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I enjoy staying in your hotel. Great rooms, great staff. Always have good service, and lots of parking. I will stay again when I am in Saskatoon..
Staying at Days Inn is like being at home. But the thing I don't like about being on the first, second, third or fourth floor is that I have children and they like to play and this one time when we were there. The people that were below us were saying that we were being too loud and then when...
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Front desk staff extremely helpful! Located within a few minutes drive of downtown, Tony Romas right on same lot. Pool was great, room was Nice , clean, bed was super comfortable! Husband and Daughter enjoyed the complimentary breakfast(I'm more of a coffee only breakfast, which the front desk had given me an extra coffee for my room!) Would stay again...
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Room was clean and staff was friendly. Minimal options for breakfast; typical continental breakfast consisting of cereal muffins toast bagels yogurt etc.. Late checkout option was ridiculous; you can extend checkout by an hour and a half after that there is a $65 dollar charge.
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We occasionally book a room here when family comes through. The rooms are clean. the staff is friendly and theres a pool with a small water slide as well as a gym. My nephews love it here its not fancy but its comfortable and clean.
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I have a long connection with the owners , they are hard working and seems work was what they know better than most people.
I have never heard any negative comments on this Motel. and the Location is near the Airport.
The location is excellent and near the Airport and there is plenty of Parking for your vehicles' I believe there is no charge for Fridge and the location is very safe for guests
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Vantage Media: How Facebook is changing engagement
According to recent data from the Vantage Media Consumer Engagement Index targeting isn't just about the product any longer. It's about the product, the consumer and getting the timing right. The study also indicates that Facebook is changing not only customer engagement but targeting.
Perhaps the most interesting finding was the Facebook test, which indexed at 92 [on a 100 point scale] - compared with search that indexed at 100. [This shows] the importance of targeting the right person with an ad to see the highest rates of conversion from consumer to customer," said Patrick Quigley, CEO, Vantage Media.
Video, meanwhile, performed low - with a 0.5 index for the study, which Quigley says points to video's current ineffectiveness.
Given that Facebook indexed so high, is the social network really changing the online ad game? Possibly, says Quigley. But, he says the key is still targeting.
"[Facebook] has essentially become a digital media source where consumers willingly share personal information that can then be used to target them with advertising. Plus, Facebook's innovation in advertising and reaching consumers is continuous. While standard advertising through the Facebook newsfeed indexed extremely high, I think that Facebook Exchange - a platform that retargets consumers through ads on Facebook - will continue to drive the evolution of Facebook as a major digital media publisher that provides results for advertisers," said Quigley.
One more reason to take the social network seriously as an advertising medium: people using Facebook aren't necessarily in a hurry. Quigley points out that in many cases, people on Facebook are taking their time, reading content or watching videos as well as engaging with friends and even brands.
"They are likely looking at the website in a leisurely manner and have the time to commit to clicking on an ad and making a purchase," said Quigley. "This especially makes sense when it comes to purchases like auto insurance, which is the product we tested for our index. With that said, I think the one problem that Facebook still faces is targeting consumers at the right time. While it's highly effective at targeting the right person, it doesn't always provide information about a consumer's propensity to buy right now. This is a piece of the consumer engagement puzzle that still must be figured out."
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Following the Academy Awards on Sunday, Graydon Carter's Vanity Fair after-party at the Sunset Tower Hotel was the place to be.
Arriving shortly after 11 p.m., Jennifer Aniston and fiancé Justin Theroux relaxed at the Tower Bar where a jazz combo performed.
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Israeli start-up LabStyle Innovations Corp on Tuesday launched a mobile-phone glucose meter for diabetics to monitor their blood sugar levels.
Called Dario, the meter plugs directly into a smartphone and has a software application that gives real time recording and analysis of blood sugar readings.
The product is initially being launched in New Zealand, Italy, Australia and the United Kingdom. It will at first be available for Apple's iOS and later for Google's Android platform.
The Obama administration said on Friday Verizon Communications Inc's Terremark unit will remain under contract as host of the federal website HealthCare.gov to better ensure a smooth end to Obamacare's open enrollment period on March 31.
Deutsche Telekom is busy showing off its M2M expertise at this week's CeBIT show in Hannover, Germany just days after unveiling plans for a restructuring of its IT business that will prioritize the sale of standardized M2M services, among other off-the-shelf IT products.
