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TrendsInFused ComponentsF orFiber Lasers....................................................................................IIa
PhotonicsDesignAutomation ............................................................................................................5a
Ultra-Compact, Superconduc tingSpectrometer-on-a-Chip at SubmillimeterW avelengths ........11a
Rad-Tolerant, ThermallyStable, High-SpeedFiber-OpticN etwork forH arsh Environments........11a
UVResonantRamanSpectrometerWi thMulti-LineLa ser Excitation ............................................12a
TowedSubsurfaceO ptical Communic ations Buoy ..........................................................................12a
High-Collection-EfficiencyFluorescenceDetection Cell ..................................................................14a
Producto f theMonth/New Products ................................................................................................16a
ONS emiconductorr ecentlyc ollaboratedwithTeledyne ImagingSensors to manufac-turea n Extremely Large Stitched Read OutIntegrated Circuit(ELS ROIC) for astronomy.
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22 Technology Focus: Sensors22 Single-Photon-Sensitive HgCdTe Avalanche Photodiode Detector
22 Artificial Intelligence Software for Assessing Postural Stability
23 Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering Using Silica Whispering-Gallery Mode Resonators
24 3D Hail Size Distribution Interpolation/Extrapolation Algorithm
25 Color-Changing Sensors for Detecting the Presence ofHypergolic Fuels
26 Materials & Coatings26 Using Pre-Melted Phase Change Material to Keep Payloads in
Space Warm for Hours Without Power
26 Fibrillar Adhesive for Climbing Robots
28 Transformers: Shape-Changing Space Systems Built WithRobotic Textiles
30 Manufacturing & Prototyping30 Microwave Sinterator Freeform Additive Construction System
(MS-FACS)
32 Development of a Centrifugal Technique for the MicrobialBioburden Analysis of Freon (CFC-11)
34 Electronics/Computers34 DSP/FPGA Design for a High-Speed Programmable S-Band
Space Transceiver
34 Memory Circuit Fault Simulator
35 On-Chip Power-Combining for High-Power Schottky Diode-Based Frequency Multipliers
36 FPGA Vision Data Architecture
38 Mechanics/Machinery38 Ultra-Compact Transputer-Based Controller for High-Level,
Multi-Axis Coordination
38 Magnetically Actuated Seal
39 Regolith Advanced Surface Systems Operations RobotExcavator
40 Hybrid Electrostatic/Flextensional Mirror for Lightweight, Large-Aperture, and Cryogenic Space Telescopes
42 Physical Sciences42 Wind-Driven Wireless Networked System of Mobile Sensors for
Mars Exploration
43 Analysis of the Effects of Streamwise Lift Distribution on SonicBoom Signature
44 In Situ Solid Particle Generator
46 Software46 System for Contributing and Discovering Derived Mission and
Science Data
46 Remote Viewer for Maritime Robotics Software
46 Stackfile Database
46 Reachability Maps for In Situ Operations
47 JPL Space Telecommunications Radio System Operating Environment
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8 UpFront
10 Whos Who at NASA
12 NASA Patents
33 Technologies of the Month
62 NASAs Innovative Partnerships Office
63 Advertisers Index
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20 Application Briefs
64 NASA Spinoff:Lightweight Alloy
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Photonics Solutions for the Design Engineer
January 2013
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TrendsInFused ComponentsF orF iber Lasers.................................................................................... IIa
Photonics DesignAutomation ............ .............. .............. .............. .............. ............. .............. ............. 5a
Ultra-Compact,SuperconductingSpectrometer-on-a-Chip at Subm illimeterWavelengths ........11a
Rad-Tolerant,ThermallyStable, High-SpeedFiber-OpticNetwork forHarshEnvironments........11a
UV Resonant RamanSpectrometerW ithMulti-Line Laser Excitation ............................................12a
TowedSubsurface Optical Communications Buoy ..........................................................................12a
High-Collection-EfficiencyFluorescence Detection Cell ..................................................................14a
Product of the Month/New Products ................................................................................................16a
ONSemiconductorr ecentlycollaboratedwithTeledyne ImagingSensors tomanufac-ture an Extremely LargeStitched Read OutIntegrated Circuit (ELSROIC) for astronomy.
The H4RG-15image sensor,designedbyTeledyne, is the largest sensor everproducedforinfrared astronomy. To learnmore, see
the newproductss ection onpage 16a.
