SBIR/STTR Research Award
FIBER OPTIC LONG COUNTER
Award amount
$499,086Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
1991Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Energy
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- FIBERTEK, INC.
- Proposal award date
- Not reported
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- DX8KTH7JHYC6
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- Not reported
Research abstract
FIBERTEK PROPOSES TO EXTEND THE CAPABILITY OF THE NEUTRON SENSING LONG COUNTER TO LOW RESOLUTION NEUTRON ENERGY DISCRIMINATION AND GAMMA RAY REJECTION THROUGH THE USE OF LITHIUM DOPED GLASS SCINTILLATOR FIBERS. FIBERTEK INTENDS TO INCORPORATE (6)LI- AND (7)LI-DOPED GLASS SCINTILLATOR FIBERS INTO A PROTOTYPE LONG COUNTER DESIGN. CURRENT LONG COUNTERS CAN ONLY PRODUCE A FLAT RESPONSE TO INCIDENT NEUTRONS, WITHOUT PROVIDING INFORMATION REGARDING THE NEUTRON ENERGY. FIBERTEK BELIEVES THAT ITS DESIGN CAN ADD NEUTRON ENERGY SPECTROSCOPY AND GAMMA RAY DISCRIMINATION CAPABILITY TO THE FLAT RESPONSE PROVIDED BY PRESENT LONG COUNTERS. LOW RESOLUTION ESTIMATION OF INCIDENT NEUTRON ENERGIES WILL BE PERFORMED BY COLLECTING COINCIDENT PULSES FROM EACH END OF A FIBER OPTIC BUNDLE AND ANALYZING THE DETECTED PULSE HEIGHTS. COMPARISON OF THE OUTPUT PULSE HEIGHTS FROM PHOTOMULTIPLIER TUBES COUPLED TO EACH END OF THE FIBER BUNDLE CAN BE USED TO DETERMINE THE POSITION OF ABSORPTION ALONG THE FIBER OF EACH THERMAL NEUTRON. THE POSITION OF THE IMPACT POINT RELATES TO THE NEUTRON ENERGY, SINCE HIGHER ENERGY NEUTRONS WILL TEND TO THERMALIZE DEEPER WITHIN THE MODERATOR.
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 Lidar Spectrometer for Mars, Lunar Science and ISRU Prospecting
- Optical Wireless Technology for Lunar to Mars
- Space/Aircraft Blue Laser for Underwater Ocean Science, Sensing, and Communications
- Space-Capable Laser for Mars/Lunar ISAM Robotic Vacuum Welding
- Compact Lidar Spectrometer for Lunar Science and ISRU
Research funding history
173 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1986–2025). Reported award amounts total $69,654,466. 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 Energy, National Science Foundation
Contractor profile
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