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Completed TRL 3 (started at 3, targeting 5)
Development of a cost-effective, robust, tunable, miniaturized, ruggedized, and flight tested swept laser for in-flight structural health monitoring, based on the NASA-patented optical frequency domain reflectrometry (OFDR) detection scheme. The objective of this effort is to research and develop a NASA flight certified tunable swept laser system that is comparable to the performance of currently-deployed swept lasers but are lower cost, lighter weight, lower volume, and are flight-ruggedized for vehicle health monitoring applications.
Cost-effective, robust, tunable, miniaturized, ruggedized, and flight tested in-flight structural health monitoring.
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