SBIR/STTR Research Award
Anti-Resonant Hollow-Core Fibers for High Energy Laser Delivery with Ultra-low Nonlinearity
Award amount
$1,600,000Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
2020Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Navy
- Recipient company
- N.P. PHOTONICS, INC.
- Proposal award date
- 2020-09-28
- Contract end date
- 2024-09-09
- UEI
- L1XGLKME9BC1
- Solicitation number
- 19.1
- Topic code
- N191-028
Research abstract
Optical fibers with suppressed stimulated Brillouin scattering and other nonlinear effects are in great demand for high energy laser transmission over long distances in the DoD’s high energy laser systems. NP Photonics, in collaboration with Olkin Optics, proposes to design and fabricate anti-resonant hollow-core negative curvature fibers (NCFs) with ultra-low nonlinearity that can be used for high energy laser delivery. In the Phase I program, we have demonstrated our capability to fabricate hollow-core NCFs and the feasibility to make NCFs with propagation loss < 0.002 dB/m. In Phase II, we will optimize the designs of hollow-core NCFs and tremendously improve the technology to fabricate low propagation loss, low nonlinearity NCFs meeting or exceeding the requirements of the Navy’s applications.
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.
- 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
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Stimulated Brillouin Scattering (SBS) and Other Nonlinear Suppression for High Power Fiber Delivery System for Navy Platform High Energy Laser (HEL)
- Ultra-low nonlinearity optical fiber for high energy laser delivery
- Novel Method of Stimulated Brillouin Scattering (SBS) and Other Nonlinear Suppression for HEL High Power Fiber Delivery System
- Anti-Resonant Hollow Core High Power Delivery Fiber for SBS Mitigation
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