SBIR/STTR Research Award
High Power Optical Amplifier
Award amount
$55,000Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2006Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Air Force
- Recipient company
- SIGMA SPACE CORPORATION
- Proposal award date
- 2006-04-17
- Contract end date
- 2007-04-17
- UEI
- WT6FM3DKDZW1
- Solicitation number
- 2006.1
- Topic code
- AF06-001
Research abstract
The goal of the proposed work it to develop a fiber based amplifier capable of delivering 500 mW average power for free space, high speed optical communication. The amplifier must be capable of withstanding large radiation doses such as will be found in space. To avoid the radiation sensitivity caused by dopants used to adjust the silica index of refraction, the project will use holey (photonic crystal) fibers, which adjust the index of refraction with voids of various sizes rather than by adding impurities.
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.
- A Next Generation Imaging for Space Application
- Light Weight Coastal Topographic/ Bathymetric Charting System for Naval Unmanned Airborne Vehicles
- Wavelength Drift Corrector for Wind Lidar Receivers
- Ultra Compact Cloud Physics Lidar for UAV Platforms
- Identification and Classification of Invasive Insects Using Audible Signals
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Compact and Reliable Radiation Hardened High Power Optical Amplifier for Aerospace Environment
- High Power Optical Amplifier
- High Power Optical Amplifier
Research funding history
17 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2001–2015). Reported award amounts total $4,651,796. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Defense, Department of Agriculture, Department of Energy