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05/21/2015
Many essential military capabilities—including autonomous navigation, chemical-biological sensing, precision targeting and communications—increasingly rely upon laser-scanning technologies such as LIDAR (think radar that uses light instead of radio waves). These technologies provide amazing high-resolution information at long ranges but have a common Achilles heel: They require mechanical assemblies to sweep the laser back and forth. These large, slow opto-mechanical systems are both temperature- and impact-sensitive and often cost tens of thousands of dollars each—all factors that limit widespread adoption of current technologies for military and commercial use.
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09/04/2015
See that black speck on the Lincoln’s penny-minted nostril? And on the right, notice another three
of those specks comfortably framed by the eye of a needle? Those semiconductor chiplets, or “dielets”
as DARPA Program Manager Kerry Bernstein calls them, could become Lilliputian electronic
tamper-watching sentinels affixed to virtually every chip built into commercial and military systems.
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The Direct On-Chip Digital Optical Synthesizer (DODOS) program seeks to create a technological revolution in optical frequency control analogous to the disruptive advances in microwave frequency control in the 1940s.
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