SBIR/STTR Research Award
Highly Parallel Opto-Electronic Digital Multiprocessor
Award amount
$49,982Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
1992Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Missile Defense Agency
- Recipient company
- Physical Optics Corporation
- Proposal award date
- Not reported
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- DG3AB4E8R4D8
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- Not reported
Research abstract
1We will develop entirely new class of electrooptic analog-to-digital (A/D) converters and modulators. Preliminary experiments on electrooptic materials have demonstrated such conversion/modulation. The A/D converter/modulator consists of an integrated optic channel waveguide with device end faces polished and coated with high reflectivity mirrors. The resultant transmission response of the device can be tuned through the electrooptic effect. Several advantages of the A/D converter/modulator are its multi-valued logical capability, electronically reconfigurable logical weights, and high speed operation (~GHz). Additional advantages include elimination of the use of sampling optical pulse, provision of long distance digital optical signal tranmission capability, high SNR, high dynamic range and thermal stability. The reconfigurable multiwavelength coding can be used to realize highly secure optical communication for military an commerical purposes.
Technology keywords
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Other awards by this recipient
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Research funding history
1,933 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1986–2021). Reported award amounts total $549,686,800. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, Department of Energy, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Health and Human Services, National Science Foundation, Department of Homeland Security
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