SBIR/STTR Research Award
Ultra Compact Multi kW Fiber Amplifier Platform
Award amount
$750,000Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
2011Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Air Force
- Recipient company
- Optical Engines, Inc.
- Proposal award date
- 2011-04-22
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- X3UXLGB7F5J1
- Solicitation number
- 2009.3
- Topic code
- AF093-008
Research abstract
ABSTRACT: During the phase 1 program, Optical Engines, Inc. has demonstrated the key components necessary to create an ultra compact multi kW Yb based PM PCF amplifier. These components include a 3 fiber coupled laser diode stack with an aggregate power output of over 1200 W at 976nm, an etched air taper all fiber combiner in a 6+1 to 1 configuration with 94.4% pump efficiency, over 90% core signal efficiency, 20dB PER, and has been power tested to 1.5kW. These components, along with a 40um Yb PM PCF core, 500um Air clad cladding fiber have been combined to create an all fiber amplifier of over 1kW. In the Phase 2 program these components will be combined to create a TRL 5 ready, narrow band amplifier in the multi kW range. BENEFIT: The development of a ultra compact multi kW amplifier module will have the impact of providing a common platform for defense and industrial applications allowing for economies of scale and economies of scope.
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
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Isolator for Fiber Laser Amplifier Arrays
- Isolator for Fiber Laser Amplifier Arrays
- Coherent Broadband Fiber-Array Laser (CBFAL)
- Ultra Compact Multi kW Fiber Amplifier Platform
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