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Military & Aerospace Electronics October 2004 Dave Slack	Active microwave receiver cable can help with antenna location selection Amplifying small signals, those just at the threshold of detectability, before passing them through significant interconnection losses, can cause targets to be detected that may otherwise have been lost.
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IEEE Spectrum May 2013 Mitchell Lazarus	When Spectrum Auctions Fail For some microwave links, cooperation beats competition as a way to share the air
IEEE Spectrum September 2010 Schow et al.	Get on the Optical Bus IBM's light-powered links overcome the greatest speed bump in supercomputing: interconnect bandwidth
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Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2005 Sansone & Emslie	Fiber sensing receives renewed interest History will remember optical-fiber technology as one of the truly great inventions of the 20th century: it is the driver behind the telecommunications revolution and the very backbone of the Internet, telephony, and Cable TV
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IEEE Spectrum October 2005 Paniccia & Koehl	The Silicon Solution In the future, ordinary silicon chips will move data using light rather than electrons, unleashing nearly limitless bandwidth and revolutionizing computing
Military & Aerospace Electronics August 2004 J.R. Wilson	RF and Microwave Industry Struggles to Meet the High Demands of the Military Defense and homeland-security users of radio frequency (RF)/microwave products have demanding and unique needs that the commercial market can fulfill only rarely, which shines the spotlight on this area of a U.S. military that is starved for research and development money.
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Home Toys February 2005 Khanh Tuan Le	IEEE 802.15.4 and Zigbee Compliant Radio Transceiver Design Zigbee and the underlying IEEE 802.15.4 standard promise a low-cost, low-power and reliable wireless network technology for a wide range of control and monitoring applications within the private sphere and industrial environment.
Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2005	Optoelectronics Briefs Breakthrough in solid-state laser technology... Fiber-optic field-simulation test instrument... TTL modulation added to photon devices... New high-power optical fiber... Light-sensitive camera... High-power multimode diode bar... Laser Diode earns ISO 9001:2000 certification...
Military & Aerospace Electronics August 2008 John Keller	DARPA seeks proposals on photonic delays as a building block for optical computing Scientists at the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency are trying to find compact, robust ways to control the flow of photons in future applications of optical computing.
Technology Research News August 11, 2004	Twisted fiber filters light Researchers have devised a way to control light inside optical fiber communications lines. The method could enable faster data transmission rates in fiber-optic lines and new twists on devices like lasers and sensors.
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2006	Air Force Pushes Optical Data Network Air Force leaders granted optoelectronics company Srico $750,000 for a Phase II Small Business Innovation Research contract to develop a high-speed optical network.
IEEE Spectrum February 2008 Behzad Razavi	Gadgets Gab at 60 GHz Cheap silicon transceivers broadcasting in this still-unlicensed band may usher in the hi-def wireless home
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2009	IRphotonics Offers Mid Infrared Fiber for Avionics Applications IRphotonics is introducing the II-V mid infrared fiber for defense and aerospace applications... Optek releases low-thermal-resistance LED lights in several colors... Newport introduces high-power diode drivers... etc.
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IEEE Spectrum November 2006 Monte Ross	The New Search for E.T. If extraterrestrials are trying to communicate with us, they're probably using lasers, not radio waves.
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2006	Long-Range Fiber-Optic Video Camera Fiber Instrument Sales Inc. is offering a long-range fiber-optic video camera for military bases, airports and other large facilities.
IEEE Spectrum June 2006 Rao R. Tummala	Moore's Law Meets Its Match By 2010, the "More Than Moore's Law" movement -- which focuses on system integration rather than transistor density -- will lead to revolutionary megafunction electronics.
Military & Aerospace Electronics June 2005 John McHale	RF and Microwave Technology Enable Networking on the Move Designers of RF and microwave technology say low power and small size remain the trend in product designs. Meanwhile, integrators adapt and combine RF and microwave technologies to enable networking on the move.
Military & Aerospace Electronics June 2006 Courtney E. Howard	Attention Turns to RF and Microwave Test and Measurement Federal programs, industry consortia, and engineers advance RF and microwave technologies to ensure their accuracy and reliability.
