SBIR/STTR Research Award
EO Scanned Micro-LADAR
Award amount
$746,669Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
2014Award details
- Awarding agency
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- VESCENT TECHNOLOGIES INC.
- Proposal award date
- 2014-04-21
- Contract end date
- 2016-04-20
- UEI
- JDCKBJDFLLL5
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- S1.01
Research abstract
In this phase II SBIR we will design, build, test, and deliver new scanning based micro-ladar sensors with unprecedented small size, weight, and power (SWaP), thereby enabling scanning LADAR deployment on previously inaccessible platforms such as satellites. The system will range out to > 1 km, have high frame rates, high resolution (up to 500 � 500), high range accuracy (<5 cm), weigh less than a kg, be constructed from space deployable technologies with no-moving parts. The enabling technology for this Micro-LADAR system is a combination of two new electro-optic laser scanning technologies: high speed refractive continuous scanners with a 60o�15o field of view (FOV) and diffractive-waveplate discrete or step-wise scanners to boost the total FOV (ultimately up to unthinkable angles such as 120o�120o). The results will be a very low-power, long-life (no moving parts), radiation hard, micro-LADAR.
Technology keywords
Not reported
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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