Aerospace & Defense Technology: September 2017
- Content
- On-Orbit Satellite Refueling Flow Measurement
The Path from Concept to Operational Status - Radiation Tolerant "Smart Backplanes" for Spacecraft Avionics
- Using Heat Pipes to Cool Embedded Computers
- Electronically Dimmable Aircraft Windows
How do you block the light of the sun? - Eliminating Electrical Arcing in Satellite Systems
- NASA Miniaturizes Century-Old Radio Sounder Technology
- Developing an Airborne Optical Systems Testbed (AOSTB)
- New Class of Excimer-Pumped Atomic Lasers (XPALS)
Research demonstrates the viability of an atomic laser having a quantum efficiency greater than one. - Hydrodynamic Drag Force Measurement of a Functionalized Surface Exhibiting Superhydrophobic Properties
Comparing the skin friction drag effects of a superhydrophobic flat plate to an untreated flat plate of the same material and geometry. - Stimulated Brillouin Scattering (SBS) Suppression and Long Delivery Fibers at the Multikilowatt Level with Chirped Seed Lasers
Using chirped seed amplification with a MEMS VCSEL seed to scale the output power of a ytterbium fiber amplifier. - High-Power Broadband Multispectral Source on a Hybrid Silicon Chip
Photonic integrated circuits (PIC) may expand the spectral band-width of currently available optical sources at lower cost, smaller size, reduced vibration sensitivity, and higher brightness. - Erbium Doped GaN Lasers by Optical Pumping
Studying ER:GaN materials under 980 nm resonant excitation could guide future crystal growth.
- On-Orbit Satellite Refueling Flow Measurement