SBIR/STTR Research Award
Distributed High-Temperature Fiber-Optic Temperature Sensing System for Nuclear Thermal Propulsion
Award amount
$124,967Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2021Award details
- Awarding agency
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- INTELLIGENT FIBER OPTIC SYSTEMS CORP
- Proposal award date
- 2021-05-13
- Contract end date
- 2021-11-19
- UEI
- HCXHVBD9HKN9
- Solicitation number
- SBIR_21_P1
- Topic code
- Z10
Research abstract
To meet NASArsquo;s NTP objectives for spaceflight missions, IFOS proposes Reactor*Sensetrade; as a rugged, miniaturized, multi-function, and multiplexable high-temperature sapphire optical fibers (SOF)-based Distributed Temperature Sensing (DTS) system. The system will be designed for the extreme operating environments with Phase I design for 1,800deg;C and Phase II design for ~ 2,800deg;C. The use of Raman sensing also enables growth provisions to add spectroscopic measurements of species. Reactor*Sensetrade; has a miniaturized photonic integrated interrogator that will be placed remotely in cooler regions (lt; 200deg;C). The Reactor*Sensetrade; photonic, ultra-high-speed signal processing uses IFOS#39; massively-parallel Photonic Spectral Processing (PSP) in Photonic Integrated Circuit (PIC) architecture, eliminating conventional speed bottlenecks and providing breakthrough system miniaturization for spaceflight missions.
Technology keywords
Not reported
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Research funding history
172 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1994–2025). Reported award amounts total $61,008,158. 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 Health and Human Services, National Science Foundation, Department of Agriculture