SBIR/STTR Research Award
780 nm Single-Frequency Laser Source for High Spectral Resolution Lidar
Award amount
$125,000Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2016Award details
- Awarding agency
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- N.P. PHOTONICS, INC.
- Proposal award date
- 2016-06-10
- Contract end date
- 2016-12-09
- UEI
- L1XGLKME9BC1
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- S1.01
Research abstract
High energy narrow-linewidth and frequency stable laser transmitter at 780 nm is in great demand for the development of low-cost, compact, and eye-safe high spectral resolution lidar (HSRL) for accurate aerosol and cloud profiling and distinguishing among different aerosol types. NP Photonics proposes to develop a 780 nm laser source capable of generating 20 mJ nanosecond pulses at a repetition rate of 10 kHz with wavelength tunability > 0.5 nm by use of our proprietary and mature highly doped short-length fiber amplifier technology and innovative Innoslab amplifier technology. The advantages of our proposed laser system include high reliability, narrow-linewidth, super stability, high spectral purity, robustness and compactness.
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.
- Atmospheric Aerosol Model and Data Collection Over the Marine Boundary Layer for Imaging/Radiofrequency (RF) and Laser Beam Propagation
- Kilowatt Class Fiber Optical Isolator for Submarine High Energy Laser Amplifier
- Nonlinearity mitigated gain fiber development for kW-class fiber lasers
- Space-qualified Single-frequency Blue Lasers for Optical Atomic Clocks
- Low C-SWaP 2.1 micron transmitter for long-range EO/IR sensing
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Compact 2-Micron Transmitter for Remote Sensing Applications
- Space-Hardened Seed Laser for Use in High Spectral Resolution Lidar Systems
- Compact High Pulse Energy Single Frequency Fiber Amplifier
- High Power, Thermally Optimized Blue Laser for Lidar
- Spaceflight 1.94 Micron Tm Fiber Laser Transmitter
Research funding history
123 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1998–2025). Reported award amounts total $46,434,512. 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, National Science Foundation