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Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2004 John Keller |
Adaptive Optics Blends the Best of Electronic and Optoelectronic Technologies This approach uses deformable mirrors, MEMS, or liquid-crystal technologies to adjust for optical distortion in the atmosphere, which yields a new level of focus and resolution to high-energy lasers, deep-space exploration, and perhaps even eye surgery. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics June 2007 John Keller |
Air Force Seeks Technologies to Enhance Airborne Laser Project Air Force researchers are asking industry to develop new enabling electro-optic technologies for the Airborne Laser system (ABL), which is designed to destroy ballistic missiles in flight. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2005 Jim Reeves |
Industry View: Have bandwidth, will travel Technological advancements such as 'double conjugated adaptive optics' are leading to man-portable, far-reaching, low-power laser communication systems that are perfectly suited to the military's security-driven battlefield communication requirements. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2008 Courtney E. Howard |
Weapons at the Speed of Light Laser weaponry will be a tool in the U.S. military's arsenal much sooner than many think, with the first applications for missile defense from the ground and the air. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2007 John McHale |
Laser Weapons: Moving From Promise to Performance The military's laser weapons programs are making steady progress in their transition from the laboratory to the battlefield, with deployment of initial systems expected within the next three to five years. |
Technology Research News February 23, 2005 Kimberly Patch |
Springs simplify micromirror arrays Adaptive optics correct light waves that have been distorted, usually by the atmosphere, by bouncing them off a mirror that rapidly changes shape to produce clearer images or signals. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2008 John McHale |
Laser Weapons, on Target The U.S. military and its partners from industry are meeting major milestones in various programs as they move closer to making laser weaponry a standard part of the U.S. arsenal. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2005 Ben Ames |
Optical sensors light up the battlefield Tomorrow's sensors will be modular, digital, fused, and networked |
Military & Aerospace Electronics August 2004 John McHale |
The Airborne Laser: It's Huge, it Flies, and it Blows up Missles The world's largest directed-energy weapon, the U.S. Defense Department's Airborne Laser, employs hundreds of complicated optics and several lasers to track down and destroy incoming missiles, and it is expected to be deployed by the end of the decade. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics November 2004 John Keller |
Air Force Seeks to Develop Phased-Array Lasers for Weapons and Communications U.S. military researchers are looking into ways of steering laser beams from flat arrays of optical emitters, in much the same way that phased-array radar systems steer radar beams without the need of a rotating platform. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2005 Stevens & Shmulovich |
Planar lightwave circuits will be a key technology for next-generation military systems Optoelectronics, or photonics, is now becoming crucial to communications systems on a variety of military platforms and sensor applications. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics October 2005 John McHale |
Chasing the goal of an efficient battlefield laser U.S. DoD researchers aim to develop small lasers for use in tactical air missions. The engineering challenge has been taken up by contractors including Northrop Grumman and Lockheed Martin. |
IEEE Spectrum March 2010 Bikkannavar & Redding |
Software for Optical Systems Spells the End of Blur NASA software that calculates optical aberrations will sharpen images from space and could redefine perfect vision for humans |
Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2010 |
Navy Asks OASYS Technology to Develop Multispectral Sensors for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Systems designers at OASYS Technology won a $10.6 million contract to develop an unmanned airborne multispectral sensor suite for advanced imaging technology in unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). |
Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2004 |
Test Moves Missile-Defense Laser Program Closer to Deployment The future U.S. Airborne Laser system took another step forward last month when modules of the system's megawatt-class chemical oxygen-iodine laser were test fired for the first time while linked together as one unit. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2005 |
Optoelectronics briefs Santa Barbara Infrared delivers optical test equipment... Army picks EOIR Technologies for surveillance prototypes... Pulse generator for high-resolution military photonic applications...KVH to upgrade optical navigation systems... Blue-violet laser-diode modules... etc. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2007 |
Electro-Optics Briefs Edmund Optics offers versatile UV microscope... Northrop Grumman opens facility for high-energy lasers... Salvador Imaging announces color night-vision camera... etc. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2007 John McHale |
Laser Weapons Are Getting Closer to Reality U.S. Department of Defense experts are close to fielding the Airborne Laser (ABL) for missile defense and several other high-energy laser weapons programs received new funding this year. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2007 |
