SBIR Phase II: Reducing size and cost of optical devices with nanomanufacturing - a novel use of disk drive technology

SBIR 第二阶段：通过纳米制造减小光学设备的尺寸和成本 - 磁盘驱动技术的一种新颖用途

• 批准号: 1556031
• 负责人: Longfei Ye
• 金额: $ 73.39万
• 依托单位: MagAssemble, LLC
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-03-01 至 2018-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1556031&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SBIR; Phase; II; Reducing; size

The broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project is in advanced manufacturing. This project will develop a low cost, small-footprint high-resolution nanomanufacturing platform for building optical devices that are traditionally manufactured using cleanroom microlithography. Compared with modern cleanroom approaches that require significantly more complicated and expensive facilities, this platform holds strong promise to build visible-to-infrared wavelength optical components that are both smaller and lower cost, in order to serve the fiber-optic sensor, telecommunications, and lens markets. If this platform can deliver optics components that meet specifications, demand could reach 8-figures for a single customer, thus transforming optics manufacturing across the entire spectrum of markets that use photonics: biomedical, energy, military, and consumer. If it meets the needs of the photonics sector, this platform could penetrate a much broader commercial marketplace such as information technology, nanoelectronics and personalized low-cost consumer devices. The scientific and technological understanding created by developing this platform could enable businesses to leverage low-cost US-based nanomanufacturing to address markets for advanced materials and components around the world.This project will commercialize an innovative nanomanufacturing platform for producing diffractive optical elements (DOEs) with potential to reduce component cost and size. Recently fiber-optic communications has expanded beyond its traditional function of long haul or backbone communications. Reducing the size, cost and complexity of optical components could allow DOEs to further expand their reach. Ideally the functionality of these components could be built right onto the end of an optical fiber. The proposed technology could allow true fiber-to-fiber components at a cost equal to or less than currently available optical components. It could further allow for sensing capabilities of "lab on a fiber" with the lab incorporated onto the end-face of a fiber. The project will focus on scaling the nanomanufacturing capability demonstrated during Phase I for end product prototype demonstrations that incorporate the DOEs.

这个小企业创新研究（SBIR）第二阶段项目的更广泛的影响/商业潜力是在先进制造业。该项目将开发一种低成本、小占地面积的高分辨率纳米制造平台，用于构建传统上使用洁净室微光刻制造的光学器件。与需要更复杂和昂贵的设备的现代洁净室方法相比，该平台具有强大的承诺，以构建更小和更低成本的可见光到红外波长的光学元件，以服务于光纤传感器，电信和透镜市场。如果该平台能够提供符合规格的光学元件，单个客户的需求可能达到8位数，从而改变使用光子学的整个市场的光学制造：生物医学，能源，军事和消费者。如果它能满足光子学领域的需求，这个平台可以渗透到更广泛的商业市场，如信息技术、纳米电子和个性化的低成本消费设备。通过开发这个平台所创造的科学和技术理解可以使企业能够利用低成本的美国纳米制造来满足世界各地先进材料和组件的市场。这个项目将商业化一个创新的纳米制造平台，用于生产衍射光学元件（DOE），具有降低组件成本和尺寸的潜力。 近年来，光纤通信已经超越了其传统的长距离或骨干通信功能。降低光学元件的尺寸、成本和复杂性可以使DOE进一步扩大其覆盖范围。理想情况下，这些组件的功能可以直接构建在光纤的末端。所提出的技术可以允许真正的光纤到光纤组件，其成本等于或低于目前可用的光学组件。它可以进一步允许“光纤上的实验室”的感测能力，其中实验室被结合到光纤的端面上。该项目将专注于扩展第一阶段展示的纳米制造能力，用于结合DOE的最终产品原型演示。