SBIR/STTR Research Award
Waveguide Based Laser Beamsteerers: A Simple, Low Cost and Low SWaP Solution to a Long-Standing Problem
Award amount
$750,000Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
2015Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Navy
- Recipient company
- VESCENT TECHNOLOGIES INC.
- Proposal award date
- 2015-02-03
- Contract end date
- 2017-02-01
- UEI
- JDCKBJDFLLL5
- Solicitation number
- 2011.1
- Topic code
- N111-039
Research abstract
The purpose of this phase II is to design, build, and deliver wide-angle, high speed, non-mechanical laser beamsteerers that operate in the Mid Wave InfraRed (MWIR: 3.7 20o5o per SEEOR chip, up to 40o40o with 4 PGs and arbitrarily large, e.g., hemisphere, with multiplexing, ii) continuous, not step-wise, steering without blind spots, iii) refractive (not-diffractive) operation will enable simultaneous multi-wavelength operation, iv) random access point-to-point steer/sweep times of 10s to 100s of secs, v) output beam M2 <1.2 with sub-milliradian beam divergence, vi) comparable in size to a bic lighter, vii) only milliWatts of power consumption, and viii) simple construction that can be low cost in volume.
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.
- Compact Optical Cavities for Quantum Photonics and Integrated Timing Solutions (COCQPITS)
- Photonic Reconfigurable Optical-frequency-comb-based Microwave sensor for Intelligence and Signals Exploitation (PROMISE)
- Dual-Comb, Hyperspectral Nanoscopy of Biological Compounds at the Shot-Noise Limit
- Cooling Lasers for Optical Clocks in Space (CLOCS)
- Rare Earth Amplifier Chips (REACh)
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- High Throughput, Waveguide Based, Non-Mechanical Laser Beam Steering
- Waveguide Based Laser Beamsteerers: A Simple, Low Cost and Low SWaP Solution to a Long-Standing Problem
- High Throughput, Waveguide Based, Non-Mechanical Laser Beam Steering
- Waveguide Based Laser Beamsteerers: A Simple, Low Cost and Low SWaP Solution to a Long-Standing Problem
Research funding history
81 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2002–2025). Reported award amounts total $26,537,716. 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, National Science Foundation, Department of Commerce, Department of Energy, Environmental Protection Agency