MESA PHOTONICS LLC — Department of Defense STTR Phase I: N21A-T015
MESA PHOTONICS LLC — STTR Phase I award from Department of Defense.
- Amount
- $139,993
- Agency
- Department of Defense · Navy
- Program / Phase
- STTR · Phase I
- Topic
- N21A-T015
- Solicitation
- 21.A
- NAICS
- —
- Place of performance
- NM
- Period
- 2021-06-07 → 2021-12-07
Description
This project will develop an innovative multiwavelength aerosol optical absorption spectrometer implementing direct and sensitive in situ measurement of optical absorption. The ultimate goal is to develop a technology that is rugged, compact, low-maintenance and inexpensive to allow wide-scale deployment of the proposed aerosol spectrometers in the field, potentially including aerial platforms. The Phase I project will demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed approach, which includes designing and building a laboratory prototype of the aerosol optical absorption spectrometer, characterizing the instrument performance using absorbing aerosols with pre-defined optical absorption properties in collaboration with University of California, Irvine (UCI), and outlining the calibration procedures. The Phase I work will determine the performance characteristics of the spectrometer and identify the engineering challenges of transitioning the technology to a standalone compact field-deployable prototype system in Phase II.