In a strategy update last week, chief executive Timotheus Hottges said the operator would also look to address opportunities in Germany's small and medium-sized enterprise sector, with the aim of generating €600 million from the sale of IT products in this market between now and 2018.
Telefonica Germany and Software AG are claiming to offer a 'one-stop-shop' for M2M services, meaning customers can obtain everything they need from a single point of contact and speed up their M2M deployments.
Showing off their joint solutions at this week's CeBIT IT tradeshow in Hannover, Germany, Telefonica and Software AG (Darmstadt, Germany) said their M2M partnership would offer connectivity, hardware, applications and hosting to customers in a range of industries.
Vodafone has flagged a major new deal to provide connectivity services in European vehicles from Volkswagen and Audi as it continues to grow its presence in the burgeoning connected-cars sector.
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"Exporting oil from Kurdistan to Turkey is illegal and illegitimate," Iraq government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh said in a statement.
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2006-11-18 : Manny Pacquiao 129 lbs beat Erik Morales 129 lbs by KO at 2:57 in round 3 of 12
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Morales down in the once in the 2nd and twice more in the 3rd round.
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We start from a 2D photonic crystal nanocavity with moderate Q-factor and dynamically increase it by two order of magnitude by the joint action of coherent population oscillations and nonlinear refractive index.
1. Introduction
Reducing cavity mode volumes and increasing the cavity lifetimes is a crucial trend in photonics [1, 2]. Micro or nanocavities with high-quality (Q) factors allow to strongly confine for long times the electromagnetic field in a very tiny spatial region. Ultimately, such properties may result in suitable conditions to enhance light-matter interaction [3] with applications in nonlinear optics [4–8], biosensing [9], microwave filtering [10], pulse storage [11–13], quantum information and quantum electrodynamics [14, 15], potentially in integrated platforms. The strategies to reduce the cavity volume and to increase the cavity lifetimes are multiple but they always consist of the implementation of clever geometrical designs and state of the art technologies in order to boost the quality factor Q. Those approches end up in cavities with extremely high Q-factors with relative small volumes [16, 17], with modest to high Q-factors and wavelength-limited volumes [18, 19], and in few particular cases to a combination of the two requirements [11, 20–22]. A rigorous theoretical analysis by C. Sauvan et al. [23] have shown that among the physical mechanisms involved in the geometrical Q-factor enhancement is the increase of the the group index ng of the nanocavity mode. However ultra-high Q-factor micro and nanocavity realizations are extremely sensitive to technological imperfections and residual absorption. Therefore, a main challenge is to build-up alternative avenues to improve and reconfigure the performance of a given nanocavity. This can be achieved by actively enhancing the lifetime starting from cavities with moderate, robust and reproducible performance.
Introducing a strongly dispersive material in a cavity has shown to be a way to change significantly the cavity lifetimes and resonance linewidths [24, 25]. This has been demonstrated in atomic physics using as dispersive media Cesium [24] or Rubidium [26] atoms in macroscopic cavities. The main mechanisms to achieve the strong material dispersion are coherent nonlinear interactions such as population trapping [24] and electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) [25, 26]. In both cases, the interaction of the atomic systems with a driving (pump) field and a signal (probe) field frequency tuned to the cavity resonance leeds to a steep dispersion at the origin of a strong decrease of the group velocity and linewith narrowing. Coherent Population Oscillations (CPO) effect is also used to produce a strong refractive index dispersion. CPO can be implemented in any two-level system material [27–30] and two-level like system such as semiconductor quantum wells and dots [31–33]. Despite its simplicity, room temperature operation and wavelength tunability, it is only recently [34] that CPO has been proposed and implemented to achieve lifetime enhancement and linewidth narrowing.
Taken benefit form the strong nonlinear index dispersion of active media, cavity lifetimes enhancement can also be achieved. The nonlinear index dispersion has shown to be particularly strong in semiconductors nanotructures such us quantum wells [35]. Two main avenues are thus offered to improve the temporal and spectral response of a cavity: the atomic-like induced index dispersion and the nonlinear refractive index dispersion.
Here, we extend our recent results [36] and successfully combine these two approaches in solid state semiconductor nanocavities and demonstrate strong linewidth narrowing and lifetime enhancement in a 2D Photonic Crystal (2D PhC) nanocavity. Both CPO-induced dispersion and nonlinear dispersion are obtained in the quantum wells embedded in the nanocavity and contribute to the lifetime enhancement.
