SBIR/STTR Research Award
High speed, random optical switching, using Fabry-Perot Holographic circle-to-point Conversion
Award amount
$749,220Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
2002Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Missile Defense Agency
- Recipient company
- Scientific Solutions, Inc.
- Proposal award date
- Not reported
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- JQ4MHZXR9NB6
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- Not reported
Research abstract
A solid-state, dense, random optical cross-switch is commercializedto fill needs in the commercial metro-core telecom market, and to supplyrapid, multi-channel, covert, and frequency agile optical communications tothe national missile defense initiative. The optical switch is based uponFabry-Perot and Holographically Dispersed Liquid Crystal (H-PDLC) technology.The deliverable is entirely solid state, is switched electronically requiring minimal power, and is fabricated using planar fabrication techniques - providing significant cost and durability advantages over competing technologies. Two devicesproviding 32-channel and 200-channel discrimination in the telecommunicationsC-band are delivered to the commercial market. This enabling technology will be commercially useful in expanding all-optical communications within the metro-core. Variants of this switchable holographic optical element can be used in applications as farafield as beam-steering, spectrospic detection of chemical agents and surface metrology in the semi-conductor industry.
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.
- A Space Plug-and-Play Spectrometer (SPNPS)
- SHIMS -- A Spatial Heterodyne Interferometer for Methane Sounding
- FABSOAR -- A Fabry-Perot Spectrometer for Oxygen A-Band Research
- Quad channel hyperspectral imager for high speed atomic spectral characterization
- SHIELDS -- A Spatial Heterodyne Interferometer for Emergent Line Discrimination Spectroscopy
Research funding history
46 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1993–2010). Reported award amounts total $12,329,133. 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 Health and Human Services, Department of Commerce