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To realize next generation missile defense radar systems with a significant improvement in performance requires more cost effective system implementations. Software defined radar (SDR) technologies together with field programmable gate array (FPGA) implementations promise reusable and low cost DREX multichannel receivers in smaller form factors. Real time firmware reconfiguration enables radar mod ...

EOSPACE will study the feasibility of using unique Hybrid TTD RF-Photonics modules for performing beam-forming operations in Multi-Beam Phased Array Antenna systems. The architecture utilizes a unique High-Resolution Hybrid True Time Delay module that was developed by EOSPACE for achieving wideband multi-beam operations over wide scan angles. These RF-Photonic modules offer greater performance cap ...

Develop very-low-loss and high optical-power-handling electro-optical waveguide-based components for use for a high-power coherent beam-combining laser system operating at 1 µm wavelength

High power mid-IR amplifiers based on Thulium or Holmium doped fibers typically require a narrow spectral linewidth source to serve as the seed laser. While conventional injection seeding sources (such as DFB diode lasers and rare-earth doped solid-state microchip lasers) are available at 1.5 microns, similar sources which operate at 2.0 microns are not. In order to fill this need, nLight propos ...

Next generation lasers for Missile Defense ranging applications require scaling pulse brightness and repetition rates in compact and efficient packages. To address this need, nLight proposes to significantly increase the pulse energy of passively Q-switched diode pumped solid state laser while maintaining excellent beam quality in an efficient master-oscillator power amplifier architecture.

COMPOSITE LAMINATES MAY IMPROVE AEROSPACE STRUCTURES, IF THE COMPOSITES DON'T DELAMINATE. DELAMINATIONS RESULT IN UNPREDICATBLE STRENGTH AND STIFFNESS REDUCTIONS AND ARE DIFFICULT TO DETECT. THIS PROJECT PLACES TRIAXIAL ARRAYS OF OPTICAL GLASS FIBER IN LAMINATES. WHEN DELAMINATION OCCURS, THE OPTICAL FIBERS BREAK AND THE DELAMINATION CAN BE DETECTED BY SIMPLE OPTICAL INSPECTION. THE FIBERS ALSO RE ...