Silicon Receiver for Millimeter Wave Distributed Aperture Imager with Optical Upconversion
Company: Phase Sensitive Innovations Agency/Program/Year/Phase: DOD / SBIR / 2012 / 1Abstract: In this SBIR effort we will design (Phase I) and demonstrate (Phase II) an integrated silicon electronic-photonic upconversion receiver that when used with our photonic backend will allow for a highly sensitive, real-time, and economical millimeter wave (mmW)… more
Silicon Receiver for Millimeter Wave Distributed Aperture Imager with Optical Upconversion
Company: Phase Sensitive Innovations Agency/Program/Year/Phase: DOD / SBIR / 2012 / 2Abstract: …nce. We will also look to optimize the design and performance of the circuitry based on our measured results. The development of this chip leverages recent progress in SiGe HBT high speed analog circuit design and integrates it monolithically with emerging photonic technology.… more
A Platform-Independent Framerwork for Efficient Massively Parallel Execution
Company: EM Photonics, Incorporated Agency/Program/Year/Phase: DOD / STTR / 2012 / 1Abstract: … GPUs sit as peers to multi-core processors within a node but also have their own programming paradigm. To develop applications that leverage future supercomputers will require utilizing the computational power available in all the devices in a system. To ease this process, … more
Accelerated Linear Algebra Solvers for Multi-Core GPU-Based Computing Architectures
Company: EM Photonics, Incorporated Agency/Program/Year/Phase: DOD / STTR / 2012 / 2Abstract: … math computations, lead by graphics processing units (GPUs). With so-called hybrid systems consisting of a mix of CPUs and GPUs claiming 3 of the top 4 spots on the Top500 list of supercomputers, it is vital that the supporting software libraries catch up to the hardware. EM… more
Ultrafast Hybrid Active Materials and Devices for Compact RF Photonics
Company: EM Photonics, Incorporated Agency/Program/Year/Phase: DOD / STTR / 2012 / 2Abstract: … waveguides, switches, high speed modulators, filters, etc. offer an additional reduction of the physical size and weight of the overall RF-System with the advantage of high power handling capability with picosecond timing precision. Optical components for RF-photonic… more
Advanced Long-Range Video Capabilities Using Speckle Imaging Techniques
Company: EM Photonics, Incorporated Agency/Program/Year/Phase: NASA / SBIR / 2012 / 1Abstract: Flight-testing is a crucial component in NASA's mission to research and develop of new aeronautical concepts, allowing for verification of simulated and wind-tunnel results, and exposing previously unforeseen design problems. Video is an invaluable tool for flight-testing, allowing the… more
OpenCL-Based Linear Algebra Libraries for High-Performance Computing
Company: EM Photonics, Incorporated Agency/Program/Year/Phase: NASA / SBIR / 2012 / 1Abstract: … in its library and tools ecosystem. EM Photonics is well positioned to lead this effort; we have strong ties to several hardware manufacturers, to application developers, and we maintain a world-class LAPACK library for NVIDIA GPUs. To begin this process, EM … more
28GHz-43GHz Nadir/Near-Nadir (~70-90 degrees wrt horizontal) Low Probability of Intercept Radio Frequency Direction Finding/GeoLocation Capability
Company: Spectrum Magnetics, LLC Agency/Program/Year/Phase: DOD / SBIR / 2012 / 2Abstract: … an innovative focus plane detector array (FPDA) developed by Spectrum Magnetics, LLC (SM). The focusing system project the RF signal onto its focus plane. A novel FPDA based on emerging spintronic and metamaterials devices, with each element being much smaller than the EM… more
Phased array three-dimensional beam steering system for millimeter wave sources emitting in the 100-300 GHz region
Company: Phase Sensitive Innovations Agency/Program/Year/Phase: DOD / SBIR / 2011 / 1Abstract: … using an array of optical phase modulators, which can be exceedingly fast enabling unprecedented beam slew rates. Our novel optical locking technique generates millimeter-wave tones with 1 Hz linewidths for high purity spectral emission. When combined, this … more
GPU-Accelerated Sparse Matrix Solvers for Large-Scale Simulations
Company: EM Photonics, Incorporated Agency/Program/Year/Phase: NASA / SBIR / 2011 / 2Abstract: … computing. The modern GPU boasts over 1 TFLOPS performance and as much as 6 GB onboard memory, but harnessing the power can be challenging. A library-based approach is common for HPC, with mostapplications using several libraries to offload well-known tasks. EM … more
Linear Algebra Libraries for Massive GPU Clusters
Company: EM Photonics, Incorporated Agency/Program/Year/Phase: NASA / SBIR / 2011 / 1Abstract: In an attempt to build more computationally powerful systems and improve the FLOPS/dollar and FLOPS/Watt of high-performance computers (HPCs), we have recently seen the proliferation of GPU-based clusters. Many major vendors are now supporting this technology and such systems are becoming… more
Compressed Sensing for Space-Based High-Definition Video Technologies
Company: EM Photonics, Incorporated Agency/Program/Year/Phase: NASA / SBIR / 2011 / 1Abstract: Space-based imaging sensors are important for NASA's mission in both performing scientific measurements and producing literature and documentary cinema. The recent proliferation of high-definition capture devices and displays (HDTV) provide the general public with first-hand human experiences… more
Scalable Aero-Load and Aero-Elasticity Solvers for Massively Parallel Heterogeneous Computing Architectures
