SBIR/STTR Research Award
Compact High Efficiency High Energy Laser
Award amount
$1,100,000Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
2020Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Army
- Recipient company
- FORWARD PHOTONICS LLC
- Proposal award date
- 2020-01-21
- Contract end date
- 2022-08-02
- UEI
- MDA4L3AJHNJ7
- Solicitation number
- 18.1
- Topic code
- A18-094
Research abstract
In the Phase I period of this program Forward Photonics (FP) has made significant progress in improving the packaging design of commercial and custom laser diode bars such that the efficiency of future direct diode directed-energy weapons (DEWs) can be enhanced. In the Phase II period of the program, FP will implement these design changes in a high brightness direct diode laser module with output power > 8.75 kW (scalable to > 50 kW), amongst other efficiency improving strategies.
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.
- Laser Magazine for Direct Diode Directed Energy Weapons
- Laser Magazine for Direct Diode Directed Energy Weapons
- Visible to Near Infrared Laser Array with Integral Wavelength Beam Combining
- High Brightness Illuminator Using Wavelength Beam Combination
- Wavelength Beam Combination for Multi-Band Countermeasures Applications
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
Research funding history
23 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2013–2025). Reported award amounts total $14,481,880. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase II, Phase I
Agencies: Department of Defense