SBIR Phase II: Thermal Drawing of High-Performance Bandpass Filters for High-Volume Applications

SBIR 第二阶段：大批量应用的高性能带通滤波器的热绘图

• 批准号: 1951386
• 负责人: Esmaeil Banaei
• 金额: $ 74.64万
• 依托单位: Everix, Inc.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-06-01 至 2022-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1951386&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SBIR; Phase; II; Thermal; Drawing

The broader impact of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project is to ultimately reduce the cost of manufacturing of high-performance optical filters, a key component in many emerging technologies. The cost can be reduced by over 10x at high volumes. This will enable widespread use of many devices, such as medical diagnostic tools, sensors for robotic systems, and other applications. The proposed project eliminates the capital-intensive vacuum coating process from high-performance optical filter production and replaces it with the more scalable process of thermal drawing (resembling optical fiber drawing) for the filters supported by the thermal drawing process. To this end, the proposed project will: design and build precision equipment; improve the precision of a prototype process; and demonstrate industry-standard filter quality. The thermo-fluidic aspects of the process will be optimized for production quality at relevant sizes.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

这个小企业创新研究 (SBIR) 第二阶段项目的更广泛影响是最终降低高性能光学滤波器的制造成本，高性能光学滤波器是许多新兴技术的关键组成部分。 大批量生产时，成本可降低 10 倍以上。这将使许多设备得到广泛使用，例如医疗诊断工具、机器人系统传感器和其他应用。拟议项目消除了高性能光学滤波器生产中资本密集型的​​真空镀膜工艺，并用热拉丝工艺支持的滤光片的更具可扩展性的热拉丝工艺（类似于光纤拉丝）取而代之。为此，拟议项目将：设计和建造精密设备；提高原型工艺的精度；并展示行业标准的过滤器质量。该工艺的热流体方面将针对相关规模的生产质量进行优化。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优点和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。