SBIR/STTR Research Award
Mid-IR Tellurite Fiber Raman Lasers
Award amount
$98,873Program and phase
STTR · Phase IAward year
2005Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
- Recipient company
- Kiara Networks
- Proposal award date
- 2005-08-25
- Contract end date
- 2006-10-31
- UEI
- Not reported
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- ST051-008
Research abstract
Tellurite glass compositions show significantly enhanced Raman scattering behavior. Optimizing these oxide glass compositions with heavy-metal-oxides(HMO) leads to easily fiberizable and highly non-linear fibers with transparency in the mid-IR wavelength region. These fibers are ideally suited for cascaded Raman lasers to generate multiple wavelengths in the mid-IR region. Furthermore, the high optical damage thresholds, durability and stability of these fibers lead to a manufacturable and highly reliable fiber laser source.
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