SBIR/STTR Research Award
Efficient 3-D Ladar Source
Award amount
$99,897Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2008Award details
- Awarding agency
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- Q-PEAK, INCORPORATED
- Proposal award date
- 2008-02-06
- Contract end date
- 2008-08-05
- UEI
- K5J3YGHCQZR5
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- X2.02
Research abstract
We propose to develop a significant improvement in the performance of diode-pumped, Nd:YLF lasers by employing direct optical pumping of the upper level of the 1-micron laser transition. This novel pumping technique has been applied to other Nd laser systems, notably Nd:YAG and Nd:vanadate, but to our knowledge this has not been successfully applied to Nd:YLF laser systems. Q-Peak is in a unique position to develop this technique specifically for Nd:YLF owing to the extensive work that we have done over the past decade in developing our patented MPS systems, which employ Nd:YLF as the gain medium. Researchers who have applied this pumping technique to Nd:YAG have shown an increase in slope efficiency of about 20% and a reduction in thermal load of about 30%. We expect to see similar levels of improvement in Nd:YLF performance in this project.
Technology keywords
Not reported
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Research funding history
141 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1999–2022). Reported award amounts total $44,197,020. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Energy, National Science Foundation, Department of Commerce