Category Photonics

Electro-optical Circuit Board (EOCB) enable photonic integrated circuits, autonomous cars and even quantum computers based on light

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As copper reaches its speed limit, engineers look at optics to replace copper for very high speed signals. The electronic transmission of information requires energy – the faster the interface, the more electrical power is required. At very high data…...

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Photoacoustic Imaging enable Seeing Through Solids, hackproof Biometrics and Image Underwater Objects

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Alexander Graham Bell discovered photoacoustics by accident when he was working on the development of the photophone, a followup to his recently developed telephone that operated via modulated sunlight instead of electricity. You would operate a photophone by speaking into its…...

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US Navy developing next generation laser weapons for defending warships from ballistic and cruise missiles to Hypersonic Missiles

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Navy ships face an increasing number of threats in conducting their missions, including UAVs, armed small boats, and adversary intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance systems. The US Navy is concerned about the survivability of Navy surface ships in potential combat situations against…...

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Militaries developing scalable hundreds of Kilowatts to Megawatts High Power Laser technologies for air and missile defense

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The Laser Directed Energy Weapons (DEWs) offer a transformational ‘game changer’ to counter asymmetric and disruptive threats, while facing increasingly sophisticated traditional challenges. Laser technology provides major advantages for military applications over kinetic weapons due to High precision and rapid…...

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Flexible displays enable lighter-weight, lower-power, more-rugged smartphones , soldiers wearable and vehicle applications

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With the flat panel display having already been widely used more than 40 years, there have been many desired changes in the display technology, focusing on developing a lighter, thinner product that was easier to carry and store. A flexible…...

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Infrared Search and Track (IRST) emerging as preferred solution for engaging stealthy aircraft and cruise missiles

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Stealth has revolutionized the Air power by vastly enhancing the penetration capabilities of fifth generation aircrafts like the F-22A Raptor developed by Lockheed Martin and Boeing, L.M. F-35 Lightning II. Stealth in military is often described to mean, all the…...

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DARPA’s LUMOS to develop Photonic integrated circuits (PICs) and photonics platforms for defence applications

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Photonics is a breakthrough technology as it uses photons (smallest unit of light) as the data carrier instead of electrons (smallest unit of electricity) used in electronic ICs. As light travels at very high speeds, photonics is widely used to…...

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DARPA’s DETECT developed Single photon detector (SPD) for quantum computers, communications, and submarine detection

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The process of detecting light—whether with our eyes, cameras or other devices—is at the heart of a wide range of civilian and military applications, including light or laser detection and ranging (LIDAR or LADAR), photography, astronomy, quantum information processing, medical…...

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DARPA’s NLM developing systematic approaches of designing metamaterials for imaging, AR Glasses and EMDrive.

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The ability to design and fabricate materials with new functionalities opens the door to a new world of possibilities. They can be tailored to either augment the functionality of existing devices or create new devices with superior performances. EnMats are broadly…...

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Nanolasers emerging technology for  optical interconnects, near-field spectroscopy and sensing, optical probing for biological systems, microprocessors and quantum circuits

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Lasers are widely used in household appliances, medicine, industry, telecommunications and more.  A nanolaser is a laser that has nanoscale dimensions. These tiny lasers can be modulated quickly and, combined with their small footprint, this makes them ideal candidates for…...

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