Advancement of radiation effects research in photonic technologies: Application to space platforms and systems

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 10288, Issue , 1997, Pages 58-92

  Taylor, Edward W ^a  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acousto optics; Bragg cells; Fiber optics; Integrated optics; Ion microbeams; Lasers; Leds; Mems; Nuclear micro probes; Photonics; Radiation effects; Space environments

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC COMPOUNDS; BRAGG CELLS; DIODES; FIBER OPTICS; GALLIUM COMPOUNDS; INTEGRATED OPTICS; LASERS; LIGHT; LIGHT EMITTING DIODES; LIGHT MODULATORS; LITHIUM COMPOUNDS; MEMS; MICROELECTRONICS; NIOBIUM COMPOUNDS; OPTICAL FIBERS; ORGANIC LASERS; PHOTONICS; RADIATION; SPACE PLATFORMS; SURFACE EMITTING LASERS;

GAN LIGHT-EMITTING DIODES; ION MICROBEAMS; MICRO-ELECTRONIC DEVICES; MICRO-PROBES; MICROELECTRONIC COMPONENTS; PHOTONIC TECHNOLOGIES; SPACE ENVIRONMENT; SPATIAL LIGHT MODULATORS;

RADIATION EFFECTS;

EID: 85008041727     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: 1996756X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.278757     Document Type: Conference Paper

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92. R. Birge, "High Speed Random Access Fourier Transform Holographic Associative and High Density Two-Photon Three Dimensional Optical Memories Based on Bacteriorhodopsin, " RL-TR- 95-6 (January 1995).
93. E. W. Taylor, A. H. Paxton, H. Schone, J. Comtois, A. D. Sanchez, A. Michaleick, J. E. Winter, S. J. McKinney, R. Carson. M. Osinski, P. Perlin, J. Bristow, J. Lehman, M. Hibbs- Brenner, "Radiation Induced Effects in Photonics Emerging Technologies: VCSELs, GaN LEDs and MEMs Devices, " Abstract submitted for SPIE Photonics for Space Environments V Conference, (July 1997).