SBIR/STTR Research Award
Differential Focus Optical Blade Tip Clearance Probe
Award amount
$1,801,080Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
2008Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Army
- Recipient company
- Prime Photonics, LC
- Proposal award date
- 2008-09-05
- Contract end date
- 2010-09-05
- UEI
- FBH9F54NF743
- Solicitation number
- 2007.2
- Topic code
- A07-011
Research abstract
Prime Research, LC, in proposes to transition the newly developed photonic blade tip clearance sensor from a low temperature prototype to a full system which can operate at temperatures in excess of 2500 degrees Fahrenheit. This project will fill a dramatic shortfall in the current measurement capabilities for turbine engines. Existing blade tip clearance measurements are generally limited to much lower temperature operation. The small and robust single crystal sapphire transducer is optically excited by a remotely located interrogation system. Using the differential response of a dual channel system the radial blade tip location is ascertained through two separate phenomena.
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.
- Zero Foreign Object Damage (FOD): Inlet Debris Monitoring System (IDMS)
- Neuromorphic and Optical Constellation Tracker for Unstable spacecraft Attitude correction (NOCTUA)
- Debris Trajectory and Classification (DTAC) System
- Non-Intrusive Fiber-Optic Boundary Layer Profile Measurement System
- Multi-Phase Flow Interrogation System
Awards with the same topic code
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Research funding history
67 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2003–2023). Reported award amounts total $23,259,179. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, National Science Foundation, Department of Energy, Department of Transportation