MICHIGAN AEROSPACE CORP — National Aeronautics and Space Administration SBIR Phase I: S1.01
MICHIGAN AEROSPACE CORP — SBIR Phase I award from National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
- Amount
- $114,654
- Agency
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Program / Phase
- SBIR · Phase I
- Topic
- S1.01
- NAICS
- —
- Place of performance
- MI
- Period
- 2017-06-09 → 2017-12-08
Description
Modern sensing systems often are required to pick out a very specific wavelength in a sea of other light (such as in daylight), making precise optical filtering a vital part of many sensing systems. Michigan Aerospace Corporation (MAC) plans to design, build and test an agile, frequency-tunable Fabry-Perot interferometer (etalon) for use as an optical filter of background light as part of a Differential Absorption LIDAR (DIAL) system. MAC's extensive history with designing and building rugged etalons for NASA and other customers will be key to this effort. Phase I will involve the design of this specific etalon and the testing of a faster method for precisely tuning it. Phase II will then involve the construction and test of the etalon.