PR40_Designing Integrated Silicon Photonics Flexible High-Data Rate Transceivers (NNX16AD14G-Y1)

We study a transceiver architecture, which is based on an innovative design which generates a flexible number of communication streams from a single laser. This approach can achieve reductions in size, weight, and energy consumption, and improvements on link performance and bandwidth compared to both RF communications and existing optical technologies Summary of a Project Outcomes report of research funded by NASA.

PR41_Breadboard Study of a Flexible High-Data Rate Transceiver Architecture (NNX16AD14G-Y2)

We experimentally study the breadboard implementation of an optical high-data rate transceiver architecture, which is based on an innovative design which generates a flexible number of communication streams from a single laser. Summary of a Project Outcomes report of research funded by NASA.

Editorial for the Special Issue on Advanced Materials, Structures and Processing Technologies Based on Pulsed Laser

Pulsed lasers are lasers with a single laser pulse width of less than 0 [...]

Hydrodynamic simulation of laser-induced shock waves using the Turbulence Problem Solver software package

The problem of irradiation of a semi-infinite bulk metal target by a single laser pulse, being important for many lase technology applications, is considered. The model for simulating the propagation and attenuation of shock waves, occurring when metals are irradiated with single laser pulse, is presented. The paper describes the computational algorithm based on the model and features of its implementation in C++ in a software package Turbulence Problem Solver (TPS) for modeling a wide class of problems described by hyperbolic equations. The problem is modeled using different approaches and the results are compared. The object-oriented polymorphic architecture of the software complex accelerates and facilitates the process of model development and calibration, allowing for flexible configuration and combination of elements of numerical models: Riemann solvers, various types of and reconstructions, and equations of state of matter.