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BRIMROSE CORPORATION PROPOSES TO INVESTIGATE, DESIGN AND DEMONSTRATE A NOVEL OPTICAL BISTABLE DEVICE WITH A THRESHOLD OPTICAL INTENSITY SEVERAL ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE LOWER THAN THE CONVENTIONAL DEVICES. THIS DEVICE WILL OPERATE AT ROOM TEMPERATURE USING A LOW POWER CW LASER. ADVANTAGE OF SUCH A DEVICE WILL SIGNIFICANTLY FACILITATE THE NUMBER OF PROCESSING OPERATIONS IN OPTICAL COMPUTING AND SIGNAL P ...

IR DETECTOR MATERIAL, MERCURY CADMIUM TELLURIDE HAS BEEN THE MOST MATURES AND OFTEN A MATERIAL OF CHOICE FOR ADVACNED INFRARED DETECTION. HOWEVER, IT IS EXTREMELY DIFFICULT TO PRODUCE THE MATERIAL FOR DETECTION AT A WAVELENGTH GREATER THAN 14um. THIS PROBLEM IS DUE TO EXCCESSIVE FUNNELLING AND SURFACE LEAKAGE RELATED TO DARK CURRENTS. IN RECENT YEARS MERCURY ZINC TELLURIDE (MZT) HAS EMERGED AS A S ...

CURRENT SMOKE DETECTION TECHNOLOGIES SUFFER FROM SIGNIFICANT FALSE ALARM RATES. THESE PROBLEMS ARE CURRENTLY BEING ADDRESSED BY REDUCING THE SENSITIVITY OF EXISTING PARTICULATE DETECTORS. IN THIS WORK, THE FEASIBILITY OF A COMBINED PARTICULATE AND CARBON MONOXIDE DETECTOR WILL BE EVALUATED. THE USE OF MULTIPLE FIRE SIGNATURES HAS THE POTENTIAL FOR REDUCING THE FALSE ALARM PROBLEMS WHILE INCREASING ...

BATTLE MANAGEMENT CAN BE VIEWED, AT LEAST IN PART, AS A COMPLEX OPTIMIZATION PROBLEM WHERE THERE ARE THREATS OF VARYING CAPABILITY, AND THERE ARE ASSETS WHICH CAN BE USED TO SENSE AND ENGAGE OR INTERCEPT THE THREATS. THE PROBLEM IS COMPLICATED BY THE FACT THAT MOST OF THE SENSOR INFORMATION HAS SIGNIFICANCE UNCERTAINTY AND NOISE DUE TO THE PHYSICAL LIMITATIONS OF THE SENSORS, COUNTERMEASURES, AND ...

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THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY (NIST) HAS UNDERTAKEN AN EFFORT TO PROVIDE SOLID STANDARDS AND ALGORITHMS FOR THE STANDARDIZATION OF NEAR-INFRARED SPECTROPHOTOMETERS. THIS EFFORT, COUPLED WITH RECENT ADVANCES IN MATHEMATICAL ALGORITHMS FOR REGRESSION MODEL TRANSFER, HAS CREATED AN OPPORTUNITY FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF STANDARD CALIBRATION MODELS. THE PROPOSED RESEARCH FOCUSES ON TH ...

NEILLEN TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION (NTC)'S INVENTIONS ARE BASED ON THE UNIQUE LINEAR AND NON-LINEAR MODELING OF BIPOLAR/UNIPOLAR ACTIVE RF COMPONENTS, WHICH PRODUCES ADVANCED RF CIRCUITS NOT REQUIRING TRADITIONAL COILS AND TRANSFORMERS FOR TUNING AND MATCHING FUNCTIONS. NTC'S CIRCUITS ARE DISTINGUISHABLE BECAUSE THEY: 1) SIGNIFICANTLY OUTPERFORM CONVENTIONAL RF CIRCUITS (IN MANY INSTANCES, BY ORDERS ...

HIGH TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTING (HTSC) FILMS HAVE A LARGE POTENTIAL AS DETECTORS OF ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION. TO BE USEFUL FOR TRANSFER STANDARD RADIOMETERS, IT IS NECESSARY THAT THE HTSC FILM QUALITY SHOULD BE VERY HIGH, BOTH FROM THE VIEW POINTS OF STRUCTURE AND SUPERCONDUCTING PROPERTIES. A MAJOR TASK, IN ORDER TO ACHIEVE HIGH SENSITIVITY, FAST RESPONSE, LOW NOISE LEVELS, AND UNIFORM SPECTRAL ...

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WE PROPOSE TO DEVELOP OPTIMIZED, HIGH PERFORMANCE AND LOW COST FIBER OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS FOR USE IN THE 1300 NM SIGNAL WAVELENGTH. WE PLAN TO SHOW THE FEASIBILITY OF OUR APPROACH BY CARRYING OUT MEASUREMENTS IN AN ASSEMBLED LABORATORY SET-UP. WE WILL COMPARE THESE RESULTS WITH OUR THEORETICAL PREDICTIONS WITH A COMPUTER MODEL, CALLED MEDAL. THIS MODEL HAS PROVEN ACCURATE WITH OUR WORK ON ERBIUM-DOP ...