SBIR/STTR Research Award
Novel High Power and Energy Eye-safe Transform-Limited Fiber Laser Illuminator
Award amount
$750,000Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
2021Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Air Force
- Recipient company
- N.P. PHOTONICS, INC.
- Proposal award date
- 2021-07-30
- Contract end date
- 2023-10-30
- UEI
- L1XGLKME9BC1
- Solicitation number
- 19.1
- Topic code
- AF191-053
Research abstract
NP Photonics’ existing fiber laser platform can produce 1.3mJ of energy, >20W average power and >2kW transform-limited peak power at the 1550nm eye-safe band with a near-diffraction limited and polarized beam. During the Phase 1 program, we explored novel
Technology keywords
Not reported
Other awards by this recipient
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- 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
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- An All-Fiber High-Energy Pulsed Illuminator for Coherent Imaging
- Eye-safe Fiber Laser Illuminator for Coherent Detection
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