Space and High Energy Experiments Advanced Electronic Systems 2012

INTL JOURNAL OF ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS, 2012, VOL. 58, NO. 4, PP. 441–462 Manuscript received July 30,2012; revised November, 2012. DOI: 10.2478/v10177-012-0060-0 Space and High Energy Experiments Advanced Electronic Systems 2012 Ryszard S. Romaniuk Abstract—This paper is a research survey of the WILGA Symposium work. It presents a digest of technical effort results shown by young researchers from different universities during the Jubilee XXXth SPIE-IEEE-Photonics Society of Poland Wilga 2012 symposium on Photonics and Internet Engineering. Topical tracks of the symposium embraced: nanomaterials and nanotechnologies for photonics, sensory and nonlinear optical fibers, object oriented design of hardware, photonic metrology, optoelectronics and photonics applications, photonics-electronics co-design, optoelectronic and electronic systems for astronomy and high energy physics experiments, JET tokamak and pi-ofthe sky experiments development. The symposium is an annual summary in the development of numerable Ph.D. theses carried out in this country in the area of advanced electronic and photonic systems. It is also a great occasion for SPIE, IEEE, OSA and PSP students to meet together in a large group spanning the whole country with guests from this part of Europe. A digest of Wilga references is presented [1]–[60]. This paper is the first part of the digest focused on astronomy, space, astroparticle physics, accelerators, and high energy physics experiments. Keywords—Astronomy, optical observations, telescopes, space technology, accelerators, free electron laser, industrial standards for advanced electronics, photonic and electronic systems. I. I NTRODUCTION HE XXX JUBILEE SYMPOSIUM of young scientists WILGA 2012 on Photonics and Internet Engineering has gathered together over 300 participants in January and May Editions. There were presented over 250 papers – mainly concerning the realized Ph.D. theses and participation in research projects relevant to the topical area of the meeting. There were also presented a few plenary papers introducing the audience into new research areas of photonics and electronics. The symposium is organized under the auspices of SPIE – The International Society for Optical Engineering, IEEE (Poland Section and Region 8), Photonics Society of Poland, KEiT PAN, PKOpto SEP and WEiTI PW. The symposium is organized annually by young researchers from the PERG/ELHEP Laboratory of ISE PW with cooperation of SPIE and IEEE Student Branches. Media patronage over the symposium is extended by Elektronika monthly technical magazine. Symposium proceedings are published by Elektronika, IJET – Int. Journal of Electronics and Telecommunications by KEiT PAN and Proceedings SPIE. Wilga Symposium is topically associated with the cyclic research meetings on Optical Fibers and Their Applications organized in Białowieża (prof. J. Dorosz, T TH Ryszard S. Romaniuk is with Warsaw University of Technology, Institute of Electronic Systems, Nowowiejska 15/19, Warsaw, Poland (e-mail: ). Białystok Univ. Technology) and in Nał˛eczów, (UMCS Univ., and Lublin Univ. Technology, prof. W. Wójcik) every 18 months. Below, there are presented some presentations from the main of the most interesting sessions or topical tracks of WILGA 2012 Symposium. Consecutive parts debate the sessions on Photonics Applications in Astronomy and Space Technologies; accelerator science; photon physics and plasma research; optoelectronics, biomedical and artificial intelligence. II. T OPICAL T RACKS OF WILGA 2012 The topical session and tracks of WILGA 2012 were as follows: nanotechnologies and nanomaterials for optoelectronics and photonics, optical fibers for sensors and all-photonic devices for sensors, active optical fibers, sensors and sensory networks, object oriented design of optoelectronic and photonic hardware, photonics applications, advanced bioelectronics and bioinformatics, co-design of hybrid photonic – mechatronics and electronic systems, computational intelligence in optoelectronics and robotics, development in the wide-angle astronomic observations of the whole sky – pi-of-the-sky project, processing and imaging of multimedia data streams, machine vision, vehicles – quadrocopter and Mars rover, analog transmission systems in noisy conditions with digital reverse transmission channel, optoelectronic and photonic metrology, reconfigurable measurement systems, high performance – low-jitter low-latency transmission systems – White Rabbit, thermonuclear fusion experiments – JET and ITER, research results update from HEP experiments – TOTEM and CMS/LHC in CERN. A number of Wilga sessions concerned applications aspects of photonic and electronic circuits and systems, including in this advanced applications which combine hardware and software. A separate session track was organized by SPIE, IEEE, OSA and PSP – Photonics Society of Poland students for the new students beginning their adventure with the science of photonics and electronics. III. A STRONOMY AND S PACE T ECHNOLOGIES During the XXXth Jubilee Symposium WILGA 2012 there were organized two topical sessions on observational astronomy (IR, optical and X-ray), space and satellite technologies, measurements and photonic/electronic equipment for these applications. The sessions were chaired by dr Piotr Orleański from CBK PAN (Space Research Center SRC PAS) Warsaw and prof. Filip A. Żarnecki of Faculty of Physics UW Warsaw in cooperation with prof. L. Mankiewicz of ZFT PAN and Unauthenticated | 89.67.242.59 Download Date | 6/2/13 6:35 PM 442 R. S. ROMANIUK CAMK PAN (Mikołaj Kopernik Astronomical Center). The sessions gathered a few tens of young scientists and engineers from several research groups. There were presented over 20 papers concerning the current technical involvement of these labs. These sessions were organized a few months before Poland was going to be accepted as a new full member of the ESA – European Space Agency. IV. E LECTRONIC AND P HOTONIC E QUIPMENT FOR S ATELLITES PICO and NANO SATELLITES: Picosatellites and nanosatellites cheaply invade the space for massive and varied research purposes. They are equipped in specialized miniature instruments optical, photonic, magnetic and electronic. The first part of the word satellite refers to their minute size. A satellite of the volume of 1 liter is usually called a picosatellite, while 10 liters satellite would be called nano. Why do astro researchers sent picosatellites to space? They are low cost. They carry pretty advanced scientific experiments. They create inexpensive platform for technology tests. They are initial platform for making bigger systems. They can form clusters while on the orbit, like proposed TechSat-21 mission. A picosatellite or a cluster of them can easily, and nearly at no cost, be added to larger space missions as the weight is usually lower than a few kg and power consumption less than a few W. CubeSat is one of proposed st (...truncated)