News release:
Daylight Solutions Wins Department of the Army (DOA) Phase
1 Technology Award.
Contact: Paul Larson
Daylight Solutions, Inc.
858.391.0101
plarson@daylightsolutions.com
www.daylightsolutions.com
Poway, CA (Wednesday, September 27, 2007) – Daylight Solutions, Inc. announced today that
the company has been awarded a 2007 Department of the Army Phase 1 Small Business
Innovation Research (SBIR) award for developing a unique spectroscopic sensing system.
The program will benefit from an ultra-compact, broadly tunable MEMS-based laser source for
mid-infrared spectroscopy and other applications, such as free space communications. The
combination of high speed, telecommunications packaging technology with broadly tunable,
external cavity, semiconductor-based laser technology will lead to sources that provide both high
data rate communications, as well as molecular detection in the mid-infrared.
“Daylight is pleased to be working with the DOA on this project. Although our technology
currently delivers on a variety of applications across multiple markets, we see this project as yet
another opportunity to push the envelope on advancing our tunable systems,” says company
CEO, Dr. Timothy Day.
Mr. Paul Larson, the company President added, “This program opens up the free space
communications market segment to Daylight Solutions which is very important to our growth”.
About Daylight Solutions
Daylight Solutions develops advanced systems and sub-systems for molecular detection and high
power imaging. The company’s core technology consists of miniaturized, broadly tunable and
fixed wavelength mid-infrared laser sources that are based on semiconductor materials. The
company sells complete systems and OEM “sensor engines” into such markets as scientific
research, medical diagnostics, industrial process controls, military and homeland security. The
company’s IP enables small, hand-held, portable instruments, which are extremely sensitive to
the presence of small amounts of molecules in natural environments.
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