SBIR/STTR Research Award
Efficient In-band Diode-pumped Q-switched Solid State Laser for Methane Detection
Award amount
$699,725Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
2013Award details
- Awarding agency
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- Princeton Lightwave, Inc.
- Proposal award date
- 2013-01-02
- Contract end date
- 2015-01-01
- UEI
- G2W8NPZ7JZ75
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- S1.01
Research abstract
We propose to develop an efficient, tunable Q-switched SSL operating at a wavelength of 1651 nm with pulse energy>1 mJ at 2000 Hz repetition rate with in-band laser diode pumping. We will leverage initial work carried out during Phase I of this program to pursue two approaches: (i) a tunable injection-seeded Q-switched SSL, and (ii) a regenerative power amplifier. In Phase I, we investigated a variety of gallium garnet gain media?including comprehensive characterization of absorption and fluorescence spectra?and we have identified the most promising prospective crystals for 1651 nm emission. We have also demonstrated sufficient tunability to enable differential path LIDAR techniques for the detection of methane.
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.
- Low SWaP scalable GmAPD LADAR receiver with 25 m pitch
- High-Power Tunable SeedLaser for Methane LIDAR Transmitter
- High-Power Tunable SeedLaser for Methane LIDAR Transmitter
- Disruptive Improvements in Single-Photon Geiger-mode Avalanche Photodiode (GmAPD) Focal Plane Arrays (FPAs) and Cameras
- Single-photon negative feedback APD focal plane array with 2.2 um cutoff wavelength
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Research funding history
32 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2005–2018). Reported award amounts total $9,506,561. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, National Science Foundation, Department of Commerce