Press Releases

Apr 27, 2023

High Brightness Fiber-Coupled QCL Module

Physical Sciences Inc. (PSI) has been awarded a research program from the U.S. Air Force to develop a compact quantum cascade laser (QCL) module that combines the outputs from seven high power mid-wave infrared QCLs using infrared fiber in a 7x1 fiber combiner configuration.

Apr 19, 2023

On-orbit Metrology System for Rigid Antenna Array Panels

Physical Sciences Inc. (PSI) has been awarded a program from the U.S. Space Force to develop the On-orbit Metrology system for Rigid Antenna array Panels (OMRAP), which uses a set of instrumented flexures to measure the out-of-plane deflections of large antenna arrays.

Apr 14, 2023

Thermoradiative energy harvesting and signal suppression with low-bandgap emitters

Physical Sciences Inc. (PSI) has been awarded a research program from the U.S. Space Force to develop a novel thermoradiative cell to convert waste heat in space-based solar systems into useful electrical power that decreases the size, weight, and power (SWaP) of next-generation spacecraft.

Apr 10, 2023

Air-Cycle Cabin Cooling

Physical Sciences Inc. (PSI) has been awarded a program from the U.S. Army to develop a lightweight, low-cost cooling system that will replace the existing vapor-compression cycle with an air cycle machine.

Apr 03, 2023

Compressive Sensing Fourier Transform Spectrometer LIDAR

Physical Sciences Inc. (PSI) has been awarded a contract from the U.S. Air Force to develop a spectral compressive sensing LiDAR (SpeCS-LiDAR).

Mar 21, 2023

Metabolic Cytometry for In-line Process Analysis

Physical Sciences Inc (PSI), in collaboration with the University of Massachusetts Lowell, has been awarded a program from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop a novel biomanufacturing process analytical technology tool that enables in-line, continuous measurement of the metabolism of host cells in bioreactors for the large-scale manufacturing of therapeutic viral vectors.

Mar 17, 2023

Volumetric Fiber-to-Chip Mode Converters

Physical Sciences Inc. (PSI) has been awarded a research program from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to develop a standard fiber to photonic chip connector based on gray-scale 3D printing.

Mar 13, 2023

Chiral Transient Grating Spectroscopy

Physical Sciences Inc. (PSI) has been awarded a program from the U.S. Department of Energy to design a transient-grating-based time-resolved circular dichroism module for background-free, wavelength-agnostic investigations of material chirality.

Feb 14, 2023

Additively Manufactured Ceramic Foams for Structural Insulators

Physical Sciences Inc. (PSI) has been awarded a program from the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) to develop a high temperature, ceramic syntactic foam that can be fabricated using additive manufacturing (AM) techniques.

Feb 08, 2023

High Power Ultra-violet Laser Beacon

Physical Sciences Inc. (PSI) has received a program from the U.S. Space Force to design and develop an innovative, low SWaP, high-pulse energy, high-average power UV Rayleigh beacon.