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49 Integrated Systems HealthManagement (ISHM)Toolkit
50 InformationTechnology50 Ionospheric Simulation Systemfor Satellite Observations andGlobalAssimilative Model Experiments ISOGAME
50 Estimating Torque Imparted on Spacecraft Using Telemetry
51 flexplan: MissionPlanning Systemfor the LunarReconnaissance Orbiter
52 Airborne Tomographic SwathIce Sounding Processing System
53 PowderSim: Lagrangian Discrete andMesh-Free ContinuumSimulationCode forCohesive Soils
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54 Multiple-Frame Detection of SubpixelTargets inThermalImageSequences
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The Mars Curiosity rover has used
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years, but they have never been put to use in testing the
health of a modern combustion engine. Researchers at the
UKs University of Sheffield have devised a method of
using ultrasound to measure how efficiently an engines
pistons are moving up and down inside their cylinders.
Carmakers have to calculate how much oil will allow
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and ends up getting burnt in the engine, while too little
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pulses through the cylinder wall from sensors attached to the outside. The reflections from
these pulses can then be recorded and measured.
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information.
Ultrasound Can Monitor the Health of Your Car Engine
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NASA UsesFuturistic Technology to Build New Rockets
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plication Brief from Marlow Indus-
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unit of the Mars Curiosity rover
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photo credit: Photo courtesy of Los
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Software is theDriving Innovation forConsumer Electronics
TomTom, a leading provider of in-car location and navigationdevices, uses PTC Integrity, an application lifecycle managementsolution that manages requirements, models, code, and test.
You may not realize it, but many of thebells and whistles in the products that
you engage with on a daily basis are actu-ally powered by software.
The vast array of features, includingthe advanced electronics in your vehicle as well as many of the special capabil-ities in televisions, toys, and householdappliances are innovations that havebeen made possible by software.
Software in products holds the key toinnovations that improve quality, safety,and ease-of-use, as well as add new func-tions. Software simply makes productssmarter. Think about how software haschanged our experiences with products.Think about the smart products youreally love to use. Can you imagine a day
without using them?In the past decade, a significant shift
has occurred for discrete manufacturingorganizations where software now deliv-ers the majority of functionality and dif-
ferentiation in numerous products weuse in our everyday lives. In many cases,
software is now the product, and hard-ware has been relegated to the role ofdelivery platform. Discrete manufactur-ing companies that can harness thepower of software for product innova-tion will become leaders in their respec-tive industries.
According to industry research firmAberdeen Group, the most successfuldiscrete manufacturers are 30% more
likely to use electronics and embeddedsoftware to bring innovation to prod-ucts. [Source: Product Analytics toEngineering On Schedule and OnBudget, 2010].
There are many reasons why thesemanufacturers have started to realize thepower of software, and why they are mak-ing the shift in developing their productsin a very different way, including::Innovation and differentiation Software
allows manufacturers to create aunique user experience with products.
A CTO at one automotive companysaid that over 50% of the buyers of its
vehicles do so in part because of thefeatures driven by software.
:More product variants Software allowsmanufacturers to build more customer-specific product variants in less time,
with less cost. Nokias move to theMicrosoft OS for smartphones meansthey now can deliver the same hardwareto many countries around the world
with no need for localized keyboards
the software provides the right keyboardfor the right region and language.
:Reduce product manufacturing costs Ifyou manufacture 10 million units of aproduct and can save $5 per device bymoving functionality from customhardware components into customsoftware that runs on a commoditizedcomponent, you save yourself $50 mil-lion dollars in manufacturing costs.Its really that simple. There areexamples from many industries thatare transitioning to this way of devel-
oping products, including automo-tive, high-tech products, industrial,
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6 Improve customer satisfaction, after productdelivery There are many ways toimprove customer satisfaction, but a
well-designed product can actuallyimprove over time through softwareupdates. These products include thecar that can automatically download
software updates for service recom-mendations, the smartphone thatupdates its GPS system, or the refriger-ator that tells you when its time tochange the water filter.While software is providing these
organizations with competitive advan-tages and offers many cost benefits, italso significantly increases the risk andcomplexity of product development anddelivery processes.
The Challenges of
Software InnovationSoftware engineering is a new and dif-ferent way of developing products andbringing them to market. Instead of a
well-understood physical process, soft-ware development is empirical, requir-ing a highly iterative and collaborativeapproach. This makes it difficult todetermine the state of release readiness
because you cant physically inspect soft-ware for completeness or quality. Also,the flexibility of software to be copiedand reused has created a proliferation ofsoftware-driven product variants that are
hard to manage. As a result, software inproducts increases complexity and,therefore, quality may be compromised.For example, software bugs contained inautomobiles and medical devices canpose huge safety risks. Dealing with soft-
ware complexity can also cause scheduledelays, impacting time-to-market andcompany profits.
