SBIR/STTR Research Award
INTENSITY-DEPENDENT INFRARED BLOCKING FILTER FOR SOURCE EXCLUSION
Award amount
$749,905Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
2019Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Air Force
- Recipient company
- PHYSICAL SCIENCES INC.
- Proposal award date
- 2019-02-13
- Contract end date
- 2021-02-13
- UEI
- RMG1AZ1ZH8Q7
- Solicitation number
- 2017.3
- Topic code
- AF173-013
Research abstract
Physical Sciences Inc. (PSI) proposes to develop an intensity-dependent infrared filter that will use the radiant intensity of a source (i.e. the sun) to locally control the infrared transmission of the filter. There currently exists an Air Force need for optical source exclusion to allow next-generation infrared camera technology to observe a large field of view (+/- 45 degrees, ~ 15% of the sky), as well as current generation gimballed and strap-down systems that can be temporarily blinded when the sun passes through the field of view. PSIs filter will be placed at an intermediate focal plane and will use the full spectrum of the suns energy to attenuate the IR transmission only where the image of the sun is formed, allowing the bright source to be passively dimmed without distorting or blocking the rest of the image field, and will not require an external power source.
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.
- Off-axis Laser Event Recorder (OALER)
- TFLN Interconnect for Gigabit-rate Environment Ruggedization (TIGER)
- Advanced Ruggedized Modulators for Onboard Receivers (ARMOR)
- Modular Bypass Valve for Solid Fuel Ramjets
- Bio-inspired Energy Dissipating Structures for Enhanced Airdrop Capabilities
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Intensity-Dependent Infrared Blocking Filter for Source Exclusion
- Electronically Actuated Pixelated Aperture for High Sensitivity WFOV Imaging in Sunlight
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