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HEL Analysis Tool with Experimentally Corroborated DPAL Rate Coefficients

Award Information
Agency: Department of Defense
Branch: Missile Defense Agency
Contract: HQ0277-13-C-7402
Agency Tracking Number: B12B-008-0026
Amount: $99,971.00
Phase: Phase I
Program: STTR
Solicitation Topic Code: MDA12-T008
Solicitation Number: 2012.B
Timeline
Solicitation Year: 2012
Award Year: 2013
Award Start Date (Proposal Award Date): 2013-04-08
Award End Date (Contract End Date): 2013-10-07
Small Business Information
P.O. Box 71
Hanover, NH -
United States
DUNS: 072021041
HUBZone Owned: No
Woman Owned: No
Socially and Economically Disadvantaged: No
Principal Investigator
 Jeffrey Breedlove
 Principal Investigator
 (603) 643-3800
 jfb@creare.com
Business Contact
 James Barry
Title: President
Phone: (603) 643-3800
Email: contractsmgr@creare.com
Research Institution
 Air Force Institute of Technology
 Glen Perram
 
Building 460, Room 107
Wright-Patterson AFB, OH 45433-
United States

 (937) 255-3636
 Federally Funded R&D Center (FFRDC)
Abstract

Diode-Pumped Alkali Laser Systems (DPALS) have great potential for missile defense and other applications. Proper design of these systems is challenging because many interrelated processes impact their performance and critical kinetic rate coefficients are not well known. In response, our team proposes to develop a comprehensive physics-based analysis/design tool, and determine key kinetic rate coefficients experimentally. The resulting product will be a user-friendly, high-fidelity, coupled Fluid-Thermal-Mechanical-Optical software package with accurate rate constants. MDA representatives and others will use this software to design laser systems, predict performance, conduct sensitivity analyses, and assess experimental results. This achievement will help advance high energy laser (HEL) systems for a variety of applications. Our team is well-suited to succeed because we have extensive experience with laser systems, atomic and laser kinetic experiments, and customized numerical analyses. During Phase I, we will develop critical analysis tools, determine key rate constants, and perform parametric sensitivity analyses. We will then develop a user-friendly, fully coupled, software package with a comprehensive set of experimentally-determined rate constants during Phase II.

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