SBIR/STTR Research Award
High Efficiency 808 nm Laser Pump Diode Arrays with Excellent Beam Quality
Award amount
$149,992Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2013Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Navy
- Recipient company
- Princeton Optronics
- Proposal award date
- 2012-11-02
- Contract end date
- 2013-04-28
- UEI
- YTAXELQE3LT9
- Solicitation number
- 2012.2
- Topic code
- N122-112
Research abstract
The Navy is interested in developing high power and high operation efficiency pumps at 808nm for multiple Navy applications. VCSEL technology offers an excellent choice for the development of such laser pumps. Princeton Optronics has developed the technology of high power VCSEL arrays delivering hundreds of watts of power from small chips with>55% efficiency at 976nm. We would use improvements of those techniques as well as some new approaches to 808nm VCSELs to develop very high efficiency high power pumps. We propose an approach in which we would use improved quantum wells and other improvements on how the quantum wells are arranged in the cavity to dramatically improve the efficiencies of the VCSELs at 808nm. In phase I, we would demonstrate the feasibility of the approach and in phase II we would deliver>100W arrays with very high efficiencies as required in the solicitation.
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.
- Ultrahigh speed link development using high speed VCSEL devices
- Ultra-High Speed Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Lasers for High Performance Optical Networks
- Compact Air-cooled Laser Modulate-able Source (CALMS)
- Ultra-high speed link development using high speed VCSEL devices
- Improved Reliability Laser Based Ignition System
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- High Efficiency 808 nm Laser Pump Diode Arrays with Excellent Beam Quality
- High Efficiency 808 nm Laser Pump Diode Arrays with Excellent Beam Quality
- High Efficiency 808-nm VCSEL Arrays with Excellent Beam Quality
Research funding history
87 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1992–2017). Reported award amounts total $28,005,084. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Energy