2. Experiment
The cavity, illustrated in Fig. 1, is a L3 2D PhC nanocavity formed by missing three holes on an otherwise periodical hole lattice. Such cavity is a good combination of small cavity mode volume, V ∼ (λ/n)3, and reasonable high Q-factors of few 103, reaching about 105 by engineering the size and the position of the holes surrounding the cavity [20]. However, we start here from a L3 nanocavity with moderate Q-factor, ∼ 4000, easily attainable and reproducible. Shown in Fig. 1, the sample is a 260-nm-thick InP semiconductor membrane having 4 InGaAsP/InGaAs quantum wells grown by metal-organic vapor phase epitaxy. The 2D PhC is a hexagonal air-hole lattice in the InP membrane with a lattice constant a = 450 nm, a hole radius of 120 nm and the two end holes are displaced along the cavity axis by 0.15a in order to increase the Q-factor. Preliminarily frequency domain measurements have shown that the cavity has an intrinsic Q-factor Q0 = 4030. This intrinsic Q-factor is a combination of a radiation loss limited Q-factor Qrad = 6300 and of an absorption loss limited Q-factor Qa0 = 11200. The absorption coefficient of the QWs is α0 = 54 cm−1 at the working wavelengths around 1570 nm and the overlap of the confined mode and the QWs is Γ = 20%.
Fig. 1
The excitation of the nanocavity is made using a fibered cw laser having a spectral linewidth of 150 kHz [36]. It is tunable between 1490 nm and 1610 nm and delivers up to 15 mW output power. The coupling of the laser field into the nanocavity is done using a tapered fiber with a diameter of ∼ 1.5μm which is located on the top of the InP membrane above the L3 nanocavity. The coupling efficiency dependents on the fiber diameter and on the gap between the fiber and the membrane, which optimally should be of the order of 100 nm. In our setup, the coupling efficiency into the cavity has been measured to about 7 %, mostly limited by the non-optimal fiber/membrane gap. Indeed, due to electrical charges accumulating on the surface of the fiber, the tapered fiber sticks to the membrane. The power that is launched into the tapered fiber, about 0.5 % of the nominal laser power, is of the order of few μW, comparable to the saturation power of the quantum wells. The loaded Q-factor of the nanocavity with the tapered fiber is measured to be Ql = 3752, corresponding to a cavity lifetime τl = 3.1 ps. In order to avoid any thermal effects, the cw laser is modulated with a fibered acousto-optic modulator producing 100 ns duration square pulses repeated every 20 μs, longer than the thermal dissipation time [37]. The CPO effect is induced by using a sine-wave intensity modulation with a time period longer than electron-hole recombination time τr = 200 ps [27,29]. By driving a fibered Mach-Zehnder interferometer with a rf signal at frequency δ, a 10% intensity modulation depth is applied to the square pulses. The rf signal is supplied by a pulse function arbitrary generator. This temporal sine-wave modulation, 1 + mcos(2πδt), with m < 1 the modulation depth, corresponds in the Fourier space to three spectral components at ω and ω ± δ, associated respectively to the average power of the square pulse and the amplitude of the modulation. The three spectral components play the role of the pump and the probe exciting the QWs in the CPO regime as long as δ < 1/τr. The optical signal are then detected using an Avalanche Photo-Detector (APD) having a 1 GHz electrical bandwidth. The measurement of the delay is achieved with a home made lock-in detection whose outputs are sensitive to the in- and out-of-phase quadratures of the modulation. Basically, the lock-in detection consists first in amplifying the AC component of the electrical signal delivered by the APD and then mixing it with a reference sine-wave signal at the same frequency δ. By changing the phase of the reference from 0° to 90°, the in and out quadrature, called X and Y are obtained at the output of the mixer and after removing the harmonic component at 2δ using a low pass filter. The group delay experienced by the probe field (amplitude modulation) is given by τg ≃ ϕ/(2πδ), where ϕ = arctan(Y/X) is the phase of the probe relative to the phase reference measured directly by the lock-in system. We stress here on the fact that it is the group delay which measured experimentally and not the cavity lifetime τc. However, it is easy to show that τc = τg/2 for the nanocavity we are using. A full discussion on this topic can be found in [38].
Figures 2(a) and 2(b) show respectively the measured pump and modulation amplitude reflections from the nanocavity for different laser wavelengths tuned around the nanocavity resonance as a function of the laser power. The modulation amplitude reflection corresponds to the reflection of the probe in the Fourier space.
