SBIR/STTR Research Award
Sodium Beacon Adaptive Optics System
Award amount
$1,899,879Program and phase
SBIR · Phase II – Direct to Phase IIAward year
2024Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Air Force
- Recipient company
- MZA ASSOCIATES CORPORATION
- Proposal award date
- 2024-06-01
- Contract end date
- 2026-09-01
- UEI
- YEG4AQRRQFC6
- Solicitation number
- 23.3
- Topic code
- SF233-D007
Research abstract
Sodium laser guide stars bloom in size when broadcast to the upper atmosphere through strong turbulence.á Larger guide stars can cause the focused spot in the Shack-Hartmann sub-apertures to increase in size thereby decreasing the main system's ability to detect the atmospheric wavefront aberrations.á We propose here to manufacture an adaptive optics system for a sodium laser guide star based on our success in demonstrating these kinds of systems for laser weapons.á This system should significantly reduce the size of the guide star in the upper atmosphere even in stronger turbulence and enable the main system to operate more effectively.
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.
- Suggestive Modular AI-based Real-Time (SMART) Battle Management
- LEO Debris Tracking and Remediation Using Advanced Beam Control
- Sensor Platform for Optical Tracking of Launches and Intelligent T&E (SPOTLITE)
- Fast Wavefront Sensing for Mitigating Aero-Optical Effects
- Bistatic Engagement Algorithms and Methodologies (BEAM) PH II
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- MULTI-WAVELENGTH RAYLEIGH AND SODIUM BEACON
- Demonstration of Wavefront Correction in a Sodium Laser Guide Beacon Uplink
Research funding history
120 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1995–2025). Reported award amounts total $68,625,691. 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