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Silicon organic hybrid (SOH) EO modulators are a leading potential solution to the limitations of silicon pn junction EO modulators, including poor modulation efficiency, high optical loss, and limited EO bandwidth, which constrain the performance of silicon photonics (SiPh) PICs. In SOH modulators, the tight confinement of optical and RF fields inside the organic EO (OEO) material, combined with ...

Precision Combustion, Inc. (PCI) proposes to develop and demonstrate simultaneous H2 generation and compression with intermediate-temperature solid-oxide membranes. The innovation is based on a novel cell architecture and materials, and processing techniques recently developed at PCI. Proof of concept testing of the new cell architecture indicated potential to be to be lightweight and presents sev ...

This Phase I SBIR will lead to the development of a bandwidth tailored pump source for high purity photon pair generation. Spontaneous parametric down conversion can be used to generate high purity photon pairs at wavelengths of interest to NASA and the broader scientific community. However, these sources are highly dependent on pulsed pump laser parameters. Traditional pulsed laser sources are la ...

Reliable Vamp;V and testing of fault management (FM) during design, implementation and operations is an essential part of systems engineering design and development of critical space programs such as the SLS, Gateway and Artemis.nbsp;NASArsquo;s Mission and Fault Management group currently utilizes SAM to assess nominal andnbsp;FM algorithms prior to full-scale real-time testing, to proactively ch ...

Qualtech Systems, Inc. (QSI) in collaboration with Dr. Stephen B. Johnson of Dependable Systems Technologies (DST) proposesnbsp;a novel, causal graph-based model and a systematic modeling methodology for assessing damage propagation due to one or multiple originating faults and how the propagation affects and damages other components. In fault propagation, downstream components from the root-cause ...

One of NASArsquo;s major technology needs is to increase system autonomy and resilience. To accomplish this, an important tasknbsp;is to connect fault management (FM)nbsp;to systems engineering (SE) and operations.nbsp;In highly reliable systems there must be some means to detect and respond to failure of those functions. Identifying and allocating the requirements and functions for these capabili ...

USNC-Tech is proposing a modular radioisotope power system. This system would enable a low-cost flight demonstration of a high efficiency dynamic power system using a low-cost radioisotope and maintaining compatibility with thenbsp;GPHS Pu-238 power source due to its modular design. Co-60nbsp;is routinely produced in 500 W scale quantities needed for a dynamic power system demonstration. While int ...

Hybird Space Systems (Hybird) is developing a retrobraking propulsion system, named RT-5X, whose initial application is focused on deorbit of spacecraft in LEO. RT-5X combines the ldquo;smartrdquo; advantages of liquid propulsion (throttleability, restartablility, low impulse bit) with the operational simplicity of solid propulsion (high reliability, low-cost design, storability) in an entirely ld ...

This Phase II project aims to prototype a novel technology that can advance the state-of-the-art in high performance space computing.nbsp; The base computer technology, called ldquo;RadPCrdquo;, brings together a suite of fault recovery mechanisms that enable Commercial-off-the-Shelf (COTS) Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) to operate reliably in the presence of space radiation that causes si ...

We propose to develop and demonstrate a compact high efficiency power beaming system that couples a 1.5-micron laser source to a high quantum efficiency, low cost, GaSb-based infrared photovoltaics receiver for agile power distribution from the edge of a moon crater to a charging station.nbsp;This could serve as a first step toward eye safe power dense wireless energy transfer. With the use of con ...