{"id":21832,"date":"2016-02-09T15:16:31","date_gmt":"2016-02-09T23:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/nasa-engineers-to-build-first-integrated-photonics-modem"},"modified":"2017-04-24T22:31:29","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T05:31:29","slug":"nasa-engineers-to-build-first-integrated-photonics-modem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/nasa-engineers-to-build-first-integrated-photonics-modem","title":{"rendered":"NASA engineers to build first integrated-photonics modem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/M0pk65higQc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" title=\"Mike Krainak\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasa-engineers-to-build-first-integrated-photonics-modem.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"379\" \/><b><center>NASA laser expert Mike Krainak and his team plan to replace portions of this fiber-optic receiver with an integrated-photonic circuit (its size will be similar to the chip he is holding) and will test the advanced modem on the International Space Station. (credit: W. Hrybyk\/NASA)<\/center><\/b><\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">NASA<\/a> team plans to build the first integrated-photonics modem, using an emerging, potentially revolutionary technology that could transform everything from telecommunications, medical imaging, advanced manufacturing to national defense.<\/p>\n<p>The cell phone-sized device incorporates optics-based functions, such as lasers, switches, and fiber-optic wires, onto a microchip similar to an integrated circuit found in all electronics hardware.<\/p>\n<p>The device will be tested aboard the International Space Station beginning in 2020 as part of NASA\u2019s multi-year <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/tdm\/lcrd\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Laser Communications Relay Demonstration<\/a> (LCRD). The Integrated LCRD LEO (Low-Earth Orbit) User Modem and Amplifier (ILLUMA) will serve as a low-Earth-orbit terminal for NASA\u2019s LCRD, demonstrating another capability for high-speed, laser-based communications.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/nasa-engineers-to-build-first-integrated-photonics-modem\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA laser expert Mike Krainak and his team plan to replace portions of this fiber-optic receiver with an integrated-photonic circuit (its size will be similar to the chip he is holding) and will test the advanced modem on the International Space Station. (credit: W. Hrybyk\/NASA) A NASA team plans to build the first integrated-photonics modem, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1523,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-computing","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21832"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43978,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21832\/revisions\/43978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}