SBIR/STTR Research Award
A Portable Digital Fluorescence and Aerosol Lidar for Stand-off Detection of Biological Agents
Award amount
$0Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2001Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
- Recipient company
- SCIENCE & ENGINEERING SERVICES, INC.
- Proposal award date
- Not reported
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- Y7SKZ1CJ5TD1
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- Not reported
Research abstract
We propose to build a rugged, low-cost fluorescence and aerosol lidar for detection and identification of bio-agent aerosols. By utilizing digital detection several orders of magnitude improvement in lidar performance is achieved, resulting in a muchsmaller lidar with superior range and sensitivity compared to analog detection lidars. The feasibility of fluorescence portable digital lidar was established in our Phase I investigations. Excitation at longer wavelength (355) uv was found to not onlygive adequate fluorescence cross sections but also provides a longer useful range due to lesser atmospheric attenuation compared to 280nm. Fluorescence lidar experiments have shown that with a compact 12
Technology keywords
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Other awards by this recipient
Verified by the same UEI. These are other public SBIR/STTR award pages, not a merged company record.
- X-Wind Lidar Profiler
- V-22 Three-Dimensional (3D) Downwash Measurement
- Novel hybrid MS-IMS instrument
- A High-Resolution Differential Mobility Analyzer to Study Biomolecules
- High-resolution Qq-TOF MS instrument
Research funding history
62 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1990–2010). Reported award amounts total $13,476,263. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, National Science Foundation, Department of Commerce