SBIR Phase I: Lobster-Eye X-Ray Imaging Sensor

这个小企业创新研究第一阶段项目将满足对先进光学仪器的需求，以支持高层大气X射线辐射领域的科学研究。建议开发一种龙虾眼X射线成像传感器，作为一种低成本、全塑料的X射线聚焦光学设备，用于实时遥感极地极光中的X射线。龙虾眼X射线成像传感器将足够轻，可以由平流层气球携带，用于远距离观测和绘制太阳喷发高能电子沉淀的地图。它的设计目的是在白天和晚上收集空间、时间和光谱信息。该公司的低成本塑料、潜在的一次性X射线聚焦/准直光学元件是龙虾眼状的光纤元件，具有经过特殊处理的包层以反射X射线，将基于该公司对塑料、单光纤光学元件的先进精密复制。近空间和大气层上层的条件影响极地地区的电信、天气监测和海上运输。目前最先进的可见极光研究仅限于黑暗的半球，而X射线地图现在使用的是昂贵、沉重和复杂的单探测器传感器。商业应用领域包括天文学、气象学、核电站、结晶学及相关领域。Lexis系统的塑料、X射线聚焦光学元件具有更广泛的应用范围，它可以轻松、完全地取代医疗放射学、安全、X射线光刻和许多其他X射线应用中使用的毛细管库马科夫光学元件和金属防散射栅。

This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I project will meet the need for advanced optical instrumentation to support scientific research in the area of X-ray radiation in the upper atmosphere. It is proposed to develop a Lobster-eye X-ray Imaging Sensor as a low-cost, all-plastic, X-ray focusing optical device for real-time, remote sensing of X-rays in auroras in the polar regions. Lobster-eye X-ray Imaging Sensor will be light enough to be carried by stratospheric balloons for use in remote observation and mapping of the precipitation of energetic electrons from solar eruptions. It is designed to collect spatial, temporal, and spectral information both by day and by night. Its low-cost, plastic, potentially disposable X-ray focusing/collimating optics, which are lobster-eye-like fiber elements with specially treated cladding to reflect X-rays, will be based on the company's advanced precision replication of plastic, single-fiber, optical components. Conditions in near space and the upper layers of the atmosphere affect telecommunications, weather monitoring, and sea transportation in the Polar Regions. Current state-of-the-art visible aurora studies are limited to the dark hemisphere, and X-ray mapping now uses single-detector sensors that are expensive, heavy, and complex. Commercial applications are in astronomy, meteorology, nuclear power stations, crystallography, and related areas. An even broader spectrum of applications exists for the LEXIS systems plastic, X-ray focusing optics, which can easily and completely replaces the capillary Kumakov optics and metal anti-scattering grids used in medical radiology, security, X-ray lithography, and many other X-ray applications.