High Performance Fiber Optic Delay Lines

AGILTRON Corporation

Woburn, MA

• Fast, low insertion loss photonic switched time delay

• Demonstrated two (8-bit and 4-bit modules) high performance optical delay lines
• Time delays achieved with 8-bit module are 300 pico-seconds to micro-seconds with < 3.5dB insertion loss and a few pico-seconds to 300 pico-seconds with < 3.0dB insertion loss for the 4-bit module
• Demonstrated operating range is from -40 Celsius to 70 Celsius

• Commercial product sales attributable to the project have reached $1 million annually
• Aerospace and the defense industry are the primary market for this technology

• Technology may be used to develop very large spaceborne radar arrays  in the future

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Curator: SBIR Support                3/03/09