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Accession Number:
ADA622290
Title:
Ultraviolet Communication for Medical Applications
Descriptive Note:
Final rept. 1 May 2013-30 Apr 2015
Corporate Author:
DIRECTED ENERGY INC LEXINGTON KY
Report Date:
2015-06-01
Pagination or Media Count:
16.0
Abstract:
Under this Phase II SBIR effort, Directed Energy Inc.s DEI proprietary ultraviolet UV emitters and the best available electro-optic components are investigated to implement a functional prototype demonstrating short range, medium data rate non-line-of-sight NLOS optical communication data links operating in the solar blind region 200-280 nm. The intended application is covert wireless transfer of medical data for battlefield combat casualty care. During the course of this effort and after detailed investigation pertinent to this technology through simulation, system studies, field trials, and review of current and future technologies, hardware components were designed and integrated into a functional breadboard system demonstrating 1 unidirectional communication of medical data in outdoors environment and 2 bidirectional communication of medical data with encryption and forward error correction. Work in the second half of the Phase II project will extend the test bench implementation to be capable of mobile ad-hoc networking, and will repackage the system as a brassboard module suitable for field trials.
Distribution Statement:
APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE
