Polarimetric images (center and right) are taken of a horse (left). The center image shows the degree of linear polarization (DoLP) at all points in the image, with a color-gradient scale to the left of the image. The right-hand image shows the polarization orientation at all points in the image, also with a color-gradient scale to the left of the image. (Images courtesy of Polaris Sensor Technologies)High Precision Devices (http://hpd-online.com/) -- Phase I SBIR, manufacturing: $90,000Flowing Water Optical Power Meter for Laser Measurements "High Precision Devices HPD) plans to develop and market a commercially viable 25 kW flowing-water optical-power meter (FWOPM) for industrial, research, and government applications. The effort will reduce costs and use best practices to increase manufacturability, exploit economies of scale, and develop suitable alternatives for several time-intensive assembly and fabrication steps."Editor's note -- HPD specializes in cryogenics, but has other products, including a five-axis mount that positions a lens relative to a laser diode mounted in a dewar; the space between the lens and source is under vacuum and sealed with a metal bellows.STAR Cryoelectronics (http://www.starcryo.com/) -- Phase II SBIR, manufacturing: $300,000Improved Microcalorimeter Detectors for X-ray Chemical Shift Mapping "STAR Cryoelectronics will fabricate improved transition-edge sensor detectors with an energy resolution of 2 eV for 1.5 keV X-rays and integrate them into an X-ray spectrometer for chemical shift mapping. This will enhance significantly the power of X-ray spectroscopy as an analytical tool for a broad range of applications."Editor's note -- STAR Cryoelectronics' specialty is superconducting quantum interference devices (SQUIDs). For more information on NIST's SBIR program, visit http://www.nist.gov/tpo/sbir/index.cfm. The fiscal year 2014 solicitation is scheduled to be announced in November 2013.