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Electro-Optic Ceramic Creates High-Speed Fiber-Optic Networks
A real-world story of NASA technology finding a life beyond the mission.
About this technology
Overview
A 2002 SBIR with Langley Research Center allowed Boston Applied Technologies Inc. (BATi) to demonstrate an electro-optic ceramic it had developed but not proven. Electro-optic ceramics alter properties of light based on applied electrical charges. The Woburn, Massachusetts-based company designed a laser Q switch that proved its OptoCeramic to have nearly 100 times the electro-optical effect of more traditional options. The material became central to most BATi products_components used in telecommunications, lidar, remote-sensing, and other applications.