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Technology Research News November 19, 2003 Eric Smalley	Switch promises optical chips Computers have historically been electronic rather than photonic because lightwaves, while great for sending signals over long distances, are controlled by equipment that has proven difficult to shrink to computer chip scale. The rise of photonic crystals promises to narrow the gap.
Military & Aerospace Electronics February 2007 John Keller	DARPA seeks to create lightweight fisheye optical imaging sensor with 120-degree field The idea is to demonstrate a focal plane array integrated on a hemispherical surface that will enable high-performance imagers that are smaller and with wider fields of view than are available today.
Military & Aerospace Electronics February 2006	Market for optical communications components to grow through 2015 Optical components will shrink in size, cost, and power to enable high-performance optical networks. To do this, optoelectronic research needs to grow to support the infrastructure.
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2010 John Keller	Extreme-Field-of-View Surveillance Imaging Technology is Goal of DARPA FDOS Program The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is asking industry to develop high-resolution 3D imaging technology with wide field of view and depth of field for use in reconnaissance and surveillance applications.
Military & Aerospace Electronics October 2005 Steffen Koehler	Advances in hybrid optical packaging enable high-bandwidth photonic RF transmission The challenge in exploiting optical fiber for RF transmission lies in getting the RF signals on and off the fiber without degrading the signals. Advances in optical packaging technology are making improvements to military equipment possible.
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2005	Phasebridge gets DARPA contract for photonic radio program Under the new contract, Phasebridge Inc. will optimize the implementation of QPSK modulation as it pertains to ultra-wideband RF photonic heterodyne frequency synthesis and RF photonic frequency conversion.
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2008	DARPA looks to HRL Laboratories to develop photonic signal processor The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has awarded a $1.5 million contract to develop the photonic analog signal-processing engines with reconfigurability -- otherwise known as PhASER.
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2005 John Keller	DARPA sets sights on improving analog-to-digital conversion The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is looking for proposals that more effectively find the useful information content embedded in a complex radio-frequency environment and directly measure it in a concentrated form.
Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2005 John Keller	Editor's Notebook: Darpa Details Requirements for High-Energy Diode-Laser Initiative The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is moving ahead with a program to develop a 100-kilowatt weapons-grade diode laser capable of destroying military targets.
Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2010 John Keller	DARPA Launches RATS Program for Advanced Speech-Recognition Algorithms in Noisy Conditions Scientists at the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency are launching a program to develop speech transcription, translation, and, speech signal processing technologies that function effectively in noisy places to support intelligence gathering.
Military & Aerospace Electronics November 2004 John Keller	Air Force Seeks to Develop Phased-Array Lasers for Weapons and Communications U.S. military researchers are looking into ways of steering laser beams from flat arrays of optical emitters, in much the same way that phased-array radar systems steer radar beams without the need of a rotating platform.
CIO February 15, 2002 Christopher Lindquist	Fiber All the Way Primarion is developing optical packaging technology and a fast power supply to support connecting processors, memory and other components with high-speed, inexpensive optical links.
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
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2005 John Keller	DARPA takes another look at improving machine learning Scientists at the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) are approaching the software industry about a research project to advance the state of the art in computer learning.
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2005 Stevens & Shmulovich	Planar lightwave circuits will be a key technology for next-generation military systems Optoelectronics, or photonics, is now becoming crucial to communications systems on a variety of military platforms and sensor applications.
Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2007 John Keller	DARPA Seeks to Push State of the Art in Emissive Micro-Displays for Moving 3D Images Scientists at the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency are asking industry for revolutionary advances in high-resolution affordable emissive micro-displays (EMDs) for dynamic holography.
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.
InternetNews March 26, 2007 Andy Patrizio	IBM Gives Networking A 16x Boost IBM researchers have come up with an optical networking chip measuring 3mm by 5mm but has 16 times the throughput of today's networking chips.
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
IEEE Spectrum August 2006 Alexander Hellemans	Engineering Warms To Frozen Light Separate groups in the U.S. and Europe say that they have built and successfully tested more compact, rugged, and efficient means of delaying light pulses. Their work may clear the way for applications in optical switching and quantum communications.
Military & Aerospace Electronics February 2008 J.R. Wilson	The Agency of Continuing Vision: DARPA Celebrates Its 50th Anniversary The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is celebrating its 50th anniversary, and several reviews are being written of its contributions to various areas of military and civilian science and technology
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2006	Optical Cable Certified by DOD The U.S. Department of Defense has certified Optical Cable Corp. as a fully qualified supplier of ground tactical fiber optic cable, meeting all military requirements.
