SBIR/STTR Research Award
Affordable and Efficient High-Power Long Wavelength Infrared Quantum Cascade Lasers
Award amount
$140,000Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2020Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Navy
- Recipient company
- IRGLARE LLC
- Proposal award date
- 2020-07-20
- Contract end date
- 2021-01-12
- UEI
- ZDC9D8TZZV57
- Solicitation number
- 20.1
- Topic code
- N201-058
Research abstract
In response to the Navy SBIR Topic N201-058, IRGLARE is pleased to propose the development of Long-Wave Infrared (LWIR) Quantum Cascade Lasers (QCLs) delivering continuous wave (CW) optical power exceeding 4W in a nearly Gaussian output beam (M2 < 2.0) with wallplug efficiency exceeding 16%. The improvement in CW efficiency will be achieved for these devices employing multi-material active region composition, while their long term reliability at CW optical power level of 4W will be ensured employing improved LWIR coating materials and by reducing optical peak intensity at the output facet.
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
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- Affordable and Efficient High-Power Long Wavelength Infrared Quantum Cascade Lasers
- High-Power, Cost-Effective LWIR QCLs Based on a Surface-Emitting Platform
- Affordable and Efficient High-Power Long Wavelength Infrared Quantum Cascade Lasers
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