Photonic Integrated Circuits radiation for harsh environments

ALTER is performing gamma and proton radiation at various PICs

The satellite market is experiencing a paradigm shift with the photonics penetration in every part of the satellite payload. Although some advances have been made with introducing optical interconnects in a commercial digital processor of a satellite payload, there are still critical photonic building blocks that don’t arrive to cover the necessities of a photon-enabled Very High Throughput Satellite, which is expected to lead the new Satcom era.