SBIR/STTR Research Award
Cryovacuum Chamber Optical Interface for High Power Laser Delivery from External Sources
Award amount
$1,249,975Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
2024Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Air Force
- Recipient company
- OPTO-KNOWLEDGE SYSTEMS INC
- Proposal award date
- 2024-07-29
- Contract end date
- 2026-11-02
- UEI
- RJH6GQUD3BT5
- Solicitation number
- 23.1
- Topic code
- AF231-0006
Research abstract
The Air Force has deep space simulation chambers that operate at high vacuum conditions and cryogenic temperatures, which are used for evaluating and testing sensors for military air and space applications. At these facilities, there is a need for delivering high power radiation from external sources to within the cryochamber. We are developing new, optimized solutions for high-power beam delivery to meet these needs. The effort leverages our hollow fiber technology, as well as vacuum interface solutions developed by our spin-off company Guiding Photonics. Under Phase II, we will design, produce, test, demonstrate, and deliver prototypes of immediate use to Air Force.
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.
- CAS sensor for ISRU propellant production
- Threat Detection from Space in the UV-IR (TD-UVIR).
- A Generalized Mobile Target Tracking (MTT) Solution for Loitering Munitions
- Optical probe for static pressure measurements in vitiated flows for ground test facilities
- In-line, real-time gas sensor utilizing a novel, multi-modal spectroscopy concept
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Broadband Optical Interface for High Power Laser Sources in a Cryovacuum Chamber
- Cryovacuum Chamber Optical Interface for High Power Laser Delivery from External Sources
Research funding history
180 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1991–2025). Reported award amounts total $90,018,148. 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, Department of Commerce