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High temperature jet plumes emanating from aircraft engines and missiles produce effects that are of interest for threat detection, environmental noise, and engine development purposes. Optical and infrared emissions from plumes are sources of light and heat signatures, respectively, that can potentially be used for tracking or targeting vehicles in flight.  Acoustic noise from jet plumes can pot ...

The Navy requires a low-cost, industrial microwave system for curing aerospace composite materials. In this Phase I STTR proposal, Physical Sciences Inc outlines the development of a microwave applicator that uses low-cost RF sources and can be installed in heritage autoclaves for curing large aerospace composite parts. This technology has the potential to improve cured mechanical properties, and ...

Attollo Engineering will develop a zoom capable ultra-compact lightweight MWIR camera based off its commercial MWIR Griffin-HD8 camera with a zoom capable Metalens optic. The imager format is 1280 x 720 on an 8 micron pitch, among the smallest size in industry weighing just 240 grams without the optical lens, and was designed for small battery-operated Group 1 unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). The ...

Physical Sciences Inc. (PSI), in collaboration with Stanford University, will develop an electromagnetic simulation package used for the development and optimization of large-scale meta-optics, and demonstrate the functionality of the package in the long-wave infrared (LWIR). Our team will combine recent progress in physics-augmented deep learning neural networks with rigorous far-field diffractio ...

Virtual EM proposes develop a massively parallel ASIC for orders of mangnitude speed up of electromagnetic simulations of thin optical lenses made of metamaterials. The ASIC will implement a prorietary algorithm and will deliver scalable run-times that cut the simulation time by more than 1000x compared to today's state-of-the-art simulators.

Physical Sciences Inc. partnered with Alfred University will develop an F/1, 90 degree full field of view MWIR/SWIR gradient index (GRIN) compound lens for reduced size and lens integration cost. The element-by-element achromatization and athermalization of GRIN provide useful performance improvements to GRIN systems. Element count is reduced (= 2), diversity of optical material needed is fixed, a ...

Physical Sciences Inc. (PSI), in collaboration with the University of Rhode Island, proposes to develop an advanced algorithm suite for data translation across sensing modalities to support the development of automated target recognition and classification algorithms for Unmanned Underwater Vehicles. The proposed Deep Diffusion Sensor Translation (DDST) leverages recent advancements in generative ...

Areté and its teaming partner the University of Arizona (UofA) will develop a software tool that transforms sensor and metadata from a given sensor system into realistic synthetic data as if it were collected by a different sensor system. The exponential rise in available data from a multitude of sensor systems has driven commercial and academic entities to achieve significant innovations in arti ...

To compete on the world stage of undersea warfare (USW), the US Navy’s USW systems are frequently updated with advanced capabilities. As a result, modernization trainers need to perform the challenging tasks of updating training material to reflect the new (and obsolete) capabilities. This process requires comparing legacy to updated documentation, identifying changes to system capabilities, and ...

Our Phase I project will synthesize JP-10 jet fuel from CO2 feedstock using a multi-step process.  CO2 will be converted to syngas (CO and H­2) in a plasma reactor. The syngas will be used as the feedstock for a catalytic Fischer-Tropsch synthesis of JP-10. This carbon-neutral system will be easily deployable to synthesize jet fuel in remote locations, fit in a standard shipping container, and i ...