DARPA Microresconator And Photonic Crystal Filters, Lasers And Modulators For Analog And Digital Chip Scale WDM Systems.

摘要

Networks play an important role in the overall functioning of military weapons systems, and WDM (wavelength division multiplexing) technology offers many potentially substantial improvements of the performance of these networks as well as to the host platform. Future military platforms would see substantial benefit from WDM components that provide high levels of chip-scale integration, support dynamically reconfigurable topologies, offer data format independence (support different digital data types as well as the ability to simultaneously transport digital and analog data), and are temperature robust. The outcome of this specific research will develop highly integrateable functional components that will enable the fabrication of chip-scale WDM signal- processing systems. This will provide secure, compact, low-power, high- bandwidth systems.