Complexity is magnified when defectsare being tracked. When a defect isfound in one product, what about otherrelated products that also include thisdefect? Its easy to fix by changing a lineor two of code, right? But what if thatline of code was reused (copied) to 10 or100 or 1,000 other products? And sup-pose the development organization issiloed and little collaboration exists.Defects like this cost organizations mil-lions of dollars each year to manuallyfind and fix across product variants.
Several other areas including testing,software change, and compliance all cre-ate complexity in the management ofsoftware development:6Fixing, tracking and testing software is
typically done manually, resulting indelays and poor quality.
6Software changes at 10 to 100x the rateof hardware changes. Manag ing change
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as requirements that are changedlate in the process becomes cum-bersome, especially when thechange affects multiple product
variants. New compliance regulations (ISO
26262 in automotive, for example)also increase complexity, whichrequire traceability in software
development processes so thatcompanies can easily demonstratecompliance.Without formal integrated pro-
cesses for requirements, change man-agement, testing, and reporting, thepotential for errors and delays can bemassive and expensive.
A New Approach is NeededHow can these challenges be met?
And what do designers need to knowwhen designing, simulating, and
manufacturing these software-inten-sive products?
Design engineers need to understandthat software development processes arepart of the entire product developmentprocess, and they must recognize that thedynamics around the development of soft-
ware are far different than those of electri-cal and mechanical design and develop-
ment, and to take these differences intoaccount when implementing the softwareprocess. It is also important to determinethe interdependencies of the softwaredevelopment process to the overall sys-tem-wide process. Finally, the processneeds to extend across the entire designand delivery spectrum. These processes
should allow for efficient and innova-tive design and development, whileminimizing the likelihood of intro-ducing defects into the product.
Another way to ensure that aproduct development solution iscomprehensive and integrated is toadopt a single product to managecore engineering artifacts across the
product development lifecycle. Withan end-to-end automated softwareengineering solution, softwaredevelopment resources can befocused on core product develop-ment and product innovation, lead-ing to more competitive productlines and accelerated time-to-market
with new features.Discrete manufacturing organiza-
tions that make these investmentsto ensure that software develop-ment is managed effectively and
accelerates innovation in productscan become the industry leaders anddeliver the types of products their cus-tomers are demanding.
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The Propellants North Administrative and MaintenanceFacility at Kennedy Space Center, located in Cape Canaveral,FL, achieves net-zero energy use. To offset the costs of electric-ity provided by a local utility, the center powers itself withrenewable resources. The new facility is NASAs first carbon-neutral one, which means it is engineered to release no green-house gas emissions during renovation or operation.
The facility actually generates more energy than it requiresin a 24-hour period, said Frank Kline, a NASA Construction ofFacilities project manager. And our ability to do that is largelyattributed to advanced lighting solutions, adding that lightingtypically consumes nearly 40 percent of a buildings energy.
More than 330 photovoltaic panels on the rooftops of thePropellants North complex use sunlight to generate energy.The buildings are also positioned on the property to maximizethe flow of light into the windows, decreasing the demand forpower needed for lighting the interior.
One of the broader energy-saving strategies NASA utilizedto reduce the buildings power draw was to improve the use ofnatural light a strategy known as daylighting. The NASAteam recycled large windows and frames from the originallaunch control center to increase available daylight in theoffice areas.
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The building automation system monitors the facilitys ener-gy use through KW meters installed in the electrical panelsthroughout the building. The meter associated with the light-ing panel has confirmed a significant electricity cost savingsfrom the lighting controls. But the best result coming out ofimplementing the lighting controls was the transparency to
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Other energy-efficient initiatives are in progress. For lessthan $1.50 per day, for example, an electric or hybrid vehiclecan also be plugged into a solar-powered charging canopy. Thefacilitys eight-car station is used for government or personal
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saves taxpayers the costs incurred for thetreated water and eliminates the need topump it from over 25 miles away.
The overall initiative to make the facil-ity as energy-efficient as possible wasdriven by Executive Orders 13423 and
13514, which mandate federal agenciesto give preference to using energy fromrenewable sources and environmentallypreferable products in new constructionand major renovations.
According to Kline, the net-zeroefforts will likely continue in futureNASA facilities. I hope this is just thestart, he said.
