SBIR/STTR Research Award
High Speed Beam Steering Components for Lidar
Award amount
$124,790Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2017Award details
- Awarding agency
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- BOULDER NONLINEAR SYSTEMS, INC.
- Proposal award date
- 2017-06-09
- Contract end date
- 2017-12-08
- UEI
- N8J7GS1DB3A6
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- S1.01
Research abstract
Boulder Nonlinear Systems (BNS) will develop a high speed (sub-15 micro-second response time) low size, weight, and power (SWaP) beam scanner for application to space-based Lidar. BNS will employ their current liquid crystal polarization grating (LCPG) technology and ferroelectric liquid crystal (FLC) switches to meet the discrete scanner speed and resolution requirements called for in the solicitation. Advantages of applying BNS LCPG and switch component technology specific to the space-based Lidar application will include accuracy, reliability, and improved SWaP as well as high rate (at least 8 kHz ) scanning. In addition, BNS will develop an environmental test and or mitigation plan for our components tailored to the space-based Lidar application. The Phase I analysis will result in the design of a scanner prototype which will be built in Phase II.
Technology keywords
Not reported
Other awards by this recipient
Verified by the same UEI. These are other public SBIR/STTR award pages, not a merged company record.
- Low-cost Lidar for Efficient Wind Energy Production
- Compatible High-res 3D Vision System
- Non-mechanical Beam Steering Technology for Optical Intersatellite Links
- Programmable Phase Nulling Interferometer
- A MEMS-Based High-Throughput Photostimulation Device with Commercial Backplane Integration
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Compact 2-Micron Transmitter for Remote Sensing Applications
- Space-Hardened Seed Laser for Use in High Spectral Resolution Lidar Systems
- Compact High Pulse Energy Single Frequency Fiber Amplifier
- High Power, Thermally Optimized Blue Laser for Lidar
- Spaceflight 1.94 Micron Tm Fiber Laser Transmitter
Research funding history
111 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1989–2023). Reported award amounts total $34,997,508. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Commerce, National Science Foundation, Department of Agriculture