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This STTR Phase II program will create novel devices and system designs, expanding upon the microring resonator based silicon WDM modulator designs and system concepts developed during Phase I. The focus will be on linear transmitters and analog fiberoptic systems, used to transmit and transform analog signals, based on the Linearized - Ring Assisted Mach Zehnder Interferometer (L-RAMZI) modulator ...

In recent decades, the state of the art for simulation of the broad range of plasma phenomena, from low temperature plasmas for lighting and materials processing, to the beams and waves, to high energy density plasmas, has advanced significantly. A key ch

The cancellation of non-cooperative interfering sources is of vital interest to military communications that have experienced, and will continue to experience, disruptions through intentional (electronic warfare) and unintentional interference. In the absence of knowledge about the interfering signals, communication systems treat interference and noise equally, and ignore the fact that these two a ...

A new and innovative approach to individual water purification is needed that incorporates: a) an RO Membrane technology that allows much higher flow rate for a given size and weight of membrane; b) an improved pumps that allows 10X higher flow rate relative to products on the market today; c) improved pre-filters for found waters with very high suspended solids and d) an improved water polishing ...

This project seeks to overcome the barriers to leveraging advanced field programmable gate array (FPGA) devices, and to enable revolutionary new levels of productivity, robustness, and design optimization in FPGA-driven implementation. We focus on the broad domain of digital signal processing (DSP) applications, which encompasses many areas of great importance to the DoD, including Radar, Ladar, a ...

Graphs are an exceptional data structure for representing knowledge and relationships between facts. There are various frameworks for creating, modifying, and traversing graphs in software. These frameworks provide an abstraction over the physical representation of graphs on disk. Usually, the graphs are modeled physically as tables. The schema or layout of these tables significantly impacts the ...

This research effort will develop an OpenCL Shared Virtual Memory (SVM) hardware acceleration Application Programming Interface (API) capable of enabling existing graph analytic APIs (e.g. GraphLab, GraphCT) to leverage a scalable, GPU-based hardware platform to significantly improve the performance of graph analytics including graph traversal and Breadth First Search (BFS). The use of OpenCL pro ...

Robotic Research will validate the feasibility of developing MINION (MINIature Optical guidance and Navigation) which will provide small quad rotor vehicles, utilizing low SWaP-C limitations, and carrying a full suite of optical guidance and navigation, including collision avoidance, in a robust and affordable package. From an innovation standpoint MINION will be the first time that a specialize ...