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CW mid-IR sources, capable of delivering 5 Watts of average power, are required in the 2-5 micron range for IR counter measures. To date, solid state laser approaches have been limited to less than 1-2 Watts of average power due to absorption and adverse thermal effects in the nonlinear materials. Our approach to solving this problem is to use a relatively new nonlinear material, bulk ...

Presently there are no broadly tenable, narrow linewidth souces that operate throughout the mid-infrared (mid-IR) region of the spectrum, from 1 to 5 microns. Traditional sources have very low spectral brightness (low power per unit spectral bandwidth). This proposal describes a novel approach to produce a source with very high spectral brightness, tunable over the range of 1.1 to 4.3 microns. ...

The high cost of near-to-mid infrared laser sources is problematic for many military applications, such as seekers where sources are short lived. Order-of-magnitude cost reductions are needed for 10-20 watt, 1-micron lasers. The proposed approach to reducing costs involves using novel manufacturing processes to greatly reduce parts count and assembly time, thus reducing cost. When applied to a ...

The Air Force Phillips Laboratory is seeking approaches for demonstrating frequency agile COIL (chemical oxygen iodine lasers) operating near 1.31 microns and at 10 kHz rep rates. Frequency conversion approaches must be capable of handling high average power levels, greater than 10 kWatts. Converting a COIL device to high peak powers will be necessary for frequency conversion. The approach prop ...

Contamination of groundwater and soil with fuel hydrocarbons is a wide-spread environmental problem. Cleanup of fuel hydrocarbon contamination using intrinsic bioremediation has the potential for substantial cost savings. Anaerobic biodegradation of organic chemicals, including benzene and toluene, has been observed in the lab and the field. Anaerobic microorganisms, particularly ir ...

AutoCrawler LLC has been developing a new environmentally compliant coatings removal technology , called AuotCrawler to the airframe manufacturing and maintenance industries. AuotCrawler to the airframe manufacturing and maintenance industries. AutoCrawler LLC is working with firms developing new technologies, including plastic bead media, and Wheat starch coatings removal technologies includin ...

Computherm proposes to develop PANDA, an innovative and user-friendly computer program integrated with a thermodynamic database, to provide a significant new capability to rapidly determine multi-component phase diagrams needed to identify novel high-temperature structural materials. The lack of such capability has been a serious obstacle to the development of these materials. The traditional exp ...

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We propose starting a commercial Internet website that will provide access to a variety of computer codes for the purpose of analyzing rocket engines and rocket engine components. Users will be able to execute well-maintained computer codes over the Internet. The codes found on the website will be an improvement on what is currently available since they will be maintained and upgraded by a conso ...

An optically actuated speaker suitable for fabrication as an array in headphones is proposed. These speakers provide good fidelity in a package with a flat profile because of the speaker element array structure. Fabricated as an all optical device using fiberoptic inputs the device is also immune to EMI effects and can be used in high EMI environments such as military, industrial and medical app ...