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Present, laser based, countermeasure systems are too large and too expensive for deployment. Aculight will apply its propritary optical mounting techniques to reduce the size and cost of these IR transmitters. Further, Aculight will remove the power,controls and diode laser pumps from the laser head allowing direct mounting on Navy high performance aircraft pointing and tracking turrets. The re ...

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 ...

The goal of this project is to develop a modular dock system thatis both commercially viable and militarily useful. The militaryrequirements will be established by the JMLS Program. The designemphasis will be on maximizing the degree of standard componentsand subsystems, and thereby minimizing the number of uniquesubsystems, as much possible. The viability of the system willalso be derived by o ...

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 ...

In 2004, Breault Research Organization (BRO) was awarded and successfully completed the “Ship Board Lighting System” Phase 1 SBIR. The goal of this project was to develop a new solid-state deck floodlight that met the Navy’s irradiance and uniformity requirements. In addition, the new deck floodlight had to be night vision goggle (NVG) compatible and have a lower life cycle cost than a tra ...

In Phase I CTI demonstrated an innovative, frequency-agile laser source that could tune throughout the midwave infrared spectral region (4-6 um). The source was based on a Cr:ZnSe laser pumping a ZnGeP2 optical parametric oscillator (OPO). Advantages ofthis system include that both the laser and OPO operate well at room-temperature with only passive cooling, the system is amendable to power scal ...

The U.S. Navy has significant interest in the development of composite materials that substantially improve the performance of composite propulsor blades. Improvements in erosion resistance (e.g., cavitation, rain, and sand), impact durability and high-cycle fatigue are of particular interest. During Phase I, Composite Technology Development (CTD) pursued a multidisciplinary approach to develop ...

In the Phase I study, a protype instrument, the aerosolvaporization spectrometer (AVS)was evaluated for the ability toclassify airborne aerosol particles by their incandescentsignal. The instrument uses a diode pumped Nd:YAG laser at 1.06u wavelength to excite the particles. The scattering signal ismonitored from all particles, and black carbon particles absorbsufficient energy to incandesce, and ...

THE PROPOSED WORK AIMS TO DEVELOP NOVEL, HIGH PERFORMANCE SPATIAL LIGHT MODULATORS (SLM) MADE FROM ARRAYS OF FERROELECTRIC LIQUID CRYSTAL (FLC) LIGHT VALVES. THE FLC TECHNOLOGY ALLOWS SIMPLE, ECONOMICAL FABRICATION OF SLMS WITH A LARGE NUMBER OF ELEMENTS THAT CAN BE EASILY ADDRESSED EITHER ELECTRONICALLY OR OPTICALLY. PERFORMANCE FEATURES INCLUDE SUBMICROSECOND WRITE TIMES, HIGH OPTICAL THROUGHPUT ...

THE PROPOSED PROJECT AIMS TO DEVELOP A 1 X 2 ELECTRO-OPTIC SWITCH FOR USE WITH MULTIMODE OPTICAL FIBERS. BY EMPLOYING LIGHT VALVES HAVING FERROELECTRIC LIQUID CRYSTALS AS THE ELECTRO-OPTIC MEDIUM, THE DEVICES TO BE DEVELOPED WOULD EXHIBIT SWITCHING TIMES AT OR BELOW 1 MICROSECOND. THE DEVICES WOULD BE SMALL IN SIZE, CONSUME LITTLE ELECTRICAL POWER AND WOULD COMPLETELY SWITCH UNPOLARIZED LIGHT WHIL ...