SBIR/STTR Research Award
Quantum-Cascade-Laser-Based Systems for LWIR Military Applications
Award amount
$119,979Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2005Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Army
- Recipient company
- Maxion Technologies, Inc.
- Proposal award date
- 2004-12-10
- Contract end date
- 2005-06-10
- UEI
- H2HVG6T6UDZ5
- Solicitation number
- 2004.3
- Topic code
- A04-114
Research abstract
We propose to develop new quantum cascade-laser (QCL) based systems useful for military platform and perimeter protection, free space communications, infrared countermeasures, and chemical sensing applications. New QCL structures will be designed and optimized, and a careful thermal analysis will be performed to determine cooler requirements and the best cooler design for a system operating at or near room temperature in the LWIR (8.5 - 12 micron) wavelength band producing on the order of 0.5 W average power at a 25% duty cycle. Various laser configurations will be investigated, including a master oscillator/power amplifier (MOPA) configuration with a QCL-based oscillator chip coupled to a grating to form an external cavity laser that provides a tunable source of nearly monochromatic light to a QCL-based semiconductor optical amplifier chip.
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.
- Mid-IR Tunable Quantum Cascade Laser
- Monolithic Beam-Combined Mid-Infrared Laser Array
- A Quantum Cascade Laser-Based CO Sensor for Fire Warning
- Characterization and Reduction of Elcetrically Active Defects in Type II SLS Detector Materials
- High-Power, Room-Temperature Interband Cascade Laser Optimization
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Quantum-Cascade-Laser-Based Systems for LWIR Military Applications
- Longwave Infrared Semiconductor Lasers
- High Average Power Quantum Cascade Lasers for Long Wavelength Infrared Applications
Research funding history
27 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2000–2012). Reported award amounts total $5,587,638. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Energy, National Science Foundation, Department of Homeland Security