SBIR/STTR Research Award
Optical fiber combiner for combining MWIR quantum cascade laser beams
Award amount
$180,000Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2024Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Air Force
- Recipient company
- N.P. PHOTONICS, INC.
- Proposal award date
- 2024-05-05
- Contract end date
- 2025-02-06
- UEI
- L1XGLKME9BC1
- Solicitation number
- 23.3
- Topic code
- AF233-0024
Research abstract
NP Photonics proposes to develop fused mid-infrared fiber combiners that can combine quantum cascade lasers at 4.5-5 micron leveraging our unique capability and substantial experience in making mid-infrared fibers and fiber devices. In the Phase I program, we will investigate the feasibility and study the risk to fabricate fused mid-infrared fiber combiners. In Phase II, low-loss fiber combiners with high power handling capability meeting or exceeding the requirements for Air Force applications will be developed and delivered.
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.
- Atmospheric Aerosol Model and Data Collection Over the Marine Boundary Layer for Imaging/Radiofrequency (RF) and Laser Beam Propagation
- Kilowatt Class Fiber Optical Isolator for Submarine High Energy Laser Amplifier
- Nonlinearity mitigated gain fiber development for kW-class fiber lasers
- Space-qualified Single-frequency Blue Lasers for Optical Atomic Clocks
- Low C-SWaP 2.1 micron transmitter for long-range EO/IR sensing
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- High power MWIR optical fiber combiner
- Optical Fiber Combiner for Combining MWIR QCL Beams
- High power MWIR optical fiber combiner
- Fiber-based High-Power Mid-IR Beam Combiner
- High Power, High Throughput MWIR Fused Fiber Combiner
Research funding history
123 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1998–2025). Reported award amounts total $46,434,512. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II, Phase II – Direct to Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Energy, National Science Foundation