

Simultaneous Measurement of Strain and Temperature Based on Dual Cross-Axis I…

A dual cross-axis interference polarization-maintaining fiber interferometer (DCAI-PMFI) for simultaneous measurement of strain and temperature is proposed. By using the cross-interference of the f…

Plasmonic Gold Nanostar Mediated Self-Photothermal Modulation of Microfiber B…

Photothermal actuation that leverages optical fiber and plasmonic materials would not only add a practical function but also spur many important applications for the fiber-optic sensors, for exampl…

Convolutional Neural Network-Aided DP-64 QAM Coherent Optical Communication S…

Optical nonlinearity impairments have been a major obstacle for high-speed, long-haul and large-capacity optical transmission. In this paper, we propose a novel convolutional neural network (CNN)-b…