SBIR/STTR Research Award
Widely Tunable Semiconductor Laser at 1650nm for Greenhouse Gas LIDAR Detection
Award amount
$117,506Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2016Award details
- Awarding agency
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- FREEDOM PHOTONICS LLC
- Proposal award date
- 2016-06-10
- Contract end date
- 2016-12-09
- UEI
- FQ98KK1G9199
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- S1.07
Research abstract
Methane is about 23 times more potent at trapping infrared radiation than carbon dioxide. The development of low-cost, accurate remote methane sensing technologies is becoming increasingly critical with the need to accurately analyze methane concentrations and distributions throughout the atmosphere. A "Laser Sounder" method is successfully used for carbon dioxide detection, and it utilizes a commercial, telecom grade tunable laser. In this program, we propose to develop a 1651 nm widely tunable laser, which will be based on wavelength scaling of our commercial, rad-hard tunable laser platform, currently available at 1300nm and 1550nm. This laser will allow the same LIDAR technique to be applied to Methane.
Technology keywords
Not reported
Other awards by this recipient
Verified by the same UEI. These are other public SBIR/STTR award pages, not a merged company record.
- High- Efficiency Kw-class 1550 nm Steerable Diffraction-Limited Laser Diode Arrays for Energy Web Dominance
- High-Speed Optical Fiber Data-Links for Space-Based Cryogenic Read-Out Integrated Circuits
- 1790nm tunable laser for VOC monitoring
- GeSiSn Avalanche Photodiode Arrays for High-Sensitivity SWIR Imaging Applications
- High Efficiency kW-class 1550 nm Steerable Diffraction-Limited Laser Diode Arrays for Energy Web Dominance
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Widely Tunable Semiconductor Laser at 1650nm for Greenhouse Gas LIDAR Detection
- Rugged Multigas Sensor for Planetary Missions
- Monolithic Chip-Integrated Absorption Spectrometer from 3-5 microns
- Coded Aperture Techniques for High-Throughput Imaging Spectroscopy
- Instrument for Airborne Measurement of Carbonyl Sulfide
Research funding history
196 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2005–2023). Reported award amounts total $74,583,672. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II, Phase II – Direct to Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Energy, Environmental Protection Agency, Department of Agriculture