SBIR/STTR Research Award
Array Packaging of High Power, High Efficiency, Quantum Cascade Lasers
Award amount
$79,360Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2014Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Navy
- Recipient company
- MP Technologies, LLC
- Proposal award date
- 2014-09-30
- Contract end date
- 2015-03-30
- UEI
- UHNEBSGY17T6
- Solicitation number
- 2014.2
- Topic code
- N142-093
Research abstract
The use of directed energy at long distances, such as for aircraft defense, requires a high power (>100 W) light source within the mid-infrared spectral region (3-5 micron). Power scaling of individual quantum cascade lasers using 1-D and 2-D arrays seems to be a straightforward approach. However, this process is critically dependent on individual laser output efficiency and thermal management. Extremely high heat flux cooling solutions are required to maintain a desirable laser operating temperature. This project explores the feasibility of scaling the output power of quantum cascade laser arrays using new high efficiency lasers and innovative packaging techniques.
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.
- Ring-Cavity Surface-Emitting Quantum Cascade Laser Array
- High-performance 1024x1024 MWIR/LWIR Dual-band InAs/GaSb Type-II Superlattice-based Camera System
- III-Nitride Based High-Power 340 nm Lasers
- Surface Leakage Suppression in LWIR Type-II Superlattice Photodetectors Using Electrical Gating Technique
- Monolithic, Widely Tunable, THz Local Oscillator
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- High-Power Mid-Infrared Quantum Cascade Laser Array with Continuous-Wave Output Power Exceeding 100W
- High-Power Mid-Infrared Quantum Cascade Laser Array with Continuous-Wave Output Power Exceeding 100W
- 100-W Quantum Cascade Laser (QCL) Bars and 1-kW QCL Stacks
- High-Power Mid-Infrared Quantum Cascade Laser Array with Continuous-Wave Output Power Exceeding 100W
- High-Power Mid-Infrared Quantum Cascade Laser Array with Continuous-Wave Output Power Exceeding 100W
Research funding history
58 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2000–2015). Reported award amounts total $21,029,657. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space Administration