SBIR/STTR Research Award
High-Power, Continuous-Wave 3.0- to 3.5-Micron Emitting Quantum Cascade Semiconductor Laser
Award amount
$199,981Program and phase
STTR · Phase IIAward year
2014Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Navy
- Recipient company
- INTRABAND, LLC
- Proposal award date
- 2014-07-09
- Contract end date
- 2015-04-09
- UEI
- DDDRC6MTKKT5
- Solicitation number
- 2012.A
- Topic code
- N12A-T003
Research abstract
The technical objective of this proposal is to demonstrate a Quantum Cascade Laser (QCL) emitting in the 3.0-3.5 & #181;m wavelength region, which employs a metamorphic buffer layer (MBL). It is the goal of this program to develop a QCL single-stripe device which will operate in a single, diffraction-limited lobe under room temperature continuous-wave (CW) operation to moderately high (~ 0.5 W) output powers. The use of the MBL allows for a lower-strain QCL active-region design compared with conventional approaches which employ InP substrates. Advanced conduction-band-engineered QC lasers will be used, since they allow virtual suppression of carrier leakage out of the devices active regions, resulting in electro-optical characteristics much less temperature sensitive than for conventional QCL devices; and thus allowing for significant increases in average power and CW wallplug efficiency.
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.
- Long-Wave Infrared Transceivers for High Speed Free Space Optical Communications in Adverse Weather Conditions
- Application of Machine Learning to Quantum Cascade Laser Design
- High-Speed Resonant-Cavity Infrared Detectors and Narrow-Linewidth Quantum Cascade Lasers for Free Space Communication in Adverse Weather Conditions
- High-speed Resonant-Cavity Infrared Detector Arrays and Narrow-Linewidth Quantum Cascade Lasers for Free Space Communication Links
- Application of Machine Learning to Quantum Cascade Laser Design
Awards with the same topic code
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- High-Power, Continuous-Wave 3.0- to 3.5-Micron Emitting Quantum Cascade Semiconductor Laser
- High-Power Semiconductor Laser in the 3.0- to 3.5-um Spectral Range
- High-Power Semiconductor Laser in the 3.0- to 3.5-um Spectral Range
Research funding history
22 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2010–2023). Reported award amounts total $11,011,225. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase II, Phase I
Agencies: Department of Defense