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Current airborne sensors (e.g., EO/IR/Radar/EW) produce very large volumes of data, but the airborne battle managers aboard BMC2 platforms do not have the appropriate Big Data analytics to process the massive data. This represents a missed opportunity to

Design a natural guide star (NGS) adaptive optics (AO) system to operate at the Coude focus of a 1-m telescope with correction capability to D/r0 = 20 and Greenwood frequency fG = 160 Hz. Simulate the performance of the system, quantified by the residual

We propose to leverage additive manufacturings inherent advantages to produce freeform optical blanks for infrared (IR) applications. Using additive manufacturing has the very real possibility of greatly reducing the time of manufacturing freeform opti

Freeform optics is a recent, emerging and developing field to meet the increasing demands created by the high performance and ultra-compact optical imaging systems that underpin consumer and medical applications, such as mobile phones, head mounted displa

The Air Force has a requirement to measure the sensitivity and spatial resolution of airborne electro-optical and infrared imaging (EO/IR) sensors. A ground-based target system is needed to provide the source to test these sensors, since the current syst

All-fiber optical isolators with high power handling are desired for high energy all-fiber laser systems. NP Photonics proposes to design and develop all-fiber optical isolators at the 2 m wavelength region using our unique magneto-optic glasses and in

Ten kW of diffraction-limited output power has been demonstrated, which enables a wide range of new applications from laser welding, laser cutting, and laser drilling to military defense. An isolator is necessary between fiber amplifiers in order to maint

The purpose of this proposed research is to develop and commercialize a novel two color sodium guidestar laser operating simultaneously at 589 nm and 1141 nm. Our patented T-cavity design combined with VECSEL technology will be the basis for the guidestar development. The polychromatic laser guidestar (PLGS) system being proposed currently does not exist and would allow for the correction of atmos ...

The objective of the proposed research is to demonstrate high-power, scalable, and stable laser sources at specific wavelengths with narrow linewidth matched to the single velocity class of mesospheric atomic sodium for guide star application. The operation at tailored wavelengths, 1141 nm and 1178 nm (for 589 nm via frequency doubling) is addressed by the use of bandgap-engineered optically pumpe ...

AIS (with its subcontractor Zephyr Technologies, LLC) proposes Antifragility Workstation for Resiliency (AWARE) Phase II to research, design, and productize an enterprise-scale system that applies anti-fragile concepts to running enterprise software such that the softwares ability to learn from and adapt to attacks enables it to improve over time as attacks and other faults are experienced. AWARE ...