SBIR/STTR Research Award
High-Efficiency Terahertz Source
Award amount
$149,999Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2023Award details
- Awarding agency
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- LONGWAVE PHOTONICS LLC
- Proposal award date
- 2023-07-24
- Contract end date
- 2024-02-02
- UEI
- ND53H94AU844
- Solicitation number
- SBIR_23_P1
- Topic code
- S11
Research abstract
LongWave Photonics and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are proposing the development of high operating temperature terahertz frequency Quantum Cascade Laser for the detection of H2O and OH volatiles on the lunar surface.nbsp; The improvement in operating temperature to gt; 250 K allows for increased wall plug efficiency through the use of cryocoolers which operate with improved Carnot efficiency at these temperatures.nbsp; This allows reducing the size weight and power of the QCL source for use in a lunar instrument.nbsp; In the proposed work, new quantum well structures will be engineered to increase gain at high temperature.nbsp; High operating temperatures QCLs will be fabricated into Distributed Feedback Devices to assess the feasibility of frequency control and the impact on maximum operating temperature.
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.
- Tunable Active HEterodyneHEterodyneTerahertz Imaging (TAHETI)
- Allosteric Drug Discovery using Quantum Cascade Laser based Anisotropic THz Microscope (QCL-ATM)
- Wideband THz Local Oscillator
- Laser Sources for Frequency Calibration of Far-Infrared Spectrometers
- High-Power THz Quantum-Cascade VECSEL based Local Oscillator
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
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- Conductive Solid Surface Deployable Antenna for Space-based Remote Sensing
- Airborne Spectroscopic Static Temperature Sensor
- Advanced Precision Design of Origami Inspired Deployable Metaoptic LiDAR Aperture
- Noise Sources for 0.1 - 1.0 THz
Research funding history
17 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2010–2023). Reported award amounts total $6,756,130. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Defense, National Science Foundation, Department of Health and Human Services