SBIR/STTR Research Award
Radiation Hardened SLD and IOC Components for Fiber Optic Gyros
Award amount
$99,914Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2006Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Missile Defense Agency
- Recipient company
- COVEGA, INC.
- Proposal award date
- 2006-03-10
- Contract end date
- 2006-09-11
- UEI
- Not reported
- Solicitation number
- 2005.3
- Topic code
- MDA05-028
Research abstract
The intent of this project is to improve the radiation hardness of the optical light source and the LiNbO3 integrated optical chip (IOC) to meet the fiber optic gyro (FOG) system objectives for scale factor error (long-term): 300 kRads (Si). This will be accomplished by developing superluminescent LED (SLD) broadband sources with ultra-high temperature stability and IOC chips with increased radiation resistance through use of doped waveguides and proprietary buffer layer coatings.
Technology keywords
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