| Sol No.: |
Navy STTR FY2005 |
| Topic No.: |
N05-T007 |
| Topic Title: |
High Speed Electronically Tunable Fiber-Optic Filter |
| Proposal No.: |
N054-007-0262 |
| Firm: |
Intelligent Fiber Optic Systems Corporation
650 Vaqueros Ave.
Suite A
Sunnyvale, California 94085-3525 |
| Contact: |
Behzad Moslehi |
| Phone: |
(408) 328-8648 |
| Web Site: |
www.ifos.com |
| Abstract: |
Future advanced fiber optic networks need compact electronically tunable fiber-optic filter. Packet- or cell-level switching requires nanosecond tuning speed is required. Defense especially avionics fiber networks require robust operation. However present tunable filters based on thermal or mechanical mechanisms are inherently limited in tuning speed to the millisecond range and Acousto-Optic Tunable filters lack the required robustness. Intelligent Fiber Optic Systems (IFOS) and the University of Arizona Optical Sciences Center propose the development of an innovative compact electronically tunable fiber-optic filter for aerospace wavelength division multiplexed (WDM) networks. |
| Benefits: |
Defense applications include avionics fiber optic networks. Further applications in the private sector include computer and telecommunication networks incorporating fiber optic interconnects. The fiber-optics industry will be a major beneficiary of this technology development. |