SBIR/STTR Research Award
OPTRA PROPOSES TO DEVELOP AND DEMONSTRATE A FAST HIGH PRESSURE TRANSDUCER BASED ON THE STRESS-OPTICAL EFFECT IN A SINGLE OPTICAL CRYSTAL.
Award amount
$49,799Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
1985Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Army
- Recipient company
- Optra, Inc.
- Proposal award date
- Not reported
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- RRLMP7RT1483
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- Not reported
Research abstract
OPTRA PROPOSES TO DEVELOP AND DEMONSTRATE A FAST HIGH PRESSURE TRANSDUCER BASED ON THE STRESS-OPTICAL EFFECT IN A SINGLE OPTICAL CRYSTAL. THE SMALL SIZE OF THE SENSOR RESULTS IN A FAST RESPONSE, AND ITS MONO-LITHIC NATURE--WITH SENSING AND TRANSDUCING FUNCTIONS COMBINED IN ONE AND THE SAME ELEMENT--SHOULD AVOID RECIPROCITY FAILURES COMMON TO TRANSDUCERS WHERE THESE FUNCTIONS ARE DISTINCT. THE STRESS INDUCED OPTICAL BIREFRINGENCE WILL BE READ OUT BY OPTRA'S UNIQUE 2-FREQUENCY HETERODYNE LASER VIA AN OPTICAL FIBER LINK. THE READOUT IS INHERENTLYDIGITAL AND INDEPENDENT OF SIGNAL STRENGTH. THE BASIC SIMPLICITY OF THE SENSOR, AND ITS PASSIVE NATURE, SHOULD GIVE IT THE POTENTIAL OF IT BEING USED AS A "ONE-TIME" COMPONENT.
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.
- Multi-Spectral Flickerless DMD-Based Scene Projector
- Laser Exposure Measurement Device
- New Lamellar Grating Interferometer for Spectroscopy
- Tunable Liquid Crystal Grating Filter
- Multi-Configuration Matched Spectral Filter Core
Research funding history
136 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1983–2015). Reported award amounts total $26,651,322. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Energy, Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Commerce, National Science Foundation