Manually-Actuated Laser Intersite Communications Equipment (MALICE)

Exciting Technology (ET) plans to develop a high data rate optical communication unit with 40° x 40° random access field of regard. This revolutionary device will be capable of 10 Gbps data rate. Acquisition time, only pointing the units in the general direction of each other, is planned to be <5 seconds. A key technology in this device is ET’s patent pending non-mechanical beam steering technology. Risk on this technology development has been significantly reduced during Phase I.  Both optical and driver chips have been designed. These will be fabricated during Phase II and integrated into the breadboard unit.  In Phase II we will immediately begin our commercialization strategy.  Our optical communication device be suitable for multiple applications in both DoD and commercial markets, and the automotive LiDAR use of our beam steering devices could potentially result in millions of non-mechanical beam steering units being sold. A uniqueness to our design is that current commercial optical communication units require professional alignment, but our MALICE device will automatically align, link up, and transmit data at high rates with only hand pointing of the units, even with dynamically moving nodes.