Worldwide water managers are increasingly challenged to allocate sufficient and affordable water supplies to different water use sectors without further degrading river ecosystems and their valuable services to mankind. Since 1950 human population almost tripled, water abstractions increased by a factor of four, and the number of large dam constructions is about eight times higher today. From a hydrological perspective, the alteration of river flows (temporally and spatially) is one of the main consequences of global ...

Die Validität des Sensorkonzeptes aus dem Patent von Prof. H. Hillmer wird unter Verwendung einer gasförmigen Testsubstanz gezeigt. Zu diesem Zweck wird ein bestehender Messaufbau durch zahlreiche Verbesserungen optimiert. Die optischen Eigenschaften der verwendeten Komponenten und der resultierenden modifizierten Aufbauten werden dargelegt. Die bisherigen faserbasierter Messaufbauten werden zu einem symmetrischen Messaufbau mit verbesserter spektraler Auflösung und vereinfachter Handhabung erweitert. Die Vorlaufzeiten, ...

In the field of optical spectroscopy, spectrometers are high resolution optical sensors that have emerged as a platform for a wide range of application fields. Commercially available spectrometers are bulky and expensive. Hence, this limits its integration into modern mobile and wearable devices. To overcome this limitation, miniaturization of spectrometers is an interesting target for a wide range of emerging applications. The most attractive concept of fabricating miniaturized spectrometers is the Fabry-Pérot filter ...

In den letzten Jahrzehnten haben sich makroskalige hydrologische Modelle als wichtige Werkzeuge etabliert um den Zustand der globalen erneuerbaren Süßwasserressourcen flächendeckend bewerten können. Sie werden heutzutage eingesetzt um eine große Bandbreite wissenschaftlicher Fragestellungen zu beantworten, insbesondere hinsichtlich der Auswirkungen anthropogener Einflüsse auf das natürliche Abflussregime oder der Auswirkungen des globalen Wandels und Klimawandels auf die Ressource Wasser. Diese Auswirkungen lassen ...

The 21st century has brought new challenges for forest management at a time when globalization in world trade is increasing and global climate change is becoming increasingly apparent. In addition to various goods and services like food, feed, timber or biofuels being provided to humans, forest ecosystems are a large store of terrestrial carbon and account for a major part of the carbon exchange between the atmosphere and the land surface. Depending on the stage of the ecosystems and/or management regimes, forests ...

This work focusses on the approach of optical thin-layer filters with distributed cavity mode. Fabry-Pérot filters own a single cavity layer in the centre of the stack. In contrast, with chirped filter approach the cavity thickness is distributed over several layers. Model calculation results are applied to characterise the properties of the spectrum and the electric field of chirped filters. The aim of distributing the cavity within the filter stack is to distribute the electric field in the resonance case (transmission ...

At present, a fraction of 0.1 - 0.2% of the patients undergoing surgery become aware during the process. The situation is referred to as anesthesia awareness and is obviously very traumatic for the person experiencing it. The reason for its occurrence is mostly an insufficient dosage of the narcotic Propofol combined with the incapability of the technology monitoring the depth of the patient’s anesthetic state to notice the patient becoming aware. A solution can be a highly sensitive and selective real time monitoring ...

In this thesis, optical gain measurement setup based on variable stripe length method is designed, implemented and improved. The setup is characterized using inorganic and organic samples. The optical gain of spiro-quaterphenyl is calculated and compared with measurements from the setup. Films with various thicknesses of spiro-quaterphenyl, methoxy-spiro-quaterphenyl and phenoxy-spiro-quaterphenyl are deposited by a vacuum vapor deposition technique forming asymmetric slab waveguides. The optical properties, laser ...

Eine Halbleiterdiode mit externer Kavität wird um eine Messzelle speziell für Gase erweitert. Diese erlaubt Absorptionsmessungen einer exakt definierten Menge von Gas unter kontrollierten Temperatur- und Druckbedingungen. Es werden konzentrationsabhängige Absorptionsmessungen mit Propofol durchgeführt. Als Ergebnis werden effektive Pfadlänge, Bestimmungs- und Nachweisgrenze berechnet und der Beweis erbracht, dass beide im System anschwingenden Moden in Konkurrenz zueinander stehen. Weiterhin wurde eine ausgeprägte ...