SBIR Phase I: Low-cost Reflectometer

SBIR 第一阶段：低成本反射计

• 批准号: 1315212
• 负责人: Phil Couch
• 金额: $ 14.93万
• 依托单位: CP-Instruments LLC
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-07-01 至 2013-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1315212&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SBIR; Phase; Low; cost; Reflectometer

This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I project will allow the development of a new optoelectronic component, to allow improved installation, maintenance and critical network monitoring. This new optical component is a key building block in providing platform technology for new fiber optic sensors and instrumentation at a dramatically lower cost. This novel technology will open new markets not addressed by current instruments typically having much lower resolution, and higher costs. Specifically, the new optoelectronic component will be designed to produce new optical instruments that are both low-cost, and high-resolution. In this development effort, a demonstration of the new optical component will be built and optimized and characterized for several telecommunications markets, such as installation and maintenance of fiber to home, real-time monitoring of networks within data centers and other critical infrastructure for our nation. The broader impact/commercial potential of this project provides for new optical communications testing equipment to enable maintenance of critical optical networks promptly and inexpensively. This project will help to cost-effectively ensure the availability, reliability and security of the optical networks on which our nation increasingly depends. Specific commercial opportunities include: energy generation and distribution, aerospace and other mobile platforms, high speed computing high speed optical fiber data transmission to support teraflop/s and higher computing speed, and hand held and integrated fiber optic (FO) telecommunications health monitoring systems. This technology supports the installation, testing, and operations of optical systems for these markets. For the energy market, applications include low-cost high-resolution sensing and communication systems for down-hole and processing facilities as well as wind turbines sensing and communication of fiber optic networks on airplanes, ships, and other mobile platforms providing for safer, more efficient transportation systems of the future. In telecommunications, FO systems are gaining market acceptance and are being installed in neighborhoods, office buildings, fiber-to-the-home, local area networks, and wide area networks. This optoelectronic component will be the building block for new optical interrogation instruments providing customers with a FO testing solution option at an affordable price.

这个小型企业创新研究第一阶段项目将允许开发新的光电元件，以改进安装、维护和关键网络监控。 这种新型光学元件是一个关键构建模块，能够以极低的成本为新型光纤传感器和仪器提供平台技术。 这项新技术将打开现有仪器无法解决的新市场，这些仪器通常具有较低的分辨率和较高的成本。 具体来说，新的光电元件将被设计用于生产低成本和高分辨率的新型光学仪器。在这项开发工作中，将为多个电信市场构建、优化和表征新型光学组件的演示，例如光纤到户的安装和维护、数据中心内网络的实时监控以及我们国家的其他关键基础设施。 该项目具有更广泛的影响/商业潜力，提供了新的光通信测试设备，可以快速且廉价地维护关键光网络。 该项目将有助于以经济高效的方式确保我们国家日益依赖的光网络的可用性、可靠性和安全性。 具体的商业机会包括：能源生成和分配、航空航天和其他移动平台、支持万亿次浮点运算和更高计算速度的高速计算高速光纤数据传输，以及手持式和集成光纤（FO）电信健康监测系统。 该技术支持这些市场的光学系统的安装、测试和操作。 对于能源市场，应用包括用于井下和处理设施的低成本高分辨率传感和通信系统，以及飞机、船舶和其他移动平台上的风力涡轮机光纤网络的传感和通信，从而提供更安全、更高效的未来运输系统。 在电信领域，FO 系统正在获得市场认可，并被安装在社区、办公楼、光纤到户、局域网和广域网中。 该光电元件将成为新型光学询问仪器的构建模块，为客户提供价格实惠的 FO 测试解决方案选项。