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Diode-pumped alkali lasers (DPALs) have inherently high optical-to-optical efficiency and thus the potential to reach megawatt-class average power lasers with near-diffraction limited beam quality. However, as DPALs scale up in power, a plasma is formed in the gain medium, resulting in lower efficiency and increased gas heating. This ultimately leads to a degradation in laser beam quality and a po ...

Trusted Semiconductor Solutions will demonstrate how a COTS FPGA can withstand natural and manmade radiation, and how our radiation circumvention and recovery approach enables high density electronic payloads needed for next generation guided missile and space applications. We will develop a prototype FPGA demonstration vehicle that utilizes an Intel Agilex F-series COTS FPGA and our operate-throu ...

The MDA has identified a need for decreasing the time required for simulations and rendering by orders of magnitude. To address this need, Stellar Science and the University of New Mexico (UNM) propose the development and use of physics-informed neural networks (PINNs), which have been shown to reduce execution times dramatically while still maintaining small errors compared to traditional physics ...

Quality control tools for compound semiconductor operations are desired to provide cost and time savings. 8D Photonics (www.8Dphotonics.com) has been providing the infrared community with the capability to perform cryogenic wafer mapping of minority carrier lifetime and photoluminescence spectra since its inception in 2016. The 8D IR Pioneer wafer mapping system has already demonstrated cooling an ...

In this Phase II project, we will demonstrate a prototype in an operationally-relevant environment for Climatize®, a cloud-based software platform with the novel capability to determine and deliver user-specific thermal comfort information for weather-ready decision-making. People and organizations in a Weather-Ready Nation adapt to weather changes and environmental events with resilience. A chal ...

In Phase I Goodman Technologies (GT) will perform a feasibility study of Silicon Carbide (SiC) materials from a database of optical system and materials vendors compiled over the years, which investigates the design and manufacture of innovative telescope optics that trade cost, weight, optical performance, and stability in the endo- and exo-atmospheric environments, and in a manmade radiation env ...

Verus Research will apply its advancements in novel radar waveform technologies coupled with our high-fidelity physics-based modeling and simulation software tools and hardware-in-the-loop radar test-beds to design, optimize and demonstrate an optimized suite of X-band waveforms. Details of our approach are presented in our technical volume. Approved for Public Release | 21-MDA-11013 (19 Nov 21)

Trusted Semiconductor Solutions is proposing an approach to enable use of State of the Art (SOTA) Commercial off the Shelf (COTS) devices in naturally occurring or manmade radiation environments. Our approach marries a companion radiation sensing, circumvention, and recovery chipset to a COTS device. This solution detects and circumvents radiation without modifying or redesigning the COTS part. Th ...

OSEMI and UCSB, with support from Lockheed-Martin’s Santa Barbara Focalplane, propose to advance Type-2 Strained-Layer Superlattice (T2SLS) long wave infrared (LWIR) materials and detector technology. We specifically propose to investigate adding increased amounts of lead (Sb) in indium arsenide tin (InAsSb) - based SLS structures to increase LWIR absorption and detector quantum efficiency. We s ...

The overall objective of this program is to develop an open platform of strategic radiation hardened Intellectual Property (IP) on the commercially available 45nm silicon on insulator (SOI) foundry technology from Global Foundries to enable development of application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs), system on a chips (SoCs), and other custom integrated circuits. Trusted Semiconductor Solution ...