Sep 15 2010
Designer of communication transceivers, ODIS has been awarded a development contract by the Navy Air Warfare Center, including a $150,000 Phase I award. The Navy conducted research on ODIS, and then chose the company’s PlanarOptoElectric Technology (POET) platform, to build an optical code division multiple access (OCDMA) technology. The technology will be used for developing future avionic systems.
CDMA technology is utilized in the wireless sector to allocate channel safely to a wide user base. ODIS was awarded the contract along with NAVAIR, for developing OCDMA integrated OE circuit approaches for applications in Navy Avionics platforms. The OCDMA technology provides improved security, which will be installed at various levels in the optical avionics processor networks of the Department of Defense. The levels of security are attained because of tough encryption techniques provided by Pseudo-random Noise sequencing.
The POET is the latest semiconductor fabrication process of ODIS. It features a patented Group III-V materials system, which supports performing monolithic fabrication of ICs featuring passive and active optical elements. A cost-effective integration of numerous optical units along with high-speed, dense analog elements, and low-power digital elements are made possible in the monolithic ICs. The POET platform enables ODIS to modify the landscape for diverse applications by providing units with significantly low cost, and improved reliability, density and speed.