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Spectral Beam Combination (SBC) has been proven as a scalable beam combining approach for high power fiber lasers. Demonstrations at Aculight have shown 522 Watts of near diffraction limited power from three combined fiber laser sources; and the dispersive element, a Multi-Layer-Dielectric (MLD) diffraction grating, will operate well above 1.5 kWatts/cm2 of incident power allowing ~100 kWatt sour ...

SBC of high-power fiber lasers uniquely links an efficient, versatile, and robust power scaling architecture to individual emitters with outstanding efficiency, diffraction-limited beam quality, and distributed thermal loading. Fiber SBC, thus provides an exceptionally promising pathway to scalable, high efficiency laser systems with high average power, superb power-to-mass ratios, and near perfec ...

Optimize process to meet the specifications and challenges associated with the UH-1 tail boom. This will entail performing testing and evaluation of the factors deemed most relevant. This could include, but is not limited to material property testing, tooling design, tooling trials, in-situ process modifications, labor and fabrication cost analysis. Some of the specific topics that possibly pre ...

The continued advance of flat panel display technology in the commercial and consumer display industry offers the opportunity to provide wide field of view high resolution displays to the flight simulation community with significantly higher performance and lower cost than previously available. These flat panel displays offer exceptional brightness and contrast and steadily increasing resolution ...

As the DoD shifts toward Network-Centric operations, the vision of sharing common information objects between command centers, aircraft, ships and ground forces over a global network seems closer than ever. One of the fundamental challenges of achieving this vision is bridging the gap between net-centric systems that share information using XML and tactical systems that require more efficient data ...

A connector design will be developed and tested that enables the connecting together of three trimarans in tandem.

The JHSV will reach speeds of 35+ knots and allow for the rapid transit and deployment of conventional or Special Operations Forces (SOF) as well as equipment and supplies. It is planned for an FY10 IOC. One of program’s objectives is to reduce the Reception, Staging, Onward movement and Integration (RSO&I) burden in theater. Although the JHSV will be small enough to provide austere port a ...

The Modular Software Architecture for Advanced Weather Radars project seeks to develop a modular weather processing software architecture and software algorithm blocks (modules) that can be applied to various commercial and military radar systems. This Phase II effort will build upon the architecture and data format defined in the Phase I report to develop a fully functional set of modular algori ...

Recently, the Navy has seen a shift from open-ocean or “blue-water” operations to littoral or “brown-water” operations, with warships operating close to shore in high clutter environments. The TNC filter provides a low cost solution CIF improvement. This technology is applicable to several radar families that are fielded and in development. Phase II of the program will focus on character ...

The objective of this program is to develop expendable day/night EO and thermal cameras for SL-UAVs. The cameras are to view objects ranging in size from 200 ft vessels to 6 inch lettering. The EO camera is based on an ultra-sensitivity CCD, a laser-diode illuminator, and a compact 16x zoom. It is capable of viewing all objects in both day and night vision to 1000 ft. The camera is less than 3 ...