SBIR/STTR Research Award
Large-scale Meta-optic Optimization
Award amount
$139,952Program and phase
STTR · Phase IAward year
2023Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Navy
- Recipient company
- PHYSICAL SCIENCES INC.
- Proposal award date
- 2023-06-29
- Contract end date
- 2024-01-09
- UEI
- RMG1AZ1ZH8Q7
- Solicitation number
- 23.A
- Topic code
- N23A-T008
Research abstract
Physical Sciences Inc. (PSI), in collaboration with Stanford University, will develop an electromagnetic simulation package used for the development and optimization of large-scale meta-optics, and demonstrate the functionality of the package in the long-wave infrared (LWIR). Our team will combine recent progress in physics-augmented deep learning neural networks with rigorous far-field diffraction integrals to assess the focusing efficiency of a 5cm x 5cm optic performing at a wavelength of 10 microns. Additionally, we will compare the performance of our modeling techniques to conventional central processing unit (CPU)-based Finite Difference Time Domain (FDTD) methods and show > 1000 x improvement in computational costs.
Technology keywords
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Research funding history
1,763 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1983–2026). Reported award amounts total $698,949,224. 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 Health and Human Services, Department of Energy, National Science Foundation, Environmental Protection Agency