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Advanced Optically-driven Spin Precession Magnetometer for ASW

Award Information
Agency: Department of Defense
Branch: Navy
Contract: N68335-06-C-0041
Agency Tracking Number: N045-002-0311
Amount: $739,721.00
Phase: Phase II
Program: STTR
Solicitation Topic Code: N04-T002
Solicitation Number: N/A
Timeline
Solicitation Year: 2004
Award Year: 2006
Award Start Date (Proposal Award Date): 2005-10-11
Award End Date (Contract End Date): 2007-04-11
Small Business Information
1810 N. Glenville Dr. Suite 116
Richardson, TX 75081
United States
DUNS: 144948056
HUBZone Owned: No
Woman Owned: No
Socially and Economically Disadvantaged: No
Principal Investigator
 Robert Slocum
 PI
 (972) 690-0099
 bob_slocum@polatomic.com
Business Contact
 Robert Slocum
Title: Chairman
Phone: (972) 690-0099
Email: bob_slocum@polatomic.com
Research Institution
 UNIV. OF TEXAS AT DALLAS
 Robert L Lovitt
 
P. O. Box 830688, EC33
Richardson, TX 75083
United States

 (972) 883-2314
 Federally Funded R&D Center (FFRDC)
Abstract

This SBIR Phase II proposal describes the development of a breadboard Advanced Optically-driven Spin Precession Magnetometer (AOSPM), an ultra high-sensitivity scalar laser magnetometer for airborne ASW. The AOSPM is an innovative high-sensitivity instrument capable of measuring scalar DC and ELF magnetic fields with a sensitivity better than 10.0 fT/root-Hz. Since the high sensitivity AOSPM is a scalar instrument, it is free of the extreme motional noise effects associated with all high performance superconducting and optical vector magnetometers. This is a major advantage for airborne ASW applications where future ASW operation will use two high sensitivity scalar magnetometers in a gradiometer mode on a pair of collaborative airborne platforms to reduce geomagnetic noise in the detection band. The POLATOMIC 2000 laser magnetometer has demonstrated a sensitivity of 100 fT/root-Hz. Under this STTR project, the laser magnetometer sensitivity will be improved by more than one order of magnitude through laser noise reduction, improvement in sensor components and use of Optically-driven Spin Precession (OSP) to induce magnetic resonance. The breadboard AOSP magnetometer will be designed, fabricated and tested under this Phase II Project.

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