MTT Distinguished Lecture - Dr. Ed Ackerman - Analog Photonic Systems
Dr. Edward Ackerman will present an MTT Distinguished Lecture on Analog photonic systems on 17 April 2019 at Brookdale Community College.
Abstract - 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 "bottleneck". Analog photonic channelization, linearization, and frequency conversion systems can be designed to alleviate this bottleneck. Moreover, the low loss and dispersion of optical fiber and integrated optical waveguides enable 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 sensors with almost no performance penalty. The anticipated presentation will highlight the advantages and other features of analog photonic systems (including some specific systems that the author has constructed and tested for the US Department of Defense), and will review and explain multiple techniques for optimizing their performance.
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- Date: 17 Apr 2019
- Time: 06:00 AM to 08:30 PM
- All times are (UTC-04:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
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- 765 Newman Springs Road
- BROOKDALE COMMUNITY COLLEGE
- Lincroft, New Jersey
- United States 07738
- Building: Warner Student Life Center
- Room Number: SLC 216 (Navesink I)
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Anjali Agarwal, Chair, NJ Coast ED/MTT/PHO Chapter
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Adriaan van Wijngaarden, METSAC Chair
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- Co-sponsored by Dr. Anjali Agrawal
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Dr. Edward Ackerman
Analog Photonic Systems: Features and Techniques to Optimize Performance
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 "bottleneck". Analog photonic channelization, linearization, and frequency conversion systems can be designed to alleviate this bottleneck. Moreover, the low loss and dispersion of optical fiber and integrated optical waveguides enable 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 sensors with almost no performance penalty. The anticipated presentation will highlight the advantages and other features of analog photonic systems (including some specific systems that the author has constructed and tested for the US Department of Defense), and will review and explain multiple techniques for optimizing their performance.
Biography:
Edward Ackerman received a B.S. in electrical engineering from Lafayette College in 1987 and a Ph.D. from Drexel University in 1994. From 1989 through 1994 he worked at Martin Marietta's Electronics Laboratory in Syracuse, New York, where he used low-loss narrowband impedance matching techniques to demonstrate the first amplifierless direct modulation analog optical link with RF gain (+3.7 dB at 900 MHz). From 1995 to 1999 he was employed by MIT Lincoln Laboratory, where he achieved the lowest noise figure ever demonstrated for an amplifierless analog optical link (2.5 dB at 130 MHz) and patented a linearization technique that uses a standard lithium niobate modulator with only one electrode to enable improved analog optical link dynamic range across broad bandwidths and at higher frequencies than other linearization techniques allow. Since 1999 he has been Vice President of R & D for Photonic Systems, Inc., where he has invented RF and photonic techniques that enable sensitive receivers to mitigate the effect of strong in-band interference signals and enable simultaneous transmission and reception using a single antenna.
Agenda
6 pm - Free Dinner - Event begins
6:30-7:30 pm - Technical talk by Dr. Ed Ackerman
Networking till 8 PM
The event is being held at Brookdale Community College at the Warner Student Life Center. It is located behind the main academic complex (MAC) – use parking lot #7. A map is available at: https://www.brookdalecc.edu/conference-event-centers/our-facilities/warner-student-life-center/our-location-on-campus/