(DARPA) Microresconator And Photonic Crystal Filters, Lasers And Modulators For Analog And Digital Chip Scale WDM Systems

Abstract

Networks play an important role in the overall functioning of military weapons systems, and WDM (wavelength division multiplexing) technology offers many potentially substantial improvements of the performance of these networks as well as to the host platform. Future military platforms would see substantial benefit from WDM components that provide high levels of chip-scale integration, support dynamically reconfigurable topologies, offer data format independence (support different digital data types as well as the ability to simultaneously transport digital and analog data), and are temperature robust. The outcome of this specific research will develop highly integrateable functional components that will enable the fabrication of chip-scale WDM signal-processing systems. This will provide secure, compact, low-power, high-bandwidth systems.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 08, 2009
Accession Number
ADA562546

Entities

People

  • John O'brien P. D.

Organizations

  • University of Southern California

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Bandwidth
  • Crystal Filters
  • Crystals
  • Demodulators
  • Digital Data
  • Fabrication
  • Filters
  • Modems
  • Modulators
  • Multiplexing
  • Photonic Crystals
  • Platforms
  • Signal Processing
  • Topology
  • Wavelength Division Multiplexing

Readers

  • Integrated Circuit Design and Technology.

Technology Areas

  • Directed Energy