SBIR/STTR Research Award
High Power Quantum Cascade Lasers for Infrared Countermeasure Applications
Award amount
$731,930Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
2007Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Navy
- Recipient company
- MP Technologies, LLC
- Proposal award date
- 2007-11-29
- Contract end date
- 2009-12-29
- UEI
- UHNEBSGY17T6
- Solicitation number
- 2006.1
- Topic code
- N06-014
Research abstract
Current infrared countermeasure (IRCM) systems are limited by the size and weight of their jamming transmitter. Laser systems based on nonlinear conversion are intrinsically large and inefficient compared to diode lasers. For current, as well as future, countermeasure systems, mid-infrared diode lasers need to be produced which can satisfy the power needs for IRCM while minimizing the system size and weight. A major hurdle in developing diode lasers for this application has been the realization of high power operation near room temperature. The goal of this project is to investigate power scaling options for the quantum cascade laser suitable for multi-Watt delivery in a high-quality beam.
Technology keywords
Not reported
Other awards by this recipient
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- Ring-Cavity Surface-Emitting Quantum Cascade Laser Array
- High-performance 1024x1024 MWIR/LWIR Dual-band InAs/GaSb Type-II Superlattice-based Camera System
- Array Packaging of High Power, High Efficiency, Quantum Cascade Lasers
- III-Nitride Based High-Power 340 nm Lasers
- Surface Leakage Suppression in LWIR Type-II Superlattice Photodetectors Using Electrical Gating Technique
Awards with the same topic code
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- High Power Quantum Cascade Lasers for Infrared Countermeasure Applications
- High-Power Non-Cryogenic Semiconductor Lasers for Infrared Countermeasure (IRCM) Applications
- Quantum Cascade Laser fabrication by Metal-Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition Growth Techniques for Mid-Infrared Spectral Range
- High Power Quantum Cascade Lasers for Infrared Countermeasure Applications
Research funding history
58 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2000–2015). Reported award amounts total $21,029,657. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space Administration