SBIR/STTR Research Award
True Double-clad Fully Crystalline Laser Fiber Development for DEW Applications
Award amount
$99,401Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2015Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Army
- Recipient company
- Shasta Crystals, Inc.
- Proposal award date
- 2015-10-01
- Contract end date
- 2016-03-31
- UEI
- ZLV4K1D4QXE9
- Solicitation number
- 2015.1
- Topic code
- A15-016
Research abstract
Using a combination of their Laser Heated Pedestal Growth and Sol-gel technologies, Shasta Crystals proposes to develop coilable true double-clad fully crystalline ytterbium or erbium-doped fibers as gain media for high-energy lasers for directed energy weapons. The U.S. Army desires to replace glass fibers with coilable single-crystal fibers of Yb:YAG or Er:YAG. The technical challenge is to synthesize a cladded flexible fiber with a core that will exhibit good waveguiding properties. This proposal presents our current state of the art and the work that we will perform in order to reach the target values and specifications of the desired fibers.
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.
- SBIR Phase I: Coilable Single Crystal Fibers of Doped YAG for High Power Laser Applications
- SBIR Phase I:Potassium Lithium Niobate grown by Modified Laser Heated Pedestal Growth technique for blue and UV laser applications
- SBIR Phase II:Low Cost High Quality Nonlinear Optical Crystals for Laser Light Sources for Miniature Projectors
- SBIR Phase I: Low Cost High Quality Nonlinear Optical Crystals for Laser Light Sources for Miniature Projectors
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Crystalline cladding and crystalline core fiber for high energy fiber laser - Phase II
- Double-clad Fully Crystalline Fiber for High Energy Laser
Research funding history
5 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2009–2015). Reported award amounts total $993,284. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: National Science Foundation, Department of Defense