Military Fiber Opportunities 2009

Table of Contents

1. Introduction

• a) High focus fiber optic areas
• b) Green photonics
• c) Military-friendly fiber optics
• d) Doing business with U.S. friendly nations
• e) Developing DoD-specific technologies
• f) Importance of perseverance

2. The History of Military Fiber Optics

• a) First military uses of fiber optics
• b) Corning gains early exposure
• c) Interview with fiber optics founder Charles Kao
• d) Fiber' s characteristics a perfect match for military requirements
• e) Applications: sensing, telecom, weaponry
• f) Fiber optics and wiretapping
• g) $1.7 billion in annual expenditures
• h) fiber' s role in border defenses

3. Strategies for Success

• a) Ocean Optics: A success story
• b) Aculight: Dozens of SBIRs
• c) Preserving U.S. engineering
• d) Stemming the loss of U.S. jobs
• e) Lockheed-Martin and photonics
• f) General Dynamics and photonics
• g) Practical tips from ClearAlign
• h) OptiComp looking to Hire
• I) Tips from DARPA Manager Andy Yang
• j) Single-mode vs. multimode fiber
  • Table 1: Three Models of Military Fiber Optics Involvement
• k) DOD and patent rights
• l) DoD' s role in developing VCSELs
  • Table 2: Percentage share of semiconductor equipment sales

4. Solicitations

• a) DoD Funding Mechanisms
• b) Solicitation 1- Fiber Optic Sensors and Rotary Connections
• c) Solicitation 2- Air Force Lasing Techniques
• d) Solicitation 3- Fiber Optic Links for RF Antennas
• e) Solicitation 4- DARPA Si-Phasers
• f) Solicitation 5- Fiber Lasers
• g) Solicitation 6- Revolution in Fiber Lasers
• h) Solicitation 7- Tunable Fiber Optic Wavelength Converter
• I) Solicitation 8-Photonic Switchted True Time Delay Beam Forming Networking
• j) Solicitation 9- Fiber Optic Replacement
• k) Solicitation 10-Optical Telemetry
• l) Solicitation 11- RF Photonic Interconnections

5. Contracts

• a) Fiberstars Phase II SBIR Awards
• b) Space Photonics SBIR Awards
• c) VIP Sensors SBIR Awards
• d) Triquint GaAs Amplifier Award
• e) Harris Shipboard Satellite Terminations
• f) Luxtera Silicon Photonics Subcontract
• g) Gyrocam Systems Vehicular Optic Sensor Systems
• h) Optical Cable Corp. Tactical Fiber Optic Cable Assembly Awards
• i) Listing of NP Photonics Awards
• j) Boeing Shipboard Fiber Optics Award
• k) BBN Technologies-DARPA CORONET Award
• l) Hope Technologies award
• m) JP Innovations award
• n) Light Age award
• o) Princeton Optronics award
• p) SAIC award
• q) Physical Optics award

6. Silicon Photonics

• a) Marrying photons and electrons
• b) efforts of Lightwave Logic
• c) the Enablence play
• d) DARPA' s role
• e) Advanced Photonic Switch
• f) Chip-to-chip optical interconnects
• g) Data in optical domain network
• h) Electronic and Photonic integrated circuits
• i) Super Molecular Photonics
• j) Parametric Optical Processes and Systems
• k) Ultraperformance Nanophotnic Intrachip Communications

7. Compendium of Contractors

• ADC
• AFL Telecommunications
• Ahura Scientific
• Aither Engineering
• Alcatel-Lucent
• Alfalight
• Aoptix Technologies
• BAE Systems
• BBN Technologies
• Boston Micromachines
• Ciena
• Cisco Systems
• Clearalign
• Cox Business
• Deep Ocean Engineering
• Enablence Technologies
• Finisar
• General Dynamics
• Halma (Ocean Optics)
• Harris Corp.
• JDSU
• Juniper Networks
• Kitco Fiber Optics
• Kotura
• kSARIA
• KVH Industries
• Lightwave Logic
• Lockheed Martin
• Lumera (GigOptix)
• Modulight
• Northrop Grumman
• Optelecom
• Optical Cable
• OptiComp
• QPC Lasers
• Space Photonics
• Sumitomo Electric Lightwave
• Stocker Yale
• Teledyne Technologies
• Tyco Electronics

8. Government by Agency

• a) DARPA
• b) Navy
• c) Air Force

Appendix: Reference Contacts You Should Have