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To meet the demands of the MDA16-T005 STTR solicitation, the MaXentric/UTK team proposes the MaXPMFT, which exploits a wideband software defined radio architecture to create a transmitter with programmable output frequency. The flexible system will provide the ideal solution for current and future missile flight test telemetry needs through its compatibility with nearly all missile platforms and s ...

In Phase I of this STTR program, Structured Materials Industries, Inc. (SMI) and Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) will demonstrated high-efficiency mid-IR metasurface flat optics. We will use Metalorganic Chemical Vapor Deposition (MOCVD) to grow Lead Telluride (PbTe) on Barium Fluoride (BaF2) substrates to construct flat meta-lenses equivalent of cylindrical and aspheric lenses for mid-IR image ...

To meet the requirements of AF18A-T015 solicitation, MaXentric and University of California San Diego are proposing the development of a low loss, high linearity tunable bank of varactors. The tunable capacitor is targeting a compact integrated design, capable of a tuning range up to 10:1, with a minimum Q of 75, and handling up to 20W CW. During phase I, the team will (1) optimize the losses and ...

We propose to develop an innovative concept of the high speed dynamic IRSP that combines components and devices from proven suppliers with novel system-level research topics from CDS and University of Delaware. Having previously built and delivered working LED IRSPs to users gives CDS a unique advantage. In line with system theme of the solicitation, our phase 1 research topics are focused on syst ...

In phase II work, we will collaborate with Prof. Stefan Preble in RIT and continue to develop large scale hybrid integration and packaging techniques for key active photonic components such as lithium niobate on insulator (LNOI) modulators and modified uni-traveling (MUTC) photodiodes. We will demonstrate a low V, broadband, small footprint LNOI modulator with hybrid Si/LN or SiN/LN waveguide usin ...

In Phase II of this STTR, Chiral Photonics, Inc. (CPI) proposes to develop a high-power fiber-based laser with near diffraction limited beam quality operating at a wavelength of 2 m by coherently combining up to 61 individual fiber lasers. The design of this high-power laser will be based on a Talbot cavity which will passively lock the phases of each of the individual lasers. A key component of t ...

MaXentric is developing a system architecture codenamed WATCHDOGS to improve situational awareness capabilities.The architecture includes a variety of sensor types including wideband RF receiver arrays, low-cost phased arrays, and inexpensive distributed receiver nodes.The measurements collected by the system are collaboratively processed to detect, classify, and track potential threats.MaXentric ...

The Army is frequently forced to operate in hostile climates. Heavy fog, rain, snow, and dust storms can inhibit the performance of tracking technologies such as mid-wave infrared cameras. In such conditions, Army early warning systems are blinded and put personnel and assets at risk.There is a specific need for a degraded visual environment (DVE) penetrative target tracking solution.Radio frequen ...

Optical beam steering has a wide range of applications in optical memory, optical communication, and free-space interconnections. A variety of techniques to implement optical beam steering have been reported by means of electromechanical, acousto-optic, and electro-optic effects. Optical phased-array beam steering implemented in lithium tantalate, lithium niobate crystals, and liquid crystal were ...

Drug dosingcan bemademore precise by using pharmacokineticand pharmacodynamicmodeling. Pharmacokinetics is thestudy of the concentration of drugs in tissueasafunction of timeand doseschedule,whereas pharmacodynamics is thestudy of therelationship between drugconcentration and drugeffect. By relating doseto resultant drugconcentration (pharmacokinetics)and concentration to effect (pharmacodynamics) ...