W-Band High-Power Chirped Solid-State Transmitter Navy SBIR FY2005.2 Sol No.: Navy SBIR FY2005.2 Topic No.: N05-110 Topic Title: W-Band High-Power Chirped Solid-State Transmitter Proposal No.: N052-110-0389 Firm: InnoSys 3622 West 1820 South Salt Lake City, Utah 84104 Contact: Larry Sadwick Phone: (801) 975-7399 Web Site: www.innosystech.com Abstract: This solicitation calls for exploration and development on approaches to find solutions to innovative, high power, short pulsed, low cost W-band transmitters. The approach to be undertaken in this SBIR proposal by InnoSys is to develop a compact, small volume, low-cost, high-power W-band solid state vacuum device (SSVD) transmitter specifically designed for this SBIR program. Design goals include initially developing a compact 50-watt peak radio frequency (RF) output power, chirped solid state vacuum device W-Band pulsed transmitter that matches a 30:1 compressive filter response and can produce chirped pulses of several hundred nanoseconds at a pulse repetition frequency (PRF) of several hundred kilohertz. Later designs and iterations of this SSVD W-band pulsed transmitter should be capable of providing significantly higher peak power levels, PRF and duty cycle operation if needed. Benefits: Anticipated benefits for this technology include advanced seeking applications,radar, imaging, Commercial applications for the pulsed W-band source technology include high-power pulsed transmitters in the commercial applications. High-power short-pulse low-cost transmitters will serve as the enabling technology for the development of monitoring and detection systems for all-weather, day-and-night operations such as millimeter-wave imaging, airport surveillance, intrusion detection, and harbor traffic monitoring. Collision avoidance systems for the automotive industry are another potential application where low-cost short-pulsed MMW transmitters are needed. Additional applications include radar and imaging systems, wireless, satellite communications, broadcast technologies and industrial heating and curing of materials, spectroscopy, fusion plasma research and thermal interactions and processing of materials, and a host of other fundamental and basic scientific, academic, and research applications. Return