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The Feather Weight Display is a novel design and integration of industrially mature technologies including ultra-density silicon circuits with ultra-dense chip-to-chip interconnections, ultra-density VCSEL arrays, nonlinear photonic upconverting colormaterials, and nonlinear optical elements. To demonstrate its potential is primarily a design process. Design of emissive and virtual retinal devic ...

The primary goal of the proposed Phase II SBIR effort is to develop and fabricate high-speed interconnects utilizing GaAs-based monolithic switching modules and hybrid waveguides in order to relieve the chip-to-chip interconnect bottleneck. The switchingmodules include VCSELs and resonant cavity photodetectors with on-chip multiplexing/demultiplexing. These high-speed interconnects are realized ...

The primary goal of the proposed Phase I SBIR effort is to develop high channel-density interconnect modules for use in air platforms. This will be accomplished using a unique, monolithic, WDM, optoelectronic module that has a high interconnect density,small form-factor, and is rugged enough to withstand harsh operating environments. OptiComp Corporation occupies a 7,000 square foot facility, wh ...

Design of a high performance hydrocarbon liquid rocket engine (LRE) requires a thorough understanding of the heat transfer and cooling requirements of LRE's. An efficient cooling system is crucial in extending engine life and minimizing pumping power. Itis essential to be able to accurately calculate the thermal response to ensure that materials maintain structural integrity and the cooling chan ...

Combustion instability is one of the greatest development risks for liquid propellant engines. The risks arise in development of a stable injector design from a variety of sources - limited modelling capabilities, poor scalability and the high cost ofappropriate component test facilities. Sierra Engineering believes that much of the empirical data on the injection element's driving characteristic ...

Advancing and applying our recent NASA-sponsored research for deep space avionics, we propose to develop new algorithms which - provably, autonomously, and in the presence of faults i) optimize the selection of channels from the radio frequencyTransmission Hypercube, as it is termed in the OSD03-026 solicitation, in order to ii) connect healthy nodes into a working network quorum, and iii) keep th ...