SBIR/STTR Research Award
High Repetition Rate 100w Average Power BBO Q-switch For Nd:YAG
Award amount
$49,995Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
1993Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Missile Defense Agency
- Recipient company
- QUANTUM TECHNOLOGY SCIENCES, INC.
- Proposal award date
- Not reported
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- HTLPN7C9WYQ7
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- Not reported
Research abstract
IN PHASE I OF THIS PROPOSAL WE WISH TO INVESTIGATE A NEW MATERIAL B-BBO AS HIGH AVERAGE POWER AND HIGH PEAK POWER ELECTRO-OPTIC INTRACAVITY POCKELS CELL. SUCH A DEVICE IS REQUIRED FOR DIODE-PUMPED Nd:YAG SOLID-STATE LASERS FOR HANDLING CIRCULATING POWERS UPTO 100 WATTS. PRESENT MATERIALS ARE LIMITED WITH SERIOUS THERMAL HEATING AND SUBSEQUENT DAMAGE DUE TO LINEAR OPTICAL ABSORPTION PROBLEMS. CRYSTAL B-BBO IS AN ORDER OF MAGNITUDE MORE RESISTANT TO THERMAL FRACTURE THAN KD*P OR LiNbO(3). WE PROPOSE TO CHARACTERIZE AND TEST A B-BBO Q-SWITCH FOR HIGH AVERAGE POWER APPLICATIONS AT 1064 nm WITH A Nd:YAG LASER. A B-BBO POCKELS CELL WILL BE FABRICATED WITH A 3x3x10 mm3 ROD AT QUANTUM TECHNOLOGY INC. AND USED IN OUR EXPERIMENTS. B-BBO Q-SWITCHES COULD VERY WELL REPLACE KD*P AND LiNbO(3) POCKELS CELLS FOR SPECIAL APPLICATIONS INVOLVING HIGH AVERAGE POWERS (100W) AND HIGH PEAK POWERS (5GW/cm2).
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.
- Demonstration of a Passive Seismic-Acoustic Phased Arrays Network on the Littoral Seabed for Monitoring Land Activities
- Prototype Development for 8,000 Samples per Second 3D SADAR and Rapidly Deployable Sensor Hardware
- Develop and Deliver a Software System with automated Features Extraction Capability for Demonstration Using Collected Data Sets
- Narrow Width Line of Detection
- Extracting Signature Features from Seismo-Acoustic Data for Automated Algorithm Development Title on narrative: Correlating Signature Features with Processes of Interest Using Collected Seismo-Acoustic Data Sets)
Research funding history
14 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1987–2023). Reported award amounts total $9,576,338. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, Department of Energy, National Science Foundation, National Aeronautics and Space Administration