SBIR/STTR Research Award
Non-linear Adaptive Optics
Award amount
$1,497,642Program and phase
SBIR · Phase II – Direct to Phase IIAward year
2017Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
- Recipient company
- Optical Physics Company
- Proposal award date
- 2017-09-22
- Contract end date
- 2018-09-21
- UEI
- NNMCZN2CS7D9
- Solicitation number
- 2017.1
- Topic code
- SB171-012
Research abstract
Femtosecond pulses can be significantly degraded when passing through a turbulent atmosphere.Normal adaptive optics cannot measure or correct these turbulence-induced aberrations because the femto pulses follow a curvilinear path through the air.OPC will enhance an existing Army funded femtosecond system with traditional adaptive optics to include a new form of adaptive optics able to measure the turbulence-induced aberration over the nonlinear path of a femtosecond pulse through the atmosphere.The enhanced system will be designed, implemented, verified and field tested.
Technology keywords
Not reported
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Awards with the same topic code
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Research funding history
70 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2001–2021). Reported award amounts total $35,389,096. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II, Phase II – Direct to Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Commerce, Department of Energy