Information and Communications Technology - Hardware

NRC conducts leading-edge research and development in the field of information and communication technologies. Research results can have a major impact on a variety of sectors, including software engineering, bio-informatics, e-business, photonics and semi-conductor design. The majority of this work is industry facing and involves close collaboration with a broad range of private-sector partners, as well as end users.

Hardware

Licensing opportunities exist for optical devices display technologies and signal processing

Technologies available for Licensing

• Apparatus and Method for Remote Detection of Ice or other Birefringent Material on a Surface
• Broadband Optical Detection of Transient Motion from a Scattering Surface by Two-Wave Mixing in a Photorefractive Crystal
• Imaging of Ultrasonic-Surface Motion by Optical Multiplexing
• Method of Improving the Efficiency of Data Delivery to an Output Device
• Precise Positioner with Six Degrees of Freedom
• Quasi-Optical Stripline Devices
• Speckle Interference Method for Remote Thickness Measurement of a Sheet and Layer and an Apparatus Therefore
• WIDAR (Wideband Interferometric Digital Architecture)
• Wide-Band Two-Layer Antireflection Coating for Optical Surfaces