This report documents the work undertaken by HRL Laboratories, LLC and its subcontractors, California Institute of Technology and Raytheon Electronics Systems, on the development of multi-GHz photonic analog-to-digital (A/D) conversion technologies (PACT). Using an electro-optic modulator, the analog-input to the A/D converter was impressed (i.e. photonically sampled) on a train of low-jitter picosecond pulses (wavelength - 1540 rim) generated by a mode-locked Er-fiber laser. After photodetection, the electrical outputs of ...
Defence R&D Canada is currently developing the Capability Engineering (CE) concept in order to close the gap between the Capability Based Planning (CBP) and the acquisition processes. This paper summarises results of initial investigations, which have created a good understanding of the problem, while raising many questions needing to be answered in developing a Capability Engineering Process (CEP).
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