SBIR/STTR Research Award
Wavelength Stabilized High Brightness Direct Diode Pumps for Solid State LIDAR Systems at Eye-Safe Wavelengths
Award amount
$99,689Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2008Award details
- Awarding agency
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- nLight Photonics
- Proposal award date
- 2008-01-25
- Contract end date
- 2008-07-24
- UEI
- L7A6MYHETLS6
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- S1.01
Research abstract
Proposed is a high power, high efficiency, high reliability compact eye-safe LIDAR source. The diode pump source is an electrically series-connected array of single emitters coupled into an optical fiber known commercially as Pearl. During the course of the program nLight will transfer and improve its present record 1470-nm diode technology to a AuSn solder bond line, while also elongating the cavity for better performance. During the second phase of the program, internal gratings will be added to the diodes to narrow the emission line width providing better absorption in the Er:YAG system and a Er:YAG laser meeting the requirements set forth in the solicitation, pumped by the source developed over the course of the program's two phases, will be demonstrated.
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.
- Compact 2-Micron Transmitter for Remote Sensing Applications
- Space-Hardened Seed Laser for Use in High Spectral Resolution Lidar Systems
- Compact High Pulse Energy Single Frequency Fiber Amplifier
- High Power, Thermally Optimized Blue Laser for Lidar
- Spaceflight 1.94 Micron Tm Fiber Laser Transmitter
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