SBIR/STTR Research Award
Non-Mechanical, Electro-Optic Beamsteerers for Space Based Laser Communications
Award amount
$173,476Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
2016Award details
- Awarding agency
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- VESCENT TECHNOLOGIES INC.
- Proposal award date
- 2016-04-28
- Contract end date
- 2016-11-11
- UEI
- JDCKBJDFLLL5
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- H9.01
Research abstract
In this phase II SBIR we will design, build, test, and deliver extremely low Size, Weight, and Power (SWaP) non-mechanical, electro-optic (EO) laser beamsteerers that are optimized for space based laser communications (lasercom). These new beamsteerers, which will finally satisfy the decades long dream of providing a viable alternative to opto-mechanics, will controllably steer high power (>10 Watts), low divergence (<100 micoradians) lasers with no moving parts. Novel self-calibrating, closed-loop stabilization techniques will provide very high pointing stability (<10 microradians). The outcome of this SBIR program will provide a critical component to help lasercom fulfill its long-standing scientific and commercial promise.
Technology keywords
Not reported
Other awards by this recipient
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Research funding history
81 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2002–2025). Reported award amounts total $26,537,716. 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, National Science Foundation, Department of Commerce, Department of Energy, Environmental Protection Agency