INTEVAC PHOTONICS, INC. — Department of Defense SBIR Phase I: MDA15-022
INTEVAC PHOTONICS, INC. — SBIR Phase I award from Department of Defense.
- Amount
- $139,987
- Agency
- Department of Defense · Missile Defense Agency
- Program / Phase
- SBIR · Phase I
- Topic
- MDA15-022
- Solicitation
- 2015.2
- NAICS
- —
- Place of performance
- CA
- Period
- 2015-12-18 → 2016-12-20
Description
The objective of the work is to investigate the feasibility of providing a thermoelectrically (TE) cooled shortwaveinfrared (SWIR) low-light level digital sensor/camera that meets the requirements (including noise, sensitivity, spectral response, linearity, frame-size/-rate) sought under this solicitation. Based on simulation and existing data, an evaluation will be performed of relevant pre- and post-environmental test performance metrics of Intevacs current low-light level camera product offerings: our ISIE6 electron-bombarded active pixel sensor (EBAPS) based digital intensified-imaging (DI2) cameras and our GaAs-photocathode-based ISIE11 EBAPS-based DI2 cameras. Risks to performance metrics and product manufacturability will be identified and a plan of action for development of the design and/or processing steps necessary to effectively mitigate these risks will be determined. It is expected that a down selection among the transferred-electron photocathode and sensor configurations and risk-mitigating process steps to be developed will be implemented in Phase 2 of this effort towards the production of at least one prototype sensor/camera.(Approved for Public Release 15-MDA-8482 (17 November 15))