Raytheon is working on a new signal-processing technology that could give military operators more time to react to emerging threats by using light to handle information instead of relying on conventional electronic processing.
The company’s Advanced Technology team received a Phase 1 contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency under its Photonic Integrated Circuit Architectures for Scalable System Objectives (PICASSO) program.
The project will focus on developing photonic circuits that can process signals entirely through light, removing the need to convert optical information into electrical signals before handling the data.
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