Optical Physics Company — Department of Defense SBIR Phase II: SB171-012

Optical Physics Company — SBIR Phase II award from Department of Defense.

Amount
$1,497,642
Agency
Department of Defense · Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
Program / Phase
SBIR · Phase II
Topic
SB171-012
Solicitation
2017.1
NAICS
Place of performance
CA
Period
2017-09-22 → 2018-09-21

Description

Femtosecond pulses can be significantly degraded when passing through a turbulent atmosphere.Normal adaptive optics cannot measure or correct these turbulence-induced aberrations because the femto pulses follow a curvilinear path through the air.OPC will enhance an existing Army funded femtosecond system with traditional adaptive optics to include a new form of adaptive optics able to measure the turbulence-induced aberration over the nonlinear path of a femtosecond pulse through the atmosphere.The enhanced system will be designed, implemented, verified and field tested.