SBIR/STTR Research Award
Near-IR Emulator for Complex EM Systems (NICE)
Award amount
$140,000Program and phase
STTR · Phase IAward year
2019Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Navy
- Recipient company
- N.P. PHOTONICS, INC.
- Proposal award date
- 2019-07-10
- Contract end date
- 2020-01-06
- UEI
- L1XGLKME9BC1
- Solicitation number
- 19.A
- Topic code
- N19A-T008
Research abstract
The NP Photonics/UMassD team proposes an ultra-compact coherent NIR RCS measurement range. We plan to develop a novel system for rapid 3D printing of nanostructures for emulating complex EM systems, and use coherent NIR light for scaled RCS measurements. In the NIR region, the EM properties of complex RF systems are measurable by reducing the size by factors of magnitude. The advantages of this approach are faster computation and reduced cost compared to the full-scale measurement. It is possible to reproduce radar clutter such as sea clutter in this reduced size for RCS measurement of the submarine near marine wave boundary.
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.
- Atmospheric Aerosol Model and Data Collection Over the Marine Boundary Layer for Imaging/Radiofrequency (RF) and Laser Beam Propagation
- Kilowatt Class Fiber Optical Isolator for Submarine High Energy Laser Amplifier
- Nonlinearity mitigated gain fiber development for kW-class fiber lasers
- Space-qualified Single-frequency Blue Lasers for Optical Atomic Clocks
- Low C-SWaP 2.1 micron transmitter for long-range EO/IR sensing
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Nanophotonic Optical Emulator for Complex Electromagnetic Maneuverability (EM) Systems
- Nanophotonic Optical Emulator for Complex Electromagnetic Maneuverability (EM) Systems
Research funding history
123 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1998–2025). Reported award amounts total $46,434,512. 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, National Science Foundation