Military & Aerospace Electronics October 2004	Fiber lasers emerge as strong competitor for future laser weapons They may be applied to jet fighters, land vehicles, and perhaps even man-portable systems. And they even have the potential to edge-out other solid-state laser approaches such as slab lasers and free-electron lasers.
National Defense January 2013 Stew Magnuson	Game-Changing Laser Communications Ready For Fielding, Vendors Say Sending data with lasers, rather than radio frequencies, has the potential to revolutionize the way the military communicates, proponents of the technology have said.
Military & Aerospace Electronics February 2007 Zulki Khan	Designing robust circuit-board products for military and aerospace applications There are several key design and layout considerations to make military and aerospace PCBs more robust.
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2006	Raytheon researchers eye boosting laser power to weapons-grade levels High-power laser systems made from low-power modules would leapfrog bottlenecks to create ever-higher-power monolithic laser systems.
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2006 John McHale	Future weapons: Solid-state lasers Industry and military scientists are moving forward in the quest to develop solid-state lasers for use as weapons by warfighters of the future.
Military & Aerospace Electronics February 2007 John Keller	Air Force taps Johns Hopkins to integrate high-speed laser communications links The bidirectional optical interface will bridge data-link terminals from two U.S. defense and communications companies via a free-space laser communications link.
Technology Research News June 1, 2005	Lasers Built Into Fiber-Optics Researchers have crossed a gas-filled fiber optic laser with ordinary fiber optics to make a Raman laser and a frequency stabilizer -- devices that provide precise control of laser beams.
IEEE Spectrum April 2009 Koch & Prasad	The Universal Handset Software-defined radio will let cellphones speak Wi-Fi, 3G, WiMax, and more.
Home Toys April 2006 Minsoo Park	When it Comes to HDMI/DVI Connectivity, You Have Two Choices: Copper or Fiber Optics. Which is Right for You? Connectivity products such as cables are one investment you will need to live with for at least 10 years. Consider it an investment as cable quality does make a difference and it will stay with your system for a very long time.
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2007 John McHale	Laser Weapons: Moving From Promise to Performance The military's laser weapons programs are making steady progress in their transition from the laboratory to the battlefield, with deployment of initial systems expected within the next three to five years.
Military & Aerospace Electronics February 2005 Adrian Carter	New technology advances applications for high-power fiber lasers Since introduced by Nufern as a standard product in late 2002, LMA fibers have enabled a power-scaling revolution, and have produced near-diffraction-limited beam quality at powers approaching 1 kW and slope efficiencies of around 75 percent.
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IEEE Spectrum February 2009 Mark Anderson	Two Steps Toward a Terabit Internet Nonlinear optics tricks bring terabit-per-second bandwidth within reach
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IEEE Spectrum February 2009 Schneider & Ross	Antennas for the New Airwaves This month's planned shutdown of analog broadcast TV in the United States will bring antenna technology back into the spotlight.
Military & Aerospace Electronics November 2005	Optoelectronics Briefs Dual-wavelength focal-plane array in development... Double-clad ytterbium fiber available for fiber-laser applications...Ultraviolet refractive beam shaper unveiled... Navy picks supplier for optoelectronic sensor systems... Air Force awards contract for high-power fiber amplifier... etc.
IEEE Spectrum October 2005 Anna Basanskaya	Electricity Over Glass Photonic Power offers the option of measuring high currents by placing a transducer directly on the line, obviating the use of transformers to overcome voltage differences, as the power-over-fiber system converts electricity directly to light.
CIO May 15, 2003 John Edwards	Looking-Glass Fiber Don't look now, but a new low-loss optical fiber -- featuring a mirrored core -- can conduct an intense stream of laser light that would melt an ordinary fiber.
Home Theater March 2003 Peter H. Putman	Got HDTV? Home Theater's guide to using indoor and outdoor antennas to pick up digital TV broadcasts
Home Toys June 2004 Jack Urrutia	Modulating on Digital Cable Systems Even though digital cable may present interesting challenges, it is still possible to distribute video sources like security cameras around the house using a video modulator and the existing cable TV wiring.
National Defense September 2014 Christina Munnell	DARPA Program Aims to Reduce Cost of Electronic Antenna Systems A Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency program is seeking to sharply reduce the cost and years it takes to develop electronically scanned array antennas.