Architecture and Device Development for Optical Networks

Abstract

This report describes the work accomplished at the Photonics Center, Rome Laboratory in developing an Optical Time Division Multiaccess coder capable of rapidly shifting an optical pulse in time for address recognition. It also describes current and future work being accomplished at the Photonics Center on coincidence detection ('AND' gate) for use in demultiplexing channel information from a multi-gigabit data stream. Part of this effort, dealing with the free- space switching architecture, was primarily accomplished at Princeton University.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1991
Accession Number
ADA253247

Entities

People

  • John L. Stacy
  • Mark F. Krol
  • Paul Prucnal
  • Raymond K. Boncek
  • Steven T. Johns

Organizations

  • Calspan-University of Buffalo Research Center

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Communication Systems
  • Computer Programs
  • Contractors
  • Delay Lines
  • Detection
  • Engineers
  • Insertion Loss
  • Lasers
  • Military Applications
  • Modulation
  • Modulators
  • Optical Communications
  • Optical Interconnects
  • Switches
  • Switching
  • Universities

Fields of Study

  • Computer science
  • Physics

Readers

  • Academic Conference Management
  • Radar Systems Engineering.
  • Radio communications and signal processing.

Technology Areas

  • Quantum Science - Quantum Key Distribution
  • Space