Military & Aerospace Electronics June 2009	Tektronix introduces 40- and 100-Gigabit Ethernet military test modules for optical transmitters The Tektronix DSA8200 digital signal analyzer series will reduce the cost of optical transmitter development and industry standards compliance.
Military & Aerospace Electronics October 2005 John Keller	DARPA Scientists Seek Next Generation of Wireless Data Networking DARPA wants to take research to the next level by developing a revolutionary mobile ad-hoc network prototype that improves effective performance by an order of magnitude or more relative to the current state of the art.
The Motley Fool December 2, 2010 Carl Bagh	IBM Unveils New Chip; Heats Up Supercomputer Battle IBM raises the bar again.
Technology Research News December 31, 2003	Colors expand neural net Researchers from the University of Tokyo have worked out a way to form an especially fast optical neural network by tapping the wave nature of lightwaves rather than just the amplitude, or strength of a signal.
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2005	The elusive military optoelectronics market Optical technology is more important for military and aerospace applications today than ever before
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.
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 November 19, 2003	Liquid Crystal Tunes Fiber Researchers have combined photonic crystal and liquid crystal to make an optical fiber whose properties can change according to temperature. The combination allows the researchers to change the properties of the light inside the fiber.
PC Magazine July 29, 2003 Cade Metz	Gender Gap Are men better at navigating computer screens than women? Scientists at Microsoft Research say yes, but they may have found a way to level the playing field.
Technology Research News January 14, 2004	Fiber optics goes nano Researchers from Harvard University, Zhejiang University in China and Tohoku University in Japan have made glass optical fibers as thin as 50 nanometers that guide light without losing much of it.
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2005 Hubert Kostal	Nano-optics: robust, optical devices for demanding applications In harsh environments, conventional optics and optical engineering have significant physical limitations. But, through nanometer-scale structuring of various materials, "Nano-optics" creates a new class of optical devices with desirable optical effects.
IEEE Spectrum February 2009 Mark Anderson	Two Steps Toward a Terabit Internet Nonlinear optics tricks bring terabit-per-second bandwidth within reach
The Motley Fool February 12, 2004 Seth Jayson	Intel Sees the Light Company researchers reach a breakthrough in optical computing.
Technology Research News June 1, 2005 Eric Smalley	Movie Captures Trapped Light Slow light, once better understood, could be used to improve devices like sensors and optical communications equipment. Researchers have moved the field forward with a way to directly observe the phenomenon.
Technology Research News April 21, 2004 Eric Smalley	Optical Quantum Memory Designed Quantum computers that use photons rather than atoms or electrons are appealing because the equipment needed to handle them can be relatively simple. A scheme for trapping photons in fiber-optic loops and replacing the photons that the loops absorb could be the answer.
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...
Home Theater April 2, 2007 Darryl Wilkinson	Instant Movie Downloads? IBM is showing off a prototype optical transceiver chipset that's capable of reaching speeds at least eight times faster than other optical components available today.
IEEE Spectrum August 2007 Saswato R. Das	Scheme for a Single-Photon Transistor Researchers have taken a big step toward building a really fast computer that uses light rather than electricity to perform calculations.
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.
Technology Research News March 24, 2004 Kimberly Patch	Pulse trap makes optical switch Scientists who work with light pulses so short that one trillion of them pass by in a second are laying the groundwork for higher bandwidth communications and blazingly-fast, all-optical computer chips.
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2006 John Keller	DARPA approaches industry for ideas for unmanned underwater surveillance technology The agency seeks to improve underwater surveillance in and along ocean coasts, ocean harbors, lakes, and rivers with a distributed set of stationary and mobile assets.
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.
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2006	MSA-Size Erbium Amplifier with Transient Control MPB Communications is introducing a mini-amplifier called the EOA-xs with built in transient control. The embedded firmware allows the user to control and monitor pump current, optical power levels, operation mode, protection, and alarm thresholds.
InternetNews March 28, 2005 Michael Singer	DARPA Calls on HP For Battlefield Duty A new multi-million dollar grant will focus on improving the reliability of the Internet in military situations.
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 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
Chemistry World February 15, 2012 James Urquhart	Branched organic nanowire heterojunctions Chinese researchers have combined two organic materials to create branched organic nanowire heterojunctions for the first time.
Military & Aerospace Electronics August 2006 John Keller	DARPA NAV Program Seeks to Make Insect-like Surveillance UAVs a Reality U.S. military researchers are kicking off a project to develop an unmanned aerial vehicle called the nano air vehicle, which is roughly the size of a dragonfly, to perform covert surveillance and reconnaissance missions in important and dangerous areas.