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» Syntonics Receives 2013 Tibbetts Award
» Bruce G. Montgomery is Panelist at National Spring SBIR Conference
» Navy SBIR/STTR Success Story - PDF
» U.S. Army Orders Additional HARC Aerostat Radio Relay Systems
» The Floating Eye — Aerostats Have Become an Invaluable Force Protection Asset and Communications Multiplier - PDF
» Syntonics Completes 2011 Best Year to Date
» Syntonics HARC Systems Recommended for Fielding
» Syntonics HARC Systems Participate in Army Network Integration Evaluation 12.1
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Past Tradeshow
» AFCEA West
January 29-31, 2013, San Diego CA
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» Expeditionary C4 Users’ Conference (XC4)
August 2013, Fredericksburg VA
» CF Network Ops Symposium
October 2013, Kingston ON
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The Army is using "RF-over-fiber” technology with both heritage and new radios to implement an aerial layer of aerostat-based communications in Afghanistan. Other applications of the same technology can decrease the risk of electronic detection of command posts (CP); reduce the threat to communication personnel and costly radio/crypto equipment; decrease CP set-up time; enable radio-antenna configurations that are otherwise impossible; and lower maintenance response times. The physics of relevant electro-optic components are introduced. System building blocks are introduced (e.g., lasers; detectors; optical fibers, connectors, circulators, splitters, amplifiers). System design examples are presented for specific tactical radios. The tutorial concludes with a discussion of system design issues for an aerial layer of communications relays. |
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