SBIR/STTR Research Award
High power MWIR optical fiber combiner
Award amount
$179,944Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2024Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Air Force
- Recipient company
- TRANSWAVE PHOTONICS, LLC
- Proposal award date
- 2024-04-23
- Contract end date
- 2025-01-23
- UEI
- W8BLDA6GASQ1
- Solicitation number
- 23.3
- Topic code
- AF233-0024
Research abstract
TransWave Photonics proposes an optical fiber combiner capable of producing 60 W average power near 4.6 um wavelength. Efficient beam combining of quantum cascade lasers using low-loss mid-infrared fibers can produce total combining efficiency of more than 80%. In Phase I, we will design a combining system, characterize loss parameters of various fibers, and demonstrate feasibility of the proposed system.
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.
- Stark-Effect Intersubband Polaritonic Metasurfaces for free-space infrared modulation
- High power single mode diode laser bars
- High power MWIR optical fiber combiner
- All-passive nonreciprocal optical power limiters
- High-power single-mode photonic integrated circuit for coherent beam combining
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Optical Fiber Combiner for Combining MWIR QCL Beams
- Fiber-based High-Power Mid-IR Beam Combiner
- High Power, High Throughput MWIR Fused Fiber Combiner
- Mid-Wave Infrared (MWIR) Quantum Cascade Laser (QCL) Combiner
Research funding history
25 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2017–2026). Reported award amounts total $10,329,602. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense