SBIR/STTR Research Award
SOLID STATE LASERS FOR EYE-SAFE COHERENT LIDAR
Award amount
$48,494Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
1987Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Air Force
- Recipient company
- Schwartz Electro-Optics, Inc
- Proposal award date
- Not reported
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- Not reported
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- Not reported
Research abstract
THE EFFORT PROPOSED HERE WILL INVESTIGATE THE FEASIBILITY OF DEVELOPING DIODE-PUMPED, SOLID STATE LASERS FOR USE IN SPACE-BASED, EYE-SAFE COHERENT LIDAR SYSTEMS. THE WORK WILL INCLUDE A THOROUGH THEORETICAL STUDY OF THREE POTENTIAL RARE-EARTH LASER IONS, ERBIUM, HOLMIUM AND THULIUM, AND WILL INCLUDE EXPERIMENTATION WITH THE ION CHOSEN AS THE BEST CANDIDATE FOR PRACTICAL SPACE-BASED SYSTEMS.
Technology keywords
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