Delivery Order FA945112D0166-0001

This SBIR Phase I contract was awarded by NASA's Shared Services Center to Apre Instruments Inc., a for-profit manufacturer of optical metrology instruments. The $125,000 firm-fixed-price contract is for the development of an "innovative, low coherence probe for rapid measurement of free-form optical surfaces" using a novel spectrally controlled interferometry technique. The key innovations include a high surface slope acceptance angle up to 20 degrees (potentially 60 degrees) and...

This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by NASA's Shared Services Center to Apre Instruments Inc., a for-profit optical metrology company. The $124,679 firm-fixed-price contract involves developing a "low coherence, spectrally modulated, spherical wavefront probe for nanometer level free-form metrology." This novel interferometric technology aims to address the metrology challenges associated with measuring freeform optics with large surface...

This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Digital Optics Technologies Inc., a small business subchapter S corporation, for the theoretical and experimental investigation of the "fast-light effect" and its application in enhancing the sensitivity of various devices such as gyroscopes, accelerometers, and fiber-optic sensors. The $124,916 firm-fixed-price contract,...

This is a $749,910 Firm Fixed Price Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Digital Optics Technologies Inc., a small business corporation. The contract is focused on developing two parallel technologies - an Active Fast Light Optical Gyroscope/Accelerometer (AFLOGA) based on a rubidium vapor Raman laser, and an Active Fast Light Fiber-Optic Sensor (AFLIFOS) based on a fiber...

This federal contract was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Digital Optics Technologies Inc., a small business corporation, for the development of a miniature active fast light ring laser gyroscope and accelerometer (AFLOGA) system. The goal is to enhance the sensitivity and precision of inertial measurement devices through the use of the fast-light effect in a cavity, with potential applications in areas such as navigation sensors. The...

This is a $129,976 Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract awarded by NASA to Intelligent Fiber Optic Systems Corp (Ifos), a small business based in Milpitas, California. The contract is for the development of a compact, high-accuracy inertial reference measurement unit (IRU) utilizing an innovative fiber optic gyroscope (FOG) design. The proposed IRU is intended to meet NASA's need for lightweight, long-life sensors capable of providing high-precision navigation in harsh...

This contract award to Boulder Nonlinear Systems Inc. is for the development of a programmable phase nulling interferometer that extends the capability of a computer generated hologram (CGH) to null test a range of meter class telescope mirrors. The $113,030.00 Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) requires the construction of a brassboard Twyman-Green interferometer system with a 512x512 spatial light modulator...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded Fibertek, Inc. a $124,817 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract to develop a high-speed, non-mechanical frequency locking module that enables shot-to-shot frequency switching of single-frequency lasers at up to 3 kHz with high spectral resolution. This technology is critical for improving the wavelength switching speeds needed to fully exploit the capabilities of airborne and space-based Differential Absorption...

This SBIR Phase II contract was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Apre Instruments Inc., a for-profit manufacturing company. The contract, valued at $730,603.00, is for the development of an innovative low-coherence probe capable of rapidly measuring freeform optical surfaces with nanometer-level precision and high slope acceptance angles. This capability meets NASA's need to measure optical components ranging from 0.5 cm to 6 cm in...

This SBIR Phase II contract, awarded by NASA to Intelligent Fiber Optic Systems Corp (Ifos), a small business, aims to develop a compact, highly innovative inertial reference/measurement unit (IRU/IMU) that pushes the state-of-the-art in high accuracy performance from a fiber optic gyroscope (FOG) with reduced optical and electronic package volumes. The proposed gyroscope is based on an innovative approach using photonic crystal fiber (PCF) coils that reduce major gyro error sources and enable a...