SBIR/STTR Research Award
Reducing SWAP-C with ALLVAR Alloy Athermalized Optics
Award amount
$40,828Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2022Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Air Force
- Recipient company
- Thermal Expansion Solutions, Inc.
- Proposal award date
- 2021-11-05
- Contract end date
- 2022-02-05
- UEI
- JDMKJN2L1G17
- Solicitation number
- X21.2
- Topic code
- AF212-CSO1
Research abstract
Optics that are designed to have a fixed focus suffer from poor performance across temperature changes. Current solutions include creating an offset “tube-in-a-tube” solution to compensate for the thermal defocus caused by the thermal changes in refractiv
Technology keywords
Not reported
Other awards by this recipient
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- Interferometry for Refractive Index and Thermal Defocus Determination
- ALLVAR Alloys for Athermalizing SiC Telescopes with Reduced SWAP-C
- Novel CTE Tuning of Ultra-Stable ALLVAR Alloy Struts for Large Space Telescopes
- ALLVAR Alloys for Athermalizing SiC Telescopes with Reduced SWAP-C
- Novel CTE Tuning of Ultra-Stable ALLVAR Alloy Struts for 10m to 20m Telescopes
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Research funding history
11 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2015–2025). Reported award amounts total $4,742,592. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Defense, National Science Foundation