SBIR/STTR Research Award
Non-linear Adaptive Optics
Award amount
$1,499,973Program 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
- MZA ASSOCIATES CORPORATION
- Proposal award date
- 2017-09-19
- Contract end date
- 2019-09-18
- UEI
- YEG4AQRRQFC6
- Solicitation number
- 17.1
- Topic code
- SB171-012
Research abstract
Propagation of high-energy short-pulse laser light through the atmosphere must contend with not only the phase aberrations induced by atmospheric turbulence, but also a cadre of nonlinear phenomena that can reduce the efficacy of light delivery to a target. During this effort, we are investigating several adaptive optics designs that should improve the compensation of distributed aberrations in the atmosphere to facilitate delivery of short-pulse high-energy light to a target at range.
Technology keywords
Not reported
Other awards by this recipient
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- Suggestive Modular AI-based Real-Time (SMART) Battle Management
- LEO Debris Tracking and Remediation Using Advanced Beam Control
- Sensor Platform for Optical Tracking of Launches and Intelligent T&E (SPOTLITE)
- Fast Wavefront Sensing for Mitigating Aero-Optical Effects
- Bistatic Engagement Algorithms and Methodologies (BEAM) PH II
Awards with the same topic code
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Research funding history
120 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1995–2025). Reported award amounts total $68,625,691. 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