Products Machine-vision solution... Sapphire waveplates change beam polarization state... IR laser-diode module with high pointing stability... Miniature ruggedized thermal-imaging cameras... etc. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics November 2005 |
Optoelectronics Briefs Dual-wavelength focal-plane array in development... Double-clad ytterbium fiber available for fiber-laser applications...Ultraviolet refractive beam shaper unveiled... Navy picks supplier for optoelectronic sensor systems... Air Force awards contract for high-power fiber amplifier... etc. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2006 |
Optical Interconnect Withstands Harsh Environments The PRO BEAM connector series from Tyco Electronics is a fiber-optic interconnect designed specifically for fast data connections where resistance to severe environmental conditions is paramount. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics August 2004 Ben Ames |
Astronomers Need Adaptive Optics for 30-Meter Telescope Space-based telescopes do not have to use adaptive optics to correct for peering through the Earth's atmosphere; the biggest advances in space-telescope technology come from the mirrors, which rely on near-perfect calibration and lightweight materials to catch maximum radiation. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2005 Ben Ames |
Air Force tunes nonlethal directed-energy weapons The U.S. Air Force wants the Active Denial System, which fires painful but nonlethal, energy, to be more portable. And U.S. Navy and Coast Guard vessels may get a smaller version of the Long Range Acoustic Device, which generates a focused beam of sound to dissuade attackers. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2008 John McHale |
Improving Visibility Gen. Thomas Csnrko said he wants more visibility on the battlefield other than direct observation. Designers of improved optics sensors and infrared technology, especially in unmanned platforms, are looking to make his wish come true. |
National Defense February 2012 Eric Beidel |
DARPA Eyes Space Junk From the Ground The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, though, is wrapping up a demonstration with a new Space Surveillance Telescope that officials say will offer an unprecedented view of objects in space. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics October 2009 |
C-130-Based High-Energy Laser Weapon Defeats Ground Target in Flight Test Laser weapons experts from Boeing and the U.S. Air Force defeated a ground target from the air with the Advanced Tactical Laser (ATL) aircraft. |
Technology Research News October 20, 2004 Eric Smalley |
Wide laser makes simple tweezers Much of medical diagnostics and biomedical research involves trapping, manipulating and sorting individual cells and like-sized bits of matter. A recently demonstrated way of manipulating cells promises to be less expensive than laser tweezers. |
IEEE Spectrum October 2005 Paniccia & Koehl |
The Silicon Solution In the future, ordinary silicon chips will move data using light rather than electrons, unleashing nearly limitless bandwidth and revolutionizing computing |
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2006 |
Fixed-Power Beam Expanders in Optomechanical Platform Edmund Optics Inc. is offering a family of beam expanders with high-performance optical designs packaged in a precise optomechanical platform. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2007 |
Defense Industry Continues to Invest in Electro-Optics Electro-optic, optical, and optoelectronic components are an important part of military and aerospace platforms and systems, and are essential to controlling the battlefields of tomorrow. |
Technology Research News April 20, 2005 Eric Smalley |
Telescopes Make Bug-Eye Optics Researchers have developed a prototype artificial compound eye made from three stacked sets of microlenses that form an array of tiny telescopes that could be used for camera phones, infrared vision systems and optical sensors. |
Technology Research News June 1, 2005 |
Lasers Built Into Fiber-Optics Researchers have crossed a gas-filled fiber optic laser with ordinary fiber optics to make a Raman laser and a frequency stabilizer -- devices that provide precise control of laser beams. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics November 2006 |
Electro-optics Briefs FLIR Systems wins order from U.S. Navy... Megapixel camera for demanding machine-vision applications... Edmund Optics expands into the ultraviolet... Toshiba offers extreme-low-light surveillance camera for homeland security... etc. |
National Defense December 2015 Yasmin Tadjdeh |
Lockheed Invests in Laser Technology Lockheed Martin is investing heavily in laser technology and new ways to manufacture such systems, as the company begins production of 60-kilowatt lasers for the U.S. Army. |
Technology Research News September 24, 2003 |
Teamed lasers make smaller spots Researchers from Boston University have tapped the properties of polarization in order to focus a laser beam more tightly in space. The method could be used to scan objects in finer detail and to make finer features in processes like rapid prototyping and photolithography. |
IEEE Spectrum May 2010 Jordin Kare |
Backyard Star Wars Build your own photonic fence to zap mosquitoes midflight |
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2006 |
Optoelectronics Briefs DOD looks to Edmund Optics for optics manufacturing technology... GIG-BE high-speed fiber-optic network up and running... Army takes delivery of prototype shortwave IR cameras... etc. |