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PROGRAMMABLE FIELD OF REGARD OPTICAL PROXIMITY FUZE

Award Information
Agency: Department of Defense
Branch: Army
Contract: N/A
Agency Tracking Number: 15962
Amount: $49,827.00
Phase: Phase I
Program: SBIR
Solicitation Topic Code: N/A
Solicitation Number: N/A
Timeline
Solicitation Year: N/A
Award Year: 1991
Award Start Date (Proposal Award Date): N/A
Award End Date (Contract End Date): N/A
Small Business Information
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Orlando, FL 32804
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HUBZone Owned: No
Woman Owned: No
Socially and Economically Disadvantaged: No
Principal Investigator
 Robert A Olson
 Principal Investigator
 (407) 298-1802
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Abstract

TECHNICAL REPORT RD-AS-89-18 DEVELOPED A NEW OPTICAL CONFIGURATION FOR AN AIR-DEFENSE OR ANTI-MISSILE PROXIMITY FUZE WHICH PERMITS A VARIABLE FIELD OF REGARD TO BE USED. THE SENSING FIELD IS PROGRAMABLE IN BOTH SHAPE AND POINTING ANGLE, CONTROLLED BY THE POSITION AND TILT OF A MULTICHANNEL IR LASER SENSOR INSIDE A HEMISPHERICALCAVITY OPTIC. THIS HAS THE POTENTIAL TO PERMIT IN-FLIGHT FUZE OPTIMIZATION FOR THE EMERGING TECHNOLOGY OF AIMABLE WARHEADS. THIS EFFORT SEEKS TO INVESTIGATE AND REFINE THE CONCEPT OF HEMISPERHICALCAVITY OPTICS AS APPLIED TO ADAPTABLE-GEOMETRY PROXIMITY FUZE TECHNOLOGY. THE OBJECTIVES OF THIS PROGRAM INCLUDE LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS INTENDED TO VALIDATE THE PIECE-WISE PRISMATIC APPROXIMATION USED IN THE PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS. RANGE EQUATIONS WILL BE DEVELOPED WHICH WILL PREDICT SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIOS FOR A VARIETY OF LASER SENSOR SYSTEM APPROACHES, INCLUDING CW, PULSED, PARALLEL AND MULTIPLEXTED MULTICHANNEL SYSTEMS.

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