SBIR/STTR Research Award
Multi kW Etched Air Taper Counter Pump Fiber Combiner
Award amount
$80,000Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2012Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Navy
- Recipient company
- Optical Engines, Inc.
- Proposal award date
- 2012-06-07
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- X3UXLGB7F5J1
- Solicitation number
- 2012.1
- Topic code
- N121-068
Research abstract
Optical Engines has developed and demonstrated a high power pump combiner in the co-propagating direction with 94.5% pump efficiency and a 20dB PER with zero brightness drop. This combiner has been tested for extended periods (approx 1 Hr) with 1.5kW of pump power with no degradation. This was combining into PM PCF Yb doped gain fiber. Optical Engines unique Etched Air Taper Technology will be used to extend this highly successful design into the counter pumped direction. For the Phase 1, Optical Engines will develop and demonstrate a Etched Air Taper counter pump combiner into 25/400 Yb doped Step Index fiber with 6 200um pumps and will test the device to 1.5kW. In the Phase II program this design will be extended to PCF fiber and tested to over 3kW.
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.
- Path Length Matching and Phase control for Coherently Combined Fiber Laser Arrays
- ULMA Fiber Laser Harnesses for High Intensity Ultrafast Lasers
- Single Mode Ultra Large Mode Area Fiber Lasers with large energy storage (HE-ULMA)
- Ultra Low SWAP Multi KW Directed Energy Laser Blade (LASERBLADE)
- CPTECFiber Amplifier Technology for Ultra-Large-Mode-Area Ultrafast Laser Arrays
Awards with the same topic code
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Research funding history
23 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2010–2024). Reported award amounts total $9,434,941. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, Department of Energy, National Aeronautics and Space Administration