ADVALUE PHOTONICS INC — National Aeronautics and Space Administration SBIR Phase I: S1.04
ADVALUE PHOTONICS INC — SBIR Phase I award from National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
- Amount
- $99,498
- Agency
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Program / Phase
- SBIR · Phase I
- Topic
- S1.04
- NAICS
- —
- Place of performance
- AZ
- Period
- 2010-01-29 → 2010-07-29
Description
Future NASA flight missions are considering passive wavefront and amplitude control in astronomical applications such as the search for exo-planets. NASA's Discovery mission proposal called out the need for a coherent 2-dimensional array of fiber bundles for this application. In this SBIR proposal we propose to develop monolithic polarization maintaining (PM) coherent fiber bundle arrays consisting of 1,600 fibers with core-to-core spacing of 80 micron with placement accuracy of < 2 micron. In Phase I we will design and develop specialty glasses and fibers and demonstrate a 2D array with 16 cores to prove the feasibility of this proposal.