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Completed TRL 3 (started at 2, targeting 3)
Miniaturize by leverage compact commercial photonic technologies (direct write lithography and optimal input tapers in SiN).
Develop Integrated Photonic Spectrographs improve throughput from 25% to >70% over >400 nm bands around 1500 nm, enabling future NASA science missions ranging from visible to SWIR.
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