Highly Parallel Opto-Electronic Digital Multiprocessor

Award Information

Agency: Department of Defense

Branch: Missile Defense Agency

Contract: N/A

Agency Tracking Number: 18122

Amount: $49,982.00

Phase: Phase I

Program: SBIR

Solicitation Topic Code: N/A

Solicitation Number: N/A

Timeline

Solicitation Year: N/A

Award Year: 1992

Award Start Date (Proposal Award Date): N/A

Award End Date (Contract End Date): N/A

Small Business Information

Physical Optics Corporation

20600 Gramercy Place, Suite 103

Torrance, CA 90501

United States

DUNS: N/A

HUBZone Owned: No

Woman Owned: No

Socially and Economically Disadvantaged: No

Principal Investigator

Name: Andrew Kostrzewski, Phd
Phone: (310) 320-3088

Business Contact

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Research Institution

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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.

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Highly Parallel Opto-Electronic Digital Multiprocessor