| Sol No.: |
Navy SBIR FY2012.1 |
| Topic No.: |
N121-093 |
| Topic Title: |
Hybrid Photonic and Electronic Ultra Wideband Low Power Digitizer |
| Proposal No.: |
N121-093-0842 |
| Firm: |
W Scientific, LLC
4350 E. Camelback Rd, Suite E160
Phoenix, Arizona 85018 |
| Contact: |
Andrew Baek |
| Phone: |
(714) 658-9178 |
| Web Site: |
www.w-scientific.com |
| Abstract: |
W Scientific plans to build a deployable ultra wideband digitizer system based on a unique combination of a photonic front-end processor with a high speed time-interleaving electronic digitizer. The hybrid architecture allows the system to achieve a wide analog bandwidth with high sampling dynamic range in a power efficient manner. |
| Benefits: |
The combination of the photonic preprocessor and high-speed electronic digitizer enables a variety of applications that demand ultra high sampling and real-time processing throughput, which are not practical with electronic-only digitizers. The hybrid photonic and electronic digitizer architecture provides fundamental technologies in a number of applications ranging from 40G/100G optical communications to Terahertz spectrum. Also medical imaging applications that require high processing capability to detect rare events can benefit from the technology. |