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Fiber Optic Technology
NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY
CorActive High-Tech Inc. recently signed a partially exclusive patent license agreement and a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement with the Naval Research Laboratory focusing on the commercial manufacturing and future development of NRL’s infrared fiber technology. The work was conducted at NRL by a research team headed by Drs. Ishwar Aggarwal and Jas Sanghera. NRL’s partner, CorActive Inc., is an independent developer and manufacturer of advanced Specialty Optical Fiber products for customers in the telecommunications, sensor, defense, and security, industrial, medical and aerospace industries.
Applications
- Military and Commercial Significance:
- Aircraft protection
- Biomedical Surgery
- Tissue diagnostics
- Remote chemical sensing
- Facility clean up and environmental pollution monitoring
- Military:
- IR Fibers for Infrared Countermeasures systems to couple the laser to the beam pointing device.
- IR Fiber Bundles to couple to Focal Plane Arrays in Missile Warning Systems
- Mid-IR Doped Fiber Laser Sources for IR Countermeasures systems
- Doped IR Fiber Bright Sources for Infrared Scene Simulation Systems
- Military and/or Non-Military (“Dual Use”):
- IR Fibers for Chemical Sensing Systems for in situ hazardous chemical sensing (e.g., DoD Base Cleanup, Bio-Warfare and other Chemical sensors)
- IR Fiber Evanescent Chemical and Biological Sensors
- IR Fibers for Laser Surgery, for coupling IR laser energy to a laser “scalpel”
- IR Fiber Coherent Bundles for imaging applications
- Mid-IR Doped Fiber Laser Sources for chemical and biological sensing applications
- Ultrafast all-optical switches for telecom
- Fiber optic Raman amplifiers for telecom
- Non-Military:
- IR fibers for systems to protect commercial aircraft from heat seeking missiles
Provenance
- Original
- https://dodtechmatch.com/dod/successstories/view.aspx?id=60044
- Archived copy
- Wayback Machine snapshot
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