SBIR/STTR Research Award
Mid-Wave Infrared Raman Fiber Amplifier
Award amount
$140,000Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2020Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Navy
- Recipient company
- N.P. PHOTONICS, INC.
- Proposal award date
- 2020-06-08
- Contract end date
- 2020-12-09
- UEI
- L1XGLKME9BC1
- Solicitation number
- 20.1
- Topic code
- N201-016
Research abstract
NP Photonics proposes to develop mid-wave infrared Raman fiber amplifiers for quantum cascade lasers capable of scaling output power to 1 kW or higher by taking advantage of our substantial capability and experience in mid-wave infrared fibers and fiber lasers. The proposed Raman fiber amplifiers have the advantages of low thermal issue, high power scalability, and a broad operation band. In the Phase I program, we will investigate the feasibility and study the risk of developing mid-wave infrared laser amplifiers based on Raman gain of our unique optical fibers. In Phase II, Raman laser fiber amplifiers will be developed and characterized for laser amplification at 4.5 micron and a prototype high power fiber amplifier system will be developed and delivered.
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
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Mid-IR Chalcogenide Amplifier by Additive Manufacturing
- Mid-IR Chalcogenide Amplifier by Additive Manufacturing
- High-Power MWIR Fiber Amplifier
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