SBIR/STTR Research Award
Polarization Maintaining Coherent Fiber Bundle Array
Award amount
$99,498Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2010Award details
- Awarding agency
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- ADVALUE PHOTONICS INC
- Proposal award date
- 2010-01-29
- Contract end date
- 2010-07-29
- UEI
- YHLNSLHNSXQ5
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- S1.04
Research abstract
Future NASA flight missions are considering passive wavefront and amplitude control in astronomical applications such as the search for exo-planets. NASA's Discovery mission proposal called out the need for a coherent 2-dimensional array of fiber bundles for this application. In this SBIR proposal we propose to develop monolithic polarization maintaining (PM) coherent fiber bundle arrays consisting of 1,600 fibers with core-to-core spacing of 80 micron with placement accuracy of < 2 micron. In Phase I we will design and develop specialty glasses and fibers and demonstrate a 2D array with 16 cores to prove the feasibility of this proposal.
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.
- Ozone Lidar Utilizing 308 nm and 355 nm Compact Fiber-Based Lasers
- Fiber-based laser transmitter at 0.95 μm band for water vapor LiDAR application
- Ozone Lidar Utilizing 308 nm and 355 nm Compact Fiber-Based Lasers
- An All-Fiber High Energy Pulsed Illuminator for Coherent Imaging
- Mid-IR Chalcogenide Amplifier by Additive Manufacturing
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- Tunable, High-Power Terahertz Quantum Cascade Laser Local Oscillator
- Wafer level Integration on PolyStrata(R) Interposer (WIPI) (17013)
- A Low Power Rad-Hard ADC for the KID Readout Electronics
Research funding history
69 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2007–2024). Reported award amounts total $23,405,246. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Energy, Department of Commerce