Active Photonic Integrated Circuits

So Far, So Good: Enforcing California's Gun Violence Restraining Orders Before and After Bruen

“…125 The Court held that the statute was valid, construing it to apply "only to those threatening statements that a reasonable listener would understand, in light of the context and surrounding circumstances, to constitute a true threat, namely, 'a serious expression of an intent to commit an act of unlawful violence', rather than an expression of jest or frustration." 126 The Lowery court's interpretation of "true threats" is consistent with the Ninth Circuit's application in Planned Parenthood of the Columbia/Willamette, Inc. v. American Coalition of Life Activists. 127 The Planned Parenthood court stated that the Ninth Circuit's well-established standard for "true threats" is a simple objective reasonableness test: "Whether a particular statement may properly be considered to be a threat is governed by an objective standard-whether a reasonable person would foresee that the statement would be interpreted by those to whom the maker communicates the statement as a serious expression of intent to harm or assault."…”

Reduced component count optical delay discriminator using a semiconductor optical amplifier-detector

“…Previously, Awad's [2] device has been simulated as part of a photonic circuit design for optical-time division multiplexed (OTDM) signal demultiplexing [3]. This paper extends that simulation by introducing a multi-contact model of the Semiconductor Optical Amplifier (SOA).…”

“…This paper extends that simulation by introducing a multi-contact model of the Semiconductor Optical Amplifier (SOA). The device parameters are as in [3]. The model predicts the carrier densities under each contact, and so is able to deduce the contact voltage.…”