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Sensors MonitorCuriositys Drilling Arm
Cryogenic sensor and load cellFUTEKIrvine, CA800-23-FUTEK
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With the successful landing lastAugust, NASAs Curiosity rover ismaneuvering the surface of Mars, ana-lyzing samples of soil. Two sensors weredeveloped by FUTEK for Curiosity. Thefirst is a cryogenic multi-axial load andtorsion sensor responsible for monitor-ing the rovers drilling arm and itsrobotic maneuvers as it retrieves sedi-ments for analysis.
A secondary cryogenic load cell sitsaboard to supervise the precision andforce used to drill directly into theMartian surface. Both sensors aredesigned to operate around the clock intemperature cycles from 23 F to as lowas -124 F.
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Technology Focus: Sensors
A software package reads and analyzespressure distributions from sensorsmounted under a persons feet. Pressuredata from sensors mounted in shoes, orin a platform, can be used to provide adescription of postural stability (assess-ing competence to deficiency) andenables the determination of the per-sons present activity (running, walking,squatting, falling). This package hasthree parts: a preprocessing algorithmfor reading input from pressure sensors;
a Hidden Markov Model (HMM), whichis used to determine the persons present
activity and level of sensing-motor com-petence; and a suite of graphical algo-rithms, which allows visual representa-tion of the persons activity and vestibu-lar function over time.
In this innovation, the HiddenMarkov Model algorithm assesses cen-ter-of-force time series data. Using the
Viterbi algorithm acting on center-of-force velocity, these trajectories can beclassified into local equilibria separat-ed by dynamic regions. These dynamic
regions represent control failures and,ordinarily, lead into a new equilibrium.
However, the local equilibria wanderinside a broad safe zone of which thesize and shape are able to be quantified(see figure). By quantifying the dwelltime, size, and shape of the equilibria,the dynamic trajectories and the safezone as a whole, sensing-motor per-formance can be assessed. Forinstance, equilibria for subjects withtheir eyes closed are shorter and morediffuse than those for subjects with eyesopen.
This same algorithm can easily distin-guish quiescent standing from squatting
Artificial Intelligence Software for Assessing Postural Stability
Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas
The purpose of this program was todevelop single-photon-sensitive short-
wavelength infrared (SWIR) and mid-wavelength infrared (MWIR) avalanchephotodiode (APD) receivers based onlinear-mode HgCdTe APDs, for applica-tion by NASA in light detection andranging (lidar) sensors. Linear-modephoton-counting APDs are desired for
lidar because they have a shorter pixeldead time than Geiger APDs, and candetect sequential pulse returns frommultiple objects that are closely spacedin range. Linear-mode APDs can alsomeasure photon number, which Geiger
APDs cannot, adding an extra dimen-sion to lidar scene data for multi-photonreturns. High-gain APDs with low multi-plication noise are required for efficientlinear-mode detection of single photonsbecause of APD gain statistics a low-excess-noise APD will generatedetectible current pulses from singlephoton input at a much higher rate ofoccurrence than will a noisy APD operat-ed at the same average gain. MWIR andLWIR electron-avalanche HgCdTe APDshave been shown to operate in linearmode at high average avalanche gain (M> 1000) without excess multiplication
noise (F = 1), and are therefore verygood candidates for linear-mode photoncounting. However, detectors fashionedfrom these narrow-bandgap alloysrequire aggressive cooling to controlthermal dark current. Wider-bandgapSWIR HgCdTe APDs were investigatedin this program as a strategy to reducedetector cooling requirements.
The first objective was to build SWIRHgCdTe APDs, and to assess their suit-ability for photon counting in linearmode. The second objective was toimplement manufacturing improve-ments to mitigate surface dark current,improve reliability, and eliminate peak-ing in the spectral response.
Voxtel manufactured and character-ized 2.7-m-cutoff HgCdTe APDs, pub-lishing excess noise data taken at thehighest avalanche gain levels yet demon-strated for SWIR HgCdTe APDs (M =80). Quantum efficiency was limited toapproximately 73% at 1,550 nm by par-tial reflection from the non-coated opti-cal entrance surface; quantum efficiencynear 94% is expected for these devices ifan anti-reflection coating is used.Excellent yield of operable APD pixelsand uniformity of APD response were
both obtained, but the maximum ava-lanche gain that could be achieved withSWIR-cutoff material was deemed toolow to enable single-photon detection.Comparison of Voxtels maximum gainmeasurements suggests that this is aninherent material limitation of the SWIRalloy. Room-temperature responsivity ofabout 5 kV/W and noise-equivalent
power (NEP) of 33.3 nW were measuredat 1550 nm when the APD operated at again of M=6.6.
