SBIR/STTR Research Award
ADVANCED LOW COST HIGH PERFORMANCE OPTICAL COMPONENTS FOR CD-ROM APPLICATIONS
Award amount
$499,000Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
1988Award details
- Awarding agency
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- Microwave Monolithics Inc.
- Proposal award date
- Not reported
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- Not reported
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- Not reported
Research abstract
PERFECTION OF A NEW TECHNOLOGY IS PROPOSED TO SIMULTANEOUSLY DOUBLE OR QUADRUPLE OPTICAL MEMORY CAPACITY WHILE REDUCING ACCESS TIME BY AN ORDER OF MAGNITUDE. AN EXISTING PROTOTYPE OPTICAL DEVICE WILL BE EXPERIMENTALLY AND THEORETICALLY EVALUATED IN PROGRAM PHASE I, FOLLOWED BY OPTIMIZATION AND REFINED IMPLEMENTATION IN PROGRAM PHASE II. THE PROPOSED DEVICE DEVELOPMENT IS EXPECTED TO REVOLUTIONIZE CD-ROM TECHNOLOGY FOR A WIDE SPECTRUM OF NASA RELATED APPLICATIONS, AND FIND USES WELL BEYOND THOSE CURRENTLY ENVISIONED.
Technology keywords
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