Co-sponsored Event with MTT-SCV: ANALOG PHOTONIC SYSTEMS: FEATURES & TECHNIQUES TO OPTIMIZE PERFORMANCE
IEEE MTT-SCV, will be presenting the following talk online. Attendance is FREE. Please register using the links given below to receive webinar details, via email, a few hours before the event.Register to watch MTT-S Distinguished Microwave Lecturer Dr. Edward Ackerman talk about optimization of analog photonic systems.Topic: ANALOG PHOTONIC SYSTEMS: FEATURES & TECHNIQUES TO OPTIMIZE PERFORMANCE
Speaker: Dr. Edward Ackerman, Distinguished Microwave Lecturer (DML), IEEE MTT-S.Date: Wednesday, 11/18/2020.
Abstract:
Both the scientific and the defense communities wish to receive and process information occupying ever-wider portions of the electromagnetic spectrum. This can often create an analog-to-digital conversion “bottleneck”. Analog photonic channelization, linearization, and frequency conversion systems can be designed to alleviate this bottleneck. Moreover, the low loss and dispersion of optical fiber and integrated optical waveguides enable most of the components in a broadband sensing or communication system, including all of the analog-to-digital and digital processing hardware, to be situated many feet or even miles from the antennas or other sensors with almost no performance penalty. The anticipated presentation will highlight the advantages and other features of analog photonic systems (including some specific systems that the author has constructed and tested for the US Department of Defense), and will review and explain multiple techniques for optimizing their performance.
Speaker: Dr. Edward Ackerman, Distinguished Microwave Lecturer (DML), IEEE MTT-S.Date: Wednesday, 11/18/2020.
Time: 6:30 pm – 7:45 pm, US Pacific Time.
Place: Webinar (Zoom)
Both the scientific and the defense communities wish to receive and process information occupying ever-wider portions of the electromagnetic spectrum. This can often create an analog-to-digital conversion “bottleneck”. Analog photonic channelization, linearization, and frequency conversion systems can be designed to alleviate this bottleneck. Moreover, the low loss and dispersion of optical fiber and integrated optical waveguides enable most of the components in a broadband sensing or communication system, including all of the analog-to-digital and digital processing hardware, to be situated many feet or even miles from the antennas or other sensors with almost no performance penalty. The anticipated presentation will highlight the advantages and other features of analog photonic systems (including some specific systems that the author has constructed and tested for the US Department of Defense), and will review and explain multiple techniques for optimizing their performance.
Speaker’s Bio:
Edward Ackerman received his B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Lafayette College in 1987 and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Drexel University in 1989 and 1994, respectively. From 1989 through 1994 he was employed as a microwave photonics engineer at Martin Marietta¹s Electronics Laboratory in Syracuse, New York, where he demonstrated the first amplifier-less direct modulation analog optical link with RF gain (+3.7 dB at 900 MHz). From 1995 to July 1999 he was a member of the Technical Staff at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, where he achieved the lowest noise figure ever demonstrated for an amplifier-less analog optical link (2.5 dB at 130 MHz). Since 1999 he has been Vice President of R & D for Photonic Systems, Inc. of Billerica, Massachusetts. He has authored more than 80 technical papers and 14 US patents on the subject of analog photonic subsystem performance modeling and optimization. Dr. Ackerman is a Fellow of the IEEE.VIDEO BROADCAST: This lecture will be broadcast live and recorded on Zoom and FB-Live. Click here to register for FREE and receive an email with online conference details, a few hours before the event.
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