SBIR/STTR Research Award
Heteroepitaxy of Indium Phosphide-Based Quantum Cascade Lasers on Silicon Substrates
Award amount
$999,965Program and phase
STTR · Phase IIAward year
2024Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Navy
- Recipient company
- IRGLARE LLC
- Proposal award date
- 2024-03-01
- Contract end date
- 2026-09-09
- UEI
- ZDC9D8TZZV57
- Solicitation number
- 22.A
- Topic code
- N22A-T007
Research abstract
Our team is developing heteroepitaxy growth and laser fabrication processes for the monolithic integration of InP-based quantum cascade laser (QCL) structures onto silicon substrates. The main goal for this program is to bring quality of QCL-on-Si epi-material to the level comparable to that for traditional QCL structures grown on InP substrates. Namely, fully optimized QCLs-on-Si will deliver over 5W of CW power in a nearly diffraction limited beam (M2 < 1.5) with 25% wallplug efficiency. These devices will find immediate applications in ultra-compact electro-optical infrared platforms addressing various DoD needs.
Technology keywords
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Other awards by this recipient
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- Damage-Free High-Power Emission from Indium Phosphide-Based Solid-State Waveguides in the Long Wave Infrared
- Superconducting Thermal Spreader Enabled MWIR Band-IVb Quantum Cascade Laser with 65 W Average Output Power
- High Brightness Mid-IR Laser Illuminator
- Multi-Quantum Cascade Laser based sensors for high-speed characterization of flow parameters in hypersonic tunnels
- High Brightness Mid-IR Laser Illuminator
Awards with the same topic code
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- Heteroepitaxy of QCL lasers
- Heteroepitaxy of Indium Phosphide-Based Quantum Cascade Lasers on Silicon Substrates
Research funding history
35 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2019–2024). Reported award amounts total $16,655,500. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space Administration