Fig. 2
Figure 2(c) presents the corresponding group delay for δ =240 MHz. For a given wavelength, the group delay faithfully follows the evolution of the modulation amplitude reflection, reaching a maximum value for a particular laser power. On the other hand, the maximum group delay is also achieved on the steep slope of the pump reflection where a strong nonlinear behavior is clearly apparent for shorter wavelengths as we are getting closer to the nanocavity resonance. The maximum achieved delay is 685 ps for a laser power of about 11 mW, corresponding to 55 μW pump power in the tapered fiber incident on the nanocavity and an optimal pump wavelength λM ≈ 1571.5 nm. This constitutes a strong enhancement of the cavity lifetime τc = 342.5 ps (×110) when compared to the initial value of 3.1 ps.
The cavity lifetime enhancement is closely related to an equivalent narrowing of the resonance linewidth as shown in Fig. 3 representing the measured modulation amplitude transfer function of the nanocavity. The measurement is achieved for a laser power of 10 mW, corresponding to 50 μW pump power. The pump wavelength is set near λM and the modulation frequency δ is tuned from 50 to 400 MHz. From a spectral point of view, this is similar to measure the probe reflection as the probe frequency is tuned relatively to the pump frequency νp = c/λp. The resonance linewidth has a Half Width at Half Maximum (HWHM) of about 220 MHz. When considering the initial 25-GHz HWHM bandwidth of the nanocavity (τc = 3.1 ps), this corresponds to a linewidth narrowing by a factor of 113, which is close to the enhancement observed for the nanocavity lifetime. Table 1 summarizes the initial properties of the nanocavity and the final ones.
Fig. 3
3. Theory
The introduction of a strong dispersion in a cavity predicts an enhancement of the cavity Q-factor [39] given by:27, 40] Eq. (2) and using Eq. (1), a CPO group index ng = 26 and an enhancement of the Q-factor by a factor 2.5 are obtained. However, the expression given by Eq. (1) does not include the nonlinear behavior of the QWs in the nanocavity which leads to the resonance shift and to the non-Lorentzian resonance shapes observed experimentally when the pump power is increased [36, 41].
To explain the experimental results, a full theoretical analysis based on the coupled mode theory is carried out. It is based on the equations describing the time evolution of the mode amplitude a in the cavity and of the carrier density N in the quantum wells. They are given by [34, 42, 43]:
The theoretical evolutions of Rp, Rs(δ) and τg(δ) are then obtained using the following parameters: λ0 = 2πc/ω0 = 1570.21 nm, αH = 25, Qrad = 6300 and Qa0 = 11200. As already noticed, these values are either independently measured or inferred from experimental measurements. Note that we had to use Ql = 3000 in order to reproduce the width of the pump resonance [36]. This value is slightly different from that experimentally measured. This can be explained by the modification in the coupling conditions between the different experiments. In the numerical calculation, we consider s1 = s0/80 which gives a modulation depth of 10%. The only free parameter is the value of the intracavity saturation energy |asat|2. The theoretical results are presented in Figs. 2(d), 2(e), 2(f), and also in Fig. 3, in regard to the experimental ones. The experimental behaviors are well reproduced. However, for the highest laser powers and short wavelengths there is a discrepancy on the reflected modulation amplitude and delay that is quite reasonable considering the limited number of adjustable parameters. This is due to limitations both on the measurement of the steep resonances and on the determination of the theoretical parameters close to the highly nonlinear points. For the long wavelengths and high laser powers, both experimental and theoretical curves show negative delays. Whereas theory predicts a negative delay of −80 ps, experimentally we measure negative delays up to −300 ps, this result is not yet understood.
4. Conclusion
Producing highly confining small optical resonators is a difficult task with demanding design and fabrication performance. We demonstrated that by inducing a coherent non linear interaction such as coherent population oscillation and a strong nonlinear index it is possible to considerably boost the nanocavity Q-factor. Starting from a semiconuctor 2D PhC nanocavity with Q-factor of 3752 we achieved a Q-factor of 4×105, with converging spectral and temporal measurement results. For a given wavelength, close to the initial resonance, the Q enhancement is resonant with the pump power which allows to tune its value.
We acknowledge support by the French Agence Nationale de la Recherche through the project CALIN (ANR 2010 BLAN-1002). These results are within the scope of C'Nano IdF and RTRA Triangle de la Physique; C'Nano IdF is a CNRS, CEA, MESR and Région Ile-de-France Nanosciences Competence Center. We thank Philippe Lalanne for helpful discussions.
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