SPECIAL NOTICE
A -- TECHNOLOGY/BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY SLIDER – Rapid Optical Deflector for Recording Ultrafast Optical Signals
- Notice Date
- 2/14/2011
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- 238990
— All Other Specialty Trade Contractors
- Contracting Office
- Department of Energy, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (DOE Contractor), Industrial Partnerships & Commercialization, 7000 East Avenue, L-795, Livermore, California, 94550
- ZIP Code
- 94550
- Solicitation Number
- FBO232-11
- Archive Date
- 3/15/2011
- Point of Contact
- Connie L Pitcock, Phone: 925-422-1072
- E-Mail Address
-
pitcock1@llnl.gov
(pitcock1@llnl.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- TECHNOLOGY/BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY To License and Commercialize SLIDER – Rapid Optical Deflector for Recording Ultrafast Optical Signals Opportunity : Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), operated by the Lawrence Livermore National Security (LLNS), LLC under contract with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), is offering the opportunity to license and commercialize SLIDER (Serrated Light Illumination for Deflection Encoded Recording). This technology has resulted in a new device that rapidly deflects optical beams enabling an ordinary camera to record pulsed signals with picosecond resolution and at sampling rates exceeding 2 Tera-Samples/sec. Background : Conventional signal recording technologies include vacuum tube oscilloscopes and digital oscilloscopes. Vacuum tube oscilloscopes are becoming obsolete. Digital oscilloscopes rely largely on state-of-the-art electronic-based analog-to-digital converters that have exhibited very slow improvement in recent years and are limited to trading off dynamic range or bit depth for temporal resolution. Streak cameras are capable of higher performance but below 10 ps resolution, they suffer in dynamic range due to space-charge repulsion effects occurring within the electron beam. This invention abandons electronics and turns to a novel rapid optical deflection technology in order to provide a “next generation” optical signal recording device. SLIDER does this by deflecting a signal-carrying optical beam propagating in the plane of a slab waveguide at a sweep rate of 1 resolvable spot per picosecond. The swept beam can then be recorded in parallel and on a single-shot basis (without averaging) on an ordinary, high dynamic range camera. Description : The SLIDER deflector includes a waveguide, a serrated mask positioned above the waveguide cladding, and a synchronized pump beam. The pump beam illuminates the serrated mask with a short pulse and transfers its pattern to the guiding layer where it imprints a sequence of prisms. The prisms are activated via nonlinear optical effects in the semiconductor and persist for the duration of the sweep. The signal beam is coupled into the waveguide and is deflected in piecewise segments by the fine sequence of prisms. Time-of-flight through the waveguide ensures a linear mapping of time to angle. Lenses at the output of the map the deflection onto the focal plane of a high fidelity camera where the signal can be recorded in parallel with high resolution and with high dynamic range. Advantages : This system achieves high resolution (picosecond) with a high dynamic range (> 3000:1) by eliminating electrons as in a conventional streak camera and replacing them with photons that do not suffer space-charge effects. It also has the potential to be produced with components at a reasonable cost. Potential Applications : Characterization of pulsed signals as in long-haul, high bandwidth optical telecommunications, Measurement of ultrafast optical signals in R&D laboratories. Development Status: LLNL has developed and used this technology. LLNL is seeking industry partners with a demonstrated ability to bring such inventions to the market. Moving critical technology beyond the Laboratory to the commercial world helps our licensees gain a competitive edge in the marketplace. All licensing activities are conducted under policies relating to the strict nondisclosure of company proprietary information. Please visit the IPO website at https://ipo.llnl.gov/?q=resources-industry-working_with_us for more information on working with LLNL and the industrial partnering and technology transfer process. Note: THIS IS NOT A PROCUREMENT. Companies interested in commercializing LLNL's SLIDER technology should provide a written statement of interest, which includes the following: 1. Company Name and address. 2. The name, address, and telephone number of a point of contact. 3. A description of corporate expertise and facilities relevant to commercializing this technology. Written responses should be directed to: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Industrial Partnerships Office P.O. Box 808, L-795 Livermore, CA 94551-0808 Attention: FBO 232-11 Please provide your written statement within thirty (30) days from the date this announcement is published to ensure consideration of your interest in LLNL's SLIDER technology.
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