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Smart Microsystems with Photonic Element and Their Applications to Aerospace PlatformsThe need to make manufacturing, operation, and support of airborne vehicles safer and more efficient forces engineers and scientists to look for lighter, cheaper, more reliable technologies. Light weight, immunity to EMI, fire safety, high bandwidth, and high signal fidelity have already made photonics in general and fiber optics in particular an extremely attractive medium for communication purposes. With the fiber optics serving as a central nervous system of the vehicle, generation, detection, and processing of the signal occurs at the peripherals that include smart structures and devices. Due to their interdisciplinary nature, photonic technologies cover such diverse areas as optical sensors and actuators, embedded and distributed sensors, sensing schemes and architectures, harnesses and connectors, signal processing and algorithms. The paper includes a brief description of work in the photonic area that is going on at NASA, especially at the Glenn Research Center (GRC).
Document ID
20010016866
Acquisition Source
Glenn Research Center
Document Type
Preprint (Draft being sent to journal)
Authors
Adamovsky, G. (NASA Glenn Research Center Cleveland, OH United States)
Lekki, J. (NASA Glenn Research Center Cleveland, OH United States)
Sutter, J. K. (NASA Glenn Research Center Cleveland, OH United States)
Sarkisov, S. S. (Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical Coll. Normal, AL United States)
Curley, M. J. (Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical Coll. Normal, AL United States)
Martin, C. E. (Adams-Brown Services, Inc. Huntsville, AL United States)
Date Acquired
September 7, 2013
Publication Date
December 1, 2000
Subject Category
Optics
Report/Patent Number
NAS 1.15:210607
NASA/TM-2000-210607
E-12567
Meeting Information
Meeting: Smart Materials and MEMS
Location: Melbourne
Country: Australia
Start Date: December 13, 2000
End Date: December 15, 2000
Sponsors: International Society for Optical Engineering
Funding Number(s)
PROJECT: RTOP 704-30-53
PROJECT: RTOP 334-10-00
CONTRACT_GRANT: NCC3-736
PROJECT: RTOP 242-90-0B
CONTRACT_GRANT: NASA Order C-79299
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Work of the US Gov. Public Use Permitted.

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