SBIR/STTR Research Award
Superconducting Thermal Spreader Enabled MWIR Band-IVb Quantum Cascade Laser with 65 W Average Output Power
Award amount
$239,849Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2023Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Navy
- Recipient company
- IRGLARE LLC
- Proposal award date
- 2023-07-12
- Contract end date
- 2024-09-09
- UEI
- ZDC9D8TZZV57
- Solicitation number
- 23.1
- Topic code
- N231-018
Research abstract
Our team proposes the development of a very high-average-brightness quantum cascade laser system emitting at ~4.6Ąm to be employed in the next generation DIRCM systems and other critical infrared DoD applications. For many detectors and sensors, including those used in infrared heat-seeking missiles, an output signal modulated at MHz frequencies with a high duty cycle (QCW operation) is indistinguishable from a CW signal. Therefore, DIRCM systems can be based on QCW lasers without compromising any practical system functionalities. Transitioning to the QCW operation in the QCL design opens up a vast optimization parameter space for radically improving average QCL brightness, which will be leveraged in this program.
Technology keywords
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Other awards by this recipient
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- Heteroepitaxy of Indium Phosphide-Based Quantum Cascade Lasers on Silicon Substrates
- 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
Awards with the same topic code
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- 65 W Average Output Power MWIR Quantum Cascade Laser with Superconducting Thermal Homogenization
- Superconducting Thermal Spreader Enabled MWIR Band-IVb Quantum Cascade Laser with 65 W Average Output Power
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