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Phase conjugation, discovered over 20 years ago, now has a wide assortment of applications. However, phase conjugation requires that the medium in which the phase conjugation takes place in be lossless. Based on recent preliminary research for which it is anticipated a patent will be applied for, it now appears possible for a limited though important class of materials to extend the phase conjugat ...

Novel high surface area electrodes, based upon conducting polymers, will be fabricated for use in advanced multilayer capacitors. Compact and flexible capacitor designs are anticipated which will possess significantly improved energy densities compared with state-of-the-art capacitor systems. The development of high performance and safe energy systems is an important National goal. The potential c ...

Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Lasers (VCSEL) offer unique optical and electrical characteristics including single mode operation, low power requirements, low beam divergence, circular beam shape and 2D configurability. As in any semiconductor laser these lasers lack temporal and spatial uniformity in wavelength for most present application. With the fast growing interest and development of appl ...

Photonic switches operating at wavelengths compatible with low-cost plastic fiber systems can enable the implementation of such systems for a wide variety of applications ranging from industrial machine control and local area networks to military applications such as phased array antennas. While recent advances in plastic fibers have led to the development of high speed fibers and efficient detect ...

CoreTek, Inc. proposes to develop and commercialize the first multipurpose, integrated, dynamically reconfigurable fiber optic cross bar switch (DRFOCS). This unique device will find applications ranging from DOD's C3 and computer networks to upcoming commercial Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) telecommunication systems. Our innovative approach combines Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers (SOAs), sta ...

Plastic Optical Fiber systems provide significantly lower costs, and complexity compared to glass optical fiber systems and are suitable for future short haul communication needs. While Silicon photodiodes provide excellent receiving capabilities there is no efficient tunable laser source for these wavelengths. CoreTek proposes the development of a low cost, manufacturable, widely tunable laser di ...

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This Phase I SBIR demonstrates the underlying technology required to construct an ultraspectral imager that has the ability to spectrally resolve molecular absorption lines while simultaneously creating a two dimensional spatial mapping. The proposed instrument will have a spectral resolution that is better than 2 cm-1 and two dimensional spatial resolution that exceeds 2 milliradian. Based on Fou ...

Vibration suppression/rejection is important for many space system attitude controls. Structural vibration of solar arrays and instrumentation booms can significantly degrade the performance of attitude control systems and reduce the accuracy of scientific instrumentations. In establishing effective attitude control, the effect of disturbance loads due to the structural vibration must be measured. ...

Milli Sensor Systems & Actuators, Inc., is in the process of developing miniature GYROSCOPES and ACCELEROMETERS using millimachining technology which takes advantage of batch processing to develop instruments with high reliability and low cost. During the development process precision differential capacitive position sensors, with excellent stability and noise characteristics, have been designed. ...