Ultrafast Sensors & Applications was established
in 1991 to innovate and to develop premier technology, instrumentation,
software, and systems in the fields of nanotechnology,
photonics, sensors and
metrology, and data acquisition, computing, and power.
Our products in these areas are unique, and we progressively explore growth
along new and challenging trajectories in science and technology. We cordially
invite you to explore our website, and encourage you to investigate solutions
utilizing our products for your high technology programs. We engage in novel
approaches to energy efficiency, solar and wind energy, the environment,
agriculture, medical diagnostics, homeland security, astronomy and aerospace.
We receive grants from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research [AFOSR], the
Office of Naval Research [ONR], the National Research Council, and several
affiliated organizations, with key support from the California Institute of
Technology and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Our technology was recently
licensed to Intellectual Ventures, a seminal player in next generation research
and development worldwide. We participate in several large-scale projects,
where we conceptualize, manufacture, and deliver significant advancements over
current state-of-the-art systems, such as the 6-channel composite 5-GHz fiber
optic link and digital delay system for millimeter-wave radio astronomy,
installed on the 6-antenna VLB array at the Physics and Astronomy Division,
California Institute of Technology. We assisted the NASA - Jet Propulsion
Laboratory in their transition to ultra-compact HEMT amplifiers for deep space
communication within the Deep Space Network. We designed and fabricated
wide-band low-noise deep-UV photomixers, constructing in parallel a tunable
UV-laser heterodyne test bed to evaluate UV-Lidar technology in a DARPA –
Massachusetts Institute of Technology / Lincoln Laboratory program. Recently,
we demonstrated and commercialized proven technologies for nanometer
position-displacement-motion sensing, Si-wafer thickness measurement to
nanometer accuracy, and high-responsivity, low-noise, GHz-picosecond
photodetectors. We fabricated photonic cryogenic temperature sensors with
nano-Kelvin sensitivity, and temperature-compensated multi-dimensional strain
sensors for jet-engine spindles. We developed systems and software for
comprehensive adaptive optical beam control (steering, autofocus, and
positional and wavefront correction), telescope reflector shape analysis, and
optical nanometer-resolution microscopy. In addition, we pioneered and
commercialized novel software algorithms and operating systems for
nanometer-precision imaging and analysis of surfaces (topography, shape,
features, and defects), sub-surface structure, state (physical, chemical, and
phase transitions), thermal distribution, edge analysis (contour, radius, and
roundness), and optical coherence tomography. Our business is international in
scope, and we maintain an inventory of over $8M to provide sensors, systems,
and software to research and development entities worldwide. Our esteemed customers
include the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, National Institute of
Standards and Technology (NIST), Harvard Medical School - Massachusetts General
Hospital, University of Vermont, Cynosure, Los Alamos National Laboratory,
Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Applied Materials, Stanford University and
SLAC, Areté, University of Michigan, Erasmus Medical Center, Namba Research
Group - Chubu Daigaku & JAXA - Japan, École Polytechnique de Montréal,
United Technologies Research Center, Procornea, Auburn University, US Army, Opteos, Berliner
Glas, Lumenis, Johnson and Johnson, University of Sydney, Rafael ADS,
University of Amsterdam Medical College, SAIC, Warsaw University, Boston
University, Rockefeller University, Helmholtz Zentrum (Hahn-Meitner
Institut) Berlin, Harvard University, Northrup Grumman, California Institute
of Technology, Lockheed Martin, Kansas State University, IBM Zurich, NASA - Jet
Propulsion Laboratory, Australian National University, University of California
- Berkeley, Johns Hopkins University - Applied Physics Laboratory, and several
research and development laboratories in industry and in academia around the
globe. We look forward to successfully interacting with you and providing you
wiith solutions to fulfil your requirements.
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