Completion of development of CdTesurface passivation for MWIR HgCdTe
APDs presents the best opportunity tofurther improve receiver sensitivity, as it
will enable operation at much higheravalanche gain with reduced dark cur-rent. This innovation can find use withquantum information (encryption andbasic science), semiconductor inspec-tion, and molecular spectroscopy.
This work was done by AndrewHuntington of Voxtel, Inc. for Goddard Space
Flight Center. For more information, down-load the Technical Support Package (freewhite paper) at www.techbriefs.com/tspunder the Physical Sciences category. GSC-16140-1
Single-Photon-Sensitive HgCdTe Avalanche Photodiode DetectorDetector provides extra dimension to lidar scene data for multi-photon returns.Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland
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or a hand raise and may be useful inchecking how well an astronaut is adjust-ing to changes in gravitational fieldstrength, in the context of Earth re-entryfollowing space travel, or a Moon or Marsmission. Also, this innovation can be usedto help a physical therapist gauge theprogress of a stroke patient relearningskills like standing, walking, and running.
The algorithm can be used as a trainingtool for athletes by quantifying their dailybehavior (time spent running, etc) duringtraining.
This work was a joint effort done by ErezLieberman, MIT and Harvard; Katharine
Forth, USRA; and William Paloski, NASAJohnson Space Center. Inquiries concerningrights for its commercial use should beaddressed to:
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The motivation of this work was to haverobust spectroscopic sensors for sensitivedetection and chemical analysis of organ-ic and molecular compounds. The solu-tion is to use silica sphere optical res-onators to provide surface-enhancedspectroscopic signal.
Whispering-gallery mode (WGM) res-onators made from silica microspheres
were used for surface-enhanced Ramanscattering (SERS) without coupling to aplasmonic mechanism. Large Raman sig-
nal enhancement is observed by exclu-sively using 5.08-micron silica spheres
with 785-nm laser excitation. The advan-tage of this non-plasmonic approach isthat the active substrate is chemicallyinert silica, thermally stable, and relative-ly simple to fabricate. The Raman signalenhancement is broadly applicable to a
wide range of molecular functionalgroups including aliphatic hydrocar-bons, siloxanes, and esters. Applicationsinclude trace organic analysis, particular-ly for in situ planetary instruments that
require robust sensors with consistentresponse.
WGM SERS using microspheres orquartz surface structures provide a chem-ically robust surface for sensor applica-tions that could be cleaned by resistivelyheating the sensor element. This is par-ticularly useful for spacecraft instrumentsused for the detection of organics in plan-etary soils. The conventional silver-basedSERS substrates are limited by reactivityof silver. In the case of gold SERS sub-strates, high temperatures (
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3D Hail Size Distribution Interpolation/Extrapolation AlgorithmMultiple sensors are not required.
John F. Kennedy Space Center, Florida
Radar data can usually detect hail;however, it is difficult for present dayradar to accurately discriminate between
hail and rain. Local ground-based hailsensors are much better at detecting hailagainst a rain background, and whenincorporated with radar data, provide amuch better local picture of a severerain or hail event.
The previous disdrometer interpola-tion/extrapolation algorithm describeda method to interpolate horizontallybetween multiple ground sensors (aminimum of three) and extrapolate ver-tically. This work is a modification tothat approach that generates a purely
extrapolated 3D spatial distributionwhen using a single sensor.A 3D high-resolution mapping of
hail, as well as rain, is desirable in manyinstances. For example, hail mappingin the vicinity of a launch vehicle on thelaunch pad would help determine
whether or not damage has occurred
following a hail event. In addition toquantifying the size and quantity ofhail, it is desirable to know where on
the vehicle hail impacts may haveoccurred. A method that was previouslydeveloped, and that required multipleground sensors, has been modified toaccommodate a single sensor. The 3Dextrapolation from a single (or multi-ple) ground sensor can then be com-pared to the 3D radar-generated spatialmap.
The 3D hydrometeor size interpola-tion scheme described in previous workassumes that a minimum of threehydrometeor disdrometers (rain or hail)
are required for successful interpola-tion/extrapolation of the hydrometeordistribution in time and space. By simplybypassing the gravity interpolation algo-rithm for multiple sensors, it is shownthat good agreement between singlesites vs. multiple sites vs. radar isobtained.
The software modification allows anynumber of sensors, from 1 to N, to beused in