This proposal shows a method for significantly enhancing the speed and efficiency of the optical disk head. (1) weight could be reduced with the proposed design for holographic optic elements (h.o.e.), which have fewer elements and could be made with lighter and less expensive plastic materials. (2)… More

A multi-holographic optical head multi-optical fiber channel architecture is proposed, expecting to achieve a high speed (500 frames per speed) high density (1024x1024x8 bits) video data memory system for new solid state images. the system would be programmable; volume will stay within 200 inch;… More

Fire creates smoke and dust. Their particles bloke firefighter's view because the particles scatter visible light (wavelength less than 1u). However, fire also creates infrared radiation with wavelength longer than 1u which will not be scattered by smoke and dust. Therefore it can be detected by… More

Special Operations Forces is looking for assault zone marking systems to facilitate instrument approaches of fixed and rotary wing aircraft under extremely low ceiling/visibility conditions (200' ceiling/0.5 mile visibility). After successfully finishingthe phase-I project, in this phase-II effort,… More

"In order to overcome the short distance (it is critical for seeker) and high cost problems of the dual-mode imager using UFPA and fully meet the task requirement, very innovative ideas and designs are proposed:1. By using a smaller UFPA format of 240x320/25 u and adding an immersed detector lens on… More

"In order to meet the remote runway survey system requirement, by using many cutting edge technologies, a very innovative system is proposed. The remote runway survey includes 4 steps (or the survey system consists of 4 subsystems). In the first step, we will use Remote Sensing Pictures (RSP)… More

Traditionally the Air Force Special Operations Forces (AFSOF) physically measures assault zone characteristics such as physical dimensions, magnetic orientation, coordinates, obstacles, elevation, weight-bearing capacity of the soil, soil composition,surface tolerances, clearances, and roughness,… More

Currently, people use man-operated heavyweight deflectometer to detect the void under runway and use large cone penetrometer to measure the soil stiffness. It is expensive, slow, and destructive. During the wartime, the operator will involve the risk from enemy¿_s land mine, sniper, and artillery… More

The deployment of US military forces often requires aircraft operations on runways of unknown construction, roughness, and load carrying capacities not only in UAS but also in foreign countries. Current FWD, DCP and RWD cannot satisfy the mission requirement. The air force is looking for an air… More

During the Phase-I research we only spent 6 months (not 9 months) an air droppable rolling weight deflectormeter (ADRWD) was built and a conceptual demo at a small airport was successfully conducted. The Phase-II main objective is to refine the Phase-I design and build a lightweight working ADRWD… More