Company: EM Photonics, Incorporated Agency/Program/Year/Phase: DOD / STTR / 2011 / 1Abstract: ABSTRACT: We propose to apply modern massively multicore processors to a key problem area of interest to the Air Force: multiphysics computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and computational structural dynamics (CSD) solvers. The capabilities of the CPU to solve these problems have been increasing… more
Heterogeneous Integration of Nanomembrane Based Photonic/Electronic Signal Processing Modules
Company: EM Photonics, Incorporated Agency/Program/Year/Phase: DOD / STTR / 2011 / 2Abstract: ABSTRACT: Crystalline semiconductor nanomembranes (NMs) possess the electronic/photonic properties of bulk material, although they are flexible, deformable, and conformable. Semiconductor nanomembranes offer unique opportunities for novel active/ passive electronic, and… more
Satellite Optical Backplane
Company: EM Photonics, Incorporated Agency/Program/Year/Phase: DOD / SBIR / 2011 / 1Abstract: ABSTRACT: Optical interconnects are the natural choice for interconnecting different chips when current interconnect technologies cannot fulfill current and future system requirements. Examples of optical interconnect architectures are free-space multistage interconnect, optical fiber interconnect,… more
Narrowband Perfect Absorber using Metamaterials
Company: Lumilant, Inc. Agency/Program/Year/Phase: DOD / SBIR / 2011 / 1Abstract: …, in many cases, especially in military applications, (hyper)-spectral sensing in the longer wavelengths range, such as middle wavelength IR (MWIR) or long wavelength IR (LWIR) spectrums, is of more interest. This is because long wavelengths electro-magnetic (EM) waves… more
Ultrafast Hybrid Active Materials and Devices for Compact RF Photonics
Company: EM Photonics, Incorporated Agency/Program/Year/Phase: DOD / STTR / 2010 / 1Abstract: …, wherein communications, RADAR, electronic warfare, and imaging are all performed through a common RF radiating aperture. Another application of optical up-conversion to synthetic aperture imaging lies in the direct processing of correlator data using optical techniques. EM… more
Silicon-Based Nanomembrane Photonic and Electronic Components
Company: EM Photonics, Incorporated Agency/Program/Year/Phase: DOD / STTR / 2010 / 1Abstract: This proposal deals with advanced design architectures for realizing silicon-based reconfigurable and stackable photonic analog signal processing engines supported on flexible or flat substrates using crystalline Si-based nanomembrane technology. Silicon nanomembranes are single… more
Accelerated Linear Algebra Solvers for Multi-Core GPU-Based Computing Architectures
Company: EM Photonics, Incorporated Agency/Program/Year/Phase: DOD / STTR / 2010 / 1Abstract: … benefit a broad range of Air Force applications. Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) have emerged as an attractive platform to perform complex numerical computations. Their FLOPS/watt and FLOPS/dollar figures are far below competing alternatives. In previous work, EM … more
GPU-Accelerated Sparse Matrix Solvers for Large-Scale Simulations
Company: EM Photonics, Incorporated Agency/Program/Year/Phase: NASA / SBIR / 2010 / 1Abstract: … methods will benefit a large number of applications. Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) are emerging as an attractive platform to perform these types of simulations. There FLOPS/Watt and FLOPS/dollar figures are far below competing alternatives. In previous work, EM … more
Integrated Chip Optical CDMA for Transport Layer Security
Company: EM Photonics, Incorporated Agency/Program/Year/Phase: DOD / SBIR / 2010 / 1Abstract: Optical CDMA is most suitable to be applied to high speed LAN to achieve contention-free, zero delay access, where traffic tends to be bursty rather than continuous. Channel assignment is much easier with CDMA. CDMA isolates irregular channels so that they do not influence other channels, CDMA can… more
GPU-Based High-Performance Computing for Accelerated Design and Analysis
Company: EM Photonics, Incorporated Agency/Program/Year/Phase: DOD / SBIR / 2010 / 2Abstract: Commodity graphics processing units (GPUs) offer tremendous computational throughput for relatively little cost. They have been shown to outperform microprocessors in the important metrics of FLOPS/dollar, FLOPS/Watt, and FLOPS/unit space and have already been applied to a wide range of numerically… more
Enhanced Realtime Millimeter Wave Imaging Using Hardware Acceleration- CPP
Company: EM Photonics, Incorporated Agency/Program/Year/Phase: DOD / SBIR / 2010 / 2Abstract: The ultimate goal of this Commercialization Pilot Program (CPP) effort is to design, build, and integrate flight-ready custom electronics for a 220-channel MMW distributed-aperture imager. This work bases on a previous SBIR project, in which we constructed a single-channel prototype of the phase… more
Lossless Non-Blocking Single-Mode Fiber Optic Wavelength Router
Company: EM Photonics, Incorporated Agency/Program/Year/Phase: DOD / SBIR / 2010 / 1Abstract: In this Phase I SBIR effort we will investigate the feasibility of design and optimization of an optically interconnected optical router using a photonic crystal-based switching fabric and by carefully engineering the spatial and temporal properties of such periodic structures.… more
High Efficiency Stretchable (Highly Conformable) Photovoltaics for Expeditionary Forces
Company: EM Photonics, Incorporated Agency/Program/Year/Phase: DOD / STTR / 2009 / 1Abstract: The next generation of photovoltaic systems need to meet both physical (shape, size, packaging, durability) and electronic (efficiency, stability) requirements of applications that are not possible to implement today. One of these requirements is to be able to stretch electronic devices without… more