SBIR/STTR Research Award
High Energy Laser and Laser Illumination Optics Improvements
Award amount
$99,674Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2010Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Missile Defense Agency
- Recipient company
- Precision Photonics Corporation
- Proposal award date
- 2010-06-07
- Contract end date
- 2010-12-07
- UEI
- PMFZMCP73BM6
- Solicitation number
- 2009.3
- Topic code
- MDA09-039
Research abstract
The development outlined in this proposal will lead to an advanced concept modular IBS coating system capable of coating ~1m diameter optics to a high degree of uniformity, while maintaining our industry-leading laser damage threshold performance. In Phase I, coating uniformity in a commercial IBS chamber will be dramatically improved, and applied to 30cm diameter substrates. In Phase II, this technology will be scaled in a low-cost manner to optics with ~60cm diameter. During these efforts, PPC’s sophisticated 3-D mathematical model of IBS coatings will be used to optimize the design for an even larger chamber, capable of coating optics with diameters of ~1-2m. Also, throughout these efforts, laser damage threshold will be continuously measured to insure that this critical metric is not degrading with substrate diameter.
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.
- Direct-to-Metal Bonding for Improved Thermal Performance of Lasers
- Ion Beam Sputtered Coatings for Large Aperture, High-Energy Laser Optics
- Optical Coatings for Deep Concave Surface
- Eye-safe Optically-Pumped Gas-filled Fiber Lasers
- SBIR Phase I:Large Aperture, Periodically-Structured Gallium Arsenide for Infrared and THz Wavelength Conversion
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Advanced Multi-Purpose NIR/MWIR Dual-Band Coatings and Mirrors for HEL Beam Control Systems
- High Energy Laser and Laser Illumination Optics Improvements
Research funding history
17 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2006–2011). Reported award amounts total $8,925,320. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Commerce, National Science Foundation