SBIR/STTR Research Award
Innovative Methods to Produce Periodically Oriented Compound Semiconductor Nonlinear Optical Materials
Award amount
$99,837Program and phase
STTR · Phase IAward year
2006Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Air Force
- Recipient company
- SRICO INC
- Proposal award date
- 2006-08-01
- Contract end date
- 2007-05-01
- UEI
- HT4ERWMHJKR8
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- AF06-T010
Research abstract
This proposal addresses innovative, economical and safe methods to manufacture periodically oriented gallium arsenide and other III-V semiconductor materials for use in efficient quasi-phase-matched nonlinear optical devices. These crystals have the potential to revolutionize mid-IR nonlinear devices. Periodically oriented gallium arsenide allows for engineering nonlinear interactions, providing a high degree of flexibility and innovation to devices. In the infrared region, second harmonic generation of CO2 laser radiation as well as broadly tunable optical parametric oscillation in the infrared are just two examples of recent devices enabled by this technology. These devices in turn are enablers for applications such as Infrared Countermeasure (IRCM) that would greatly benefit from frequency-agile infrared sources.
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.
- Photonics-Based Optical Frequency Shifter in the Near-Infrared (NIR)
- Low Cost Technologies for Manufacturing of Thin Film Lithium Niobate
- Spectral-Binning Focal Plane Array for Infrared Spectroscopy
- Low-Loss Magnetless Optical Isolators for Quantum Integrated Photonics Applications
- Tunable, Integrated Electro-optic Frequency Comb for Space-based Communications and Precision, Navigation and Timing (PNT) Applications
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Commercial Methods for Production of Orientation Patterned GaAs
- Instrumentation and Process Development for the Production of Orientation-Patterned GaAs (OP-GaAs)
- Instrumentation and Process Development for the Production of Orientation-Patterned GaAs (OP-GaAs)
- Commercial Methods for Production of Orientation Patterned GaAs
Research funding history
80 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1993–2025). Reported award amounts total $31,067,514. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II, Phase II – Direct to Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, National Science Foundation, Department of Commerce, Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Energy