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TransWave Photonics, LLC proposes to develop mid-wave infrared photonic integrated circuits based on monolithic integration of passive low-loss waveguides, thermo-optically tunable photonic elements, and quantum cascade gain sections within the same InGaAs/AlInAs/InP platform. The proposed approach will enable power combining and 2-dimensinoal beam steering of the outputs from multiple high-power ...

We will develop a lab-on-chip optical absorption spectrometer spanning 3-15micron molecular fingerprint region, in a single epitaxially grown heterostructure that monolithically integrates thermally tuned distributed feedback quantum cascade laser (QCL) and quantum cascade detector (QCD) arrays with slotted photonic crystal waveguides (SPCWs) in a mid-infrared InGaAs passive photonic waveguide. In ...

Knowledge-Based Systems Incorporated (KBSI) proposes “Mega-City Analysis and Visualization Environment” (M-CAVE) in response to the Army SBIR “Civil Affairs Information and Military Sustainment in the Megacity Environment” (topic number A17-036). The M-CAVE technology will provide users with advanced yet simple-to-use influence models, methods, and visualization to help Civil Affairs teams ...

The primary goal of this Phase II effort is to design, fabricate, and evaluate a compact, lightweight, demonstration LWIR hyperspectral imaging sensors enabled by an innovative design form and dispersing element technology that is suitable for use on uninhabited aerial vehicles (UAVs). An alignment and test procedure will be developed for the assembly and integration of the spectrometer and imagin ...

Based upon the successful completion of the Phase I program, the Phase II program aims to continue to development of the voltage tunable inductors (VTIs). The program will improve the Phase I textured magnetics approach and develop models that accurately describe the relationship between the material properties, tunability, and geometry. From these results, optimized VTIs will be manufactured and ...

Snipers gain a decisive tactical advantage and provide significant psychological effect by delivering precise fire from concealed positions. Under difficult and rapidly changing downrange conditions, successful engagement often hinges on rapid follow-up shots with an applied corrective hold. The limits of depth perception prevent spotters from adequately estimating the precise point at which the o ...

Tissue engineering technology is of particular import to the Army for the matter of producing tissue replacements for the repair and regeneration of various organ systems (liver, heart, muscle, lung, etc.) for wounded patients. Unfortunately, the production of masses of tissue with thicknesses greater than ~1 mm presents a challenge due to diffusion limits of nutrients into the tissue and waste ou ...

Recent research has shown evidence for formation of carbon suboxide polymer and polymeric-carbon monoxide at near-ambient pressures in small-scale nonthermal plasma discharge reactors. Carbon suboxide polymer and polymeric-carbon monoxide are examples of novel solids obtained from simple gas molecules such as CO. The solid formation rates achieved in these studies are too low (< 1 g/h) and the exi ...

Reserve battery technology for munition fuzes has hardly changed in the past 20 years.Existing reserve batteries such as thermal batteries and lithium oxyhalide chemistries have met the requirements of long shelf life, and ability to operate under harsh conditions and large acceleration and spin forces.However, new fuze battery technologies are needed to meet the extended range, precision guided, ...

MaxPower believes that the introduction and successful development of a lithium metal anode based liquid ammonia battery system would be able to meet the power requirements for medium caliber fuze applications, especially the IRAP grenade application. The merging of established magnesium liquid ammonia and other lithium metal reserve battery technologies will provide the fundamental basis for the ...