STTR Phase I: Spectrally Agile, Photonic Crystal Fiber-Based Optical Coherence Tomography

Information

• NSF Award
• 0610600

Owner

• SOUTHWEST SCIENCES INCORPORATED

• Award Id

  0610600

• Award Effective Date

  7/1/2006 - 18 years ago

• Award Expiration Date

  6/30/2007 - 17 years ago

• Award Amount

  $ 100,000.00

• Award Instrument

  Standard Grant

This Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase I project will investigate an optical coherence tomography (OCT) instrument useful for a wide range of research and development needs in material science, biology, medicine and other fields. Users will be able to optimize the imaging parameters for their specific applications by selecting the center wavelength and resolution with simple changes in optics. The result is an instrument that can be easily used by researchers with little optics expertise. The key innovation allowing such a design is the stale, spectrally smooth, ultra-broadband light source that will be developed in Phase I.<br/><br/>Successful completion of this project will result in a commercial, versatile, easily used FD-OCT instrument. The intended market is research laboratories in academia, industry and government. The envisioned instrument will be an enabling technology for researchers in a variety of fields, allowing them to obtain high quality OCT images with tunable spectral and resolution parameters matched to their research needs.

• Program Officer

  F.C. Thomas Allnutt

• Min Amd Letter Date

  5/23/2006 - 18 years ago

• Max Amd Letter Date

  5/23/2006 - 18 years ago

• ARRA Amount

• Name

  Southwest Sciences Inc

• City

  Santa Fe

• State

  NM

• Country

  United States

• Address

  1570 PACHECO ST STE E11

• Postal Code

  875053937

• Phone Number

  5059841322

• First Name

  Kristen

• Last Name

  Peterson

• Email Address

  peterson@swsciences.com

• Start Date

  5/23/2006 12:00:00 AM

• Name

  Technology Transfer

• Code

  110000

• Name

  Industrial Technology

• Code

  308000