SBIR/STTR Research Award
Innovative Passivation to Increase the Power at Which Laser Diode Fails
Award amount
$149,836Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2012Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
- Recipient company
- nLight Photonics
- Proposal award date
- 2012-11-01
- Contract end date
- 2013-08-01
- UEI
- L7A6MYHETLS6
- Solicitation number
- 2012.2
- Topic code
- SB122-005
Research abstract
nLight proposes to suppress the key remaining output power extraction limiter COMD failure mechanism by passivating the cleaved facet of laser diodes with high bandgap semiconductor layers that is epitaxially grown in an atomically conformal manner at low temperature and in ultra-high vacuum.
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.
- Wavelength Stabilized Two Dimensional External Cavity Arrays for Pumping Alkali Vapor Laser Systems
- High-Efficiency Resonantly Pumped 1550-nm Fiber-Based Laser Transmitter
- High-Efficiency, High-Temperature Laser Diodes for Naval High-Energy Laser Applications
- Compact, Rugged, Multiple Spectral Band Laser
- Multi-kW Fiber Lasers Based on Novel Light Guide Combiners
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Epitaxial growth for facet passivation of high power diode lasers
- Innovative Passivation to Increase the Power at Which Laser Diode Fails
Research funding history
56 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2004–2013). Reported award amounts total $18,993,588. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Energy