• DocumentCode
    2655015
  • Title

    Air Force Highly Integrated Photonics (HIP) Program

  • Author

    Horne, Merton A. ; Schantz, Howard J. ; Newcomer, Stephen O. ; Whaley, Gregory J.

  • Author_Institution
    Lockheed Martin MS2 Tactical Syst., Eagan, MN
  • fYear
    2006
  • fDate
    12-14 Sept. 2006
  • Firstpage
    16
  • Lastpage
    17
  • Abstract
    This presentation will describe the Air Force Research Laboratory Highly Integrated Photonics Program (AF HIP) and its objective to integrate on a monolithic device, all of the optical components required to serve as a bus coupler in an all optical data communication network. Monolithic integration (chips fabricated out of a single material system) remains the ultimate vision for integrated optics
  • Keywords
    integrated optics; military communication; optical communication equipment; silicon-on-insulator; bus coupler; fiber optics; highly integrated photonics; integrated optics; monolithic device; optical data communication network; planar lightwave circuit; silicon on insulator; All-optical networks; Data communication; Hip; Integrated optics; Laboratories; Monolithic integrated circuits; Optical coupling; Optical devices; Optical fiber networks; Photonics;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Avionics Fiber-Optics and Photonics, 2006. IEEE Conference
  • Conference_Location
    Annapolis, MD
  • Print_ISBN
    1-4244-0408-8
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/AVFOP.2006.1707478
  • Filename
    1707478