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Automated processing of sensor/signal data and other non-sensor information provides substantial force-multiplying benefits. The timely and cost-effective leveraging of these types of information provides a significant advantage over adversaries not possessing comparable information processing capabilities. The intelligent processing of diverse types of data provides a target assessment technology ...

The objective of the overall SBIR program is to combine the flexibility and ease-of use of Acuity's general-purpose standard computer platform based machine vision systems with the raw processing power of Adatptive Solutions' massively parallel hardware to produce easy-to-use PC/Windows based high performance machine vision systems that can be used by manufacturing engineers and factory floor pers ...

A $1B commercial blue optoelectronics industry supplying full color displays, high speed communications systems, and high density optical recording devices will happen. The question is: which technology, II-VI materials, III-V nitrides, or silicon carbide and its alloys, will dominate? Theoretical calculations and experimental external quantum efficiencies combined favor a direct band gap material ...

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Spatial light modulators are the limited component of optical signal processors. Electronic modulators, including liquid crystals and magento-optic modulators, are expensive, low resolution, and slow. The optical disk offers high resolution at moderate cost. The "pixel" size is on the order of one micron. The total system works to this accuracy by using an active feedback controlled system for ali ...

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A candidate advanced Airborne Early Warning (AEW) developmental radar concept has been identified for insertion of photonic components to improve performance, reduce weight and cost and add to the overall reliability and maintainability of the system. The next step to be carried out is a detailed evaluation of demonstrated hardware approaches for specific application in the candidate AEW radar sys ...

In printed circuit board manufacturing, the patterning technology determines not only the ultimate packaging density, but also the economics of the entire process via throughput and yield. Conventional contact and projection printing methods have various shortcomings such as defect generation, mask life degradation, and image field size limitation. Existing direct writing approaches with a focused ...

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