SBIR/STTR Research Award
Polycrystalline Laser-Host Material
Award amount
$750,000Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
2006Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Army
- Recipient company
- UES INC
- Proposal award date
- 2006-09-12
- Contract end date
- 2008-09-12
- UEI
- FV5WK6YTN215
- Solicitation number
- 2004.3
- Topic code
- OSD04-L01
Research abstract
We propose to demonstrate scale-up of our process methods and establish the commercial feasibility of being a domestic (USA) supplier of ultra-high purity powders of doped YAG, and a domestic (USA) supplier of fine-grained polycrystalline doped YAG for laser host applications. We propose to demonstrate that the UES process is easy to scale at low cost and that the process yields reliable polycrystalline YAG laser host materials with optical properties nearly identical to those of single crystals. Its ease of fabrication in complex geometries makes it an ideal material of choice for solid state laser host material for use in Airborne Laser (ABL) and Tactical High Energy Laser (THEL) weapons systems.
Technology keywords
Not reported
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Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Manufacturing Scale-Up of High-Purity Optical Ceramics
- High Power Laser-Host Material
- Polycrystalline Laser-Host Material
- Polycrystalline Laser-Host Material
Research funding history
294 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1983–2023). Reported award amounts total $73,979,003. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II, Phase II – Direct to Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, Department of Energy, National Science Foundation, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Health and Human Services, Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Contractor profile
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