SBIR/STTR Research Award
Brightness Scaling of Quantum Cascade Lasers
Award amount
$1,135,047Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
2021Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Navy
- Recipient company
- IRGLARE LLC
- Proposal award date
- 2020-11-19
- Contract end date
- 2025-04-24
- UEI
- ZDC9D8TZZV57
- Solicitation number
- 19.1
- Topic code
- N191-014
Research abstract
The development of MWIR broad-area Quantum Cascade Lasers delivering over 10W of CW optical power in a high quality output beam (M2 < 1.5) with aĀminimal beam wander is proposed. These devices will find immediate use in various defense applications, including infrared countermeasures.
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.
- 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
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Brightness Scaling of Quantum Cascade Lasers
- Brightness Scaling of Quantum Cascade Lasers
- Brightness Scaling of Quantum Cascade Lasers
- Brightness scaling of quantum cascade lasers based on vertically-stacked leaky-wave-coupled array of active regions
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