SBIR/STTR Research Award
3D WAVEFRONT CONTROL
Award amount
$99,662Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2001Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Air Force
- Recipient company
- Optical Physics Company
- Proposal award date
- Not reported
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- NNMCZN2CS7D9
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- Not reported
Research abstract
A new control concept is proposed which can significantly enhance the performance ofthe Airborne Laser beam control. This control process allows high quality wavefrontinformation to be obtained even using extended sources of many theta-noughts in size.In simulation, a simple version increased high-order strehl 1.67X and on-axis irradianceby 5.7X over a 120 km horizontal path with a 1mx1m extended source.Besides the major benefit to the ABL program, there is another commercial application.The Last-Mile Optical Link involves high bandwidth laser communication overnear-ground horizontal paths up to 5 kilometers long. With DWDM (Dense WavelengthDivision Multiplexing), the need is to image a first fiber source onto a secondfiber receiver several kilometers away. Optical efficiency requires a high strehlto avoid fades and resulting data loss. This sensor will greatly increasereliability.
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.
- Compact High Energy Laser Beam Director
- Handheld Celestial Navigation System
- Compact High Energy Laser (HEL) Beam Director
- Non-linear Adaptive Optics
- Small Satellite System for Space Surveillance
Research funding history
70 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2001–2021). Reported award amounts total $35,389,096. 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, Department of Commerce, Department of Energy