SBIR/STTR Research Award
High brightness mid-wave infrared coherent beam combiner based on QCL-PIC
Award amount
$111,437Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2020Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Army
- Recipient company
- TRANSWAVE PHOTONICS, LLC
- Proposal award date
- 2020-06-01
- Contract end date
- 2021-01-20
- UEI
- W8BLDA6GASQ1
- Solicitation number
- 20.1
- Topic code
- A20-021
Research abstract
TransWave Photonics proposes a photonic integration architecture for efficient coherent beam combining of quantum cascade arrays consisting of more than 10 elements to generate > 10 W continuous-wave output power with 90% combining efficiency at room temperature. The proposed beam combiner will produce diffraction-limited laser beam with at least one order of magnitude higher brightness than the state-of-the-art quantum cascade laser beam combiners. In addition, our integration platform allows for seamless integration of a monolithic modulator for high-speed laser intensity modulation.
Technology keywords
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Other awards by this recipient
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- Stark-Effect Intersubband Polaritonic Metasurfaces for free-space infrared modulation
- High power single mode diode laser bars
- High power MWIR optical fiber combiner
- All-passive nonreciprocal optical power limiters
- High power MWIR optical fiber combiner
Awards with the same topic code
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Research funding history
25 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2017–2026). Reported award amounts total $10,329,602. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense