
Development of an EO/IR Common Aperture Modular Multifunction SensorAward last edited on: 4/26/2019
Sponsored Program
STTRAwarding Agency
DOD : NavyTotal Award Amount
$927,069Award Phase
2Solicitation Topic Code
N11A-T024Principal Investigator
Salah KhodjaCompany Information
Phase I
Contract Number: N00014-11-M-0309Start Date: 6/27/2011 Completed: 10/31/2012
Phase I year
2011Phase I Amount
$149,983Benefit:
Anticipated development of integrated electro-optic plasmonic beam steering concept, with very good SWAP, will be of immediate use where conventional beam steering devices has been prohibited by, size, integration, weight, vibration and power consumption and steering speed. This technology is critical to the success of beam steering aperture to combine a number of passive and active electro-optical functions. When brought to product, some of the commercial applications that will benefit directly from the use of this technology are laser projection systems, laser detection and ranging, heads-up displays, and free-space optical communications, and aerospace applications. Commercial applications are driven by the need for compact, flexible, low weight electro-optic beam steering for EO/IR multifunction sensors applications. The electro-optic plasmonic beam steering concept will be integrated on a variety of devices on production for dual use military and commercial applications, such as miniature laser detection, imaging, ranging sensors, free space data communication links, and high performance data, projection display and image processing.
Keywords:
Integrated phased array, Integrated phased array, nanophotonics fabrication, electro-optic beam steering, optical EO/IR sensor, Plasmonic waveguide array
Phase II
Contract Number: N00014-13-C-0082Start Date: 4/17/2013 Completed: 10/17/2014
Phase II year
2013Phase II Amount
$777,086Benefit:
Anticipated development of, ultra-low SWaP, high throughput, plasmonic beam steering (HPBS) devices concept will be of immediate use where conventional beam steering devices has been prohibited by steering speed, size, integration, weight, vibration and power consumption. This technology is critical to the success of beam steering devices. When brought to product, some of the commercial applications that will benefit directly from the use of this technology are laser projection systems, laser detection and ranging, heads-up displays, and free-space optical communications, and aerospace applications. Commercial applications are driven by the need for compact, flexible, low weight electro-optic beam steering for LIDAR applications. The high throughput plasmonic beam steering (HPBS) concept will be integrated on a variety of devices on production for dual use military and commercial applications, such as miniature laser detection, imaging, ranging (LADAR/LIDAR) sensors, free space data communication links, and high performance data, projection display and image processing.
Keywords:
nanophotonics fabrication, free-space optical communications, Electro-optic Effect, Plasmonic waveguide array, laser detection and ranging, LADAR/LIDAR, plasmonic beam steering