The NSF Electronic-Photonic Integrated Circuits for Aerospace Center is a vehicle for encouraging formal, topical relationships between academic institutions and industry collaborators. Research projects that make a good fit to the program and to the EPICA:
- Develop components and architectures using system-level methods and tools to extract maximum advantage of integrated photonic systems for aerospace platforms, including the impact of DSP and machine learning and considerations of SWaP
- Assessment, understanding, and development of robust integrated photonic hardware (architectures, devices, circuits, and packaging) for reliable operation under extreme environmental conditions, primarily radiation and temperature extremes
- Develop flight hardware and mission architectures for subsequent flight demonstration
