Gargoyle
Abstract
Sensors, processors and users transmit data on a massive scale; however processing capabilities cannot keep pace. The result is missed warnings and delayed reaction. Digital electronics, while indispensable, cannot scale with the unprecedented demand for high-throughput processing. For example, aggregate communications through optical fibers are currently >100 Terabit/sec (Tbps) worldwide and are expected to exceed 1 Petabit/sec by 2020. In these high-rate optical links, signatures of malware propagation or denial of service attacks become small needles in a very large haystack. Conventional digital processing attempts to extract relevant information, but it is not nearly fast enough to keep up, and falls far short of 100% aperture capture. Gargoyle will develop photonic correlators for critical data processing tasks to provide near-zero latency, high-throughput processing of both digital and analog data. Advanced optical correlator technology has the potential to scale up with ever-increasing bit rates. Applications for this technology include direct sequence spread spectrum bandwidths exceeding 10 Gigahertz (GHz), and cyber defense in fiber-optic networks with scalability to future transmission rates exceeding 10 Tbps.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Accomplishment
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2015
- Source ID
- 8fff2b169ba016b502cf298f95e793d0
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