PHYSICAL SCIENCES INC. — Department of Defense STTR Phase I: N23A-T008

PHYSICAL SCIENCES INC. — STTR Phase I award from Department of Defense.

Amount
$139,952
Agency
Department of Defense · Navy
Program / Phase
STTR · Phase I
Topic
N23A-T008
Solicitation
23.A
NAICS
Place of performance
MA
Period
2023-06-29 → 2024-01-09

Description

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 diffraction integrals to assess the focusing efficiency of a 5cm x 5cm optic performing at a wavelength of 10 microns. Additionally, we will compare the performance of our modeling techniques to conventional central processing unit (CPU)-based Finite Difference Time Domain (FDTD) methods and show > 1000 x improvement in computational costs.