Objective The vision behind the PHASER project is to provide the European Space Industry with a new Analog to Digital conversion system that allows the direct digitalization of typical RF signals from K up to Ka band. PHASER will develop a space-grade, high speed digitizer capable of direct RF-sampling up to Ka band signals, exhibiting an improvement of more than two order of magnitude in the digitizer frequency response respect to the SoA, which enables a dramatic hardware complexity reduction for the next generation satellite payloads, as preliminary assessed in an ESA research program where the fundamental concept was already demonstrated by the consortium. The High speed, high frequency Electro-Photonic ADC system capable of down-converting and digitalize a high frequency band pass signal will be composed by a high speed optical sub-sampling architecture as a key element, capable of working in a very wide range of frequencies (from few kHz up to tens of GHz) and down-converting high bandwidth signals without electronic mixing hardware or intermediate frequency stages. After this signal down-conversion, the system will use a suitable electrical ADC to digitalize the signal.PHASER system will be able to be integrated in any medium or large satellite platform in order to provide the different system designers with one of the key elements necessary to arrive to the so called “Digital Defined Satellite”. Having a Digital Defined Satellite means that all the possible evolutions in customers’ needs can be covered by the suitable reprogramming of the on board signal processing elements, thus extending the useful satellite lifetime over 25 years increasing in a proportional way the satellite profitability. Fields of science engineering and technologymechanical engineeringvehicle engineeringaerospace engineeringsatellite technologyengineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringsignal processing Programme(s) FP7-SPACE - Specific Programme "Cooperation": Space Topic(s) SPA.2013.2.2-01 - Space critical technologies Call for proposal FP7-SPACE-2013-1 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme CP-FP - Small or medium-scale focused research project Coordinator THALES ALENIA SPACE ESPANA SA EU contribution € 581 352,00 Address CALLE EINSTEIN 7 PARQUE TECNOLOGICO TRES CANTOS 28760 Tres Cantos Spain See on map Region Comunidad de Madrid Comunidad de Madrid Madrid Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Angel Alvaro (Mr) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Total cost No data Participants (4) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all DAS PHOTONICS SL Spain EU contribution € 773 480,00 Address CMNO DE VERA S/N PLANTA 2 EDIFICIO 8F 46022 Valencia See on map Region Este Comunitat Valenciana Valencia/València Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Sebastian Pantoja (Mr) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Total cost No data ONEFIVE GMBH Switzerland EU contribution € 595 080,00 Address OBERWIESENSTRASSE 5 8057 ZURICH See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Gabriel Spuehler (Dr) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Total cost No data CSEM CENTRE SUISSE D'ELECTRONIQUE ET DE MICROTECHNIQUE SA - RECHERCHE ET DEVELOPPEMENT Switzerland EU contribution € 348 812,00 Address RUE JAQUET DROZ 1 2000 Neuchatel See on map Region Schweiz/Suisse/Svizzera Espace Mittelland Neuchâtel Activity type Research Organisations Administrative Contact Steve Lecomte (Dr) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data THALES ALENIA SPACE FRANCE SAS France EU contribution € 184 776,00 Address AVENUE JEAN FRANCOIS CHAMPOLLION 26 31100 Toulouse See on map Region Occitanie Midi-Pyrénées Haute-Garonne Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Michel Maignan (Mr) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data