BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:IEEE vTools.Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:US/Pacific BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20210314T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:PDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201101T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:PST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20210503T051542Z UID:5476A45C-6FCA-4837-AC52-28A08B541759 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20201118T183000 DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20201118T194500 DESCRIPTION:Topic:\nANALOG PHOTONIC SYSTEMS: FEATURES & TECHNIQUES TO OPTIM IZE PERFORMANCE\n\nBoth the scientific and the defense communities wish to receive and process information occupying ever-wider portions of the elec tromagnetic spectrum. This can often create an analog-to-digital conversio n “bottleneck”. Analog photonic channelization\, linearization\, and f requency conversion systems can be designed to alleviate this bottleneck. Moreover\, the low loss and dispersion of optical fiber and integrated opt ical waveguides enable most of the components in a broadband sensing or co mmunication system\, including all of the analog-to-digital and digital pr ocessing hardware\, to be situated many feet or even miles from the antenn as or other sensors with almost no performance penalty. The anticipated pr esentation will highlight the advantages and other features of analog phot onic systems (including some specific systems that the author has construc ted and tested for the US Department of Defense)\, and will review and exp lain multiple techniques for optimizing their performance.\n\nBiography:\n \nEdward Ackerman received his B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Lafayette College in 1987 and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical eng ineering from Drexel University in 1989 and 1994\, respectively. From 1989 through 1994 he was employed as a microwave photonics engineer at Martin Marietta¹s Electronics Laboratory in Syracuse\, New York\, where he demon strated the first amplifierless direct modulation analog optical link with RF gain (+3.7 dB at 900 MHz). From 1995 to July 1999 he was a member of t he Technical Staff at MIT Lincoln Laboratory\, where he achieved the lowes t noise figure ever demonstrated for an amplifierless analog optical link (2.5 dB at 130 MHz). Since 1999 he has been Vice President of R & D for Ph otonic Systems\, Inc. of Billerica\, Massachusetts. He has authored more t han 80 technical papers and 14 US patents on the subject of analog photoni c subsystem performance modeling and optimization. Dr. Ackerman is a Fello w of the IEEE.\n\nSpeaker(s): Dr. Ed Ackerman\, \n\nAgenda: \nAbstract:\n\ nBoth the scientific and the defense communities wish to receive and proce ss information occupying ever-wider portions of the electromagnetic spectr um. This can often create an analog-to-digital conversion “bottleneck” . Analog photonic channelization\, linearization\, and frequency conversio n systems can be designed to alleviate this bottleneck. Moreover\, the low loss and dispersion of optical fiber and integrated optical waveguides en able most of the components in a broadband sensing or communication system \, including all of the analog-to-digital and digital processing hardware\ , to be situated many feet or even miles from the antennas or other sensor s with almost no performance penalty. The anticipated presentation will hi ghlight the advantages and other features of analog photonic systems (incl uding some specific systems that the author has constructed and tested for the US Department of Defense)\, and will review and explain multiple tech niques for optimizing their performance.\n\nVirtual: https://events.vtools .ieee.org/m/247854 LOCATION:Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/247854 ORGANIZER:wagih.ismail@ieee.org SEQUENCE:4 SUMMARY:ANALOG PHOTONIC SYSTEMS: FEATURES & TECHNIQUES TO OPTIMIZE PERFORMA NCE URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/247854 X-ALT-DESC:Description: <br /><div><span class="sublabel">Topic:&nbsp\;</sp an>\n<h3>ANALOG PHOTONIC SYSTEMS: FEATURES &amp\; TECHNIQUES TO OPTIMIZE P ERFORMANCE</h3>\n</div>\n<p>&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>Both the scientific and the de fense communities wish to receive and process information occupying ever-w ider portions of the electromagnetic spectrum. This can often create an an alog-to-digital conversion &ldquo\;bottleneck&rdquo\;. Analog photonic cha nnelization\, linearization\, and frequency conversion systems can be desi gned to alleviate this bottleneck. Moreover\, the low loss and dispersion of optical fiber and integrated optical waveguides enable most of the comp onents in a broadband sensing or communication system\, including all of t he analog-to-digital and digital processing hardware\, to be situated many feet or even miles from the antennas or other sensors with almost no perf ormance penalty. The anticipated presentation will highlight the advantage s and other features of analog photonic systems (including some specific s ystems that the author has constructed and tested for the US Department of Defense)\, and will review and explain multiple techniques for optimizing their performance.</p>\n<p>&nbsp\;</p>\n<p><span class="sublabel">Biograp hy:</span></p>\n<p>Edward Ackerman received his B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Lafayette College in 1987 and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Drexel University in 1989 and 1994\, respec tively. From 1989 through 1994 he was employed as a microwave photonics en gineer at Martin Marietta&sup1\;s Electronics Laboratory in Syracuse\, New York\, where he demonstrated the first amplifierless direct modulation an alog optical link with RF gain (+3.7 dB at 900 MHz). From 1995 to July 199 9 he was a member of the Technical Staff at MIT Lincoln Laboratory\, where he achieved the lowest noise figure ever demonstrated for an amplifierles s analog optical link (2.5 dB at 130 MHz). Since 1999 he has been Vice Pre sident of R &amp\; D for Photonic Systems\, Inc. of Billerica\, Massachuse tts. He has authored more than 80 technical papers and 14 US patents on th e subject of analog photonic subsystem performance modeling and optimizati on. Dr. Ackerman is a Fellow of the IEEE.</p><br /><br />Agenda: <br /><p> Abstract:</p>\n<p>&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>Both the scientific and the defense communities wish to receive and process information occupying ever-wider portions of the electromagnetic spectrum. This can often create an analog-to-digital conversion &ldquo\;bottleneck&rdquo\;. Analog photon ic channelization\, linearization\, and frequency conversion systems can b e designed to alleviate this bottleneck. Moreover\, the low loss and dispe rsion of optical fiber and integrated optical waveguides enable most of th e components in a broadband sensing or communication system\, including al l of the analog-to-digital and digital processing hardware\, to be situate d many feet or even miles from the antennas or other sensors with almost n o performance penalty. The anticipated presentation will highlight the adv antages and other features of analog photonic systems (including some spec ific systems that the author has constructed and tested for the US Departm ent of Defense)\, and will review and explain multiple techniques for opti mizing their performance.</p> END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR