SBIR/STTR Research Award
140GHz Imaging Technology
Award amount
$747,654Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
2004Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Air Force
- Recipient company
- JJW Consulting, Inc.
- Proposal award date
- 2003-04-01
- Contract end date
- 2005-04-01
- UEI
- Not reported
- Solicitation number
- 2002.1
- Topic code
- AF02-214
Research abstract
A development program is proposed to design, develop. fabricate, and test a 140GHz Imaging System with a range of 1 to 3km for an all-weather landing systems. The system is capable of being integrated into a military airborne platform.Recent advances inIII-V materials, such as InP now enables imaging systems to be developed for high sensitivity all-weather landing systems and an affordable cost. Our innovative conept focus the energy from a scene through a lens to a 5X5 Focal Plane Array that is comprised of stable radiometers. The element spacing for the array is 2.6mm. To obtain optimum performance, a InP low noise amplifer is being used at the input of each receiver. The delta T for the radiometer system is less than 0.06degrees. An advanced signal processing concept is implemented to form the image that is refreshed every 20ms.
Technology keywords
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