SBIR/STTR Research Award
Development of novel high bandwidth beam steering mirrors
Award amount
$99,963Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2004Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Missile Defense Agency
- Recipient company
- QORTEK INC
- Proposal award date
- 2004-05-20
- Contract end date
- 2005-06-25
- UEI
- TLD8L3APDZM3
- Solicitation number
- 2004.1
- Topic code
- MDA04-075
Research abstract
The QorTek/Goodrich team is proposing a novel high stiffness SiC-SiC/C FSM design that incorporates a new self-assimilated actuation concept for multi-kHz tilt correction capability. The design concept will enable larger mirror clear aperture to be a reachable goal. The novel solution will enable a new level of performance in a compact lightweight design that is readily amenable to both conventional and fully distributed tip-tilt Fast Steering Mirror implementations. The high-speed microcontroller uses colocated sub nanometer absolute position sensing self-integrated into the actuator that exhibits large dynamic range and promises exceptional performance.
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.
- Scalable High Frequency Transmit/Receive Array for Multiple Unmanned Underwater Vehicle and Torpedo Applications
- Modernized Sonar Transmit Electronics
- Flow Exposed Conformal Array Acoustic Elements
- Second Order Acoustic Vector Sensors
- Open Architecture Telemetry First Level Multiplexer with Array Power Distribution
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- High-Bandwidth Steering Mirrors for Highly Coherant 150mm and 300mm Optical Beams
- Development of novel high bandwidth beam steering mirrors
Research funding history
136 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1996–2025). Reported award amounts total $62,777,779. 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