Technology News

MIT Lincoln Laboratory creates bright diode lasers

Scowl array iconResearchers at MIT Lincoln Laboratory have created the most powerful coherently combined diode lasers yet demonstrated. They demonstrated 7 W of high brightness, coherently combined output power from an array of ten slab-coupled optical waveguide laser devices.    more ›

Posted October 2009


MIT Lincoln Laboratory is first to demonstrate next-generation antenna for airborne communication with Milstar

MIT Lincoln Laboratory continued its successful testing of protected military satellite communications by flying the first Advanced Multiband Communications Antenna System delivered to the government. The new antenna system was designed for wide-body aircraft.    more ›

Posted July 2009


Lincoln Laboratory's Environmental Test Lab helps MIT students realize their vision for a satellite

Students performing vibration testingMIT undergraduate students are constructing a satellite as part of a three-semester Space Systems Product Development course that gives students real-world experience designing, building, and implementing hardware. Testing at Lincoln Laboratory is helping the young designers troubleshoot their system.     more ›

Posted June 2009


Emulation of protocols brings software radio closer to deployment

waveformsComputer modeling of communications protocols is
speeding the development of a software-based tactical radio system that will replace the 25 to 30 radios now in use.    more ›

Posted April 2009


LINEAR is honored as a region on asteroid Itokawa

The International Astronomical Union named a region on the minor planet (commonly referred to as an asteroid) Itokawa in honor of MIT Lincoln Laboratory's Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research (LINEAR) program, which discovered this asteroid.    more ›

Posted April 2009


More Technology News

Lincoln Laboratory is awarded a supercomputer
  Posted July 2009

Lincoln Laboratory discovers inner Earth orbit asteroids
  Posted February 2009

High-availability free-space laser communications are demonstrated
  Posted February 2009

Lincoln Laboratory demonstrates airborne communication with Milstar
  Posted January 2009

Specialized avalanche photodiode arrays enable adaptive optics uses
  Posted January 2009

Robert Cunningham moderates cyber-security forum
  Posted December 2008

Watching and Waiting: The search for dangerous asteroids is about to begin in earnest
  Posted in Lincoln Laboratory in the   News December 2008

Lincoln Laboratory begins work on Lunar Laser Communications Demonstration
  Posted October 2008

Lincoln Laboratory supplies detectors for world's most advanced digital camera
  Posted September 2008

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Lab Notes

Articles on intriguing technical innovations

Plotting the Laboratory's Technology Future:
Q&A with former CTO Zachary Lemnios

  Posted April 2009 

Dialect Detectives: System that distinguishes among variants in spoken languages could enhance automated machine translation. 
  Posted March 2009

A fast optical switch could speed up digital networks Work on a high-speed optical switch could provide one component for future optical communications networks.
  Posted March 2009

Going Beyond Limits:  New lens lets microscopes peer at much smaller objects.
  Posted March 2009

Foul Weather Friend: CIWS now covers the U.S., expanding air traffic planners' and airline dispatchers' view of the nation's weather.
  Posted February 2009

Early Warning Chemical Sensors Pass and Indoor Test: A relatively cheap sensor system can detect indoor attacks in buildings with chemical weapons.
  Posted February 2009

Auto-mation:  A robotic car bedecked with Lincoln Laboratory sensors takes on DARPA's Urban Challenge.
  Posted December 2008

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Recent News and Awards

Lincoln Laboratory robotics team goes to World Championship ›
  Posted June 2009

Lincoln Laboratory has "summer school" for teachers
  Posted December 2008

Lincoln Laboratory is on a "ROLL"
  Posted November 2008

NASA honors Lincoln Laboratory researchers
  Posted in Awards November 2008

Robert J. Collier Trophy presented to Lincoln Laboratory researchers
  Posted November 2008

R. Louis Bellaire receives Secretary of Defense Medal for Outstanding Public Service
  Posted in Awards November 2008

 

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