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componentS and Optical systems” is a 3-year project funded under the Seventh Framework Program of the European Commission (FP7- ICT-2009.3.7: Photonics).
NEXPRESSO advances the highly successful ACCORD project to a new level of performance, by broadening cooperation between SMEs and researchers, and by development of sustainable funding for the initiative. ACCORD funded 12 projects, linking SMEs and university researchers to speed up time to market through targeted prototype development.
Further details are available on the ACCORD website
www.ist-accord.org which can be accessed through NEXPRESSO website
www.nexpresso.eu.
NEXPRESSO’s objectives are to:
• Purchase at marginal cost pre-competitive photonic devices from innovative European companies and put them in the hands of European researchers and students, at no net cost to the university or to the company that furnished the devices
• Invite European universities and end-users to propose components and R&D projects • Facilitate transfer of device evaluation results to potential end-users, assisting companies to access new markets and new applications. • Provide a detailed handbook and support to any funding authority who wishes to establish a similar program
Participation in NEXPRESSO is free of charge. All interested parties are asked to register their interest and hence to become a Member of the NEXPRESSO Project by visiting
www.nexpresso.eu
Partners so far involved in the project include
Imec, Scottish Optoelectronics Association, Hesso, EPIC, Multitel, Optics valley, PERFOS, Wroclaw University of Technology and Safran.
ODIS Receives $150,000. Development Contract from NAVAIR
The Phase I contract to develop OCDMA integrated OE circuit uses the firm’s new patented ‘POET’ III-V fabrication process. This supports monolithic fabrication of ICs containing active and passive optical elements, together with high-performance analog and digital elements.
Opel Defense Integrated Systems (ODIS) has received a development contract with the Navy Air Warfare Center that will involve a Phase I Award of $150,000.
After a period of research conducted by the Navy of ODIS and other competing technologies, the Navy has followed other military branches and chosen ODIS’s POET platform as a preferred candidate to develop optical code division multiple access (OCDMA) technology for future avionics systems.
CDMA is widely used in the wireless industry for secure channel allocation to a broad user base. OCDMA has similar potential for the Fiber to the Home (FTTH) application based upon a reduced cost of the optoelectronic interface circuits. ODIS has been awarded a Phase I contract with NAVAIR to develop OCDMA integrated OE circuit approaches for Navy Avionics platforms.
The high level of security offered by OCDMA will be deployed at multiple levels in the Department of Defense (DOD) optical avionics multi-core processor networks. The security levels are obtained with the robust encryption techniques afforded by Pseudo-random Noise sequencing in both the time and wavelength domains.
Leon M. Pierhal, President of ODIS, states, “Once ODIS’s POET platform is developed and configured to address the Navy’s need, the resulting Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) capability will stimulate ODIS’s further product development. This development will impact the rapidly growing Active Optical Cable (AOC) and low-cost LAN commercial markets.”
POET (PlanarOptoElectric Technology) is ODIS’s new and patented semiconductor fabrication
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www.compoundsemiconductor.net October 2010
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