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Phase Gradient Fine Steering Mirrors for Free Space Optical Communication Systems

Award Information
Agency: Department of Defense
Branch: Air Force
Contract: F29601-03-M-0162
Agency Tracking Number: F031-2534
Amount: $99,933.00
Phase: Phase I
Program: SBIR
Solicitation Topic Code: N/A
Solicitation Number: N/A
Timeline
Solicitation Year: N/A
Award Year: 2003
Award Start Date (Proposal Award Date): N/A
Award End Date (Contract End Date): N/A
Small Business Information
13 Henshaw Street
Woburn, MA 01801
United States
DUNS: 004841644
HUBZone Owned: No
Woman Owned: No
Socially and Economically Disadvantaged: No
Principal Investigator
 Jing Zhao
 President
 (781) 933-0513
 jingzhao@agiltron.com
Business Contact
 Lei Zhang
Title: Director of R&D
Phone: (781) 933-0513
Email: Lzhang@agiltron.com
Research Institution
N/A
Abstract

Lasercomm offers attractive benefits of energy efficient, small size and weight, as well as resistant to detection and jam. However, lasercomm requires high accuracy pointing systems due to the much narrower beam divergence compared to conventional RFtechnology. Although mechanical beam steering mirrors provide the basic performance requirements, there is an increased need for high frequency beam steering device to overcome platform vibration and jitter. In this program Agiltron Inc. propose analternative optical phase gradient based non-mechanical approach. Our innovative design overcomes the wavefront distortion deficiency that has traditionally hampered the application of phased array based device due to discontinuity and stair-stepphase-delay profile. Our technology offers significantly reduction in size and power of fast beam steering systems as well as intrinsic precision control capability. In Phase I we will fabricate a prototype device to demonstrate feasibility. Weanticipate that state-of-the-art performance in several key specifications can be achieved in Phase I of the program. Applications for optical scanning products are very broad. They include low-mass, low-power-consumption space terminals for future DoD,NASA and commercial space-to-ground and inter-satellite optical communications links. Other application includes lasercomm, displays, laser imaging, medicine, printing, industrial laser- based material processing and optical communications.

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