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Opportunity in Absence: Activating Vacant Space in The Temporary City
(University of Waterloo, 2015-09-24)The vacant buildings in Cambridge await new uses as traditional commercial activity has shifted to the sprawl that defines the landscape between the city’s historic cores. Downtown businesses have been replaced by big-box ... -
Opposition-Based Differential Evolution
(University of Waterloo, 2007-05-07)Evolutionary algorithms (EAs) are well-established techniques to approach those problems which for the classical optimization methods are difficult to solve. Tackling problems with mixed-type of variables, many local optima, ... -
Oppositional Reinforcement Learning with Applications
(University of Waterloo, 2008-09-25)Machine intelligence techniques contribute to solving real-world problems. Reinforcement learning (RL) is one of the machine intelligence techniques with several characteristics that make it suitable for the applications, ... -
OppropBERT: An Extensible Graph Neural Network and BERT-style Reinforcement Learning-based Type Inference System
(University of Waterloo, 2022-12-20)Built-in type systems for statically-typed programming languages (e.g., Java) can only prevent rudimentary and domain-specific errors at compile time. They do not check for type errors in other domains, e.g., to prevent ... -
Optical aberrations and cone photoreceptor sampling during normal emmetropization and emmetropization to imposed defocus
(University of Waterloo, 2018-04-23)The eye grows in a coordinated fashion during normal emmetropization which results in an image close to being in focus on the retina for distance vision. Myopia results from the failure of normal emmetropization. Myopia ... -
Optical and Microwave Beamforming for Phased Array Antennas
(University of Waterloo, 2009-01-19)Phased array antenna has been used for a variety of military and civil applications, over the past five decades. Being structurally conformal and flexible, phased array antenna is highly suitable for mobile applications. ... -
Optical Biosensing Using Localized Surface Plasmon Resonance of Gold Nanoparticles
(University of Waterloo, 2011-05-25)This thesis describes some experiments developed to probe the fundamental aspects of the interfacial behaviour of proteins. The contents of this thesis can be broadly divided into two parts. In the first part, we ... -
Optical Changes during Normal Emmetropization, Lens-induced Myopia and its Recovery in the Young Chick Eye
(University of Waterloo, 2015-01-20)In human eyes, the at-birth hyperopoic defocus gradually decreases to mild hyperopia or emmetropia at around age 6. Studies on refractive development suggest somewhat complex mechanisms at work between eye power and length. ... -
Optical Coherence Tomography Image Analysis of Corneal Tissue
(University of Waterloo, 2012-01-23)Because of the ubiquitous use of contact lenses, there is considerable interest in better understanding the anatomy of the cornea, the part of the eye in contact with an exterior lens. The recent technology developments ... -
Optical Design for an Open Access Trapped Ion Quantum Processor
(University of Waterloo, 2021-08-31)The future of quantum information is scaling to a ever larger number of qubits. Doing so will require advances in the approach for all aspects of current experimental systems. The QuantumION project is a large step in this ... -
Optical Fiber Sensors for Temperature and Strain Measurement
(University of Waterloo, 2010-12-09)Optical fiber sensors have already been developed from the experimental stage to practical applications in the past 20 years. There is no doubt that this technology can bring a wealth of applications, ranging from sensors ... -
Optical MEMS Switches: Theory, Design, and Fabrication of a New Architecture
(University of Waterloo, 2007-06-28)The scalability and cost of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) optical switches are now the important factors driving the development of MEMS optical switches technology. The employment of MEMS in the design and fabrication ... -
Optical Properties of Lithiated Graphite In Relation to a Lithium Ion Battery Fiber Optic Sensor
(University of Waterloo, 2018-02-12)As the demand for lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) has increased, research to increase their life and reliability has also continued. To further advance the ability of determining the material status of a battery during ... -
Optical pulse compression of first anti-Stokes order in the multi-frequency Raman generation with the presence of red shifted shoulder
(University of Waterloo, 2018-09-11)Multi-frequency Raman generation (MRG) is a nonlinear technique to generate intense trains of single-femtosecond pulses. The broad spectrum of different Raman orders which is spread from near-infrared (near-IR) to UV can ... -
Optical Pulse Shaping For Chirped Pulse Interferometry And Bio-Imaging
(University of Waterloo, 2011-09-02)Biomedical imaging requires high resolution to see the fine features of a sample and fast acquisition to observe live cells that move. Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is a powerful technique which uses optical ... -
Optical Quantum Communication & Cryptography with Temporarily Trusted Parties
(University of Waterloo, 2019-09-19)The work in this thesis can be divided into three parts. The first two parts deal with optical quantum communication protocols and the third part deals with quantum cryptography. The first part of the thesis is a step ... -
Optical Resonators Integrated into a Hollow Core Photonic Crystal Fiber for Enhanced Light-Matter Interactions
(University of Waterloo, 2019-08-29)The focus of this thesis is to investigate and fabricate a platform that can facilitate the enhancement of light-matter interactions. By tightly confining the photons and atoms to the same region of space, the probability ... -
Optical Self-Phase Modulation in Graphene
(University of Waterloo, 2018-12-20)Graphene is the first practically fabricated and stable two-dimensional material. It is an atomically thin layer of graphite with a unique gapless electronic band structure which leads to the observation of near-relativistic ... -
Optical Sensor for Measurement of Clad Height during Laser Cladding Process
(University of Waterloo, 2006)The process of laser cladding consists of depositing successive layers of molten metallic powder to create a near-net shape. A high-power laser is used to melt incoming metallic powder, which forms a melt pool on the ... -
Optics, Loss and Gravity
(University of Waterloo, 2021-01-13)We look at some ideas that can be found from making connections among optics, non-Hermitian dynamics and gravity. Using nonlinear optics, we demonstrate how loss can be used to make brighter sources of thermal light. Also, ...