Category Photonics

Photonics, Security & Threat Management

CMOS image sensor (CIS) advancements enabling big growth in Smartphone camera, machine vision, medical imaging and security applications

Innovations in CMOS image sensor (CIS) technology continue to enhance digital imaging landscape. While the demand has been driven by smartphone makers, leveraging enhanced photo-taking capabilities to differentiate their devices from the competition, there is also a growing market for…...

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Rajesh Uppal
November 15, 2021

AI & IT, Photonics

DARPA IP2 seeks In Pixel Intelligent Processing tech

The AIE program is one key element of DARPA’s broader AI investment strategy that will help ensure the U.S. maintains a technological advantage in this critical area. Past DARPA AI investments facilitated the advancement of “first wave” (rule based) and…...

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Rajesh Uppal
November 8, 2021

Electronics & EW, Photonics

DARPA GRYPHON developing high-performance microwave frequency source based on integrated photonics

In our information society, the synthesis, distribution, and processing of radio and microwave signals are ubiquitous in wireless networks, telecommunications, and radars. The current tendency is to use carriers in higher frequency bands, especially with looming bandwidth bottlenecks due to…...

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Rajesh Uppal
September 28, 2021

Global Risks & Future Threats, Photonics

Ion Mobility Spectrometry and Its Applications in Detection of Chemical Warfare Agents

The threat of weapons of mass destruction (WMDs), such as chemical warfare agents (CWAs) and toxic industrial chemicals, is of great concern worldwide. This menace makes it necessary to detect the presence of such weapons in both military and civil…...

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Rajesh Uppal
September 22, 2021

Industry & Market Dynamics, Photonics

Laser Technology Market

Laser, a device that stimulates atoms or molecules to emit light at particular wavelengths and amplifies that light, typically producing a very narrow beam of radiation. The emission generally covers an extremely limited range of visible, infrared, or ultraviolet wavelengths.…...

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Rajesh Uppal
September 18, 2021

Mechanical, Photonics, Security & Threat Management

Non-Line-of-Sight Imaging can be transformative in medicine, robotics, manufacturing, and security

We see things because our eyes are sophisticated light detectors: they constantly capture the light rays bouncing off nearby objects so our brain can construct an ever-changing impression of the world around us. Similarly in a camera, All the light…...

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Rajesh Uppal
September 12, 2021

Comm. & Networking, Photonics

Twisted light can provide 100-times faster fiber capacity and secure wireless data transmission to moving platforms like UAVs

Broadband fiber-optics carry information on pulses of light, at the speed of light, through optical fibers. But the way the light is encoded at one end and processed at the other affects data speeds. Basically, light or any other electromagnetic radiation…...

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Rajesh Uppal
September 10, 2021

Nanotech, Photonics

Twisted light technology

Space-division multiplexing (SDM) has recently attracted great attention as a promising technology to further improve the transmission capacity and spectral efficiency. Very recently, SDM employing twisted lights, also known as orbital angular momentum (OAM) carrying lights, provides an alternative approach to…...

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Rajesh Uppal
September 9, 2021

Material, Photonics

Smart photonic materials

The world population is estimated to reach 9.8 billion by 2050. Ensuring an adequate food supply for such a large number of people would be challenging enough for agriculture. But climate change is putting even more pressure on farmers, agricultural…...

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Rajesh Uppal
August 23, 2021

Electronics & EW, Industry & Market Dynamics, Photonics

Optoelectronics technology trends and market

Optoelectronic technology is a new technology formed by the combination of photon technology and electronic technology. Optoelectronics is the field of technology concerned with electronic device application to the sourcing, detection and control of light. Optoelectronics is described as “a…...

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Rajesh Uppal
August 8, 2021